Month: September 2019

  • Porridge Scones

    Porridge is another name for cooked oatmeal. It’s easy to make, cheap, and is not too bad for nutrition. So, what do you do with all the leftover porridge? Here’s one answer, and it’s two recipes for the price of one! OVERNIGHT SLOW COOKER PORRIDGE Add oats to water at a 1:4 ratio, that is…

  • Ice cream

    Recently I saw one of the kids at my son’s school eating an ice cream bar. Well, it was called an “ice cream bar”. Then I looked at the ingredients. nonfat milk and milkfat water sugar corn syrup whey citric acid stabiliser (mono & diglycerides, guar gum, polysorbate 80, xanthan gum and and carob bean…

  • Sodium citrate

    Is a moderately expensive substance to buy. But why would you buy some anyway? Because you can turn any cheese into melty cheese. How’d you like a slab of “processed cheese” that melts just like those cheese slices, but it’s made from an actual cheese? Sodium citrate does it. It’s also used in molecular gastronomy,…