Honey Mustard Chicken
01 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Meals, Poultry, Recipes Tags: dinner, easy, meal, ovenless, recipe, student meal, student meals
Gillian M told me that honey never goes off, and honey found in Egyptian Mummys’ tombs is edible. She’s a medic student, so I’m sure she must be 100% correct all the time.
Whether your honey is from an Egyptian tomb or the cheapest variety at Tesco, this is tasty. As always, feel free to adapt depending on what you’ve got in your cupboards / boxes lying on the floor of your bedroom.
Vaguely Moroccan Mince
10 Nov 2011 2 Comments
in Meat Tags: adaptable, easy, meals, recipe, student meal, student meals
I got some mince and then didn’t know what to do with it. This is why one should stick to one’s shopping list when one doesn’t have a freezer. Searched BBC Good Food, came up with “moroccan spiced mince with couscous” then ignored the recipe and completely did my own thing. Mainly because the BBC recipe used Quorn. Which I don’t think should even be legal.
So, the following was the result of the spices and vegetables I happened to have around; play about with it! It’s actually quite tricky to make mince look incredibly appetising from a photography point of view; you’ll have to believe that it’s very yummy.
(serves about 4, depending on how many vegetables you add)
In which I put my cupcake-baker to good use
25 Sep 2011 5 Comments
in Cookies, Life en France, Recipes Tags: baking, chocolate, cookies, easy, milk chocolate, quick, recipe, recipes, white chocolate
Now, I don’t like baking cupcakes particularly. They’re ok, but the effort required into making something really spectacular is not in any way reflected in the resultant taste: the cupcakes that look the nicest normally taste distinctly mediocre. By way of contrast, the squidgiest brownies are the best sweet things you could ever taste
This year, having only a cupcake maker (manufactured by Breville, it looks like a toastie-maker and I have no idea how it manages to function as an oven), a microwave, and a hob (currently there’s 2 working hobs for our corridor of 50 people) at my disposal, I’ve had to improvise. Turns out, baking cookies in a cupcake maker makes them turn out disappointingly uniform, but essentially cookie-like. Take them back out of the paper case (such a waste of paper cases, but my baking has taken priority over environmental concerns for the moment!), and they are pretty standard, tasty cookies.
So, for my first try-out of a new cookie recipe this year, I went for:
Whoppingly Wicked Chocolate Chip Cookies
No idea what makes them wicked – the recipe was found on Waitrose and is pretty much a bog standard (though a yummy bog standard) recipe for biscuits that wind up tasting a tiny bit of shortbread due to their high butter/sugar content. Thinking about it, perhaps Waitrose don’t have the same “if it’s home baked, it contains no calories or fat or bad things” mentality as I do, possibly explaining the wickedness. Anyway, I’ll rename them because really they’re just
Really Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pizza
08 Jul 2011 1 Comment
in Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian Tags: easy, meal, pizza, quick, student meal, thinking ahead
If you make a batch of pizza dough, split it into bags and freeze it, this’ll sort your meals for ages. Take out some dough in the morning, roll it out in the evening, cover with some tomato sauce or passata, some cheese, and whatever veg or other toppings you want – chorizo is especially nice.
Ice-cream Cupcakes
14 Jun 2011 1 Comment
in Cupcakes, Recipes Tags: afternoon tea, baking, cheat, cupcakes, easy, eggless, experimental, recipe, recipes
This rather intriguing idea came from Cupcakes Ate My Soul, a good blog which you should check out. Basically, you just need to use equal volumes of melted ice-cream and self-raising flour. I tried it with 4tbsp of melted vanilla Carte D’Or and the resultant two cupcakes were not quite sweet enough, but it’s such a nice concept that I’ll be experimenting with some more flavours.
Soy and Chilli Carrot Soup
31 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Meals, Recipes, Soup Tags: easy, lunch, recipe, student meal, vegetables, vegetarian
A nice, basic carrot soup. The soy and chilli flakes give it a bit of a kick and make it interesting.
Tortilla Pizza
19 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian Tags: easy, food ideas, grill, meal, quick, recipe, student meal
If you’ve no time for proper pizza, or just have some tortillas to use up, this is really tasty. 
Moroccan Couscous
01 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Miscellaneous, Vegetarian Tags: easy, fruit, recipe, salad, side, vegetarian
If you’ve not tried couscous, you may wonder what it is. Answer: I have no idea. But the slightly sweet Moroccan version of the dish was the only thing in the entirety of my school lunch hall’s repertoire that was slightly palatable, so I decided to try and mimic it. I like having a little bowl of this in conjunction with a tossed salad (lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, chorizo, tomatoes, etc mixed up in a large bowl and covered with honey-mustard dressing) to provide a bit of heat and carbs
