Enjoying @seriouseats’ series on pancakes so far! Any chance of a Kaiserschmarrn recipe? Tried making them after visiting Vienna but never quite got them right :(

I’m not sure any of my bowls are profound enough for this soup recipe:

Steaming is rapidly becoming my favourite way of cooking things.

Lesson learned this evening: If a waiter offers you food, and there’s the tiniest, slightest sliver of a chance it might be off menu, ask how much it’s going to cost up front.

Articles like this one are the reason seriouseats.com is my favourite food blog. So much good information, so many excellent recipes. Making their French Onion Soup this evening.

First thing I did after getting home from Germany was make mango lassi. @brennannovak, you are to blame for this fruity yoghurty deliciousness!

Barnaby’s carrot cake recipe:

1. Search the web for “carrot cake recipe” (such as this one)
2. Halve the amount of sugar, double the amount of carrots

It will probably taste awesome.

Got distracted trying to find somewhere to put smelly bananas, ended up cleaning the kitchen and arranging all my jars in order of colour, which, apparently, my panorama software cannot handle:

#wikipedia article of the week: Garlic “Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil.”

How to make kiwi cake:

1. Find other fruit cake recipes
2. Replace other fruit with kiwis
3. PROFIT

But in all seriousness, I just made one (based off this recipe, using three kiwis) and it was acceptable. Quite structurally insound, and not nearly as green as I had hoped, but tastes adequately like kiwis and very moist.

OH “I liked it when you ricotta’d the octave” #music #food #jargon

you won’t believe how much aubergine there is in a single aubergine

Introducing American+Icelandic friends to Smash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3nnn7-JO0

For more, there’s a compilation.

Eating inaugural new-apartment hot chocolate out of a jar, exhibits interesting elasticity gradient from near-liquid at the top to properly gelled at the bottom — possibly a result of the heat conducting properties of glass vs ceramic?

Good pre-travel baking: Granola with @brennannovak of @rvkgranola, and Germknödel second attempt — first try wasn’t much good, this time they worked perfectly, expanding to twice their original size! First time I’ve managed to make a boiled dumpling with a bready texture.

This evening’s Icelandic-Austrian fusion cooking: Kaiserschmarrn with rabarbara sulta (rhubarb jam). No photo because I ate it already.

We regret to report that even after extensive, delicious research we have been unable to determine how soba noodles can possibly taste as good as they do.

We remain undaunted.

First attempt at #skyr making resulted in some rather nice cheese curds and a tonne of whey, but nothing resembling skyr. Followed julesfood.blogspot.com/2011/04/skyrhomemade-icelandic-yogurt.html going to try simnet.is/gullis/jo/Miscellaneous.htm next as it’s quite a bit more detailed.

First attempt at Buchteln with vanilla sauce, an Austrian recipe picked up during recent travels: