“99, column 2″ As statements go, that has to be, when taken out of context, one of the most random and mysterious comments ever. If you had been following our adventures in Cookery Lotto, you would have known instantly that this was the answer we had been waiting for. We had (great team effort there, [...]
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Last week, bored with the usual choices and needing inspiration, we played Cookery Lotto, a game guaranteed to introduce an element of randomness into the proceedings. Anything could have been chosen but the rules are that once chosen, it had to be cooked. We ended up with a pasta dish from the Australian Gourmet Traveller Cookbook [...]
Caron was first to pick a number and a column… Page 99 of Australian Gourmet Traveller Annual Cookbook, 2008 is in the pasta section and the second column is papardelle. We’re making pasta! And the only ingredients are 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and 560gm “00″ durum wheat flour. Pappardelle is [...]
In my attempt to widen the variety of dishes I cook and also to introduce an element of randomness, I thought of the weirdly wonderful Cookery Lotto. I have lots of cookery books that I might read but really need to start cooking from. Thing is, I hadn’t really got round to doing anything – [...]
Right back in the beginning, when this blog started out, I knew that I would have to stretch myself. It’s easy, so very easy, to just stick to cooking what I normally cook when what I wanted was to see if I could do something different most days of the week. I thought that taking pictures [...]
Despite almost universal condemnation, the winning recipe from Cookery Lotto, was Creamed Spinach from ‘The Prawn Cocktail Years’ by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham. All I can say is, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Anyway, spinach is good for you.. it says so on the packet. In fact the word “Superfood” is used. [...]
In the very first Cookery Lotto, Looby selected “The Prawn Cocktail Years” by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham using the completely random method of picking a number and then I counted along the bookshelf. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? We don’t need fancy machines to give us our answers. The National Lottery could learn a lot [...]
Well, I know how easy it is to have good intentions…. to make plans that somehow just get a little bit sidelined. Life’s like that. I read cookery books, for example, and think that I’ll try this recipe or that menu.. and then I carry on doing the same things I normally do because I’m [...]
Things are very different in the North and I don’t mean that as a comment on the economic situation. My kitchen here is completely unlike the apartment kitchen where I spend most of my time. The view is certainly different – I’m not high above the city, looking down on the houses and streets below [...]
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