tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376116043686554692024-02-19T02:24:49.052+00:00Cookery DisastersMy continuing journey into cookistryPokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-17019165793812977182017-07-16T20:51:00.001+01:002017-07-16T20:51:31.397+01:00PB&J PizzaWe're about to have some major home improvements, so we need to move out for a few weeks. As such, we've been using all the perishable foodstuffs.<br />
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We move out tomorrow, and all we have left are some celery stalks and some cabbage. Oh ... and some flatbreads.<br />
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The flatbreads are called "pizza bases", and have a use-by date of 28th June, so they are only 3 weeks out-of-date.<br />
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After picking off the pieces of bread that look suspiciously like mold, I put the pizza bases into the oven to heat through. the heating instructions say to cover the bases with preferred pizza toppings, but we have no cheese, no meats, no fish, no toppings at all. We have tomato ketchup.<br />
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We have a discussion about what to put on the pizza bases. Doris suggests peanut butter and jam. I ask her about ketchup, but she gags a little, so it's probably a poor idea.<br />
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After 10 minutes of heating, I retrieve the pizza bases. They are all hard. No problem, I'm sure they'll soften up when I spread some butter on them.<br />
No they don't. The butter just melts and slides over the bases, not being absorbed at all.<br />
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Oh well, let's try the peanut butter.<br />
Umm, that's all clumpy. It needs lots of spreading, and it's still sliding over the butter.<br />
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Finally, let's dump some homemade jam on top.<br />
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It looks just like pizza! <br />
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I managd to get a jam dribble all the way down my chin, and I had to clean the seat onto which I placed the plate to take that photo. Doris managed to drip jam all over her t-shirt. They also snap when I fold them in half, but hey - dinner is served!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-27521463147002288782016-11-16T20:41:00.004+00:002016-11-16T20:41:52.223+00:00De-scaling the water heaterWe have a Bosch Filtrino water heater for heating water for tea & coffee, as it heats 250ml of water at a time, by induction, saving energy compared with a kettle's power requirements.<br />
http://www.bosch-home.co.uk/products/kettles-toasters/hot-water-dispensers/THD2063GB.html<br />
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There are two indicators to the bottom-left of the device. The upper indicator lights wen a certain number of measures have been dispensed, indicating that the filter probably needs changing. This light has been lit for a few months, as we promptly lost the manual and don't know the process for extinguishing the light. The lower indicator is the relevant one here, though.<br />
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It lit a few weeks ago. Looking online, I see that it means that the device needs to be de-scaled. We live in a very hard water area, so it's no surprise that de-scaling is needed, and our previous water heater had to be thrown away after lexcessive limescale build-up clogged all the internals and the motor burned out.<br />
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So, we're aware that we need to perform regular maintenance. As I mentioned, we lost the manual. So, we didn't bother doing it.<br />
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Anyway, it stopped working last week. I decided to bite the bullet and find a manual online that would tell me how to de-scale the device.<br />
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After perhaps 30 minutes searching, I finally found the manual. It wasn't easy to find. The manual had a whole section on how to de-scale the device.<br />
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I read the instructions ... turn the device off, empty the water chamber, refill it to a "de-scaling mark" with limescale-removing solution, turn the device on while holding the "power" button down, and wait 10 seconds, until the solution is passed through the device. When completed, run 3 tanks of water through the device to make sure all the de-scaler is removed.<br />
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Ok, all sounds straightforward.<br />
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Until I reach the "limescale-removing solution". I double- and triple-check the instructions, and they read "use the instructions for your limescale remover to produce the correct strength of de-scaling solution". I read the instructions on the bottle of "Limelight" that I have. It just says "Safe for use throughout the bathroom and the kitchen. Can be used neat or diluted". this presents me with a dilemma. Should I use it neat, pouring the whole 500ml bottle of limescale remover into the water heater, or should I dilute it?<br />
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I decide that I should dilute it, because I can always retry the process if it doesn't work very well, adding more limescale remover until it works properly. So I add a couple of long squirts of the limescale remover to 500ml of water, and begin the process.<br />
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The water doesn't flow very fast, but it DOES flow. After it's finished, I can see some flakes of limescale in the jug, but the "please de-scale me" light is still lit, so I pour the waste water back into the chamber and try again.<br />
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The water flows a little faster this time, with more flakes, but the light is still lit. I try again.<br />
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The water flows faster still, with a cloud of limescale in the waste, but the light is still lit. I wait for it to settle in the jug before decanting into the chamber and trying again.<br />
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The water is almost back to its original flow-rate, with more cloudy waste water. Eventually, after perhaps 10 of these run-throughs, the "please de-scale me" light is extinguished.<br />
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Folling instructions, I run 3 tanks of water through the device. I run another three tanks, just in case.<br />
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I heat water for a coffee. It tastes of de-scaler. I pour the coffee away.<br />
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I run another three tanks of water through the device. No change - still tastes like de-scaler.<br />
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I run tanks of water through the device for hours. When I'm finally fed up with this, I make coffee for Doris and myself. Doris complains that it tastes of de-scaler, but dammit - I'm going to drink it anyway.<br />
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For the next week, I have instant coffee and I have to brew filter coffee for Doris. She eventually relents, saying that the taste is almost gone. This leaves me with one question: if limescale remover is safe to use throughout the bathroom and kitchen, how toxic is it going to be if drunk?Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-17478422087237841882016-11-16T20:15:00.000+00:002016-11-16T20:15:23.479+00:00Check the ovenDoris told me that she was baking bread. When I went to make coffee later, I noticed that the breadmaker wasn't switched on, so I pressed the "go" button, and it started counting down 5 hours. When I told her of it, she summised that she had pressed the button to lengthen the baking time to 5 hours instead of pressing the button to bake.<br />
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When it was done, Doris removed the bread and left it to cool. After a while, I cut some slices, so we could have warm buttered bread for our tea.<br />
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I slathered Doris's slices with butter, but used the last of the tub on those. I looked for another tub of spreadable butter in the fridge. Nothing. I shouted to Doris in case I was man-searching, but she confirmed that we were out of spreadable butter. Ok, we have non-spreadable butter.<br />
