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By Injera, on June 4th, 2010%
Today is souffle day, and not – as indicated by the Foxtel guide – omelette day. This is a great relief to me, not because I don’t adore omelettes (I am human, after all), but because I was struggling to understand how – even with a Nutter twist – an omelette could fall under the heading “baking”. Now I need worry no more! It’s souffle (with a Nutter twist). Two, in fact: one sweet and one savoury.
It is an orange shirt day again today, which I believe bodes well. The reason I say this is that we’ve now seen the orange shirt three times, if my memory is correct, so a revival of the flames can’t be too far away.
We’re starting with the savoury: the classic cheese souffle. Don’t be put off by the reputation of cheese souffle as a difficult dish – the Nutter tips’n'tricks will help us through!
The recipes, after the jump.
Continue reading Simply Baking – souffles (with that Nutter twist)
By Injera, on June 3rd, 2010%
It’s “Kitchen Time” on 7Two! And today, we’re joining Reza Mahammad on the Coconut Coast. Reza, strangely enough in this day and age, doesn’t seem to have a Wikipedia page – I know! – but the Good Food Channel and Performing Artistes have short bios. My favourite quotes from each:
The Observer Food Monthly described meeting Reza as “like being ambushed by a cross between Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Freddie Mercury”.
Good Food Channel
Okay, so I had to Google Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen1, but even before I knew who he was I liked the description.
And from Performing Artistes:
He inherited a piece of 1950′s London, flock wallpaper and all, and set about inflicting his own brand of artistic flourish. Voila; from flock to Baroque! But with his inimitable concentration span of approximately five minutes, another revamp promptly followed. This time a cross between a Zeffirelli production and the Sistine Chapel.
Intrigued? Read more, after the jump.
Continue reading Food TV – Coconut Coast
By Injera, on May 30th, 2010%
There are so many food shows on TV these days. How many of them offer something new or different? If Delia has already shown us how to roast a chook, do we really need to see Nigella doing it, too? And Jamie? And how many times can we watch pizza-making before it becomes aversion therapy?
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to try to add a post-a-week on a food show. New shows will take priority, but there are only so many launches in a year, so there will be recaps and round-ups of some stayers, and some that are quite possibly new only to me. I’ll also keep writing up the Nutter magic on Fridays for as long as channel 7Two continues to show it.
To kick off I’m taking a look at the show that debuted on 7Two the Friday before last: Delish. There’s been a bit of build-up to it, largely over the participation of last year’s MasterChef contestant, Julia Jenkins, so let’s see what it’s like, shall we?
Continue reading Food TV – Delish
By Injera, on May 28th, 2010%
Andrew Nutter welcomes us to his kitchen with an eye-bleedingly red shirt. He’s certainly not one for blending into the background, although this top is uncomfortably close in hue to the shelves to his right. I wonder what baked delights he has in store for us today?
He doesn’t keep us guessing. We’re making pizzas today, and one will be a sweet one. The other will be… Peking duck with plum sauce? Let’s start with the, ahem, savoury one then, shall we?
The recipes, after the jump…
Continue reading Simply Baking – Mamma Mia!
By Injera, on May 21st, 2010%
It’s Nutter time, although it feels like it’s been that all day today. Nevertheless, this is the real deal, with baked goods, not just ranting on street corners. What does the baking Nutter have in store for us today, apart from a lemon shirt?
“We’re barring mad” is Nutter’s introduction. He’s pleased with the phrase, so repeats it. I think is meant to sound like “barking” with an intense glottal stop. What it means is there will be bars, and we’re hitting the recipes right out of the gate. (I’ve just realised why this is such a surprise to me – I’m so used to the drawn-out start of Masterchef, that any cooking within 10 minutes of opening credits appears to be unseemly haste).
The bars, after the jump.
Continue reading Simply baking – a Nutter, bar none
By Injera, on May 14th, 2010%
I wish I could get a MPG file of the Simply Baking theme toon. As soon as it comes on, it makes me bounce more than George Calombaris in the Masterchef kitchen. I’m going to do a YouTube search. I need this in my iPod – I think it will go well in a shuffle with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
Today I am excited to report that Nutter is wearing the bright orange shirt that could well be the one he was wearing in the first episode I ever saw. He is excited to report that he will be making cakes. With a Nutter twist, of course.
