Whilst that is one of my favourite Tori Amos songs, it is actually blood oranges that are the theme of today’s post. You see, after seeing the ‘blood orange’ featuring in the world of blogging, I was intruiged and wanted to find out more as I’d never actually seen one before! Egads, you may say, [...]
Hopefully those of you in the rest of the world are unfamiliar with the title of this post – it hearkens back to a particularly successful and scarily well-known ‘Chicken Tonight’ simmer sauces put out by Continental/Unilever. Very unlike anything from a store-bought bottle of sauce from the supermarket is my mother’s chilli chicken stir-fry [...]
This was the cry from the wonderful Lisa and Ivonne, and so how could I not hearken to their call? They had planned a wonderful outdoor feast and forgotten the food! With the call for help put out to the blogging world, I began to eagerly flip through my cookbooks, looking for a nice, simple [...]
August 24, 2006 | 574 views
in Beef
“What’s that smell?” I looked up to see my sister walking through the door as I was just frying up some sliced and marinated beef to go with the baby bok choy that I’d steamed earlier. “Oh, hey! I got in a bit late so I’m just making myself some dinner. Have you eaten?” “Yeah, [...]
France has many petit-fours, cookies and cakes which originate from the region as well as surrounding provinces, and the palets bretons is one of these. Hailing from Brittany (a province to the NW of France, and which gives the cookie the ‘breton’ part of it’s name), it is a delicate butter cookie which seems barely [...]