scrambled eggs wrapped in smoked salmon Much easier than it looks; the photo in delicious magazine was pretty appealing, so I thought I’d surprise kel with a cooked breakfast. A quick trip to the shops, and I was ready to put this together: the scrambled eggs inside the salmon are cooked with a little bit …
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cooking chicken with white wine
Last night I managed to put dinner together: mostly with what I could forage from the fridge. The tough part was working out how to cook the chicken: here’s what I tried, for future reference (I’ll leave out the bit where I didn’t steam the vegetables long enough, because they were more of an afterthought …
dinner for chan
dinner for three Originally uploaded by cafedave. Every time I cook, I seem to forget something. This time, there were two things – check the quantities before you put the ingredients together, and work out how long the different vegetables will take to cook, so that you can steam them appropriately. This means thinking about …
he cooks lesson six
The night after lesson one, I turned up for lesson six; this time, we were learning how to cook seafood. A different crowd attended this lesson; they knew each other from some of the other lessons, they were more relaxed in the kitchen, and they talked more: it seems like there had been quite a …
mal visits
another satisfied customer Originally uploaded by cafedave. Kel’s old school friend turned up – he’s in town for a course this weekend, so he had the chance to test out my culinary skills; I subbed chicken for fish (long story), and perhaps the unit was a little more smoke-filled than I would have liked (but …
he cooks lesson one
Click on the photo for bigger version, and to comment on it With the the failed attempt a distant memory, I arrived at lesson one of the cooking school midway through the safety talk, and was promptly offered a (light) beer: this is clearly a cooking school that understands its target market. Why was I …
doing a lamb roast
roast Originally uploaded by cafedave. Last night was my turn to cook, while kel had her first relaxing evening in a long while. I thought I’d try and show her how much I appreciate all the cool dinners she’s made for me, so instead of the easy-to-prepare stir-fry, I thought I’d try cooking something more …
he almost cooks…
Kel’s deep disappointment with my knife-wielding skills – combined with a offer too good to refuse (50% off!) – allowed me to extend my birthday still further, and head along (last night) to a cooking course being held over in Glebe. Knowing that I had until 6:30pm to get to that part of Glebe that …
adventures in the kitchen
After a long absence from the kitchen, I managed to throw a few ingredients together and make something that was – if I do say so myself – not bad at all. The main problem I seemed to have was overcoming my fear of the oven. For some reason, I’m quite happy cooking with a …