I couldn't find any non-spreadable salted butter, so I called again, and she confirmed that we didn't have any salted butter either. Ok, I thought, I can't have buttered bread - I'll toast mine and put cheese on it.<br />
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So, I switched the grill on (toaster oven?), and put the slices of bread into the toaster. I then cut slices of cheddar to lay on the toast for grilling.<br />
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When the toaster popped, I lay the cheese on the toast, and opened the grill door to pop the toast in, whereupon I discovered two thick steaks, vacuum packaged in plastic, being baked!<br />
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When I brought her buttered bread to Doris, I told her this story.<br />
Me: " ... so I turned on the oven to preheat and -"<br />
Doris: "THE STEAKS!"<br />
Me: "Yes, the steaks. I found them hot, and I've taken them out of the oven"<br />
Doris: "Is the plastic packaging all melted on them?"<br />
Me: "I don't think so - it looks ok; only partially melted"<br />
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We ate the steaks in sandwiches for lunch today. They were delicious, and I didn't notice any taste of plastic at all!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-47304250632585630952015-10-09T20:15:00.001+01:002015-10-09T20:15:18.229+01:00Smoked PorkExcitement tonight! I had my first real fire in the kitchen!<br />
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Grilled pork ("grilled" as in heated from above, rather than barbecued). I put 3 pork loin steaks under the grill, then turned the grill on. I didn't pre-heat. I then put some broccoli and cauliflower florets into a microwave steamer and gave the microwave 3 minutes.<br />
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After 3 minutes, I turned the pork and tested the veggies - still hard, so I put them on for another 2 minutes.<br />
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As the microwave timer went off, I went to check on the pork and veggies. Pork first.<br />
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I noticed that there was smoke coming out of the grill, so I turned it off. I opened the grill door and pulled the grill tray. "WHOOOF!" and flames erupted from the tray, up over the controls and half way up the microwave above. I thought to myself "this is interesting. I wonder how I put that out ..." and I shoved the grill tray back into the grill, shutting the door behind it, on the presumption that the oxygen would be used within seconds. It worked, and the fire was extinguished.<br />
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Loads of smoke was billowing out of the grill, and the smoke alarms were all complaining at me, but I decided that it was more important to retrieve the pork before the meat took on too much of the taste of smoke, so I got the pork out of the grill before turning off the smoke alarm. I realised that the whole basement was filled with smoke, so I had to open the window and turn on the extractor fan.<br />
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Every 5 minutes, for 20 minutes, the smoke alarms blared "SIREN SIREN SIREN - LEAVE THE HOUSE. THERE IS SMOKE IN THE KITCHEN!". The noise came from all three smoke alarms.<br />
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The pork tasted ok to me, although my partner commented "the pork is as tough as shoe leather".Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-50400679307930442012015-08-23T18:09:00.003+01:002015-08-23T18:09:35.639+01:00Burger Rolls & Poole PotteryI had a couple of minor disasters this weekend. Neither of them worthy of posting here, but together, I think they provide a small indication as to my growing over-confidence as I manage to continue to provide food that's both edible and what I intended.<br />
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Yesterday (Saturday), it was my turn to cook the evening meal. Doris had cooked burgers for lunch, so she asked me for something different. My daughters are with us this weekend, and Xena suggested Nachos. Now, Doris can't have Nachos due to a capsicum intolerance, so I helped Xena with the Nachos (well, with grating the cheese and over-endowing them with soured cream), and I had a look in the fridge for something for Doris.<br />
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Doris suggested that she would be happy finishing-off the burger buns, with some prawn mayo. We had fresh prawns (ready-peeled - I'm not daft!) in the fridge, and some lemon mayo, so I agreed to prepare this.<br />
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I found that we didn't have much mayo, so I decided to spread it on the buns like butter, rather than mix the prawns in the mayo in a separate bowl.<br />
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After spreading, I layered the prawns in the buns. After a couple of layers, they were looking unstable, so I simply bunged the rest of the prawns onto the plate beside the two buns.<br />
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Doris took the plate, and Xena started to laugh. I asked her what was so funny, and she told me that I had managed to mix up the buns, so Doris had bottom-prawns-bottom and top-prawns-top. When I went to apologise to Doris for this, they both laughed at me, saying that it's worse that I hadn't noticed, rather than it being intentional.<br />
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Today, again it's my turn to cook dinner (Doris toasted bagels for breakfast, and we skipped lunch). Pasta Bake is something that I believe I cook better than she does, and everyone usually seems to appreciate my pasta bake, so I couldn't go wrong.<br />
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Doris has recently inherited a dinner set of Poole pottery, so we've donated our old crockery to a local cafe that's just starting up (and serves great food, cooking everything fresh and baking cakes in full view of the customers), called <a href="http://www.tinkitchen.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tin Kitchen</a>, and we've replaced it with the Poole pottery. It's the Twintone range, Mushroom & Sepia design. The <a href="http://www.replaceyourchina.com/poole-pottery-twintone-mushroom-and-sepia-c54-lug-handled-soup-bowls-848-p.asp" target="_blank">soup bowls</a> are a decent size for a portion of pasta bake, and they fit onto <a href="http://www.replaceyourchina.com/poole-pottery-twintone-mushroom-and-sepia-c54-large-saucers-for-soup-cups-4438-p.asp" target="_blank">saucers</a>, so the fork can be placed beside the bowl rather than sticking out of it.<br />
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I picked four bowls and four saucers (one each) from the cupboard. I picked up the first bowl and filled it with pasta bake. I put it onto the first saucer and moved it across the counter. I picked up the second saucer and served pasta bake onto it. I looked around for a saucer on which to put it, and had an "oh bugger" moment.<br />
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Doris is asking me why I have served three bowls-on-saucers and one bowl-on-its-own (I've put the other saucer straight in the dishwasher).Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-27187129616451215202015-01-30T19:41:00.000+00:002015-01-30T19:41:03.018+00:00The simplest things ...!It was my turn to cook this evening. I got home late, after spending the whole day out at work, and Doris asked for Cheese On Toast.<br />
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I baked the bread in the breadmaker a couple of days ago, and so it needed slicing. It was the end of the loaf, and I was aware that I would not be able to cut the bread without problems, so Doris came and sliced it for me, using her meat slicer. She tried to convince me to use her slicer, but I am happy to have 5 digits on each hand, so I declined.<br />
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I cut the cheese, put it on the bread and put it under the grill.<br />
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After a minute, I realised that I hadn't put ketchup on the toast before I had put the cheese on, so I took the bottle of ketchup to Doris with an apology, and returned to the grilling cheese.<br />
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As I retrieved the toast from the grill, I noticed that it wasn't as rigid as normal. I examined the underside of the toast, and realised that I had also forgotten to toast the bread before putting the cheese on!<br />
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Cheese On Toast is probably the easiest dinner that can be made:<br />
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1. Slice the bread<br />
