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卵焼き How to make a tamagoyaki

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp mirin or rice wine
few drops of soy sauce

Mix all the ingredients together with chopsticks (not a fork or whisk. you want as little air bubbles as possible)

This particular photo is a bad example lol. Too many bubbles.

Warm a non-stick frypan at low heat then lightly oil using a soaked paper towel.

Making sure the heat is still set at low pour half of the bowl in.

Try to keep the egg from filling the whole pan, try and get a straight side. You can achieve this by tilting the pan slightly although it doesnt really matter as you can cut these curved edges off at the end.

As the egg is frying use the spatula to lift the edges up to keep it from sticking to the pan.

When the top side of the egg is just a little bit gooey fold over one side and roll it...

...until it looks like the image above.

Quickly pour the rest of the egg in as you don't want the bit you've just rolled to brown.

Roll backwards.

Roll it up in cling wrap

Roll it tightly in a bamboo mat to shape it into a rectangle.

optional: put it in the fridge to cool until serving

slice the log

itadakimasu

champagne's for celebrating (I'll have a martini)

paperthin

Paperthin Music Video from Hettie Griffiths on Vimeo.

Dinner and dancing.

FEED YOUR FAMILY FOR: Fancy Bangers and Mash

I've cooked this dish several times before and even served it to my friends at schoolies last year.
It is a bangers and mash with poached pear slices and "caramelised" carrots and onions. It's essentially a classic prole dish like ratatouille but revitalised by the sweetness of the caramel sauce which also challenges bland british cooking.
Quick, easy and cheap enjoy!

Ingredients:

• Sausages
• Potatoes (any kind)
• Onions
• Carrots
• Pears (not nashi)
• Brown Sugar
• Cream/ Milk (for the mash)

Method:

1. Peel, wash and boil potatoes in a pot. if you are in a rush its good to cut them into smaller chunks as they soften faster. (or if you are not fussed you can even microwave them in microwave tupperware with a bit of water. however from experience this should only be the last resort)
2. Chop up onions into half moons and carrots and pears into wedges. (dont forget to peel them!) and pop into a pot of boiling water until soft along with 1, 2 sticks of cinammon and a couple of star anise.
3. At the same time start frying the sausages
4. Take out potatoes and mash them stirring in milk/ cream and salt to taste.
5. Heat up a pan and melt brown sugar over low fire until it becomes a caramel
6. Strain the onions, carrots and pears and plate with bangers and mash.
7. Pour caramel sauce over the OCP and serve hot.

*note: i know its not REALLY caramelisation!!!

This is a good photo

This is not.