I can make real dinner too!

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 Duly noted: broccoli in the oven is easy and delicious with minimal cleanup!

I just wanted to share that I am capable of cooking healthy, non-butter-based dishes.  Like garlic sauteed chicken (olive oil, not butter, so there) with chili-flake roasted broccoli and baked sweet potato.  HA!

That is all.  Now I'm off to go bake some cookies.

A little substitution... and bibbity boppity boo!

Pin It Baking over here can be trying. Not only are the conversions a bitch (my recipes now have temps in both Fahrenheit and Celsius, and ingredients in cups and grams), and the ovens electric and therefore highly varied, but there's also the matter of being a poor student.

Point the first: poor. Meaning I don't have the money for such indulgences as a Kitchenaid mixer, or even a Cuisinart like my mom has at home (Hi Cuisinart, baby, I miss you!), or even such small luxuries as different sizes of pan/sheet/dish in which to bake.

Point the second: student. Which not only reiterates the poverty, but also means I'm here for a limited time, which makes any investment I could feasibly make seem like a stupid waste of money, since I can take very little back with me across the Atlantic.

So why do I keep trying? Because baking makes me happy.

Sooooo, a bit more of a wait...

Pin It We moved into our new flat 2 and a half weeks ago, thrilled to have a kitchen with enough space for my boyfriend's culinary forays and my baking obsession, only to find that our oven is broken and the hob knobs (ha, only British people will get that pun) have had all the info scrubbed off them. So I've had to put off baking for a little longer, and for now we're just making pasta etc by feel (literally, we turn on one of the knobs, then hover a hand over the hob to feel where the pot should go), which is a bit dangerous but works.

Hopefully we'll get our new oven soon, and I can start spending all my (little) money on silicone baking trays! I'll keep you apprised.