http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/anzac-crispies/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/anzac-crispies/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:50:09 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2368 The story goes that these bikkies were often sent as part of care packages to the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. The recipe came to be because something high energy, solid and transportable was needed, and the ingredients in the biscuit were basic and plentiful at the time. Eggs were scarce at the time, so a recipe without eggs yet was developed.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/anzac-crispies/feed/ 5 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:23:39 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1036 The word biscotti comes from the latin for ‘twice baked’ and this is the time consuming part. After mixing up a dough, forming it into two logs and baking them for nearly an hour, the logs are thinly sliced and then each slice needs to be dried out in the oven.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/feed/ 4 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2010/11/amaretti/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2010/11/amaretti/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:45:00 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=19 I have a friend, let’s call her Ms. G, who is in the habit of whipping up amazing and intricate dishes on a regular basis. I’m always excited to be invited round for dinner and luckily, she doesn’t live far and invitations are frequent. Ms. G is adept at homemade ice cream, paella, bread made from scratch, risottos...the list goes on. I’m amazed at her patience at skill and it’s serendipitous that she’s an expert in all those dishes I would never dare attempt.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2010/11/amaretti/feed/ 4