Category Kitchen and Cooking Hacks
Painful things – How to never have a Food Moth problem
Pantry moths, food moths, Indian meal moth, whichever name they go by in your place – you don’t want them. At all. Ever. We recently had an infestation and that kept me super busy for more than 4 weeks. There was nothing I could do about it, since my housemates just never had them and […]
Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest IV
IT IS RED!!! Ah – well – reddish at least!!! YAY!! It works. It is a little more subtle in colour than expected, but it works. YAY for trying out and getting a result!!! This is part IV of the quest and as always, the ‘final’ recipe will come when the trial phase is over. […]
Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest III
*nomnomnom all the experimental cupcakes have been eaten. Back to the baking board and making a new batch of trial cupcakes. This time I focus on the Raw Cacao, on the question whether I have mixed up the cupcakes, whether beetroot smells funny and is redder than the cacao…
Kitchen Hacks – Skewer Knife Block
The World Wide Brain Exchange i.e. Internet had this little jewel for me. Tired of storing knives in an ever overflowing compartment of the divider in the kitchen drawer, risking my fingers to get cut in the process, I searched for a cheap and adaptable idea to store the knives which had not yet a […]
Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest II
A cake. I wanted to make a whole cake. With the wonderfully sounding ‘Ermine’ icing/frosting/filling. So I did. And it was better than the cupcakes before and that was mostly due to a change in ingredients! This is part II of the quest and again, the ‘final’ recipe will come, once I am happy with […]
Kitchen Hacks – Microwave Cleaning made easier
Microwaves get dirty. No matter how careful you are with putting a lid on, but at some stage it was placed on badly, you forgot, it moved off or for some other reason you’d like to clean your microwave. Trying to get off the caked-on stuff is not necessarily an easy feat. Unless, however, you […]
Kitchen Hacks – Not-just-as-soggy Microwaved ‘Crispy’ Food
Got this one from a friend, I’m sure there are many who know this, but I didn’t and others may find it helpful: When heating or re-heating food that usually is or was fried, wrap a paper towel around it while microwaving. I’ve tried this for items that needed microwaving on high for about 30 […]
Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest I
Broken Glass Red Velvet (Dexter or Halloween) Cupcakes, what an awesome idea. I saw them, was intrigued and wanted to make them. But not from a cake packet and when I learned how much food colouring went in and about the myths, I started digging a little myself!
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