I failed<br />
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2. Toast the bread<br />
I failed<br />
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3. Cut the cheese<br />
I did this bit<br />
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4. Spread ketchup on the toast<br />
I failed<br />
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5. Put the cheese on the toast<br />
I did this bit<br />
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6. Grill the cheese<br />
I did this bit, and didn't set off the smoke alarm.<br />
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Six steps, and I failed at half of them!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-76628267980691910372014-09-27T14:26:00.002+01:002014-09-27T14:26:30.192+01:00Mushroom corguettesI cooked a fry up for breakfast this morning, after being gently prompted by the request "Make me breakfast, bitch!"<br />
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I fried back bacon rashers (which, I have been told, are pork. Not made-from-pigs-pork, as I knew that, but an-actual-port-joint-pork that is pork when cut in one way and bacon when cut in a different way), bacon medallions (which, I have also been told, are simply back bacon rashers with all the fat removed, in which case we're paying extra for something that has the taste crippled) and eggs. Looking in the fridge, I saw some courgettes, and I like crunchy courgettes so I thought I would fry some of those, too.<br />
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All went ok, although the eggs were rather small. An egg box of "free range eggs - mixed size" seems to be equivalent to an egg box of "small eggs".<br />
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About 2 hours later, Doris innocently asked me "Did you cook courgettes?"<br />
I responded "Yes, what did you think they were?"<br />
She explained "When I tasted them, I thought they were courgettes. Until then, I was confused, because we don't have any mushrooms, but they were served as a blackened mess that could well have been mushrooms".<br />
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I explained that I had been trying to make the courgettes crunchy, but they hadn't worked. She told me that courgettes don't go crunchy.<br />
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This confused me, as I'm SURE I like crunchy courgettes. Doris asked whether I have had them battered in the past, as she could see courgettes being crunchy if they were in batter.<br />
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That's it! I think it's tempura courgettes that I like!<br />
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Doris suggested that I could dip courgettes in almond flower in the future. I said that I had never seen an almond flower, which prompted her to respond "f-l-o-u-r".<br />
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Then she informed me "Actually, there are almond flowers. Have you never seen an almond tree?"<br />
"Almonds come on trees?" I responded, confused.<br />
"They are related to peaches and apricots" she explained (I wasn't aware of apricot trees, but I let that pass).<br />
"So", I asked, "when you eat a peach and you have a big stone, can you crack that open and eat the nut inside?"<br />
"Well, you could", she informed me, "but it tastes bitter because of all the cyanide. Not enough to kill you, but enough to make your tummy very poorly".<br />
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Everything is a learning experience, but I didn't expect to learn about cyanide in peach stones by cooking a fry up!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-68504953644996136132013-06-08T12:07:00.000+01:002013-06-08T12:07:11.659+01:00Toasting frozen bread productsI know bread products can be toasted straight from the freezer. I know that they need to be toasted for longer than unfrozen bread products. I didn't know that the toaster can toast a thick crumpet until the outside looks and feels cooked but the inside is still frozen.<br />
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I even toasted them twice, because I was unsure of whether they were still frozen. I just thought they must be especially dense, as they weren't as spongy as normal, but when Doris bit into one, she said "it's not exactly frozen in the middle, but it IS cold and wet".<br />
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I had to put them under the grill for an extra 5 minutes.<br />
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This is only a little post. It was only a little disaster.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-22737699865098324612013-05-25T21:02:00.001+01:002013-05-25T21:02:13.728+01:00Potato Cake MashDoris cooked lunch, today. She included some mashed potatoes, but they didn't taste quite right. She admitted to not having put any salt in them. She also cooked too much, so we had lots of left-over mash.<br />
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For dinner, I asked Doris what she would like. She suggested that she could cook shepherd's pie or cottage pie with the left-over mash, or that I could fry some chicken breast fillets with the mash made into potato cakes.<br />
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We discussed the potato cakes. Doris suggested sweetcorn, I suggested cheese, so I went to construct and fry the cheese-and-sweetcorn-potato-cakes along with a couple of chicken breasts.<br />
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So ... I have three things to do:<br />
1. construct potato cakes<br />
2. fry chicken<br />
3. fry potato cakes<br />
and this is the order in which I did the cooking.<br />
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I recall that a commenter on this very blog has suggested that I repeatedly pour hot water over frozen vegetables to heat them. I decided to do this, and after I unfroze the sweetcorn and drained the (now cold) water away, I dropped them into the mash that was in the pot. I grated the cheddar into the pot and mixed well.<br />
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I don't know if I've mentioned before, but I don't much like getting my hands mucky. I couldn't work out what kitchen device I could use to make the potato cakes, so I grabbed handfuls of the mixture and made balls out of them, placing them on a chopping board in readiness for squashing and frying them.<br />
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I poured oil into the frying pan and took the chicken breasts from the fridge. They were larger than I had imagined, so I decided to cook one each. When the oil was hot, I dropped the breasts in and started cooking them. I know that chicken doesn't take much time to cook, so I splatted the first few potato cakes and dropped them into the pan. The chicken was looking partially cooked, so I turned it over.<br />
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The chicken was taking longer to cook than I thought .They were quite fat, so I thought "butterfly" and prepared to take them out of the pan to cut them in half and fry the insides, but in the meantime I tried to turn over the potato cakes.<br />
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The potato cakes all fell apart.<br />
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I patted them back into shape, and tried again. They disintegrated again. I had no idea how to do this, so I called up to Doris, asking if there's a trick to keeping the potato cake shapes. She answered "Ahh, yes - you need to beat an egg into the mixture before you cook them.<br />
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Too late.<br />
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The butterflying worked ok, although I cut too deep and cut each of the breasts into two instead of keeping them whole, so I served two halves of chicken breast and a mass of unshapen fried potato mixture.<br />
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Those of you who follow this blog will know that, unless something is completely inedible, any completely unappetising food I make will be served, and and we will eat it. The chicken tasted ok, but the potato was definitely missing something. At this point, I recalled the lack of salt that Doris has mentioned earlier. So, all in all, I made a complete hash of the potatoes. Pun not intended, but now I think about it, I should have searched the Internet for hash brown recipes.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-36415844862978730742013-05-23T20:18:00.001+01:002013-05-23T20:18:52.070+01:00Naked ScampiI may have mentioned that my partner inherited a Tefal Actifry. It's a delightful, albeit overpriced, kitchen gadget, allowing us to cook proper chips without needing a deep fat fryer - it uses a couple of tablespoons of oil (we often use olive oil flavoured with basil or lemon) poured over the chipped potatoes, set the timer for 20-25 minutes and set it off. It has a paddle to move the potato pieces around the pan, blows hot air over the oil which increasingly covers the potato, and thereby frys the potato o rather nice chips.<br />
