This is really a recipe for one but I’ll let you in on a secret – chorizo and tomato sauce for pasta really tastes absurdly delicious when you add rocket (arugula) to it. Not even kidding. The colour clash is amazing but flavour, too? Discovered quite by accident when rocket was an extra ingredient left over when … Continue reading »
See the cookbook above? Great. Now you know what was used as a reference, at least on page 9, which was then promptly chucked because it was just easier to “figure it out” from where we were and then see what happened. Chugging jug after jug of homemade mojitos (my new favourite thing, btw) greatly … Continue reading »
I’d love to say that I’m completely methodical when it comes to cooking in the kitchen, but I’m more than happy to say I’m not. A lot of dishes I make are simple, but I try to cross as many styles and cultures and therein lies a creativity and spontaneity that I keep coming back … Continue reading »
This concludes the first week of November dishes. *** Fried eggs, there’s nothing special about it. They’re one of the most versatile foods you could ever eat, no other ingredient can be scrambled, poached, fried, hardboiled. No other ingredient can be such a substantial dish on its own, and add such dimension to another (scrambled … Continue reading »
In my day incarnation as a web editor, I schedule, brainstorm and try beyond normal capacity, to be interesting, and to find interesting things with which to publish. Being interesting and being able to find interesting things, I figured out none too soon, are two very different things. I know of people who are interesting. … Continue reading »
Let’s see now… we’ve been down this road before, so I think I’ve got to come clean. This love affair will not end, and I’m afraid hearts must go where they want to. Globally, in this case. Recipe blog it will always be, but Seven Second Rhapsody will welcome its travel portion ecstatically from now … Continue reading »
I’ll have to apologise and say that out of two delicious dishes I could have presented to you today, this is by quite a stretch the least interesting one. You see, just last night, my mother made her most famous dish to date, (a ½ day stew in the pot!) braised pork belly. It is … Continue reading »
Another project of mine kick-started recently, and even though I do a sweet deal of being able to work from home, I occasionally get guilt-ed into going down to the office once in awhile. It’s a lovely group of people, and sometimes I find myself coming home at regular white-collar hours. I still like to … Continue reading »
When a moment fails to be captured on camera in a beautiful way, a little part of me dies inside. Although I should really be careful saying that, because I take a lot of crappy pictures, and I don’t want to end up a shrivelled shell of a body. God would “tsk tsk” me and … Continue reading »
O Inspiration, how cruel you’ve been! You are a husband never on time while the dinner grows cold; a son who wanders never to come home; it’s been rather hushed around here. While you were gone, I prepared dinner. Simplicity belies its delicious nature: good to eat, ready for you, a piping hot plate of … Continue reading »
