28.9.11

*** fortune cookies ***

I have a vague recollection of myself in a chinese restaurant very many years back, looking at a fortune cookie and thinking "how do they get that piece of paper inside there?".  Now, finally, I looked up a recipe for fortune cookies and solved this baffling food mystery....

[For those of you wondering: the fortune is put in after baking round, flat, soft cookies- which are folded into fortune cookie shapes and left to cool- and harden.  Brilliant.]

They seemed to be a little bit too soft after initial baking, so I rebaked them at about 100 degrees for a couple of more minutes. Dried them right out, now they are as crispy and crunchy as can be. Superb.












27.9.11

*** more good ideas ***

I somehow came across this self promotional concept on the marvelous interweb...
I'll just post some self-explanatory images, but if you want, read more about it here! And visit Jamie Reed's site here.







20.9.11

*** fooooooooood ***

Last night, my man-friend (whose name I will not mention, because he would probably be horrified...) and I decided to cook.  Our thought was "lets make something nice".  I thought I'd make dolmades [stuffed vine leaves] which I haven't made in ages... This thought led to an array of foodstuff sortiments that 'go well with dolmades' and (just for the two of us) we ended up making [dolmades], tsasiki, hummus, melitzana salata, gyros, oven veggies and courgette fritters.  I also had a carrot cake... In stuffing our faces with this yummi food, we must have each consumed at least an entire garlic bulb.  Now I stink [apologies to anyone that will encounter my smelliness this evening...].

An added observation to this cooking experience was a substitute for the lack of vine leaves ( a very essential ingredient to make 'stuffed vine leaves'): We randomly chose a leafy vegetable from Sainsbury's rack to wrap the ricey filling in.  I could not have hoped for a better choice- although not the same, this vegetable [I still have no idea what it actually is- the packet was named something to the effect of "spring greens" (who names a vegetable "spring greens"?)] was a perfect substitute- try it...

If anyone happens to want any one of these lovely recipes, let me know...








2.9.11

*** finishedness ***

I am almost finished with my practical masters project... Deadline is tomorrow before noon. I intensely dislike what I have created over the last 3 months, so there will be no uploading of this horrific piece of animation- but that is not what this blogpost is about (otherwise it would be entitled "i dislike...").  What this is about is that, at least for a while, I can indulge in glorious freedom. I can have a social life. I can go outside. I can leave this grey town. I can bake. I can see sunshine. And I can't wait...

I was planning to find some lovely things on pinterest to accompany this post, but at the moment I do not have to patience to do so, instead I have murdered my monkey...