A little-appreciated benefit of (British) English speakers learning a european language: you can look up recipes in that language and be guaranteed that they’ll use metric units
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.
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.
Took a friend’s advice and abandoned my sadly gone-off sourdough culture. The new one has started very different in character to any of my previous cultures — not very bitter, quite fruity, and lots of bubbles. It might be due to this one being a lot wetter in consistency, whereas previous cultures were very thick.
you won’t believe how much aubergine there is in a single aubergine
A far greater culinary challenge awaits, though: what to do with a jar of the far less tasty by-product of #friedchocolatemilk: “Chocolatey oil with bits of burnt batter and granola floating in it”.
(yes I tried deep-frying #granola. It’s part of my job as Granola Science Strategist at @rvkgranola)
Kitchen disaster strikes! It turns out that the low melting point of chocolate in the mixture causes it to melt and flow out of the batter whilst frying, resulting in some vaguely chocolatey batter shells and guilty-looking chocolatey oil.
Paying more attention to the second batch results in some passable fried chocolate milk. Looks like success here is a matter of very thick filling and precise frying timing.
Tonight I shall be combining my two favourite @sumendirest recipes to create the single most unhealthy thing I’ve ever cooked: Fried Chocolate Milk!
I made the main mixture yesterday and it’s been cooling in the fridge. Now for the fun part: frying.
Accidentally left pizza dough fermenting+resting whilst watching 2hr movie, wondering whether this will affect stretching/baking behaviour…
Made pasta+chicken+tahini+peanut+cucumber+chili thing based loosely on seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/02/cold-sesame-noodle-salad-shredded-chicken-easy-recipe.html, was the tastiest thing I’ve cooked in a while. Now attempting some red bean soup + wholegrain glutinous rice balls for dessert.
Also last night: second try cooking horse meat from kolaportið — attempting to make edible via boiling on low heat for 4 hours. Afterwards it was significantly more tender but still fairly disgusting — would not recommend buying. Maybe as dogfood.
Black sesame seed ice cream went down well at the office, has replaced chocolate as my favourite ice cream flavour (those of you have eaten ice cream with me will get how big a deal that is)
Making ice cream for the first time, dim sum dumplings for the second time and fried milk for the third time this evening
Now comfortable with Pizza, Dim Sum is my next food project. #tabdump:
Hungry after walk so tried making black sesame seed paste dumplings — similar to previous mochi but almost no sugar, with the dough boiled instead of baked. Interesting texture, would certainly add some honey to the paste next time as it needs a little more sweetness.
Followed these ingredients: rasamalaysia.com/black-sesame-dumplings-tang-yuan/2/, going to try making justonecookbook.com/recipes/black-sesame-ice-cream next
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Roopa Gulati:
@BarnabyWalters I love the way you combine fabulous experimental food with technical computer coding!
Roopa Gulati:
@BarnabyWalters I love the way you combine fabulous experimental food with technical computer coding!
@roopagulati thanks! Currently mainly working on improving my pizza technique — I can do pretty good sourdough bases now, just bought a pizza stone and it’s had a huge effect. Pizza is now crispy but flexible and a little charred on the bottom.
#TIL 7th January is the Japanese Festival of Seven Herbs day enwp.org/Nanakusa_no_sekku — might try making some of the herb rice porridge next year
Finished off a tiring 15000 step day with my best Spanish-style hot chocolate yet: milk, cornstarch, vanilla, dark chocolate, cinnamon, himalayan salt, a little licorice, masala curry powder and crumbled walnuts. mmmmmmmm.