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Failed Experiment Leads to Delicious New Spread!
4 recipes in and I’ve failed. The great thing about failure is that sometimes a failure leads to an amazing new product and so halva spread is born. Firstly, let’s figure out why it failed. That one’s easy, I woke … Continue reading
Best Ever Bread and Butter Pudding
What should you do with hot cross buns on Easter Monday? They’re slightly stale but you know they won’t be back for nearly a year so they can’t go to waste. You could toast them and put a slab of … Continue reading
Bean Lasagne
You know you’re on a winning vegetarian dish when your husband gets excited that you’re making bean lasagne and it’s so easy he’s even made it for me before! While I’ve called it lasagne it has very little in common … Continue reading
Posted in Healthy and Tasty, Main Dishes, Vegetarian
Tagged Beans, Celery, Paprika, Ricotta
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Perfect Hot Cross Buns
I love hot cross buns. Actually, ‘love’ isn’t strong enough to explain my emotions about hot cross buns. One year I bought 8 dozen and froze them to ration throughout the year because I was so upset that there weren’t … Continue reading
Posted in Morning Tea, Vegan Option, Vegetarian, Yeasty goods
Tagged Cinnamon, Dried Fruit, Hot Cross Buns
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About the LAB kitchen
Simply, LAB is me. It’s my first three initials.
But LAB is more than that, it is also about the labrador that sits at the edge of the kitchen. Labradors are the best kitchen assistants – their eyes tell you that whatever you’re cooking is GOOOOOD. So it is symbolic of the approval you want when a new creation comes out of the oven. Most of my life there has been a labrador at the edge of the kitchen who pined for a crumb to fall from the good experiments and enthusiastically ate the failures to show me I was improving and should keep cooking.
But mostly LAB is my philosophy for food, or at least it is how I justify why I never follow a recipe. Continue reading
The LAB Kitchen will commence in 7 days…
The LAB Kitchen will be born with its first official post on Easter Sunday with a befitting recipe: An Experiment in Perfecting Hot Cross Buns Until then I must go back to the lab to continue my research (by which … Continue reading
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