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mixing it up

13 Wednesday Nov 2024

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bowls

My first ever mixing bowls! Well, just the two smaller ones. I can’t believe I’ve never owned actual mixing bowls before. I usually just use whatever… pasta bowl, soup bowl, popcorn bowl… but I didn’t have anything the size of the middle one and lately with some new recipes I have been needing that option (been making do with pots or tupperware). Love the non-slip silicone bottoms and useful lids, and they fit into each other like russian dolls, so easy to store. I didn’t get the whole set because the popcorn bowl serves the same purpose as the large one and is seldom needed.

And that was a blog post, folks! I still don’t know why any of you follow me here (but I’m glad you do). 😅

hooked on salsa verde

27 Tuesday Aug 2024

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nigella (1)

A couple of weeks ago I saw that Nigella Lawson was back on Bluesky – or at least giving it another go – and she posted a recipe to her spicy “green sauce”. A simple yet totally addictive salsa. Vegetarian/vegan too. My version is a bit of an adaptation, but you can see both below…

Nigella’s Recipe
Azahar’s Kitchen Recipe

pico de gallo time

29 Monday Jul 2024

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chopper

Getting a bit hooked on Instagram recipe reels lately, so much so that I now have a whole list of links in a file for me to get back to (eventually). Most of the ones that catch my eye tend to be vegetarian (?) but the other day I came across one for simple pan-grilled squid with pico de gallo. If you don’t know pico de gallo it’s a chunky “sauce” traditionally made from finely chopped tomato, onion, red & green peppers, with salt, olive oil, lime juice, and fresh cilantro. And it’s delicious. Anyhow, I was both looking forward to and dreading making this squid dish because I have no patience for dicing veg. And then I remembered having an “onion chopper” back in Toronto and wondered if they still made them, or something similar. And look what I found at trusty El Corte Inglés. On sale too! Now just have to find some shelf space…

the cosori story continues…

19 Wednesday Jul 2023

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cosori story

So last week I was cooking some salmon in my hitherto trusty Cosori air fryer and suddenly, just after transferring the HOT basket over to the counter top, the handle fell off. The screws were still intact but the plastic around them had basically melted away. Yikes. The next day I got in touch with Cosori and they said they would send me a replacement basket. But then I got to thinking… the basket wasn’t the problem. The problem was that the appliance had overheated to the point that if actually fucking melted the handle. I mean, would you feel comfortable plugging that thing in again? I certainly wasn’t.

Thus began a week of emails back and forth. The first email address I’d found was for a service department that said they would send a new basket (which they did yesterday). But when I mentioned my concerns about the overheating they said it wasn’t an issue, in spite of Cosori recently having to recall more than 2 million models due to overheating and fire hazard issues, since this only applied to models in the US, Canada and Mexico. Somehow that didn’t make me feel any better. I still wasn’t going to plug the motherfucker back in again.

Meanwhile I had also written to a second support email address I’d come across and they seemed a bit more helpful. In the end they agreed that I could send my appliance back to them “for inspection” and if it was indeed defective they would send me a new one. I was warned that it would have to be well packed up as they wouldn’t be responsible for any damage during shipping. And well ha. I still had the original box upstairs in the storage room (I keep them all) including all the styrofoam packing stuff and so, snug as a bug, I brought my hitherto much loved Cosori to the UPS pick up place (handily just around the corner from my house).

And now, who knows? But if I don’t get a shiny new Cosori delivered within the week I’m going to go all social media on those guys. What I don’t get is… why did they even bother trying to get out of sending me a replacement air fryer? I see that on Amazon this model is on sale for 118€ right now, so how much does one actually cost them? And is it even worth them paying for the shipping to Madrid “for inspection”? It’s boggling and frustrating. I just want my air fryer back.