Tag: reine’s kitchen
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Reine’s Kitchen 2024
I think it’s been a while since I’ve posted any cooking adventures, but this Christmas I had plenty of time to really treat myself to some fancy food!
Ok, this cake was not something I made haha. This is my second ever whole cake purchase for just myself, a pistachio trifle cake from Teeter Bakery and it was amazing! I was worried it’d be too big for one person to finish, but I managed it over 3 days, which was pretty good!
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Reine’s BBQ and kitchen adventures
Yeah I know I didn’t post 2020 Christmas cooking, but it was kinda boring lol. This is far more interesting!
Cube time!! I wasn’t planning on using this on Saturday, but I’d found a cheap fish and figured it was the perfect practice object. I already had the coal and firelighters for a situation just like this, so here we go!
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Earl grey panna cotta
I wanted to make some earl grey and rosewater panna cotta, and then garnish it with blueberries, blackberries and some sort of green leafy thing – I was thinking shiso rather than mint. But I didn’t want to spend money or time buying rosewater and shiso, so I used what I had instead – which was dried rose petals from a shopping spree ages back, to give the rose aroma without needing rosewater. I can’t figure out how to homogenise the panna cotta yet though, I always get the separation….
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Reine’s Xmas 2018 cooking
So I just looked back at my 2017 post, and it was so detailed! My 2018 post will have considerably less content, but I think that’s because a lot of it is really the same food, just slightly different.
I spent heavily on non-food activities in 2018 and I’ve got some very extravagant travel plans for 2019, so I tried to stick to a small, sensible budget of $200 on top of my normal weekly food spend. Me being me though, I ended up spending about $400… whooops!
So where did all that money go?
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Reine’s Xmas 2017 cooking
Because I realised I still haven’t posted this. So here is the cooking I did during Christmas in 2017. Played a lot with my live marron, whose names were Tiffany and Jake, and Jake was the feistier one.
Mainly just a photodump now since it’s too late to actually write about it lol (more…)
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Yo, does Reine even cook anymore?
Why hello 2017, and yes, I certainly do! It’s mainly one pot wonders since my time demands more compression than ever before.
So since I have a bit of time to travel for ingredients, here’s some Christmas and New Year fare.
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(Early) Christmas Roast Duck
Several weeks I signed up to a local farmer’s duck mailing list – they had plenty of chickens, but were waiting for the ducks to grow up and had limited supply, so they said I could put my email address down to express interest for a duck. I really had no plans to fork out $$$ for a lovingly hand raised duck, but it turns out their ducks were cheaper than their lovingly hand raised chickens! So I said yes to one when I found that my inbox contained this wonderful news, and picked one up – an added bonus being that this one still had its head attached, how cute! I just wish it also had its feet… oh well.
I was a little disappointed that it came frozen instead of fresh, however, that turned out to be a good thing since I didn’t plan to cook it till the week after. I had spent the next 5 days agonising on how to prepare this delicious being – halved, and cooked two ways? Lightly seasoned and just roasted? But then I remembered one of my favourite restaurant brands had a gorgeous roast duck dish – and I decided to take a chance and make my own version.
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Pretending to be a chef: More random market hauls
So I’ve got a tiny bit of downtime. Finally! That’s what happens when I decide I should take up an active hobby while still cooking, writing, drawing (ok the second two not so much), eating, coffeeing.
It seems there’s a whole range of interesting things lately, some of which I’ve not seen before or just didn’t have the marginal propensity to spend on. Plus it’s not good when I think that Tasmanian winter truffles are so affordable that I’ve ended up buying more truffle this year than any other time.