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Actually, I'm not too sure exactly how much oil it should use. The instructions once explained, but they are long lost, and the measuring cup that comes with the gadget was not inherited, so I've always guessed at the amount of oil to add.<br />
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Anyway, chips that we make are always lovely. Last week, I tried to cook some duck strips in it, which didn't work very well, so today I thought I would be safer with this evening's dinner - scampi.<br />
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Well, I say "scampi". The packet I retrieved from the freezer reads "WHITBY YORKSHIRE BREADED SCAMPI". In a smaller font below, it reads "scampi & premium fish". In the small print on the back of the packet, it reads "cod and hake, pressed into shapes"<br />
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The cooking (heating) instructions say to oven bake the scampi for 30 minutes, or deep fry them for 4 minutes. As the Actifry is sort-of like a deep fat fryer but using less oil, we guessed that they might need 8 minutes dumped in with the cooking chips.<br />
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I did this, and returned after 9 minutes (one minute for luck - you can never tell with seafood, even if it's been processed and pressed into shapes), to find the scampi-ish had lost their breaded coats. There were breadcrumbs-ish being heated, there were lumps of pressed scampi-ish being heated and there were chips being heated.<br />
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As you will have probably noticed by now, if food isn't completely inedible, I will serve it and challenge my partner to eat it. She doesn't want to cook when it's not her turn to do so, so she will eat whatever I serve. I have rarely made her ill.<br />
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So, I served the naked scampi-ish, the chips and a pile of mostly-soggy breadcrumbs. We both cleaned our plates. Perhaps the food tasted very good, or perhaps neither of us had much lunch today.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-73157443506980998692013-05-13T23:14:00.000+01:002013-05-13T23:14:00.351+01:00Update about recent experiences now the new kitchen is maturing<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now we've "bedded-in" the new kitchen, the disasters have been fewer. There are more surfaces in the kitchen, the ovens (now we've worked out the controls) is reliable, the induction hob heats the pans when I remember to use the right ones and the gadgets all work. Ok, the smoke alarm still tells me when the food is cooked, but that's just a cooking alarm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Would you believe that Asda sell steel pans that aren't suitable for induction hobs? Me neither, but they do! There was I, frantically trying to make the hob work with a brand new steel pan, but it kept switching off! It wasn't until I replaced it with a different (and more expensive) steel pan that the hob accepted it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The light in our microwave oven has failed. It makes checking on custard a bit tricky, and leads to me opening the microwave every few seconds to check on it, which seems to significantly increase the cooking time, well past what the instructions say microwaving times should be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a slight adventure with the fan oven. I was cooking (heating frozen) pizzas for three of us, and I wanted the pizzas all to be ready at the same time. The pizzas all had different cooking times listed in the instructions, so I put the "11-13 minute" pizza at the top of the oven, just under the heating element, the "10-12 minute" pizza in the middle of the oven and the "8-10 minute" pizza on a pizza tray at the bottom of the oven. For once I had preheated the oven to 180 degrees C, so I was confident about serving the pizzas all at the same time, perfectly cooked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I returned to the oven, after 10 minutes, I noticed that there was a little smoke blowing out of the top corner, like a tiny steam engine funnel. On opening the oven, there was a billowing of smoke, setting off the smoke alarm, and the smell of burning cheese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The top pizza was a very deep brown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The middle pizza was ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The top pizza was so bad that my daughter would only eat one slice. We had to throw the rest away. It was so bad that even the cats wouldn't eat it, and they are demons for cheese!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have learned from this that I should leave more than an eighth of an inch between the heating element and the top pizza, even when the fan is supposed to be circulating the heat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pork steaks last weekend. I like to cook pork steaks, as I can prod them with a fork and pretend that I'm actually doing something impressive by smearing honey, mixed Italian herbs and maple syrup on them. However, these pork steaks were thinner than usual, with a recommended cooking time of 10-12 minutes instead of 16-18 minutes. I cooked one side for 5 minutes, flipped them over, completely forgot to marinade (is that what it's called when I spread & sprinkle stuff on them), and waited for the next 5 minutes. I gave it a minute extra, because you never know with pork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I approached the oven and the smoke alarm went off. I hadn't even reached the oven! It must have been waiting for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On opening the oven, I realised that the pork steaks were brown and crispy, like thick strips of crispy bacon. I served them upside down, in the hope that my other half wouldn't notice the overcooking, but she commented immediately. Perhaps it was the tooth-loosening crunch as she bit into the pork steak that gave her the hint as to them being a bit overdone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The kitchen window is one of those fancy tilt / side jobs, opening one way for a tilt and the other way for a wide aperture to be used as a fire escape. Ok, we can't use it as a fire escape because we forgot about the window when we bought new taps and so the window fouls against it and only opens about 18 inches, but if there was a fire I think we won't care if we damage the window and tap in our hurry to get out of the window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, after the pork steaks, I tilted the window to let the smoke escape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The following morning, my partner went into the kitchen to make coffee or something, and she found that her jars of muesli, oats, saltanas and raisins had all poured their contents into the sink. It appears that I had opened the window the wrong way, and the wind had caught it in the night, opening it hard against the tap and swiping all the jars off the windowsill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it for now. Back soon with more disasters as they happen.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">For a Sunday roast dinner today,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=755993967" href="http://www.facebook.com/discodoris" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">M</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>decided on roast lamb. After cooking it for an hour, she went to check on its status only to realise that she had heated the wrong oven, so it hadn't cooked at all. It would have taken too long to roast it, so she made us mince & mash instead.<br /><br />She decided to cook it for dinner instead. SHE HEATED THE WRONG OVEN AGAIN! I fried some sausages for our tea.</span></div>
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M<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I didn't heat the oven, because I used the temperature control for the wrong oven with the selector for the right oven. The wrong oven didn't work without a mode selected, and the right oven didn't work without the temperature selected. I fail at oven controls, but I didn't waste energy. Regardless, there's still a large lump of lamb that needs to be cooked, but 2.5 hours will have to happen tomorrow</span></div>
