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Sometimes I make food, it works out, and I want to show off how proud I am of my accomplishment...and I think maybe others might want to do that too.

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These are some potato wedges that I made! New potatoes cut into wedges, shredded Parmesan cheese, garlic powder and salt, and some parsley after it came out of the oven. I could have baked them a bit longer to crisp the outside more, but the flavour was fantastic, and went great with ranch dressing as a dip. It won approval in my house, at least.

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My take at raspberry fool, based on a recipe on Food Network and the ingredients that I happened to have. I actually decided to totally mix in the raspberries and cream to give it a uniform flavour. I'm not usually a big fan of raspberries, but it was good with ladyfingers.

I also made this with strawberries yesterday, and it's very much my thing.

I wouldn't drink raspberry juice but raspberries are delicious. Looks good! Even if it does look like the food paste from Fallout 4.

I wouldn't drink raspberry juice but raspberries are delicious. Looks good! Even if it does look like the food paste from Fallout 4.

Wow, it does look like the food paste. v_v But thanks!

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This is currently one of my favourite dinners. Bobotie: a mince dish, with copious amounts of fruit, curry powder, and milk-soaked bread. I have to start making it at a bit past one for it to be serveable by six, and the egg layer on top keeps consistently being runny, but I'm getting there!

It looks delicious! The egg layer on top makes it look like an omelette.

So yesterday for my birthday, my wife and I watched the Maple Films fan edit of The Hobbit as well as the Lord of the Rings trilogy. To accompany the movie marathon, we picked some recipes from a Lord of the Rings-themed cookbook and made a Hobbit's feast! My favorite was the mushrooms on toast -- it was fucking delicious. We were so full by the end -- need to pace ourselves better next year and eat smaller portions at the start.

First Breakfast

Gravy-poached eggs and coffee

Second Breakfast

Blueberry scones, strawberries, custard cream, and tea

Elevensies

Mushrooms on toast, watercress soup, and apple cider

Luncheon

Field pastries (stew beef/bacon and apples/raisins/honey), ploughman's platter, and beer

Tea

Finger sandwiches (cucumber/cheese and lemon curd/blueberries) and tea

Dinner

Roast chicken, roast taters, and apple cider

Supper

Mushrooms and bacon and apple tart

It's a wonder they got anything done apart from cooking and eating!

Seriously though, it all looks wonderful! And as an aside, I'm excited that apple cider is coming into season...one of the things I love about autumn.

Oh that simply looks beautiful.

I also approve of the choice of Maple Films' J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit edit.

I've had some noodles sitting in the back of my cabinet in the kitchen for like a year or two and finally did something with it because my brother doesn't like pasta that is without meat. So I made some buttered noodles since it's easy to make and filling. There's a lot of recipes but I just used what I had laying around. So I salted the water, brought it to a boil and cooked the noodles, strained it, put it back in the pan, added butter, sour cream, parsley, parmesan cheese and basil. From there I melted the butter and sour cream. Then I mixed it up until the sauce covered all the noodles. It's very good!

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This needs to be revived, apparently with my first attempt at fried rice. It was delicious.

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Here are some brownies I made a few days ago:

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This is my family's take on a standard brownie recipe. It's basically the same except it has significantly (3x, and it's semi-sweet vs. unsweetened ) more chocolate in it. They're extremely rich, and sooooo good. Small portions are absolutely necessary with this. They are very good frozen as well.

And we melt the chocolate with butter in a make-shift double-boiler: (The conversation in the SWOYM thread was what inspired me to make them again)

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Made a mess, though.

Nice! We made some brownies today too, but we just take the package with the stuff already in it, add some peanut butter, bake, then put some nuts on top. Nothing worth posting on here.

Ah, very cool. My family does the opposite: we tend to go for chocolate but less sugar content.

Today I made Tagliatelle with mushrooms and spinach

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