‘Food’

Making Thai fish cakes

Food | 9. September 2008

Thai fish cakes

I really like Thai food and never can get enough of it. A while ago I did a Thai cooking class which was great fun. I learned to cook a variety of different dishes like curries, stir fries, salads and more. One of the things I learned to cook was fish cakes, which I like a lot. I often cook this dish as a starter when friends come round for dinner and over time I’ve varied the original recipe and adjusted it to my taste.

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Making bread

Food | 30. July 2008

My mum made always bread herself, so I’m quite familiar with the process of bread making. I never really made it by myself as it looked like quite a bit of work.

A few summers ago I found a very interesting recipe for bread in a newspaper. It’s called ‘No-Kneed Bread’ and it’s very easy. With this recipe I made bread quite a few times and it was just delicious. Unfortunately, since we moved I haven’t made a single bread and I thought this would be a good occasion to get back into bread making and to introduce you to the ‘no-kneed’ bread recipe. This is my version of the ‘No-Kneed Bread’.

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Making Pasta

Food | 7. July 2008

Jamie Oliver has these really nice recipes in his cook books for making your own pasta. Even though I love cooking I never tried it so far. It looks like quite a bit of effort for not a lot of outcomes. But since the outcomes of my weekend tasks matters less then the fun I had a go at it and I made my own ravioli.

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