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/2011/08/pao-de-queijo/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/pao-de-queijo/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:41:41 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1871 I don’t know about you, but travel for me is mostly about food. When I eat the thing from the place in the actual place of the thing, well, that’s not a very articulate way of putting it, but in the words of Maeve O’Meara, it’s a revelation. And there’s no better way to attempt to relive your travel than to eat the thing that you ate in the place of the thing, but this time, eat it at YOUR place. I found myself at a bit of a loose end this week, so I decided to make Pão de Queijo (Cheese Puffs), a typical Brazilian snack/breakfast food which I don’t even particularly like, but I wish I was in Brasil right now and what better way to celebrate that than to bake. The main ingredients are manioc/tapioca starch, cheese, eggs, liquid and fat. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/pao-de-queijo/feed/ 0 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:13:07 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1168 Smitten Kitchen and The Stone Soup, and also why one of my favourite people to follow on twitter is Pantry sniffer, who tweets entire recipes in 140 characters. When I started Corridor Kitchen, I stressed that my photos wouldn’t be up to scratch, as my camera is a pretty basic point-and-shoot that doesn't tend to focus properly. As a result I took hundreds of pictures of each dish. This, along with needing to photograph food in daylight hours meant I had to cook specifically to blog. In other words, I wasn’t blogging my actual daily eats, or even my once-a-week eats...]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/feed/ 13 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:51:17 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1062 Yesterday Lorraine over at Not Quite Nigella described the special treat of being given 20 cents to buy something at the school fete and tossing up between honey joys, pikelets, toffees and other assorted goodies, eventually choosing whichever was the biggest. This reminded me of another nostalgic gastronomic occasion – kids’ parties, where the unfettered appetites of small children are allowed to run wild. When I was a child, my parents would let me and my brothers have a party with our friends every second year, and we’d always get to choose a cake out of the Australian Women’s Weekly Kids’ Birthday Cake Cookbook, which, incidentally is one of The Age’s most influential Australian Cookbooks. The cake, be it a train, a Disney character, a doll or a swimming pool filled with green jelly (this was way back in the olden days before blue jelly was invented) would take centre stage amongst the mini frankfurts, party pies, sausage rolls, butterfly cakes and fairy bread on the table. This was one of my favourites, I think I had it for my 5th birthday.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/feed/ 18