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L<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">That's not an oven it's a bloody space ship for small mammals!!</span></div>
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T<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I'm with M, all the controls for one oven should be on one side of the panel, and the others on the opposing side. Inner and outer doesn't make much sense.</span></div>
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It has taken a couple of months, and has gone through quite a transformation.<br />
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The first photo is a view of the room when we purchased the house. It doesn't show limitations of the room, such as the fact that the peninsular legs were loose, the work top varnish was chipped and partially missing, the boiler was embedded a few inches lower than the tiled floor partially in the gap where the fireplace used to be, the hot water cylinder was in the cupboard to the right and the fronts for all of the cabinets was cracked and perishing.<br />
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The kitchen has gone from this:<br />
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through this:<br />
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to this:<br />
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Now that we have a working kitchen again, which has more work space and more cabinets, I can recommence cookistry. The kitchen now has an induction hob and the new oven has many controls that I don't understand, both of which increase the possibility of future cookery disasters.<br />
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Although I haven't yet cooked in the new kitchen, my partner Doris has already had a couple of disasters ...<br />
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Yesterday, she baked bread. Hers was the disaster a few months ago when she <a href="http://cookerydisasters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/expert-bread-baking.html" target="_blank">forgot to add water to the bread mix</a>. She didn't forget that, this time. However, the bread machine has been in storage while the kitchen has been replaced, and she neglected to check that the paddle insert was still inside the machine. After 5 hours of baking, she went to extract the freshly-baked bread and discovered that there had been no kneading, so the bread was a mass of unmixed (but cooked) ingredients.<br />
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This is what the paddle is supposed to look like:<br />
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We are now searching for where the paddle has disappeared to. We shall continue to hunt for it until we give up and buy a new one, on which day we will find it and then have a spare, which we shall store "somewhere safe" and never see again.<br />
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This evening, she made smoothies. She hasn't been able to make smoothies since I've known her, due to lack of workable space. With the kitchen replacement, she is now able to easily retrieve all of her gadgets. This is a photo of the model of smoothie maker that she has.<br />
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The smoothie-making went perfectly, and she poured mine out. She wanted to fill my glass to the brim, but the tap on the smoothie maker is slightly too low for the pint glass that she had selected for me. Therefore, she lifted the perspex jug from the motorised base in order to position it over my glass and pour out more smoothie.<br />
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The perspex jug is semi-permanently affixed to a plastic housing that contains the blending blades. The fixing utilises an extremely tight-fitting grommet. The smoothie maker hasn't been used in years, and the grommet had, unbeknownst to Doris, become slightly dislodged. In regular operation, this was not a problem, but when the grommet had to take the entire weight of the smoothie, the joint failed.<br />
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Or, as Doris herself explained "The bottom fell off!"<br />
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At her shouted request that I collect my smoothie while she cleaned up the kitchen, I went to the kitchen to find the new peninsular work top covered in purple smoothie. The base of the smoothie maker was also covered in purple smoothie, as was the cabinet door, the whole of the new marmoleum kitchen floor, Doris's shoes, Doris's legs and Doris's dress. It was a mess!<br />
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At least I had most of a pint of smoothie. Doris was wearing and standing in hers.<br />
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When I start cooking again, I will continue to post my disasters. I have successfully got out of the habit of cooking, though, and we have found some lovely restaurants near to us while we've had no kitchen, so it might be a while until I'm persuaded to get back in the kitchen and try to remember everything that I've learned about not making silly mistakes.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-7094316095462917382012-01-23T20:41:00.000+00:002012-01-23T20:41:11.820+00:00Is it ok to ignore heating instructions?New - with photographs! <br />
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I have said before how much I like Uncle Ben's Microwave Risotto Rice. It cooks a lovely risotto in 2 minutes and 40 seconds, which is far more my style than stirring rice in a pan constantly for 45 minutes, carefully adding a couple of drops of stock every few seconds.<br />
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The last time I zapped a microwave risotto, I had a bit of an accident. Our microwave has a removable grill tray which I usually remove before cooking anything. This time, I neglected to remove it, and the packet of rice got caught in the element at the top of the microwave, tipping it over. When it had finished, I found the base of the microwave covered in nicely-cooked risotto, which I had to bin.<br />
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This time, I opened the microwave, took out the grill tray, closed the microwave, opened a cupboard, took a measuring jug from the cupboard, filled the measuring jug with 100ml of water, opened the risotto sachet, poured the water into the sachet, put the sachet into the opened cupboard, tried to work out why I couldn't find the controls to cook it.<br />
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After I told Doris what I had done, and she laughed, I decided that a photograph was in order, so I had to set it again to take a photo:<br />
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and where the microwave is in relation to this cupboard. I didn't miss by much!<br />
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I put the rice in the microwave and started cooking. In the meantime, I wondered whether to have any protein with it. After a quick search of the fridge, I found some frankfurters. Looking at the back of the pack, I saw that the instructions claimed 30 seconds in a 850W microwave for 2 frankfurters, or 1:30 for 4 frankfurters. I did not believe this, but I cooked 4 frankfurters for 1:30 anyway. At 1 minute, they started to pop and explode, so I decided that they were cooked and that the instructions must have been wrong.<br />
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To get proof of the wrongness of the instructions, I took a photo. Hey - I have a camera in my phone, so I might as well use it!<br />
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Hmmm ... if you look at the full-sized photo, you'll see that it actually says 1:10 at 850W. I must have been misreading the instructions. I wonder if this goes some way towards explaining my lack of cooking skills?<br />
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EDIT: In the future, I must remember to take the sachet out of the cupboard and throw it away after I've set up a photograph!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-68937241346806506752012-01-08T23:03:00.001+00:002012-01-08T23:23:55.454+00:00Expert Bread BakingThis instalment is just reported by me, not caused by me.<br />
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I was napping this afternoon, and Doris, my partner, made herself a sandwich for her tea. She used the last of the loaf that I baked yesterday, and so she did me a favour by baking a new loaf of wholemeal bread.<br />
