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Category Archive: pestles & Mortars
Feb 17
A mortar and pestle: A primitive kitchen tool
With all the electric gadgets on store shelves, many chefs stillturn to a lowly piece of equipment, one that has been around forcenturies, to mash garlic or make spice blends: a mortar andpestle. Chef Suzanne Tracht has a white porcelain Milton Brook version,which she got 20 years ago in London after seeing it while workingat …
Feb 09
Home & Garden
LOS ANGELES — Chef Suzanne Tracht is quietly elegant; her teenage daughter is beautiful and casually fashionable in black leggings. Their kitchen? Kind of like grandma’s house — and that’s just how they like it. Tracht doesn’t want to spend her off hours in a modern, stainless-steel kitchen that feels like the kitchens at her …
Feb 02
Egyptian Style Rice Kofta
This is one of my favourite dishes of all time. I only eat it once or twice a year though. Traditionally made with camel meat, it is a delicious variation on conventional meatballs. It is a beautfiful blend of lamb meat, rice, onions, garlic and fresh herbs cooked in a tomato sauce. You need (serves …
Jan 23
Agatha Christie’s close links with North Walsham given fresh boost
Agatha Christie’s housekeeper’s daughter Betty Paine presents Agatha’s pestle and mortar to Beechwood Hotel owners Lindsay Spalding and Don Birch. Photo by Simon Finlay Whodunnit? It was the housekeeper’s daughter, in the hotel grounds, with a pestle and mortar. Beechwood Hotel reveals its Christie secrets Don Birch and Lindsay Spalding had already decided to buy …
Jan 22
Crabzilla and the cult of bonkers birthday cakes
What is it about birthday cakes? I don’t know quite when it all started to go wrong. I have pictures of my elder son’s first birthday “party” (me, my mum and a pot of tea – in the photographs she is incandescent with grandmotherly pride, while I have the hollow, shell-shocked expression of one blindsided …
Jan 11
Kent Police crush local pesto ring
Kent Police were this afternoon formally congratulated on the outstanding success of Operation Ploughmans. Speaking from outside Downing St, Prime Minister David Cameron praised the two month operation as ‘a significant contribution’ to Britain’s home economic security. From their operations base at Dover, police officers intercepted several tankers of Spanish olive oil, along with sizable …