December 31st, 2011
For those who have suffered my thoughts on time before, you will know that time is something that concerns my little brain. In fact, what exactly time is has concerned much brainer people than me. And perhaps reconciling time with the two main paradigms in theoretical physics is key, for in the Einsteinean world time [...]
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December 31st, 2011
E = mc2 (and so m=E/c2) is the iconic scientific equation. But what happens if you put E = 0, or m = 0, into the equations. In the first, the answer becomes E = 0 and also in the second m = 0. In other words, if there is no mass, there is no [...]
Tags: Blog, Environment & science, ethical, Steenbergs, Steenbergs spices
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December 23rd, 2011
In this festive period, we have been asked out to various families for drinks, or the kids out to parties. And the question always is what to give people in a period of giving. So yesterday, the kids and I spent a happy day making sweets, much as we have done before. So there was [...]
Tags: baking, chocolate fudge, chocolate fudge recipe, Christmas, Christmas food, Christmas sweets, cooking, food and wine, foodandwine, foodie, foodie news, fudge, fudge recipe, organic, Steenbergs, Steenbergs spices, sweet making, sweets, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe
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December 20th, 2011
Once in a while, I really need to go without meat of any form and I am going through one of those patches at the moment. So I have tweaked my Chicken Balti Recipe from earlier this year to be more tofu friendly and so usable as a vegetarian dish. At the same time, I have simplified [...]
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December 17th, 2011
Following on from the spekulatius blog, we have been having fun trying to make German lebkuchen cookies. There really is something Christmassy about the spices used in these Christmas biscuits – it’s that glorious mix of cinnamon, nutmeg and that extra richness from the cloves. Everything about Christmas smells seems to revolve around cloves whether [...]
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December 11th, 2011
One of my favourite Christmas cookies are spekulatius biscuits, or speculaas as they are called in the Netherlands. I remember we always used to get a special parcel from Lebkuchen Schmidt in Nürmberg from my Granny. In amongst all the beautiful tins and lebkuchen would be a few packs of their spekulatius cookies. I loved [...]
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December 3rd, 2011
I don’t know whether it is when you really learned how to cook that determines what are your favourite books, or whether some books are just better than others. However, I noticed recently how I still keep on going back to a few cookery books that I have simply had for ages. They are really [...]
Tags: Blog, cookery books, cooking, food and wine, foodandwine, foodie, recipe book, Steenbergs, Steenbergs spices, tea
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November 30th, 2011
Yesterday, I had a cracking headache, so decided that a warm kitchen and some homely fare was what was needed. I went out early to the Newby Hall Farm Shop and chose some decent looking braising steak that had a good colour, together with a lovely amount of marbling. Then, I bought some cream, some [...]
Tags: beef bourguignon, Beef Casserole, beef stew, Blog, boeuf a la bourguignon, boeuf bourguignon, cooking, food and wine, foodandwine, recipe, Recipes, spice, spices, Steenbergs spices, Yorkshire
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November 22nd, 2011
Taking all the information in my previous blog, here is my stab at how to make a cracking cup of tea: 1. Fill the kettle with freshly-drawn cold water which is well mixed with oxygen (boiled water has lost much of oxygen). Oxygen is vital to bring out the taste and aroma. When drawing from [...]
Tags: Blog, cuppa, food and wine, foodandwine, organic food blog, Steenbergs, Steenbergs Tea, tea, the perfect cuppa
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November 18th, 2011
The other day I listened to James May chatting on Radio 5 Live about the new series of Man Lab and in it he discussed the perfect cup of tea. As in everything in life, I agreed with some of what James May said, but disagreed with other parts, for example he suggested using the [...]
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