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Boston Baked Beans – Spotlight

09:40 AM, February 15, 2016 |

dairy free, feeding a crowd, gluten free, Oscars festival, pulses

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This is a meal worthy of a plucky team of investigative team of reporters. For one, it honours a sense of place. With its twang of blackstrap molasses, Boston Baked Beans are an edible institution. For two, it’s thrifty, making the most of meager resources. For three, it’s placating – something that might be helpful when you’re on your way to uncovering the greatest scandal to smear the Catholic Church. These beans on their own make for a steadying breakfast (or late night snack), but add a five minute egg to the top with a yolk to plunder and you have your very own spotlight to shine …

Potato Coins with Ketchup Salt – The Martian

06:20 PM, February 10, 2016 |

Oscars festival, snacks

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The Reason: “In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option, I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this.” so says Mark Watney (Matt Damon), as he tries to unearth a way to feed himself over 800 odd sols on Mars until a mission can retrieve him. Thank goodness he’s a botanist. Thank heavens for the potatoes that were sent along with the Thanksgiving rations. And thank modernity for ketchup (until it runs out). When that day arrives, you’re going to be left alone on a planet, eating plain potatoes you’ve farmed in your own fecal matter. Perhaps Mark could have made his ketchup …

SubPrime Fish Stew – The Big Short

05:54 PM, February 9, 2016 |

feeding a crowd, fennel, fish, french, Oscars festival, paleo, seafood, Summer, tomato

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Collateralised Debt Obligations aren’t the easiest concept to digest- that is until you have a cameo from Chef Anthony Bourdain to illuminate them: “It goes something like this: A chef buys fish on Friday. Two days later, it can’t be sold as is, it’s now too old and stinky, “So what am I going to do? Throw all this unsold fish in the garbage and take the loss? No way. Whatever crappy levels of the bond I don’t sell, I throw into the seafood stew. [Now] it’s not old fish, it’s a whole new thing.” Welcome to SubPrime Fish Stew. This is not only a metaphor for …