The Nutter magic, after the jump…
Continue reading Simply baking… cakes!
By Injera, on May 9th, 2010%
Nadia Sawalha won Celebrity MasterChef in the UK. Who is Nadia Sawalha? I’ve no idea. Now, if it were Julie Sawalha, I’d be all over that, but Nadia is a mystery. Don’t you get up, though – I’ll google it myself1.
In Eating in the Sun, according to the TV guide,
Winner of Celebrity MasterChef, Nadia Sawalha, is sent to some of the most beautiful restaurants in Europe to cook for a mystery challenger. With her pride at stake she has just two days to perfect the complex dishes for her guest.
I had seen an ad for the show and thought it looked good, possibly because I was only paying scant attention to the details, so added it as a series link. It started on April 15 on Lifestyle Food, so the episodes are piling up as this is the first chance I’ve had to watch. I’m already disappointed, because I thought it was the real MasterChef winner, not the winner of the Celebrity version.
Continue reading Eating in the Sun, watching on the couch
By Injera, on May 7th, 2010%
Today’s theme on Simply Baking is cheesecake. Our Nutter knows we’ll all be thinking with our sweet teeth right about now, but he’s changing it up a bit and starting with a savoury cheesecake (which some may prefer to think of as a quiche with cream cheese – I know that would appeal to me more than a savoury cheesecake). I’m hoping that he’s not going to be matching anything to the colour of this particular shirt today, unless he’s going to do a pea puree. Actually (it’s catching!), the shirt might be the result of the pea puree prepared earlier. I get the sense that today’s recipes might take a bit of time, given the speed at which Nutter is talking.
Let’s get baking!
Continue reading Cheesecakes, with a Nutter twist – Simply Baking
By Injera, on April 30th, 2010%
And if it’s Simply Baking, then it must be time for my blog stats to jump dramatically, as fans of the Nutter search for the recipes they’ve seen on the show. Knowing how frustrating it is to search for one thing and land in something completely other, today’s post is dedicated to the recipes! (If, however, you are also interested in attempted analysis of recent junk food commercials, or exhaustive descriptions of crappy MTV/VH1 reality shows, please look around.)
Today Nutter promises classic French recipes. I hope my eyes can withstand the onslaught of his shirt, which is French-ish, I guess… possibly chartreuse? Anyway, let’s crack on.
Continue reading If it’s Friday, it must be Simply Baking
By Injera, on March 1st, 2010%
…and it absolutely crawls when you’re not. February’s the shortest month of the year. It certainly didn’t feel like it this year because I decided to spend the month not drinking. Now, lest you start thinking that I have some sort of unacknowledged alcohol dependency, I don’t. And I offer the fact that I haven’t had a drink for 28 days as evidence for that. It’s just that not doing something that you normally do takes more effort than doing it. Instead of going out for a drink after work on Friday, what do you do? You either have to make a plan to do something else, or you do nothing, and doing nothing is dull.
January (well, December and January. Well, summer) was a time for afternoon drinks in the sun, evening drinks, long lunches – with drinks. I didn’t break any of my normal strictures, since you can’t drink on a work night when you’re on holidays, but I did feel that I was drinking more than what I’d admit to drinking when asked by a doctor. Or, should I say, given that I usually do some mental maths when answering that question, more than twice what I’d admit to. In other words, I felt that it wouldn’t do me any harm to give it a break.
Going out for dinner is fun. Going out for dinner somewhere where there’s a lovely wine list, and not being able to have a glass just feels arbitrary. Telling a waiter that you don’t need to see the wine list and then being presented with a range of sweet, fizzy alternatives that really don’t enhance the food you’ve ordered is disappointing.
The worst part of Febfast, though, was that without any other effort I lost a few kilos. This means that unless I’m prepared to have them back (which I’m not, really) I’m going to have to make some other changes now that I’ll be having those glasses of wine and gin and tonics. Boo.
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