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Meal Prep Misadventures: Broodles and "Rendered" Ham

Broodles - Broccoli Noodles - are my response to the news that some people were snapping the stalks off of their broccoli before purchase. Now, I absolutely abh...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Cheesy Veg Bake

This is one that's "based on" a zucchini bake we found somewhere on the interwebs. I think we made enough changes to it to make it our own. We had teeny tiny zu...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Crustless Quiche

First, I have to confess: This is how it looks fresh out of the oven. This thing will DEFLATE when it cools. Stay calm, it's still good food. The inspiration fo...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Butter-fried Eggplant

Meal prep involves BULK. Lots of stuff. I cooked an entire giant punnet of sliced mushrooms to accent my meals and this is another accent for flavour and textur...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Coodles 2 Electric Boogaloo [Carrot Noodles]

If you want a low-effort recipe, this is going to be your jam. I steamed mine, but you can cook yours however you whist. 1. Take as many large carrots as you wa...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Coodles (Cabbage Noodles)

Those of us on Keto have trouble with noodle replacements. You might not be able to get your hands on shirotake noodles, or you just might miss the feel of ribb...

Meal Prep Misadventures: Preamble

I know, I know. My cooking is not the most appetising thing on the planet. On the other hand, it's tasty. Thing is, I'm not exactly the best person to look afte...

The Sourdough Experiments: Health Muffins(tm)

I woke close to midnight, last night [about 11:30PM, so just before today officially occurred] and therefore fed my starters earlier than normal. This gave me a...

The Sourdough Experiments: Form vs No Form

Using last week's technique, I decided to separate the dough into twain and see if using a bread pan or baking a Lump(tm) made a difference in the rise. Turns o...

The Sourdough Experiments: A real rise at last!

What you are witnessing is a triumph for the "Fckit Principal". In which your humble chef announced, "F@ckit. I'm doing it my way." Steps to making the perfect ...

Cooking With Chaos: Keto ANZAC Biscuits

These lovely delicious lumps come care of the internet and a genius chef who figured it all out for us in advance. We replaced the nuts in the recipe for macada...

To Save a Sod: Re-inventing Bruschetta?

I hate waste. You know this. Most of my posts here are Inventive Things You Can Do With Sourdough Discards. Or, as I prefer to call it, "harvest". I made two so...

The Sourdough Experiments: Savoury Harvest Fry

This here is the one I got right. Witness the horror of the one I got wrong: Let's get to the important bit - the recipe. I'll detail the mistakes afterwards. I...

The Sourdough Experiments: Oh SOD!

I think this here is definitive proof that using "bread mix" type flour is a bad darn idea when it comes to making sourdough. I did everything according to the ...

The Sourdough Experiments: Lazy Fry

My chief influence for this is an educational video from a dude who just straight-up fries his sourdough harvests with a few li'l extras. I don't think I'll eve...

The Sourdough Experiments: Doughnots

That's what you might call a deliberate typo, dear readers. Mainly because this is NOT how you make doughnuts. Honestly, it's something like a cross between a b...

The Sourdough Experiments: Loaf 2 Electric Boogaloo

I did start with 700g of water, when autolysing, and added roughly 30g more during the initial knead. That was not enough. The dough was stiff and hard to manip...

The Sourdough Experiments: Pancake Taco-esque

This is the invention of Trids, and maybe the kids. We had pork roast shards, the pancakes from yesterday, and a hungry horde. The basic method is: pick pancake...

The Sourdough Experiments: Thin Pancakes Final

I really want to make crepes. Alas, all today has taught me is that I was not born under a crepe-making star. My efforts had the fail. Nevertheless, I document ...

Family Favourites: Cauli Mash

One of the hardest parts of adjusting to Keto is going without the tasty carbohydrates that used to be a staple in the old diet. Switching to cauliflower isn't ...