I need an app designed for people who have zero knowledge, skill or talent for cooking (me, that people is me) - I want one that gives flavour balancing suggestions. Like I could select a couple of ingredients I have and the app would then suggest other ingredients that would go well with those flavours. And preferably let me favourite ingredients I love and exclude ones I hate (or can’t eat for medical reasons).
Is that a thing?
This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/04/02/wood-fired/
#article #cookery #cooking #devcamp #pizza #threeRings #volunteering
Whats the Italian 🇮🇹 term for #pasta cooked in sauce, rather than water?
The Yanks call it "one-pot pasta", which feels crude. I want poetry.
Today, I was ahead of schedule, so I decided to take the extra time needed to cook the pasta in sauce. Instead of reducing the sauce, add liquid. Mix in the pasta, and cook slowly. After 30 mins, fhe result is pasta full of flavour.
Is the technique banned in Italy, like onion & garlic together?
Or is there a vowel-lsden word, full of A I O?
Most-often when a toaster has a 'cancel' button it's simply labelled 'cancel', 'stop', or with a cross. But this week, I discovered a toaster that uses the 'eject' icon - like you'd find on a VHS tape recorder - on its button.
At first I thought this was an unusual user interface choice, but I'm coming around to it. It feels like a more-accurate and skeuomorphic representation of what actually happens than a cross suggests.
But the existence of toasters like this one does necessarily mean that, some day, some Gen Alpha will see a tape deck in, like, a museum or something, and will say 'hey, that's cute: the button you press to pop the tape out is the same as the one you use to pop your toast out'.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/26/eject-toast/
Most-often when a toaster has a 'cancel' button it's simply labelled 'cancel', 'stop', or with a cross. But this week, I discovered a toaster that uses the 'eject' icon - like you'd find on a VHS tape recorder - on its button. At first I thought this was an unusual user interface choice, but I'm coming around to it. It feels like a more-accurate and skeuomorphic representation of what actually happens than a cross suggests. But the existence of toasters like this one does necessarily mean that, some day, some Gen Alpha will see a tape deck in, like, a museum or something, and will say 'hey, that's cute: the button you press to pop the tape out is the same as the one you use to pop your toast out'.
Most-often when a toaster has a 'cancel' button it's simply labelled 'cancel', 'stop', or with a cross. But this week, I discovered a toaster that uses the 'eject' icon - like you'd find on a VHS tape recorder - on its button.
At first I thought this was an unusual user interface choice, but I'm coming around to it. It feels like a more-accurate and skeuomorphic representation of what actually happens than a cross suggests.
But the existence of toasters like this one does necessarily mean that, some day, some Gen Alpha will see a tape deck in, like, a museum or something, and will say 'hey, that's cute: the button you press to pop the tape out is the same as the one you use to pop your toast out'.
Wanted a quesadilla. Didn’t have any tortillas, so substituted chapattis. It went… only okay. The earthiness of the chapatti pairs with mature cheese less-well than the cornflour-sweetness of a tortilla does.I tried it, so you don’t have to!×
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/12/chapattidilla/
Wanted a quesadilla. Didn't have any tortillas, so substituted chapattis. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/03/1000132255-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/03/1000132255-640x360.jpg" class="aligncenter size-i640" alt="Two layers of chapattis in a frying pan on a stove, alongside their packaging." loading="lazy"></a> It went... only okay. The earthiness of the chapatti pairs with mature cheese less-well than the cornflour-sweetness of a tortilla does. I tried it, so you don't have to!
Wanted a quesadilla. Didn't have any tortillas, so substituted chapattis.
It went... only okay. The earthiness of the chapatti pairs with mature cheese less-well than the cornflour-sweetness of a tortilla does.
I tried it, so you don't have to!
"Georgina Hayden updating traditional Greek recipes, Thomasina Miers changing the face of school canteens, Sally Abé calling out sexism in professional kitchens, Asma Khan giving value to domestic traditions (pictured top with her all-female team of chefs at Darjeeling Express). The people who champion the best and most delicious food, the people who expand the conversation around food, are very often women."
"For generations, cooking has been predominantly a women’s realm, and the knowledge and wisdom that sustained humanity has been passed through the female line. So the culinary world is one of the few in the professional sphere where women have an edge."
~ Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich
#women #kitchen #cooking #cookery #chefs #food
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