So back in Cali, the main thing I knew about blackcurrants were that they were a strongly-scented European fruit that was used to make booze and Ribena. The main thing I knew about Ribena syrup was that it was really handy to use when mixing up blood substitute for film and TV productions. Never [...]
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Hey, WordPress has an integrated push-to-Twitter feature now! One less plugin to worry about, pretty cool. For all I know, this could have happened last year, but it’s new to me :-) So yeah. We have a few mature apple trees. We knew this meant we would be getting some fruit in the fall, but [...] I’ve been thinking a lot about instructions and tutorials lately at work, and that must have made its way into my subconscious because I’m starting to feel guilty about not updating this blog very much. It’s not for lack of material, since I’ve got a whole folder of photos and notes saved from various projects [...] One of the things about growing up in an Asian-American household? Bread wasn’t so much of a staple item the way it was in many of my friends’ families. Sure, my mom would occasionally buy a loaf or two to make our sandwiches when we were younger and still took brown paper bags with us [...] Keeping it short today, since we’re still dealing with the aftermath of a three-week bout of cold/flu. I’ve lately been prone to fall asleep at the most inconvenient times of day, thanks to the interesting medication cocktail I’m on. As a result, there has been no real rhyme or reason to my posting this month, [...] I dusted off another dinner recipe requiring condensed cream soup this past weekend, so it’s time to break out the substitutions notebook! This is the second version of homemade condensed cream of chicken soup I’ll be trying out. The first attempt last month, for use in enchiladas, ended on an ambivalent note. That cream ended [...] There are a lot of seasoning mixes that I used to take for granted back in the US, when they were easy to come by in large jars on any supermarket shelf. I recently dug up a few recipes that called for such seasonings and realized that I could no longer get the brand name [...] A little over a year ago, Emmuzka and I had a short chat about the lack of condensed soups in certain areas after I’d posted a recipe using condensed cream of chicken soup. I took that as a cue to look up and bookmark a small list of homemade substitutes for the ingredient, so I [...] You might have noticed that I go through a lot of shellfish in my day-to-day preparations. In quite a few of the previous posts, I’ve also mentioned that you want to save the shells and/or carcass remnants of consumed critters for stock. I suppose now would be as good a time as any to show [...] |
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