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The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss is a super-star. Jeff Goins nailed it when he said that people didn’t love Tim Ferriss for the message he brings, but just because he’s such a cool person that you want to me like him....
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Canapes
A lot of my cooking revolves around main courses. It is easy to slip into this pattern: I only do a three-course meal once or twice per week. Therefore, a lot of the starter, lunch and dessert recipes...
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Making food prettier
Since finally giving in and watching MasterChef, I’ve been busy trying to up my game. Poaching pears, for example. And trying to make everything I put on a plate look a little prettier. Results have...
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Hoegaarden
It’s my first time cooking with Hoegaarden. It is producing some interesting colours.
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The Real Greek
With a name like The Real Greek, you would expect Tonia Buxton’s cookbook to offer authentic recipes. Does it? Well, that depends on how accurate greek stereotypes are. Everything had feta cheese in...
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Coriander seeds
The Schartz herbs and spices bottles are better than the Sainsbury’s ones. They’re taller and thinner, meaning that you can fit more of them within the same shelf space. The labels on the top are also...
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Creamy sweet potato soup
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with soups a little. Nothing too exciting, but I have decided that rather than working from recipes, I’m just going to throw stuff into a pan and see if I can do it...
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Slow Cook Book
The Slow Cook Book is a cookbook by Heather Whinney. It contains hundreds of recipes and all of them come with instructions for how to do it in a slow cooker, or using a more traditional method. This...
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Vegan cookbooks
I’ve been working through a few of Aine Carlin’s cookbooks that Sarann kindly lent me. They’re not doing it for me, to be honest. They’re not filled with recipes, and many of them just didn’t take my...
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Salted potatoes for running
I’ve been testing out salted potatoes for running. They make a nice savoury snack when you are sick of gels. To cook, I boiled them for 10 minutes, coated them in coarse sea salt, roasted them in the...
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