Tag: homemade

17May

Vegetable stock paste

Day by day my cooking is moving further away from processed food or products that are mass produced. It is not the easiest thing to cook with those principles, and I definitely can’t see myself being completely self-sufficient or live the rest of my days hunting and gathering. But testing recipes that remove a pre-packed ingredient gives me hours of entertainment. Especially when the results work out well. So that is how this vegetable stock paste recipe was born. We get through a lot of vegetable stock in my house, mainly as a soup base – a staple in our weekly menu – but also because I use a lot of coconut milk in my cooking (we follow the paleo diet) and vegetable stock helps me tie in the sweetness of coconut milk in savoury dishes. In the past I have tried to buy the least chemically modified stock I can find in the shops. I used to buy an organic brand, with no added flavours, but when cooking with it I always had these intrusive thoughts that the flavor in my food was coming from a powder. Not to mention all the added salt! So the research began, and
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21Apr

Cold brewed coffee

It was October when I first moved to England, and one of my earliest memories was the changing colours of the leaves…and the shocking amount of tea people drink here.  The stereotype is real, it is the land of tea, dare I say more than India itself. The etiquette around tea is also something the British don’t joke about, it is close to a crime here to get up to make yourself a cup of tea and not ask whether anyone else in the room wants one. I think this strong tea culture froze the progress of coffee. Literally, freeze dried coffee is what you’ll get if you ask for one.  It looks like they left that for the continent to deal with. Growing up in Brazil there were no other alternatives but to have coffee in the morning and a little shot in the afternoon to keep you awake in the heat. I only drank tea when I was ill, and to this day I cannot get on board with the drink. I felt I had little choice but to give in to instant coffee and I couldn’t stomach it. But beggars can’t be choosers and grew to accept
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