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FOODLING INSPIRATION...

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Posted on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 | By: Four Little Foodlings

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With the end of our blogging looming, this post will not review any particular resturant, or give you a recipe to try out for yourself, but will inform you about my belief that the celebration of life can be seen through food.


Food is something that we all live by and need for survival, but it is also something that we communicate through.

Food brings each of us together to socialise with friends and family and even with strangers alike.
So why not cook or bake one of our recipes, or go to one of our resturaunts that we have reviewed and invite some friends to build your own memories and explore your own unique passions for food.

Below is a list of food quotes that I thought you would enjoy as you build your own food memories and passions
I hope you have enjoyed our blog to date.
Foodling 1.

      
   TO OUR FOODLING FOLLOWERS…


“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"
                                                                                  Virginia Woolf


Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like 
and let the food fight it out inside. 
                                                           
                      - Mark Twain

One should never ever Trust a skinny cook.

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W.C. Fields



One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
—Laurie Colwin


“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”

- James Beard 

Herbs and Spices

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Posted on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 | By: Four Little Foodlings

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Being a novice foodling my adventures in the kitchen have been somewhat mixed.


Somedays good and somedays not so good...

My first disaster occured last month soon after my mother came out of hospital after an operation.
Being the good daughter that I am I decided to cook her a meal using my newly acquired cook book "Women's Weekly Classics" purchased for $9.95 at the newsagency.

(Great starter by the way for new cooks, it has every basic recipe and an easy to follow method, I reccommend for all new cooks out there to purchase this and once you have mastered these classics you can experiment!)



I thought I would make something light and tasty for my mother's breakfast while she was convalescing.


So I turned to the first page and 'Creamy Scrambled Eggs' was on the menu. I was going so well with the recipe:
8 Eggs
1/2 Cup of cream
30 g butter
2 tablespoons of finely chopped fresh 'chives'



Until the recipe called for 'chives'. Not exactly having the correct idea of what chives were at the time or being able to find any in the cupboard - I found the next best thing starting with "C".... cinnamon. So instead of 2 tablespoons of choppped chives I added two tablespoons of cinnamon.

Now as you can imagine cinnamon didn't really cut it as a substitute, one being a herb and one being a spice.

Cinnamon
Chives


The final result was a brown rubbery looking mass on the plate, nothing like the picture of the yellow fluffy like clouds with specs of green. I served it to mum and she was convinced I was trying to poison her - I even tried to give it to my Jack Russell 'Bella", who usually eats anything and everything - and she even refused it.

FOOD TIP 1: When cooking the most important thing to do is to know all your ingredients, no matter how simple the recipe is. (I know this is obvious for you advanced foodlings, but you'd be suprised by the lack of knowledge of the younger generations on food, things are hardly passed down like they use to be.)

FOOD TIP 2: Never replace cinnamon for chives..... :)


I hope your enjoyed this story as much as my family likes to tell it!

Hope these tips help!
Foodling 4

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