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i m fine if i find a sensible tip and fine too if i just enjoy reading it the right kind of cookbook gives you a window into other lives like any other good book i like the kind of books that make me feel as if i ve been taken to somebody s house allowed to roam the kitchen open the cupboards rummage in the drawers see the photos on the fridge lift the lid on what s cooking and this i like to gather from the text not from the photos most of my favourite cookbooks have no pictures maybe a few elegant black and white illustrations right now in order to qualify for staying on my bookshelves i mostly have to like the author and everything follows from there because a likeable author will make me like the food in the book and nudge me into trying something new or making something old again recently i was given a copy of cooking for crowds by merry white the 40th anniversary edition of the 70 s original and it ticks all the boxes the recipes look great but mostly the author sounds like somebody i d love to have dinner with there are no photos which is more than fine as it has lots of sweet black and white drawings by edward koren as with all cookbooks there is more than a touch of the aspirational in this case be the sort of supercool person who has 50 guests and is ready to cook for them wouldn t you love to be that person not only do you have fifty people around but you are unflappable enough to serve them big generous bowls of homstyle yet sophisticated fare and if you burn the borscht call it smoked borscht it s a wonderful book for building confidence cooking for crowds white insists is not more difficult just more time consuming so there s no excuse even better if you do not have to or want to cook for fifty the recipes come with different quantities for 5o for 25 for 12 for 6 see how easy 6 sounds anyone intimidated by cooking for 6 will have to admit it s not that big a deal compared with lugging sacks of potatoes that will feed 50 posted by lobstersquad at 1 43 p m 1 comentario 22 10 14 a sandwich you know how sometimes you have to call a friend and you keep putting it off for good reasons then bad reasons then no reasons other than the thing is spiralling out of control and you end up resenting this person you re not calling so it was with lobstersquad i was looking for something i really wanted to blog about and not really finding it but then reading the wednesday chef i was led to a flummoxing article and then i thought you know what i might as well write something after all that post which you can read here if you like is about someone who has decided not to cook because she forgot to put salt in some galette she was making the galette came out fine but it was not the galette to end all galettes and she had failed to make all her friends wither away in envy of her instagram feed and so she s going to live on olives and prosciutto for ever and ever amen i can t even begin on how crazy i find that instead i will tell you about the lunch i made on saturday i too had decided not to cook but just for that morning but because i am the boy scout of fridge maintenance and have become now that i live in the north pole an avocado curator i knew that a world class sandwich was within reach first i had to go to the shop and buy some fresh bread not mindblowing artisanal bread of course supermarket mini ciabattas of the sort that look a bit rubbery but come to life with a couple of minutes under the grill that filled with thinly sliced leftover steak wedges of avocado pickled cucumber a squirt of lemon and a dash of hot sauce was all a bag of salad was emptied onto a bowl and dressed with the last of a bottle of vinaigrette i make in batches it was very quick it was beautiful and it made perfect sense and if it wasn t cooking it wasn t turning my back on it either so there you are posted by lobstersquad at 3 59 p m 4 comentarios labels quick sandwiches 15 7 14 a summer salad you hear so much about summer cooking but over time i ve come to see that summer is as summer does in scotland you can fire up the oven to cook aubergines and take a hamper full of porra on a picnic and sit in a cold drizzle while you dip prawn crackers and wonder what exactly you were thinking about but now i m in madrid and summer in madrid is not kidding around there is no turning on of ovens and stoves as little as possible thank you gazpacho wether real or alvalle is consumed by the gallon fruit is delicious and plentiful and so cheap it leaves me aghast used as i am by now to the highway robbery up north there are all sorts of lovely tins and if you want anything else there are plenty of bars and restaurants so there you are where there is summer there is no cooking and vice versa sometimes i go beyond slicing a few of the beautiful tomatoes here s a salad i like it s the cocarrois insides salad minus the pimentón and it goes like this chop some cauliflower small into bits the size of a chickpea a lot of the florets