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An actual 1 hour spoon

Same piece of oak from the Botanic gardens

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I made a spoon

It's made of English Oak from the Botanic gardens.

I wanted to see if I could make something in a day. I didn't manage it, but it wasn't much longer than that.

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Panache

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Rhubarb & grape

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# Speculaas Justino (maybe) Not sure if the name Justino requires fruit, but here's one with biscuits. It's delicious but super fatty. It might need an emulsifier of some sort. I still haven't worked out how to work it into a real drink beyond just shaking it up and putting it in a glass.

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# Speculaas Justino (maybe) Not sure if the name Justino requires fruit, but here's one with biscuits. It's delicious but super fatty. It might need an emulsifier of some sort. I still haven't worked out how to work it into a real drink beyond just shaking it up and putting it in a glass.

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Speculaas Justino (maybe)

Not sure if the name Justino requires fruit, but here’s one with biscuits.

It’s delicious but super fatty. It might need an emulsifier of some sort. I still haven’t worked out how to work it into a real drink beyond just shaking it up and putting it in a glass.

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Office eggs Benedict

I didn’t take any pictures because I was banging out eggs as fast as I could.

My hands are a bit clumsy, I hope I’m better in my usual cooking. Maybe video training is a good idea here too!?

People were pretty into the results.

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Rib Rub

Grinding manually takes a while! Very good.

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Kaizen foam, getting there

There are still some things to let into the foam, but I'm doing it slowly to see how I feel about each thing.

I really like having a tool chest in the kitchen.

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Lime marmalade

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Eggs Benedict

Whipped hollandaise is fantastic. Serves about 6 but all went into two mouths.

Made extra shallot vinegar as that's the most time consuming part. That should make future batches really easy.

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Country pate

I don't have a mincer, so I chopped this by hand. It's the second one I made from the standard quantity. The raw mix freezes well. I added more dried fruits to this one!

Delicious.

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2:1 simple syrup

I’ve been away for a while with no kitchen, so this is a way of easing myself back in.

This is the recipe with the glucose syrup in it. I had a refractometer for 2 years in Sydney, and never used it. Now I don’t have one I want to know what brix this is!

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eggs Benedict

Eggs came out perfect. First time low temp eggs have worked for me.

I might back off the acid in the hollandaise next time, but then again we did have 3 people's worth of sauce each because we're gluttons.

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pickled onions

These have been going on a lot of my boring lunches and making them a lot less boring!