Recipes

Leaning Tower of Marshmallows

December 10, 2006 | 624 views

in Candies & Sweets

After seeing this post on Helen’s blog, I was absolutely enamoured with the idea of making actual sweets at home – not the baked kind. However, the recipe required the use of a sugar thermometer, and alas I had none… till now. My new favourite kitchen toy $20 later, I left the CakeDeco store in [...]

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Oh honey, oh sugar sugar

December 10, 2006 | 2,618 views

in Candies & Sweets

By the time it gets to Friday in the office, my coworkers and I are usually at our wit’s end with boredom, so eager for the weekend that we’re almost salivating with desire (eww, now there’s a mental image!) and shooting emails back and forth, desperate for some form of amusing distraction. Occasionally, when I [...]

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You swirl me right round, baby right round

December 5, 2006 | 727 views

in Cookies & Slices

I haven’t posted much in the way of food recently because I frankly haven’t been home before 9pm on most nights, and my wonderful mother has on most occassions put out some leftovers from the family dinner for my famished self. Why so late? Well, I’ve developed a bit of an addiction to going to [...]

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How to poach an egg

December 4, 2006 | 143 views

in Poultry & Eggs

I am an egg lover. That’s right – I love these little bundles of protein that are flavourful yet versatile enough to be used for so many different dishes! My favourite way to have them is poached, but till this weekend I didn’t know how to poach them myself, and had to stick to soft-boiled [...]

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Snicker-dee-doo-dah, snicker-dee-day!

November 28, 2006 | 819 views

in Cookies & Slices

There is something about certain words and the mouthfeel that they give which will make me develop either a like or dislike of them, almost in spite of what the words themselves mean. For example, I find I can’t feel much for the word ‘fluctuate‘ – saying it makes my mouth feel awkward, almost as [...]

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