will crumble into smaller pieces which is a good thing chop spring onions very small in spain spring onions are huge unwieldy things and only the white bit is eaten but you go ahead and use the green if it s dainty enough now dice a tomato or two and add some chopped flat leaf parsley you want a good mix of color dress with salt olive oil and vinegar the illustration is from a t shirt i ve done for tío pepe posted by lobstersquad at 10 47 a m no hay comentarios 13 3 14 spring i won t bore you with all the million reasons that have kept me from blogging it was nothing bad just a classic case of freelancer s all the buses coming at the same time kind of thing plus you know life so anyway here s to spring which seems to be around the corner with buds and flowers and birds building nests and all those pretty things and a thing i ve discovered if you spread toast with peanut butter and honey it tastes just like the praline paste nutellaey thing they have in le pain quotidien which is handy seeing as how there is no lpq in aberdeen and how you save approximately millions of pennies using this mix instead of the other stuff so all thanks to my son pepe who would be happy to live exclusively on this dunked in milk and let s hope once i meet all the lots and lots of deadlines pending over my head i ll get back to blogging posted by lobstersquad at 11 24 a m 5 comentarios 22 1 14 a lazy post here s the thing i have a million things to do and it s cold and grey and gloomy and it s january and that mostly sucks and soup makes it better and i admire all those bloggers who write three new recipes a week but the thing is i make the same soups all time more or less they are never exactly the same i might use sweet potato instead of carrot in a lentil soup or add a spoonful of miso to some borscht but that would not justify my calling something miso borscht so i m just going to link to the tag soup and you can browse it because really there is some very good stuff there posted by lobstersquad at 12 13 p m 4 comentarios 1 1 14 holidays despensa originally uploaded by lobstersquad enjoying our time with friends and family of course but the food oh the food the constant parade of fantastic things i would never in a million years cook myself the occasional walk in the olive groves to work up an appetite lounging in the sunshine with a glass oloroso and all those dolce far niente things happy new year everyone posted by lobstersquad at 6 34 p m 1 comentario 24 12 13 merry christmas everyone i love christmas eve it s the one day of the year when i can embrace my kitchen geekiness food crazies are in the mainstream for a day so rejoice there is a lot going on today we stuffed our bird yesterday it had apparently been deboned with a sledgehammer and had to be sown with extra care for the first time my daughter took part in the proceedings pointing out where feathers had to be pulled out and cutting the thread we made a pot of stock for the gravy and in case anyone wants a cup of broth at some point i also made jelly with some tangerines my father brought sent from valencia and picked that very morning this morning it s been custard to top the jelly and two batches of the pearl onion jam done in a bit sautee pan this time and much better for it dried chestnuts have been simmered in syrup apples were supposed to be made into sauce but i forgot about them and they are now caramelized ahem we only have to roast the bird and then the potatoes there is a jar of goose fat waiting and because the kitchen is run over lunch is every man for himself anyone not going out for tapas can find ham hock rillettes in the fridge made last sunday and now if you ll excuse me i have some cañas to catch up on i hope you have a lovely holiday rain or no rain posted by lobstersquad at 12 52 p m no hay comentarios 10 12 13 chicken skin some months ago i wrote about the contents of my freezer listing among them chicken skins someone asked me in the comments if they were for my cats i felt too sheepish to answer the truth is i don t have any cats and if i did i would certainly not share the chicken skin with them i could have shouted it out from the rooftops though because it seems chicken skin is the new bacon cooked chicken skin can be flabby slippery and rather gross even if you take care to brown your chicken pieces after braising the whole thing goes soft and what s the point of that i don t usually bother to brown anything anyway and please don t talk to me about maillard reaction bla bla bla whatever i cook chicken without the skin at least for everyday chicken things like rice or soups or a sandwich but because i now live the suburban life of the supermarket chicken thigh package i have had to learn how to deal with the skin myself a deft pull and you have your skinless thigh a few inept wiggles and cuts and it is now boneless the meat for whatever dish i m making the bones for stock and the skin it pains me to say that i used to toss it no longer now the skin goes salted and cut