This is my first post that on just food. How that is true I’m
not sure! The blog will be getting a bit of a makeover, in a good way. I’m planning
on adding lots of details on my travels for reference for future travellers and
will be writing more about food. Just so my future career prospects soar you
know.
I have recently become very interested in nutrition, weird
food like kale and qunioa, and superfoods (spirulina, I’m looking at you). The
main reason is thanks to this lady: My New Roots. Really amazing food blog full
of recipe ideas, I had this for breakfast, this for dinner, and plan on making
this really really soon!
However, before we get all high and mighty and wholegrain, I
think we should stop and smell the nigella seeds. A round of applause for Ms
Lawson and the very ground she walks on!
As my mum’s cookbook collection is right next to our kitchen
table, and considering my inability to eat without reading, I’ve read How to be
a Domestic Goddess cover-to-cover countless times. My eyes widen over the
gluttony and sugar, and I’ve made quite a few recipes from there! One of them I
repeated for Marthe’s 21st on the weekend, banana bread!
The recipe is available here online for those who don’t have
the book (please buy it, even just for the hilarious and well written
introductions to the recipes).
I tweaked it a bit, took out the walnuts, rum and sultanas
and added chocolate chips. Also mine only took 45 minutes in the oven, rather
than an hour and fifteen, but as my mum always says “remember, a recipe is only
a guide!”
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| All that remained the same afternoon I made it! |
In closing, here are three tremendous Nigella quotes:
“I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional
cook. My qualification is as an eater” (How to Eat, pg ix)
“You could probably get through life without knowing how to
roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?” (How to Eat, pg 8)
(in reference to a recipe for Peanut Butter Squares) “You may
think that seeing how the dough is made—just peanut butter, butter, and sugar—might
put you off eating them. Sadly not. (How to be a Domestic Goddess, pg 223)
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