I recently followed my first ever Burmese recipe, for a lamb meatball curry, to a surprisingly successful conclusion. I had never knowingly eaten Burmese food and neither did I know much about Burma-now-Myanmar and its cuisine. The recipe listed sixteen ingredients, which is on the cusp of being too many for the likelihood of not […]
Picturing a supermarket biscuit aisle, right now it’s chocolate and nuts that appeal. The nuts might be an issue though, after a cobnut-related incident over the weekend. So out come the recipe books, for I am trying to justify the inclusion of all recipe books on my cookery book shelves and the baking ones are
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I read an article in Slightly Foxed magazine (Summer 2020) about Picnic at Hanging Rock. I have the book on extremely long-term loan (Sarah M, I haven’t forgotten) and have never read it. The back cover mentions “brooding”, “horror” and “ends in terror”; my default literary genres of choice do not extend to anything with
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Bao*. Soft, fluffy, folded-over pillowy buns stuffed with zingy, crunchy vegetables and some kind of crispy fried meat slathered in a piquant sauce. This is exactly what I want to eat right now. Or later today would suffice. I’ve had “Oh my God, that’s good” bao and I’ve also had damp, almost slimy buns with
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I knew next to nothing about Malaysian food. Word association resulted in chicken satay (yum), street food, probably coconut and lemongrass … Some other ingredients I thought of appeared not to be quite as Malaysian as I had guessed, so that very short list above was the extent of my knowledge about Malaysian food. I
Japan transforms me into a hitherto unknown person who loves cute, jangly, dinky, plastic unnecessaries. Similarly, a lunch box obsession, both eating from shop-bought bento and buying packed lunch boxes, emerges and, through purchase of the latter, continues for at least a few months back home in the UK. Bento means “the useful thing” or
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