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I was in the kitchen when the timer indicated that the loaf was done, and the kitchen had started to smell a little like bread, so I went to take the loaf out of the breadmaker to let it air.<br />
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It looked AWFUL! There was a small lump of dough in the middle of the breadmaker and a scraping of bread around the edge of the tin. A disaster worthy of this blog.<br />
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I went to get Doris, so that she could identify what had gone wrong. I asked her if she'd forgotten to add any yeast, but she confirmed that yeast had been added.<br />
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After looking at it, she tipped the whole lot into the bin, declaring "I know what I did wrong. I didn't add any water. I am a twonk"<br />
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EDIT: it's now 30 minutes later, and it is smelling more and more like bread. Ok, it's in the bin, but it's starting to smell good. I would be tempted to try it, if it hadn't already been thrown away!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-51347593354808457852011-07-20T11:12:00.000+01:002011-07-20T11:12:32.934+01:00Sandwich TimeWe have a bread maker. It has various settings, and I've come a-cropper with them before, but I managed to successfully navigate its user interface yesterday and came out with a lovely loaf of soft-crust white bread in 2 hours!<br />
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It looked ideal for sandwiches, so after it cooled, I cut some slices.<br />
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Ok, the first slice was mobius-cut, so I cut another 4 slices to make sure it was just an anomaly. This meant that I had enough sliced bread for two rounds of sandwiches. I buttered the bread, thinking about fillings.<br />
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I looked in the fridge for processed meat. None.<br />
I looked in the fridge for cheese. None.<br />
Bugger.<br />
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Ok, I can make PB&J sandwiches. We have crunchy peanut butter in the cupboard, so I spread that over the slices. Now for the jam.<br />
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The jam in the fridge has a layer of mould on it. This isn't going well.<br />
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I root in the fridge for jam substitutes. Horseradish sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, mustard. None of those would be suitable substitutes.<br />
I look in the cupboard for jam substitutes. Marmite, apple chutney, mint jelly. None of those would be suitable substitutes. I'm worried that I might end-up eating Peanut Butter sandwiches, and that thought fills me with dread, but I eventually find white chocolate spread and a tub of squeezable honey at the back of the cupboard. Those look promising.<br />
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I spread the white chocolate, and make one sandwich.<br />
I try to squeeze the honey out of the squeeze tub. Nothing happens. I need to unscrew the lid and delve-in with my knife to get the honey out, and it's all crystallised.<br />
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Why is it that amphorae of honey can be retrieved from wrecks of Roman ships on the seabed after 2 millennia and are perfect, but leave a tub of honey in my cupboard for a few weeks and it's virtually unusable?<br />
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I scrape the crystals of honey over a slice of bread, and I eat the sandwiches.<br />
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They were rank!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-66290491042641208382011-07-02T15:10:00.001+01:002011-07-02T15:18:49.332+01:00Poaching EggsDoris is away in Australia for 3 months. Therefore I'm not being stretched in the kitchenery department.<br />
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However, last night I watched Doris, over webcam, poach two eggs and serve them on toast. It took only a couple of minutes, and I saw her make a mistake, which she said was impatience at the time taken for the water to properly boil (so I'll remember that, and make sure I don't try to move too fast) but it was salvaged with the aid of a pasta spoon and nice to eat.<br />
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Ok, can I boil water without burning it, can I whirl a vortex and can I crack an egg? If I can do these things, I can poach an egg.<br />
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Off we go then! Water in saucepan ... check!<br />
I then ground some salt into the pan, (I have no idea whether it's necessary for this, but I was taught to do it, so I always do).<br />
Saucepan on the hob, with its lid on, over a high heat ... check!<br />
Cut some bread, put it in the toaster ... check!<br />
Wait for the water to boil, then start toasting the bread ... check!<br />
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Ok, now we have the technical part. "Whirl a vortex" is a fine phrase, but what does it actually mean?<br />
I have a wooden spoon, and I can stir the water. I stop stirring, the water stops moving.<br />
I stir faster, the water moves faster until I stop stirring and the water stops moving.<br />
I stir hard-and-fast, I get splashed with boiling water, I stop stirring, the water stops moving.<br />
How on earth do I create a vortex?<br />
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By now, the water is bubbling very vigorously, so I need to get the egg into there, but I have a wooden spoon in my hand. So I take my chances and crack an egg with my other hand, and it works! Ok, I have albumen all over my hand, but the yolk dropped into the pan, and the albumen drips into it from my hand, so that's a result!<br />
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Now, I have a yolk boiling and some albumen whitening in my saucepan. I examine it, but it doesn't look much like a poached egg. I wonder whether I'm supposed to keep stirring, so I stir the protein solution. The albumen starts to clump together, on the opposite side of the pan to where the yolk is rapidly hardening. I try to guide them together and just manage to unclump the albumen.<br />
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My yolk now looks hard-boiled, so I decide to serve. I can serve the yolk, but the albumen won't clump. I end-up serving a load of water along with a hard-boiled yolk onto one slice of toast.<br />
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Ok, that wasn't very successful. I can do better the next time. I have another piece of toast and another egg.<br />
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The saucepan still has lots of streaky albumen bits in it, but I'm sure that won't matter. This time, I will boil the water less vigorously and keep the water moving.<br />
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I wait until the water starts to boil. I start to stir.<br />
I stir harder and faster. The water stops boiling.<br />
I stop stirring, the water starts bubbling and stops moving.<br />
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Ok, perhaps the bubbling is stopping the water from keeping the vortex? Perhaps I need to keep stirring and not worry about the water not boiling?<br />
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I stir, I stir more, the water stops bubbling, the water swirls<br />
I keep stirring.<br />
I take the egg in my other hand and crack it. The yolk drops into the middle of saucepan and starts to migrate to the outside, followed by the albumen dripping through my fingers.<br />
I now have a comet with a golden head swirling around in the water<br />
The head breaks away. The yolk comes free, it quickly escapes to the other side of the pan. I keep stirring, trying to force the albumen to catch up by force of will.<br />
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It won't do it, Again, I have an egg yolk on one side of the pan and albumen on the other side.<br />
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This time I don't interfere with the albumen, so I can at least combine the yolk and the white on my piece of toast. I keep stirring, the pieces of egg keep moving.<br />
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The albumen breaks apart without any action from me. I've kept stirring! I can't fix it! The yolk is going all hard-boiled again! I need to finish this!<br />
