Monday, 10 September 2012

Boiled Eggs with Soldiers for Breakfast


Eggs for breakfast! So simple, and tasty and filling and for some reason I never think of eating them. Also, I always have to look up how to get them soft boiled. Delia online gives the following method, and it seems to work...

Put enough simmering water in a saucepan to cover the eggs by 1 cm.

Simmer for 1 minute.

Remove the pan and let the eggs sit for 6 minutes if you like a slightly wobbly but set white, and 7 minutes if you like you don't.

Monday, 3 September 2012

Sponge cake with fresh raspberries

When I was a child, my uncle used to grow raspberries. He'd get so many, that it wasn't possible to eat them all before they went all squidgey, so he'd freeze them. When you get raspberries out of the freezer and put sugar on them, you end up with this sharp and sweet sugary syrup, with raspberries in. I almost prefer it to fresh raspberries, and yet I haven't eaten them like this for over 10 years. I pledge today that I will do something about this.

Related to this, are cooked raspberries. Like in raspberry pie, which is another way to solve the first world problem that is too many raspberries. 

The other day, someone brought us a sponge cake which she'd put raspberries on before she'd cooked. Presumably she put sugar on too. I thoroughly recommend it. This is what it looks like if you leave it alone for a moment while you get your camera.