into small strips into a non stick pan on a low flame and if you have one of those things that look like the child of a strainer and a ping pong paddle put it over leave it on its own while you make whatever else you re making it starts to change colour spitting a little shrivelling and crisping and after a few more minutes and a bit of turning becomes crunchy and golden and irresistible properly irresistible it is the most delicious thing and i can t think of any chicken dish it doesn t improve sandwiches soups noodles rice anything really if you don t want to use it right away you can leave it in the fridge and use it to enliven leftovers my favourites crisp some to crumble over soups of the heartier variety like black beans let them cook til golden and use the rendered fat to cook fried rice or to make a hash with cooked potatoes or for the most heavenly ropa vieja add them to poached chicken for the whole foods beak to tail answer to the club sandwich you can think of it as kosher chicharrones and serve it as a snack but that is something i have never got round to to me they are simply a very handy way to make sure that i have the best of both worlds crisp chicken skin and juicy flavourful meat posted by lobstersquad at 1 18 p m 3 comentarios labels chicken comfort food condiment 1 12 13 a review of puro fairtrade coffee disclaimer i have never in my life written a review and it s been keeping me awake and away from the blog but i said i would so now i have to write a coffee review well not have to so much as have to i mean i want to do it but it s given me a bad case of blogger s block and if i don t get it out soon it s going to dry up lobstersquad completely not that anyone would care but still the thing is a couple of months ago i received a sweet email from someone who not only gave me a really good recipe for cabbage salad but also offered to send me some samples of puro fairtrade coffee to review and i blithely said yes like i had any idea how and have i enjoyed it of course i have of course it really is lovely coffee fairtrade is really the only quality that i can t ruin with my coffee making methods which are on the rough and ready side the whole puro coffee story is wonderful and you can check it out on this video which tells you the whole story much better than i could the best news in all this puro fairtrade coffee only sells to coffee shops and other professional outlets so it s not up to me or you to ruin a good cup i have recently found that a small café in my neighbourhood serves it so i can get my fix in a much more convenient and delicious way i wish i could make an informed critique of the differences between the different coffees i received the thing is i like coffee very well but i tend to think of it the spanish way for us un café is as much about the social occasion as about the drink you can meet friends for coffee and end up drinking coca cola orange juice or hot chocolate and nobody is a bit surprised and at home i usually drink tea so it isn t up to me to detect how puro organic with its 100 arabica content has a touch of citrus i have never ever not once detected a touch of citrus in anything other than oranges and lemons sad but true are you thinking about pearls and swine by now i m not surprised likewise puro fuerte is a dark roast and makes me think that puro noble is medium in this whole new universe like tall grande and venti except of course not because in every way superior to that chainy mermaidy stuff there was also a sachet of hot chocolate that my children pronounced top notch they are actually conoisseurs and can tell cola cao from nesquik a mile away perhaps they should have done the whole review so there you are watch the video browse puro fairtrade coffee save the rainforest see if you can find a place nearby that serves it because it really is good in every possible way and if you re really good and i get permission one day i ll post the recipe for the cabbage salad posted by lobstersquad at 1 02 p m 4 comentarios entradas antiguas inicio suscribirse a entradas atom share n innerhtml at container insertbefore n footer return true document doat hentry followers lobstersquad i m a 38 year old illustrator from madrid spain currently living in scotland with my husband and small daughter and son in between drawing and cooking i sometimes post a little bit about both ver todo mi perfil follow me on twitter follow lobster_squad latest mindless tweets links my site my drawing blog xps the blog smitten kitchen the perfect pantry chubby hubby delicious days eating asia everybody likes sandwiches la tartine gourmande matt bites nami nami orangette rice and noodles simply recipes the traveler s lunchbox the wednesday chef labels quick 98 spanish food 52 soup 35 sweet 35 pressure cooker 27 vegetables 26 comfort food 23 fish 22 shameless self promotion 20 salad 16 sandwiches 15 thermomix 11 pasta 9 chicken 8 side dishes 8 madrid restaurants 7 kids 6 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