Supper is hectic in every household—especially for young families—with busy schedules, shift work, overtime, missed trains, kids, team practice, etc. If you're like me, you don't always have time to get on your phone or tablet, or run to the computer to check recipe conversions or ingredient substitutes. For this reason, I've put together a Kitchen Helper Cheat Sheet for those of you who are Canadian expats in the UK, like myself.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Friday, September 2, 2016
Baking in the UK: Sugar
Ah, sugar, how sweet thy name. And how filled with calories!
There is currently a trend in the kitchen where sugar is substituted by various things such as apple sauce, honey, maple syrup or agave to make cooking and baking healthier. And perhaps a sweetener by any other name would taste as sweet, but I'll leave it up to you to decide.
In my kitchen, using alternatives often ends up with dessert just sitting there because my sweet-toothed husband doesn't find it sweet enough. Which brings me to my subject today, as a follow up to my last post about flour here in England.
There is currently a trend in the kitchen where sugar is substituted by various things such as apple sauce, honey, maple syrup or agave to make cooking and baking healthier. And perhaps a sweetener by any other name would taste as sweet, but I'll leave it up to you to decide.
In my kitchen, using alternatives often ends up with dessert just sitting there because my sweet-toothed husband doesn't find it sweet enough. Which brings me to my subject today, as a follow up to my last post about flour here in England.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Baking in the UK: Flour
Daunting.
Daunting, daunting, daunting.
Daunting when you're standing in the baking aisle at Asda with a shrieking kid and a half-empty cart. Daunting when you realize British recipes are in grams and you brought all your measuring cups and spoons. Daunting when you're so happy you actually brought that cookbook from home, only you forgot the measuring cups and realize they are hard to find in the UK.
Obviously, the internet is your friend in that you can order just about any tools you need—once you actually have an internet connection. Chances are though, you likely won't be baking until you feel comfortable in your new habitat. At least, that's how it is for me: I can't bake, I can't sing, and I can't drink wine until I am feeling mostly like my normal self.
This said, let me give you a bit of a run-down if you're ready to bake in the UK, or if you've not moved yet and are reading this from Canada in the hopes of packing the right stuff.
Daunting, daunting, daunting.
Daunting when you're standing in the baking aisle at Asda with a shrieking kid and a half-empty cart. Daunting when you realize British recipes are in grams and you brought all your measuring cups and spoons. Daunting when you're so happy you actually brought that cookbook from home, only you forgot the measuring cups and realize they are hard to find in the UK.
Obviously, the internet is your friend in that you can order just about any tools you need—once you actually have an internet connection. Chances are though, you likely won't be baking until you feel comfortable in your new habitat. At least, that's how it is for me: I can't bake, I can't sing, and I can't drink wine until I am feeling mostly like my normal self.
This said, let me give you a bit of a run-down if you're ready to bake in the UK, or if you've not moved yet and are reading this from Canada in the hopes of packing the right stuff.
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