Pasta & rice

Zucchini, tomato and feta cheese sauce on gluten-free pasta

February 13, 2009

  I have been feeling guilty lately.  No, not the usual stuff about eating too much, drinking too much or not going to the gym.  I was tidying up files on my PC and discovered my bulging archives of weekly newsletters that I religiously used to send to my family and friends.  Every week!  6 pages or [...]

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Mushroom Stroganoff and the butterfly effect

November 24, 2008

  Heard of the butterfly effect?  (And no, I don't mean the rubbish movie with annoying Ashton Kutcher.). It refers to a theory that a movement as small as a butterfly flapping its wings can create tiny changes in the atmosphere that could ultimately change the path of a tornado.  In other words, small changes to the [...]

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Orecchiette in a creamy mushroom & pesto sauce

November 20, 2008

  Short and sweet tonight, I'm afraid! It's been a long week, I have a houseguest coming over tomorrow night, and at some point I would dearly love to fit in more than the 5 hours sleep per night I've been getting since the start of November and NaBloPoMo… Orecchiette is a pasta shape native to [...]

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Chicken, sun-dried tomato & mustard pasta sauce

November 13, 2008

Saga update: No boiler.  No heat.  No comment. Since the start of the Death of a Boiler saga on Monday, I have found myself spending more and more time at the house of my lovely neighbour P. (Troy‘s owner).  This is partly because she has a working shower and central heating (!), partly because she [...]

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Waiter, there’s something in my… nasi ayam nanas!

September 30, 2008

Before this edition of Waiter, There's Something in My… (the monthly event that I co-host with my buddies Andrew and Johanna), Andrew asked me to help him choose between two themes.  I chose one… he went for the other.  Clearly my opinion is highly valued over at chez SpittoonExtra!  When he announced the "something vaguely [...]

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Luxury mac ‘n’ cheese pots

September 10, 2008

You know how sometimes everybody likes something… except you? I remember that at school everyone like liquorice… except me.  How I wished I could also buy those long black ropes of liquorice at the corner cafe and chew contentedly all afternoon… but sadly it was not to be.  Satan’s own shoelaces, if you ask me. [...]

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Broad bean, bacon and mushroom pasta

August 16, 2008

Immigration is a hot topic in the UK these days.  It seems every person that you talk to thinks it’s a problem, but nobody seems to know quite what to do about it.  The world and its dog appears to be falling over themselves to get here – antipodean youngsters on their 2-year youth visas; Eastern Europeans from [...]

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