This is the fourth in a series of posts documenting my adventures in making bread during the COVID-19 shutdown. This post has been a while coming, but my sister in law was interested in the sourdough loaf last night, so I figured I should finally document my process. First off you need to have a…
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A totally cheating sour dough starter
This is the third in a series of posts documenting my adventures in making bread during the COVID-19 shutdown. I’d like to imagine I was running science experiments in making bread on my kids, but really all I was trying to do was eat some toast. I’m not sure what it was like in other…
A super simple non-breadmaker loaf
This is the second in a series of posts documenting my adventures in making bread during the COVID-19 shutdown. Yes I know all the cool kids made bread for themselves during the shutdown, but I did it too! So here we were, in the middle of a pandemic which closed bakeries and cancelled almost all…
A breadmaker loaf my kids will actually eat
My dad asked me to document some of my baking experiments from the recent natural disasters, which I wanted to do anyway so that I could remember the recipes. Its taken me a while to get around to though, because animated GIFs on reddit are a terrible medium for recipe storage, and because I’ve been…
Margarita Mix
I’ve had trouble sourcing an acceptable Margarita Mix now that we’re back in Australia. You can get the Jose Cuervo stuff, but it is $10 for a liter bottle. Instead, I’ve been making my own, which is nicer than the store stuff and cheaper to make as well. It is also ultra simple to make….
Slow cooker caramelized onions
I was keen the other day on giving caramelizing onions in the slow cooker a go. It was comparatively simple, although I had trouble finding a site which had a complete set of instructions — lots of sites say “it works”, but don’t give a lot of detail. So here’s what I did: put 1.2…
Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding
I’ve talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here’s the dessert I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams…