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cooking pistachio conspiracy 63 pistachio conspiracy 63 a blog where i write about stuff and other things menu skip to content home about the blog about me search search for cooking this is not a competition 03 02 2021 29 01 2021 pistachios 7 comments we are often warned not to take social media too seriously people often selectively share life events on the good to amazing scale and leave out the mundane to disastrous looking at the social media of one s friends might lead one to believe that everyone has the cutest most well behaved kids or that they are always getting flowers and presents from people or that they frequently go to the beach where they enjoy picnics with elaborate charcuterie platters i m sure this is all very obvious to my readership and to most of my friends and there s no need to warn any of you about this but while i thought i was also above this petty social media envy i realised the other day that i am quite possibly not totally immune continue reading from chin ups to chilli 21 06 2019 21 06 2019 pistachios leave a comment earlier this year i wrote a post about health and fitness goals in which i said i wanted to teach myself to do chin ups as we re approaching the halfway mark for the year i m glad to announce that i ve now managed to do five consecutive unassisted chin ups i m actually surprised at this because my training was getting pretty irregular and by the day that i actually achieved it i probably hadn t practised in weeks i suppose it s like a lot of other things in the sense that practising a number of other things in this case push ups weights etc can help achieve the thing that you think you should be doing all the time i e chin ups full disclaimer it s probably more accurate to call them half chin ups since i didn t extend my arms to their full length before pulling up into the next rep is that cheating like people who do push ups on their knees not the same continue reading cleaning up 15 03 2019 07 03 2019 pistachios 3 comments several years ago i wrote a post about chores i don t mind doing top of this list was ironing which is possibly my chore of choice i also realised that i don t tend to like chores that involve water and if you look at the other things on that list apart from sweeping i also seem to prefer chores that aren t related to actual cleaning maintenance tidying creating those are things i m ok with washing and cleaning and having to deal with mess and dirt no thanks doing the dishes is my least favourite chore getting a dishwasher might be a good solution but even doing laundry just putting everything in the washing machine is a chore i ll put off or avoid if i can so i m not sure a dishwasher will help much continue reading brazilian pie 25 06 2018 pistachios 2 comments at some point last year a friend of mine gave me this recipe for what she told me was a brazilian pie she had brought it to work one day when we were having lunch together and it looked and smelt so good i was sure it was delicious too she told me that it s her mum s recipe so i felt very honoured to be given access to it i gave it a shot one week end and now after making it countless times i m quite sure it s the best recipe i ve ever learnt i mean learning how to make nutella brownies and basic shortbread has been a bit of a life saver on a number of occasions when i ve been short on time for baking but this brazilian pie takes the proverbial cake because it s so versatile i was given this recipe as a savoury dish but being my experimental self i have made dessert versions of this too and you know what i ve been given permission to share it continue reading for the love of food and my mum 30 01 2018 28 01 2018 pistachios 7 comments when conversation turns to cooking i sometimes joke to my friends that i learnt all i know about cooking from watching food related tv shows all through school and university as much as i was an outdoors kid and as much as i was a diligent student i watched so much tv as a teenager i proudly told people that i just completed my homework during ad breaks such was my dedication to various programs but of course it s not true at least it s not all true yes celebrity chefs and food gurus taught me how to make béchamel sauce how to cook crepes and which spices work best together but they can t take all the credit for my culinary know how as is probably the case for a lot of people i learnt most of what i know about the fundamentals of cooking from my mum of course this was always obvious to me who else would i learn from other relatives yes and certain friends but i grew up watching her cook eating her food and asking her questions but i think it s only since moving out about half a year ago and having to cook more often that i ve become so much more aware of the things i learnt from her and as with any recurrent thought i feel a need to write about this in order to release it from the mental roundabout in the centre of my mind things i have learnt from my mum about food and cooking don t be afraid of hot surfaces but know when not to touch something directly as a kid i used to be afraid of touching saucepan lids and the steam released when opening them and of taking hot bowls containers out of the microwave of course these days those things don t faze me sometimes i accidentally touch hot pans and just shrug it off how to make the most of scraps and left overs aka it s ok to throw things out but if it can be salvaged it will be salvaged this might also explain my interest in being experimental with food combinations sure the popular trend toward unusual food pairings probably has something to do with it but my mum s thinking is more practical for everyday eating you don t always need salt as far as i remember my mum was always quite reserved with her use of salt preferring other seasonings instead sometimes eating and tasting something as it is unseasoned is good too it is possible to clean as you cook this can be important for staying organised and ensuring you don t run out of bench space or spoons how to make a simple sauce that will work with almost any stir fry soy sauce fish sauce corn flour maybe oyster sauce and other things if you have them kitchen scissors are a necessity this might seem like an odd thing for some people but i ve learnt that a good pair of kitchen scissors can often substitute a knife and chopping board which is particularly good for people like me who don t like washing up the best and safest way to cut tomatoes carrots onions capsicum etc etc all to do with making sure the knife doesn t slip and you don t accidentally cut your fingers she also taught me efficient ways to dice julienne and roughly chop vegetables i was helping with mise en place before i even knew what that was tv taught me that phrase how to segment apples pears whatever and peel their skin using a small knife somehow apples and pears seem to taste better if someone has cut them up for you or if you cut them up yourself good meals don t have to be fancy of all the things that my mum cooks among my favourite dishes are a simple broccoli and mushroom stir fry a tofu and mince dish and marinated stewed pork belly although the pork belly dish always seemed kind of complex to me allow yourself enough time to prepare a dish i e know when to start cooking there s a good reason why some days she started preparing lunch or dinner while we were just finishing breakfast when i was really young this confused me but it made more sense as i got older how to fix a cake batter that s a bit too dry or a bit too wet she baked a lot still does and often winged it with recipes so she sometimes needed to adjust the consistency of the batter at the end just before putting it in the tin and into the oven she also taught me that i don t always have to follow the sugar and butter measurements stated in other people s recipes as they may be too sweet or too greasy i tend not to compromise the butter oil too much but sugar i ll often reduce there s undoubtedly a lot more that i learnt from her maybe a lot that i ve learnt subconsciously and don t even realise but i think this is a decent enough list for now the list is undoubtedly still growing too sure my mum taught me a lot of general life skills lessons too but they whoever they are say that food is life and food is love and i don t know how long i d survive on my own if i hadn t learnt these things from her spilt milk and split cream 10 12 2017 10 12 2017 pistachios 3 comments you probably all know the expression no use crying over spilt milk or some variation of it right well whenever i hear it i think of this one time in my childhood when i actually did cry over spilt milk not just figuratively speaking but literal spilt milk and literal crying i was quite young at the time maybe six maybe four and it would ve been at home one day in the kitchen i really don t remember the circumstances surrounding it but i remember there was milk spilt and 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