Toasted sandwiches, toasted sammies, toasties, jaffles. There are many names for the humble lunch enjoyed by people everywhere and today I’m going to give you a few recipes that are my favourites since I miss having a toasted sandwich press in Japan.
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JET Reflection 3: Baking in a rice cooker
Out of all of the apartments in Japan we were looking at prior to arrival, only one had an oven. We didn’t go for that apartment as it was built in the 1970s and you really want to avoid living somewhere that was built prior to the 1980s or even 2011 if you can avoid…
Covid day two: Kiwi Christmas Roast
What makes a kiwi Christmas? It’s an odd thing because traditionally Christmas was celebrated in the northern hemisphere where it was winter. As a result the foods which are eaten around Christmas are very heavy and hot, such as the traditional roast dinner. On my Mum’s side of the family it was always roast lamb…
Whittakers 100s and 1000s Barvarian
So I was doing yoga on Tuesday and my mind was wandering. The Whittakers 100s and 1000s chocolate had been back for a couple of weeks, its last release was in 2014, and I was struck by the idea of trying to making a barvarian dessert from my tried and true recipe. This recipe I…
Isolation day 8: Corn Chowder
The weather has been very changeable over this first week in isolation. There has been several days where it was pouring with rain, a couple where it was sunny and warm, yesterday was really misty and today its overcast and grey. Weather on the wintry side is when soup is one of my meals of…
Isolation day 2: Rocky Road
No, this post title does not mean that I have found it hard to settle into a new routine due to isolation, I made a messterpiece in the form of Rocky Road Slice yesterday. It looks lumpy and unorthodox due to the layers but as my Chef Flatmate said, and I quote, ‘Its like crack!’,…
Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
A recipe from my youth, Mum would make a double batch to feed the six of us during winter. It is cakey, chocolatey and, as long as you have an oven and electric beater, not too difficult.
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