Tag: recipes
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Quesapizza-pizza
A quesapizza is a quesadilla, but made using pizza ingredients: not just cheese, but also a tomato sauce and maybe some toppings. A quesapizza-pizza is a pizza... constructed using a quesapizza as its base! Watch me make one in a 90-second timelapse.
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This evening I used leftover cocktail sausages to make teeny-tiny toads-in-the-hole (my kids say they should be called frogs-in-the-dip).
It worked out pretty well.
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A pyramid of four bite-sized toads-in-the-hole alongside chive mash and carrots, smothered in gravy, on a plate.
Micro-recipe:
1. Bake cocktail sausages (or veggie sausages, pictured) until barely done.
2. Meanwhile, make a batter (per every 6 sausages: use 50ml milk, 50g plain flour, 1 egg, pinch of salt).
3. Remove sausages from oven, then turn up to 220C.
4. Put a teaspoon of a high-temperature oil (e.g. vegetable, sunflower) into each pit of a cake/muffin tin, return to oven until almost at smoke point.
5. Add a sausage or two to each pit and return to the oven for a couple of minutes to come back up to temperature.
6. Add batter to each pit. It ought to sizzle when it hits the oil, if it's hot enough. Return to the oven.
7. Remove when puffed-up and crisp. Serve with gravy and your favourite comfort food accompaniments. -
Good Food, Bad Authorisation
(BBC) Good Food has started adding "premium" content for which you have to install their app and pay for a subscription. Except the paywall they've put in place is so weak that I fell through it without even meaning to. It's a great - and relatively harmless - example of how front-end-first development is undermining the development of secure Web systems.
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Making a Home of Each Other (The Eggs)
Lucy Bellwood shared the story of how her wife produced a breakfast dish they called The Eggs, and it's the first and only "here's a recipe, but first my life story" article I've ever loved.
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Festive Cranberry & Cinnamon Bagels
Dan shares a recipe for delicious and highly-seasonal bagels.
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The 17 Blog Posts That Weren't
It may come as a surprise to you that the stuff I write about on my blog - whether about technology, dreams, food, film, games, relationships, or my life in general - isn't actually always written off-the-cuff. To the contrary, sometimes a post is edited and re-edited over the course of weeks or months before …
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The Fife Diet from Kamikaze Cookery
I've been following Kamikaze Cookery (three geeks doing cookery... with science!) for a while now, and it's got some real potential, but what really sold me on it was their recent series on the Fife diet (yeah, I know, it's been out for ages, but I've been busy so my RSS reader's been brim-full and …
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Dan’s Lazy Beef Stroganoff
Another recipe for you all. This experimental stroganoff worked well, so I thought you might enjoy it too. I've no doubt it could be multiplied up wonderfully to serve more people.
Dan's Lazy Beef Stroganoff
Serves: 2-3
Ingredients
2 medium-sized sirloin steaks, thinly sliced (use a very sharp knife and try to cut slices no larger than … -
Simply Recipes: Banana Bread Recipe
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Simply Recipes: Banana Bread Recipe.
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A Challenge For My Programmer Friends
So you think you're a dab hand at learning new and unusual programming languages: even the most bizarre of them. You can get your head around Perl, and you might have even looked at LISP. Well, let's see who's first to correctly tell me what the output of the following computer program is. It's unique …
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Thai, Catan, And Gantz
Claire and I cooked thai food for Ruth, JTA, and Bryn last night. Paul, too, but owing to a communications breakdown he didn't know about it, so he missed out. Unable to decide between making a sweet red Thai chilli and a black bean dish, I decided to make both, which immediately compounded into a …
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Face-Burning Chilli
Many of you reading this will have eaten one of my chilli con carnes before, where I've used my Da Bomb: The Final Answer hot sauce in the recipe before (original recipe). For those not in-the-know, when cooking chilli to feed four or so, I tend to use the following system to measure the hot …
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Thai-Style Turkey & Rice
I've always been drawn to trying to prepare a fried-rice dish, but I've always been put off by the risk of burning it (I'd have imagined that it would be difficult to prevent rice from over-cooking and sticking to the pan, which would make for far-from delightful cleaning, later). But having watched Ken Hom preparing …
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Recipe Of The Evening
Got a recipe suggestion for you all, again: Bryn's Challenge is at least allowing me to be a little bit more imaginative and try making things that "come to mind" (the bad ideas don't make it here). So, today's meal - which Claire assures me is "really, really good", is presented below:
Chicken And Bacon … -
Bryn’s Challenge - Update
Here's the update on Claire and my progress with Bryn's Challenge - his happy little Un-Supersize-Me goal of avoiding fast food for a month:
All's good. We're also taking advantage of the opportunity to explore with cooking things we wouldn't normally, and I'll be sharing, here, some of the things we've tried. Starting with last night's …