Category Archives: cooking
A new cookery challenge
After reading Joey’s attempt at cooking falafel, I can’t decide if I really fancy having a go, or fear the chaos it seems to involve. Either way, good luck on the diet dude, hope you manage to stick to it!
Slight failure of cooking today – Claire is going to be out late … so the roast beef I had planned is going to have to go by the wayside … it’ll have to be some kinda pasta dish instead. Unless anyone has any other bright ideas – I have leek, sprouts, carrots, parsnips. Continue reading
Random Pasta Sauce
Needed to pull together some dinner this evening, but Claire and I are eating separately, so didn’t want to hit up anything too complicated. An investigation of what we had in the kitchen led to the following, which probably needs some refinement, but it was fairly satisfying …
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Catchup of the week
Just thought I’d write a quick catch up on the last week or so … I have finished the first series of the webseries. It has a working title of “Out of Office”, which I veer from really liking to a real sense of indifference. Never outright hatred, but I would like to come up with something better. More importantly, I am fairly happy with the series, and am very excited about the next steps – completing casting, read thru, edits to the script, and then shooting! The writing process has been an interesting one. Continue reading
Salmon, Asparagus and Pesto
Yesterday, I suddenly realised that I hadn’t made any plans for cooking this weekend, and I was on the hook to go shopping. In a desperate attempt to resolve this problem, I searched for what shall I cook for dinner tonight. Continue reading
Pasta Florentine
So I made the pasta florentine this evening but it didn’t work out as well as hoped. The first problem arose when I realised I was following a recipe that would serve 1. Instead of measuring everything again, I panicked a little and just chucked stuff in. I think that as a result I had too much wine in the sauce, and I also used jarred garlic which might not be such a good thing. It has potential, but Claire had an additional thought which I will also try which is to use a frying pan to give a larger surface area to the sauce, hopefully improving on the thickening front (although the thought occurs that less wine will also help).
So not bad, but definitely needs more work!
[edited to link to recipe and correct the name of the dish!!!]
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