Cooking

Over the years, I’ve posted quite a few recipes here, often specifically so that my sons can cook them for me. I’m gathering them now, in chronological order. Most of these are old favourites that I’ve made made many times. The outliers are the savoury pies (which are more a line of ongoing experiments) and pizza (which is new in my repertoire).

• Make an omelette
• Foolproof super-simple but awesome recipe: mushroom pasta
• Mushroom soup
• Sag gosht (lamb and spinach curry)
• Marquise au Chocolat
• Savoury pies:
  • Savoury tartlets — four different kinds
  • Four different miniature pies
  • Two savoury pies, done right
  • Today’s savoury pies
  • Last night’s baking
  • Those pies in cross-section
  • Six pies, and more lessons learned
• Chocolate-marmalade cake:
  • Oh, and the chocolate-marmalade cake!
  • A cake that didn’t quite work
• Chicken sort-of-korma
• Vile Potatoes
• Chicken Dhansak
• Bolognese sauce, done right
• East meets West! It’s the English breakfast sushi roll
• Chili con carne
• Another curry (sort of like a dupiaza)
• What to do with leftover rice
• Pizza:
  • Making pizza from scratch
  • I’m getting better at this pizza thing
  • An accidentally sensational pizza
  • Four pizzas (and a crust cross-section)
  • How much does good pizza cost?
• Home-made beefburgers
• Moussaka
• Three recent meals (not a recipe, just nice photos of pizza, sushi and curries)
• Pulled pork (see also Pulled chicken below)
• Tarte au citron
  • Tarte au citron (lemon tart)
  • Tartes au citron et limon (second try)
• Risotto à la Jon
• Nachos
• Pulled chicken