My first attempt at making pasta wasn’t a “roaring success”, but as the saying goes “you live and learn”. This afternoon / evening I had a second go at it and tried my best to document it. Starting off right with the flour (sieved) and mixing it with the egg and oil: Last time round […]
As I mentioned the other day, I now have a pasta machine, so I really wanted to get started making my own pasta. The one “blocker” I’d run up against, apart from my complete lack of experience, was sourcing the right kind of flour. Fortunately my local SuperQuinn stocks it, so I picked up some […]
I love pasta and, as I’ve mentioned before, I really like fresh pasta. It’s so much nicer than the dry variety and seems to taste better, even if the stuff I normally buy is mass produced. However I’ve been intrigued with the idea of making my own pasta for some time. For Christmas this year […]
I quite like grapefruit. Sure, it’s a lot more bitter than orange, but the bitter taste sort of adds to its attraction. Yesterday I picked up a few grapefruit specifically for juicing, but I wanted to add something else to them. So carrot and ginger seemed like a reasonably good idea. The end result was […]
A friend of mine asked me recently a very simple question. Why juice? Why make your own juices? Why not buy juices in a shop? There’s probably a lot of articles “out there” on the benefits of making your own juice and they’re probably backed up by lots of “fancy” data and numbers. I don’t […]
I’ve been back in Ireland for a couple of days and I’m trying my best to “behave”. That means eating a relatively healthy breakfast (Alpen muesli without added sugar washed down with coffee) and having lunch in the canteen at work. In the evening I’m back to cooking, so I’ve been eating plenty of fresh […]
I hadn’t eaten baked beans for months, but last night I broke the habit and had some Heinz Beanz Fiery Chilli. Apparently Heinz launched a new range of beans a couple of months ago and I picked up a couple of the varieties on a recent trip to a supermarket. Last night’s flavour was Heinz […]