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I stop stirring, fish-out the yolk and put it onto the toast. I notice that the other piece of toast has disintegrated due to water damage, so I don't risk serving albumen on the second piece of toast.<br />
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I eat one piece of toast with two hard-boiled egg yolks, and I didn't set off the smoke alarm. I suppose it's a success of sorts.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-15064192640801683932011-06-19T15:28:00.000+01:002011-06-19T15:28:00.898+01:00Burgers cooked nicelyThis needs a subtitle ... "In which Poki learns how to use a food processor"<br />
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Doris is away for 3 months, on a work secondment to Australia, so I need to fend for myself (with instructions when required over MSN, although the timezone difference might make this tricky.<br />
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We had minced beef in the fridge. It had just passed it's "use by" date, but had been kept chilled, so wouldn't have been bad yet.<br />
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I've cooked pasta for the past two days, so didn't want to cook it again. I asked Doris for alternatives, and she suggested rice, then mashed potatoes, until we finally agreed when she reminded me that there were some Birds Eye Potato Waffles in the freezer (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSq_Fhcckvo">they're waffly versatile</a>).<br />
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Doris has a burger press, and a food processor, so she suggested that I make burgers.<br />
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We discussed the food processor functionality. I've heard bad things about them before, so I wanted to be sure about it before I committed myself to actions that would be too difficult.<br />
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She said that I should use the ordinary blades. I had to ask for a definition of "ordinary" in this instance, and Doris explained it as a pair of blades around the plastic hub, shaped like an S. I should whizz an onion until chopped, then add the mince, 2 teaspoons of salt, crack an egg in and add two handfuls of oats, whizz again and them press into patties using the burger press.<br />
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We are experienced in msn instructions for cookering things, so after we'd ascertained that it would be 5 minutes of whizzing rather than the 30 minutes I was assuming, that it would be like paste instead of burger if I over-whizzed it, that I wouldn't need to cook the mince first and that I wouldn't need to add anything else, I went to try it.<br />
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I had trouble finding the food processor. My youngest daughter found it hiding behind the ice cream maker and a smoothie jug. It already had the S blade in the jug, and once I realised that this blade was supposed to have the inch-high kink in it between the blades, I reinstalled it and looked at the controls.<br />
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It has a dial from 1 to 8, and a two-way, three-position power button. You press the outer button (only after securely shutting the lid, I discovered) to be able to twist the inner button either to "P" (pulse?) and "1" (on?). I left the dial at "8" and after a few seconds, my daughter noticed the unmistakeable smell of burning electrics, so I switched the processor off.<br />
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I halved an onion and dropped it through the chimney. I then whizzed this until I got the electric smell again, and decided that it was done. I took the lid off because I was unable to feed the mince and crack the egg through the chimney, and dumped everything in, with only a slight mistake of pouring oats all over the floor, after I had discovered that we have both oats and muesli in jars. I also didn't measure-out the salt - it would have been too tricky to try to grind salt onto a teaspoon, so I just ground it straight on top of the mince until my daughter said "That's 33 times you've ground that salt. Don't you think that's enough?". She's 12, so perhaps she knows more about cookistry than I do.<br />
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It only took about 30 seconds of whizzing for the electric smell to reappear, so I decided that this was long enough, regardless of the 5 minutes that we had discussed on msn.<br />
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I retrieved the burger press and associated greaseproof paper discs from the cupboard, and started pressing the meat mixture into it. Doris has shown me how to do this in the past. Once I realised that the spring was disconnected from the internals and I re-seated it, I was able to force the mixture into the press, shut the pattie between two sheets of greaseproof paper and the plastic press components and WHACK! it hard with my hand onto the work surface to mould it into the correct shape and density. From the 500g of mince, along with the other ingredients, this only made 6 burgers. If we have 6 burgers, that's two each (I have my two youngest children with me this weekend) so needs 6 potato waffles to match them (and some sweetcorn as a nod to healthy eating).<br />
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I started grilling the waffles and moved-on to washing up the food processor items.<br />
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On an unrelated note, have you noticed how disconcerting it is, on turning around after finishing the washing-up, to see plumes of acrid black smoke billowing from the grill?<br />
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After completing the toasting of the waffles, I started grilling the burgers, then microwaved some sweetcorn, reheated the now-cold waffles and served it all on the third strike of the smoke alarm.<br />
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My verdict is that, after all that effort, the burgers tasted just like minced beef. I was hoping that I would have a more interesting combination of flavours. I had served the burgers on top of the waffles, so the waffles all want soggy. For some reason I can't discern, the sweetcorn smelled vaguely of custard. Fortunately, I like custard, but it was unexpected. The kids liked the meal, though - much better than bought burgers, was their verdict.<br />
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If I continue like this, my blog is going to be less about disasters and instead overlap with "proper" cookerying blogs. I'm not sure my experiences are interesting enough to warrant a serious blog!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-50885156330393311042011-05-25T21:54:00.000+01:002011-05-25T21:54:16.486+01:00Smoke Alarm in the KitchenMy daughter tweeted this week:<br />
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I had to respond with:<br />
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It's just a loud timer alarm, telling me that the food is ready ;)</div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/#!/thisispoki/status/72280148333961216" style="color: rgb(0, 132, 180) !important; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="1:38 PM May 22nd"><span class="_old-timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1306067904000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">22 May</span></a> <span class="tweet-actions" data-tweet-id="72280148333961216" style="font-size: 11px; 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Is it usual to have a smoke alarm in the kitchen area, no more than about 12ft from the oven? If it is, is it usual to trigger the smoke alarm every time you cook? Even this evening, when I was simply grilling burgers, the smoke alarm blared as I was serving-up.<br />
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I hate to think what will happen when we have a real fire. When I set the frying pan alight this week, and the smoke alarm went off, no-one ran to assist me.<br />
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Hmm ... perhaps I should blog about setting the frying pan alight, but as I rescued it and no-one noticed that the food was charred, I didn't think it worthy of an entry. In itself, that might provide indications of my lack of cookery expertise.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-44748549197140906902011-04-24T20:31:00.000+01:002011-04-24T20:31:02.572+01:00I have forgotten how to make gravyI haven't had disasters recently, primarily because I've been too busy at work to spend lots of time at the oven. I know, cooking is supposed to be quick, but not when you're a poor cookist.<br />
