Cooking Diary #195
Despite the fact that the cans look remarkably similar, borlotti beans, unlike chickpeas, do not make a good addition to curry.
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Cooking Diary #195
Despite the fact that the cans look remarkably similar, borlotti beans, unlike chickpeas, do not make a good addition to curry.
This has been a public service announcement
Cooking Diary #194: I have a new nemesis
The can opener in the common kitchen is out to get me.
Not unrelated, there’s diced tomato bits and juice all over the wall. And all over me.
Cooking Diary #i-completely-forget
I have advice: don't spice your soup with cloves. Apparently people like chili that numbs their face, but not cloves. Who knew?
Cooking Diary #192
Frying pan death toll, 2016: 4.
Admittedly, only three of them were me. One was used in hand-to-hand combat.
Cooking Diary #191
Generally, cakes require eggs. Unless they’re designed to be an eggless cake. Casually omitting the eggs: not a good idea.
Cooking Diary #190
Apparently not all roasting chickens come pre-gutted.
ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
Or ask the microwave in which a dead chicken shat its innards, that’ll do, too.
On the bright side, I do know who you should call if you have a chicken-guts crisis: @memecaptainsteverogers. Proficient at gutting and trussing, birds also has interesting ideas about what to do with the giblets.
Apparently it was a thing in the 80s to host ‘bad taste’ parties.
I vote we revive it. Everyone wears something out of Mr Stank’s wardrobe, and I cook.
Cooking Diary #189
Yes, technically the twenty minutes between putting muffins in the oven and taking them out again is enough time to strip down and bathe*. But then you will be removing the muffins from the oven while damp, and soapy, and wearing only a towel.
*As previously established, this involves wipe-down with soap and water, and topical scrubbing, which is, as several people keep reminding me, the optimum regime for most single-user sex toys, unless you can put them - or me- in the dishwasher.