Just a quick note to say that in the new air fryer I received as a present (a Ninja with two drawers!), I can add six eggs, set the timer to seven minutes and the temp to 170°C. Then I pour a bottle of water I have in the fridge into a jug, add someContinue reading “Hard boiled air fryer”
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Crunchy Nutella
It might look like ordinary Nutella, but this jar has a secret ingredient – CRUNCH! I’ve eaten peanut butter and Nutella for years, like most other people I reckon. One thing that has always surprised me is that we take it for granted that peanut butter is crunchy and that Nutella is smooth, but I’veContinue reading “Crunchy Nutella”
Jamaican Guinness Punch
My mum watched a TV programme with Colin Jackson on it. He’s a Brit of Jamaican origins and he made a punch on the programme that mum told me about. It’s a traditional Jamaican recipe of a Guinness punch using evaporated and condensed milk that sounded intriguing. Here are the ingredients I used: 500ml ofContinue reading “Jamaican Guinness Punch”
Make your own Salmiari
If you have spent any time in Finland, or you have some friends from that snowy country, you may well have encountered a drink called Salmiakki Korstenkova, or Salmari for short. It’s a vodka-based, salted liquorice-flavoured delight that will please any liquorice or aniseed lovers out there. It caused a stir in its native FinlandContinue reading “Make your own Salmiari”
Senseo makes a good latte shocker!
The Senseo’s coffee is a little weak. It just doesn’t feel like a good coffee, no matter what brand of capsules you use, especially when compared to an industrial machine. However, recently Philips introduced an Espresso “saucer” for the machine, with espresso capsules. The coffee made from them is a little better since it’s theContinue reading “Senseo makes a good latte shocker!”
A taste of autumn
My friend Thomas gave me the end of an enormous butternut squash on Saturday and I tried to tell him how I’d prepare it. In the end, I made it and sent him the recipe by email with these pics. Here’s the recipe: I removed the seeds from the end of the butternut squash (andContinue reading “A taste of autumn”