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Today, I cooked a gammon roast. I put the gammon joint on the pan insert, poured some cola into the base of the pan and started roasting it covered by some tin foil.<br />
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The gammon wasn't huge, so I started peeling potatoes immediately. While they were parboiling, I peeled carrots and chopped some onions.<br />
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When the potatoes were soft, I poured the water out of the saucepan, salted & oiled them, shook them to generate some scrumbly bits and then poured them into the roasting pan (having removed the tin foil first.<br />
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I noticed that the cola hadn't evaporated, but it didn't concern me.<br />
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I added the carrots and onions, and put the pan back into the oven for another 45 minutes.<br />
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In the meantime, I boiled some broccoli.<br />
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After 45 minutes roasting, I removed the gammon and started serving the potatoes, carrots and onions with a ladle. Hmm ... this wasn't right. There was still lots of cola in the pan, so I served using the slotted spoon instead.<br />
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No problem, the cola would be infused with gammon juices, and I'll be able to make gravy with it.<br />
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The roasting pan was now empty apart from the liquid, so I dumped some plain flour into it and started stirring over a low heat. This caused the flour to immediately clump around the ladle, until it looked like a lump of mortar. I scraped the lump off the ladle with the slotted spoon and continued stirring. After a few seconds all of the liquid had disappeared, and I was left with burning lumps of mortar in the pan. Fortunately, I still had the liquid in with the broccoli, so I poured it from there into the pan. I now had a litre of broccoli-infused water and a lump of mortar.<br />
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After stirring, more stirring, and even more stirring, I had a litre of butterscotch-coloured water and lots of small clumps of solid matter. I couldn't work out how to mix it all together, to I poured everything from the pan into a jug, to enable me to use a whisk. The substance overflowed the jug, so I had to pour half of it away. Even using the whisk, it didn't improve the texture. I decided to taste it, to make sure I could still serve it. Unfortunately, it tasted like floury cola, so I had to pour it all away.<br />
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We had no scrumbly bits, as the potatoes had been drowned.<br />
We had potatoes, carrots and onions tasting of cola.<br />
We had no gravy.<br />
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My youngest daughter liked the flavour of the potatoes, though.Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-82288883288960953112011-04-09T16:11:00.001+01:002012-09-03T14:37:36.467+01:00BlandnessAs my cooking improves, I post less and less frequently here. Having said that, I have hardly cooked in the past week due to pressures of work, so I'm currently posting every time I cook!<br />
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I've just cooked Medallions of Steak with jacket potatoes and mixed veg. It was all fine, but bland. I need people to let me know how to make food interesting rather than simply nutritious.<br />
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The instructions on the polythene packaging around the steak were easy to understand, apart from the following line:<br />
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"Heat the pan on medium heat"<br />
This is a frying pan, with olive oil in it, 2 minutes per side for rare steak.<br />
When I have the dial on "high", the oil burns. When I turn the dial down slightly, it still burns. I need to turn it down approximately half way (I can't tell for sure if it exactly half way, as the gas burners don't appear to have any physical indicators as to the heat they produce atPokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-54234604234523236702011-03-30T21:53:00.000+01:002011-03-30T21:53:37.696+01:00The Disaster Doesn't Have to be in the CookingIt might be in the expression used in thanking Doris for the lovely food she cooks:<br />
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</ul></form></div>Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-33014775558469925952011-03-30T21:50:00.000+01:002011-03-30T21:50:40.798+01:00Another Facebook CrosspostingThis wasn't a disaster, but I think that the Facebook comments make it worthwhile for inclusion:<br />
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</ul></form></div>Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-66351209580734448232011-03-24T20:41:00.000+00:002011-03-24T20:41:01.145+00:00Herbs on SalmonDoris is out this evening, so I'm fending for myself.<br />
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Looking in the fridge, I see some out-of-date mince, some out-of-date chicken and some out-of-date salmon. They are only a day-or-two out-of-date, and Doris has told me in the past that those dates don't take correct refrigeration into account, so I'm safe with any of them.<br />
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Salmon, I choose you!<br />
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Ok, I have two skinless salmon fillets. I have seen salmon fried in the past, but the instructions on the side of the packet only say to bake them (25 minutes) or to microwave them (2 minutes). Therefore, to the microwave!<br />
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On the way to the microwave, I notice the rack of dried herbs. I recall that I've seen herbs served on fish, so I decide to see what would go well with salmon.<br />
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I sniff basil, rosemary, marjoram, parsley and oregano. One smells like tea, one like curry, and the others I can't really tell.<br />
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I don't want my salmon tasting of tea or curry, so I select rosemary to sprinkle on one fillet before microwaving it, and oregano to sprinkle on the other.<br />
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I'm feeling almost like a cook!<br />
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After microwaving, I retrieve them, serve them and eat them.<br />
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The only difference I can tell between rosemary and oregano is the size of the numerous bits that I need to pick out of my teeth!Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537611604368655469.post-9458538533917792862011-03-07T23:28:00.000+00:002011-03-07T23:28:08.150+00:00I think I'm learning stuff!<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I am! I really think so!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Over the weekend, we visited our good friends Rawk & Lillith, and their impossibly cute infant daughter. I helped Rawk cook the meal that we had by slicing vegetables.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I managed to explode squash seeds all over the kitchen when Rawk wasn't monitoring my actions. He turned around and wordlessly handed me a spoon to scoop the seeds out properly, rather than me struggling with the vegetable knife with which I'd sliced the gourd open.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">He showed me what to do with a leek. I already knew what to do with the other vegetables, although I was too slow at chopping so he cut some potatoes to throw into the bowl.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last night, I cooked pasta bolognese for Doris. No disasters, and I included an onion and a leek in my bolognese. She even complimented my meal on Facebook, so it must have been an improvement to my notmal cooking!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I've also stumbled across a couple of web sites. I will read them in due course, but if I don't copy the names down, I know I'll forget:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">http://startcooking.com/</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">http://www.cookingforengineers.com/</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Other suggestions of useful web sites for worse-than-beginners are welcome.</div>Pokihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869262076197626631noreply@blogger.com1