Sunday, January 27, 2008
Slow cooker recipes
As casa Spinneyhead now owns a slow cooker,it's a good time for me to have discovered slow-cooker-recipes.blogspot.com.Technorati tag: Food
posted by I at 7:30 pm
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Generic chutney
I've been chutneying again, having received a crate of Golden Delicious and a request for sweet apple chutney. I use a different recipe every time, but the geek in me couldn't help thinking there might be some sort of generic chutney, a ratio of fruit:vinegar:sugar that should work as the basis for any version and can be scaled. Spices are not included in this, being added for flavour at the whim of the cook.A quick search and a few recipes showed that I might be wrong, or at least that there is more than one generic chutney. The two ratios that make most sense are (fruit:vinegar:sugar)- 3:1:1 and 4:1:2. Within those ratios there is also the break down of the fruit, though the larger portion is more likely determined by what you want to call the chutney.
I'll be making mre chutney in the next few days, so I'll try out the two ratios to see what happens. However, as the spices and other factors will also differ, and I'll have to wait a month or two for everything to mature, we may never really know which works best.
Chutney cooking tips.
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posted by I at 4:03 pm
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Death to the recipe?
Mark Pallis insists, after an epiphany on a beach in Africa, that recipes are no longer relevant. As at least one commenter says, he seems to be mistaking a barbecue for a philosophy. Most of the food I make is improvised following a simple rule- get some good ingredients and go with it- but there are also a few dishes where I will always refer back to the instructions for at least some guidelines. The trick isn't to pretend you don't need Delia et al, but to work out where you can deviate from their schemes.Technorati tag: Food, Recipe
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posted by I at 7:43 am
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