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Feb 17, 2022

Cured Egg Yolks

These are essentially just salted egg yolks. The salt sucks all the moisture out by osmosis, and leaves the yolk hard and preserved. You...

Feb 3, 2022

Homemade Vinegars

Back in the autumn, my dad shared a video with me by Pro Home Cooks on making your own vinegar at home. I was intrigued, and after...

Dec 28, 2021

Candied and Chocolate Covered Citrus and Ginger

Since first trying to candy and then chocolate cover orange peels last spring, I have branched out to ginger and other citrus fruit...

Aug 17, 2021

Apple Pectin

I was going to save this post until the autumn, but accidentally bought a bag of apples which turned out to not be very good eating...

Jun 9, 2021

Nettles

This next pantry ingredient I'd like to share is the humble nettle. I had heard for a few years that it makes a great tea, and that it...

Apr 16, 2021

Pul Biber and Urfa Biber

This next Pantry post is a spice, or two spices really, that I have been cooking with for as long as I can remember because my dad has...

Apr 9, 2021

Stock - Meat or Vegetable

This is a very basic element in the pantry, and one which I have always taken for granted. Growing up, turkey carcasses and often chicken...

Mar 29, 2021

Fenugreek

This next Pantry post is a relatively new spice for me, but one which I have enjoyed getting to know. Also called methi in India, it is a...

Mar 23, 2021

Dried Orange Peel

My second post for this Pantry section of the blog is a request. I use dried orange peel in rather a lot of my recipes (you may have...

Mar 15, 2021

Sumac

Sumac is one of my favourite spices of late. I first encountered it when Hubby and I spent rather too much - both time and money - in...

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