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Bento Bag

And I’m back on the air!  But not yet cooking – that’s for tomorrow.  Today I bring you the first bit of sewing I’ve done in a while, with one of the most adorable fabrics I could not pass up.

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Eating Through Asia – Part One

This week is going to be quite busy for me at work, which doesn’t mean I won’t be cooking – it just means I probably won’t be taking the time to set up the camera to take photos while I’m doing it. So I’ve decided to do a few food porn posts from our recent [...]

Kulinarya Cooking Challenge – Barbikyu

The Kulinarya Cooking Club was started by a group of Filipino foodies living in Sydney, who are passionate about the Filipino culture and its colourful cuisine. This month’s theme was barbikyu, a transliteration of “barbecue”. I always knew that my “mostly-pescetarian” diet would be thrown out the window by joining challenge, but [...]

The Vanilla Experiment – Checkup

We are now a couple of weeks into the Vanilla Bean Experiment!  I am officially… an eighth of the way through before I can actually start using the extract.

The lovely Sirene and her partner came over to Redfort for dinner, and we sniff-tested the four different extracts I have.  This was the first [...]

Birthday Presents!

Hot on the heels of my post about having too much stuff in the kitchen, I’m giving a big shoutout to my homie in Ohio, Khedron, for shipping me some awesome gear I’ve been drooling over for ages!  Official Alton Brown NaCL Containment Units, and a T-Rex spray bottle!  The glittery penguin birthday card [...]

Sourdough Deflated

And on the tenth day, Steeeeve grew and grew and grew!

I wish I could say I was doing this purely in the name of science, but really, it’s more that life is conspiring to never give me perfect timing for making bread.  This time, Steeeeve and I were making a half-wholewheat loaf, but I [...]