Last week, some friends and I headed out to Jim's Greek Tavern to celebrate my good friend Timmy finishing another module of his horrible accountancy certification. (His words, not mine... well actually, his words are "fuckin' shit accounting" but I thought I should clean it up for the blog... and whoops I've gone and cursed. Sorry.)Anyway... back to...
A couple of weeks ago, my good friends Liam and Alistair told me they were making a short film, and if I would be so kind as to cater for their shoot. Never one to say no to feeding large groups of people, I said yes. It was a 5-day shoot, with with 20 - 32 people on...
I read somewhere that the best way to season a pan is simply to cook with it...On Wednesday night last week, I had a Nigella moment and fashioned a dinner out of leftovers. I cooked the piece of shrink-wrapped kassler that had been sitting, lonely, in my fridge. I'd bought one-too-many pieces the week before for a family...
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting much lately; I have indeed been cooking, but have been super-busy with work and uni and things like that. Anyway.. I've just started a mini-culinary project. Nothing too exciting, unfortunately. I've recently bought a carbon steel pan (AKA black iron. I figured out after some long and painful searching on the...
Check out my birthday cake! It's a melt-and-mix white chocolate cake, with whipped white chocolate icing. The recipes, if you are interested, come from Donna Hay's Wedding magazine that came out some years back. It's also in Modern Classics 2. It's well worth making, because it is delicious! I have to admit that I didn't bake this one...