Archive for June, 2008

Where there’s smoke, there’s Emily in the kitchen!
June 30, 2008

Stir fry attempt numero uno:
 
 
Not so much stirring and frying and sticking and burning… in other words, oh dear!!
Let’s start from the beginning – my sister was getting fed up of all these new recipes being tried for dinner which she really wasn’t fond of, so suggested a stirfry because… well, what could go wrong?
What DIDN’T go [...]

Gâteau de bateau
June 22, 2008

That means boat cake
…it rhymes!!!
For father’s day, I decided to get my daddy something special. He told me not to buy him anything, and I knew he already was getting everything he wanted from my sister, so what option did I have left but to make him a lovely, humungous cake?
Not just any cake… A Gâteau [...]

‘Shrooms in the room!
June 18, 2008

Now, i don’t usually use mushrooms in cooking – i’m not sure what it is about them, but there’s defenitely something amidst all that… mushroomyness? That makes me think bleurgh. 
As i’m not that great a cook at the best of times, with a bleurgh ingredient you’d expect something pretty awful huh?
Suprisingly enough… no!
Let me introduce you to my mushroom [...]

Release the cookie monster!!
June 11, 2008

That’s right.. COOKIES!!!
Officially my favourite food in the entire world, and oh-so-simple to bake
Infact, so simple that they were indeed … wait for it… *gasp*
edible?
Yes!!! they were!!! Not only edible but darn tasty too. It would be a crime not to pass on the genius that is this recipe [and direct you to [...]

Chocolate-cheescake-brownie-slices-fresh-from-the-oven … What a mouthful!
June 11, 2008