Does anyone else look at an unpeeled celeriac and think “Ooh, Daleks,”?\u00a0 Maybe just me then. Anyway, after yet another session in the kitchen where things went less or less according to plan, I am finally arriving at the conclusion that it’s not me, it’s the oven. Or, to be more specific, it’s the temperature setting dial, which is very poorly calibrated. It is only marked in increments of 50 degrees, hence the recent Chicken \u00e0 la Cemeti\u00e8re and yesterday’s blaeberry lemon damper which was somewhat damper than anticipated and is being bunged in the microwave today.\u00a0 Ancient old recipe for celeriac and tattie Dauphinoise went ok though, if the term may cover having to loup down the road halfway through to buy more cream.<\/p>\n
Glorious day yesterday, can’t wait to visit the refurbished National Museum in Edinburgh<\/a>, but as that is going to be hoaching then it’s one for a weekday holiday. Edinburgh is once more girding its loins for the onslaught of the festivals<\/a>, the streets are starting to buzz. You can just picture her opening the wardrobe, talking a deep breath and shrugging on the coat of many colours. In five weeks’ time she’ll be hanging it back up, then turning round to the straggler tourists and remarking, “You’ll have had your tea….”.<\/p>\n Happy birthday Emma & Kerry.\u00a0 I had lunch this week with Fiona and Callum, he’s discovered how much fun it is to point at things now so we spent a happy hour naming and shaming.\u00a0 Callum did not pack away as much food as his first cousin once removed, Nick, but it can only be a matter of time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does anyone else look at an unpeeled celeriac and think “Ooh, Daleks,”?\u00a0 Maybe just me then. Anyway, after yet another session in the kitchen where things went less or less according to plan, I am finally arriving at the conclusion that it’s not me, it’s the oven. Or, to be more specific, it’s the temperature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,11,13],"tags":[54,64,82],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-family","category-food","category-kirsty","tag-cooking","tag-edinburgh","tag-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}