Any idea what a jalousie is? No – neither did I. And extremely unusually for me, I’ve had this recipe for a long time and it never occurred to me to look it up.
I love rice. It is so versatile and I could quite happily eat rice every day, much to Ms Onion’s chagrin, although we don’t eat it every day for exactly that reason. Sometimes I wonder if I was born on the wrong continent.
If you’ve been following along closely and paying attention you’ve probably figured out I like a curry, and more specifically Indian curries and Indian style food in general. In these days of globalisation, world commodity markets and modern efficient transport I find it easy to take for granted the spices I use every day, but it wasn’t always the case.
Date and Nut loaf, often referred to simply as nut loaf, is a recipe bound up in various traditions such as the shape, the appearance and how it should be eaten. I really love it, but you don’t see them too often these days. That could be because it’s quite a while since I have had school-age children, and an even longer time since I had any involvement with a church, because nut loaves are the stuff that cake stalls are made of.
It’s MasterChef time! MasterChef returned to our our TV screens about 4 weeks ago and I freely admit to it being my one concession to reality TV. From what I can tell it differs from others by being a more supportive environment that is about the food and not about the contestants trying to “out-bitch” each other (and I include the men in that). Anyway, MC is what’s been chewing up some of my evening time lately.
