All posts in category Cooking

Food glorious Spoon Fork Ladle

My lovely sister is well on her way to being a pastry chef. She has started blogging at Spoon Fork Ladle. She’s hilarious and the food is divine.

Pineapple Upsidedown Cake

I haven’t eaten it for years, so when I saw the recipe for pineapple upsidedown cake on the Parsley Thief, I had to make it. Very easy although the cake itself is quite low and I had to use pecans because I forgot to buy walnuts. I also made the vanilla sauce and can’t wait [...]

Poppy Seed Cake Retake

While I’m on about cooking. I did wind up making that poppy seed cake (see the photo). It wasn’t the same as the one I was trying to replicate and not close enough to even just omit the sour cream topping, but it was quite tasty. Sadness, the search must passively continue. (I am on [...]

Cooking Chicken

This was good but could be better. I’m not very good at cooking chicken, I tend to over-do it because I’m too paranoid it wont be cooked and it winds up dry/chewy. Any tips anyone? Chicken breast strips dipped in flour, then egg/milk/garlic, then breadcrumbs/parmesan with mashed potatoes, spinach and a sauce thing of cream-cheese/gherkin-spread/chives.

Step by step cooking

Hurrah! A blog that does recipes step-by-step with photos – how it should be. Blog of the day to: The Parsley Thief