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On Brussels Sprouts

March 5, 2023February 20, 2023 Medic 0 Comments brussels sprouts, cooking, oven, spices, sprouts, SPUFood

I like brussels sprouts. They’re actually pretty tasty, and they’re not just for Christmas. The problem is, most people just don’t cook sprouts right. When I was a kid, the sprouts would be boiled for a long time and always ended up horrible. A mushy, green lump of matter that doesn’t look satisfying at all. Luckily, now I’m an adult and I can cook my own food, and that means I can give you a decent recipe for these bastards. Ingredients However many Brussels Sprouts you want. 250g is good for about two people. I use frozen sprouts because fresh… [Continue Reading]

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Boyfriend Fajitas

September 16, 2022September 11, 2022 Medic 0 Comments food, SPUF, spuffood, yum

Fajita is the sort of meal that gets wildly stretched and distorted, depending on who and where you are. This version is what me and my boyfriend cook together. It’s almost certainly not traditional but it is very tasty. Our fajitas are made to cover multiple meals and the boyfriend eats a lot, so if it’s just you, half all the quantities. Ingredients: 2 peppers, one red and one yellow or orange, chopped 1 kilo of mince, preferably pork 1 large onion, chopped 1 tin of chopped tomatoes, or pasata, or tomato puree with some water Spices – Paprika (sweet… [Continue Reading]

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Noodle Cheese

August 4, 2022July 28, 2022 Medic 0 Comments cheese, SPUFood

While making macaroni cheese is quite easy, I’ve been looking for an alternative that is quicker and uses less dishes. After all, it takes time to boil pasta and make a nice sauce. But up until recently, I didn’t really have any idea how to speed things up, aside from using two pans and a sieve to drain the water. But, after watching a weird Youtube channel about sausages, I finally found a quicker, easier way to make my cheese and pasta-like dish. Ingredients Some sort of instant ramen noodles. You can use pasta but it takes a lot longer… [Continue Reading]

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Clay Oven-baked Bread and Stuff

May 15, 2022May 7, 2022 Medic 0 Comments baking, bread, cooking, random, real life

Making your own bread isn’t actually that difficult. I have a dough that I use for both pizza and garlic bread, and it does the job fine. It’s not the most amazing bread ever, but I do think it’s worth trying to make your own bread. My recipe is quite simple but makes a ton of pizza dough. Ingredients: 500g flour plus more for kneading and rolling out one packet of instant dried yeast A teaspoon of olive or similar vegetable oil One teaspoon of sugar 1-3 teaspoons of salt Water Patience Instructions: Throw everything into a large bowl, except… [Continue Reading]

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Pumpkin Soup for the Soul

January 18, 2022January 11, 2022 Medic 0 Comments pumpkin, recipe, soup, spuffood

This year, the winter season has been very odd. Normally, November and December are colder, cold enough to warrant making soup. Late December and January however have proved me wrong, making things cold and wet and miserable. So I’ve decided to make some soup. Pumpkin soup. Ingredients Pumpkin of some sort, with seeds and skin removed A couple of onions, sliced Some potatoes, peeled and scrubbed About 5-6 cloves of garlic, sliced and mushed (not bulbs) A decent amount of Mixed Spices A teaspoon of cinnamon, cloves and paprika One stock cube of your choice Salt and Pepper, but not… [Continue Reading]

A cake made in a mug-sized microwave-proof container.

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Microwave Cakes

May 26, 2020May 19, 2020 Medic 0 Comments cake, microwave, nom, SPUFood

I’ve been stuck indoors a lot more than normal. And when I’m stuck indoors, I tend to get hungry for no real reason. Now, sure, I could always do some exercise or something. I could do something to make my hunger warranted. But I’m a lazy bastard, so rather than exercising in any way, I find myself walking to the kitchen. And then walking back out because there’s nothing I fancy. Then I walk back in and start baking. Before I start rambling however, here’s a recipe for you: Medic’s Microwave Cake Recipe Ingredients (makes 2-4 mugs’ worth of cake):… [Continue Reading]

Making a basic dough recipe using the Elder Scrolls cookbook

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Book Review: The Elder Scrolls Official Cookbook

January 15, 2020January 11, 2020 Medic 0 Comments book, cookbook, cooking, review, Skyrim, SPUFood, the elder scrolls

For Christmas, I got a very strange selection of gifts that I absolutely adored. The most peculiar gift I got though was from my brother, which, as the title of this article suggests, was a cookbook, based on the Elder Scrolls universe. Written by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, this book is part of a collection of cookbooks spanning a range of popular, fantasy themes like Game of Thrones and World of Warcraft. Brother, having seen how much time I’ve spent playing Skyrim, wisely picked this book out for me. And it’s a really, really nicely laid out book, with an obviously fantasy… [Continue Reading]

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Burgers, Meatballs and Other Lumps of Meat

December 6, 2019November 29, 2019 Medic 0 Comments burger, food, nom, SPUFood

As I was writing this the other day, I had burgers cooking in the oven. I made them a bit too thick and wanted to make sure they were completely cooked all the way through, because I used pork mince rather than beef mince. The smell is pretty nice but somewhat overpowered by a BBQ sauce I made because I’m going to cook BBQ chicken drumsticks tomorrow. But as I was making the burgers, a simple thought wandered into my mind: “Oh my god, this is actually really easy.” And the more I think about it, the more I think… [Continue Reading]

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On Bread and Butter Pudding

December 4, 2019November 27, 2019 Medic 0 Comments ramble, random, SPUFood, sugar

Bread and Butter Pudding is weird. It’s bread and butter and milk and eggs and sugar. But it’s… it’s so tasty. And probably really bad for you. Bread Pudding is the same thing. But bread and butter pudding and bread pudding are kinda two different puddings. Not the same thing. But I made some bread and butter pudding and I just want to share how simple this is. Simple Bread and Butter Pudding Ingredients: Small loaf of white bread Butter, softened 2-3 eggs A bunch of sugar A bottle of milk Some sort of thing to sprinkle though the pudding,… [Continue Reading]

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The 38 Cent Bar of ‘Chocolate’

November 13, 2019November 7, 2019 Medic 0 Comments chocolate, random

When I popped to the shops the other day to buy mayonnaise and some drinks, I spotted piles and piles of these bars of chocolate, in all sorts of different flavours. The shop I had gone to was one of those shops where they also bought old stock and sold it off for cheap, which meant I could get non-perishables, food that takes years to go off and drinks for pretty cheap. They also bought and sold stock that hadn’t sold elsewhere, and that was where these piles of chocolate came in. For a mere €0.38, I could get 90… [Continue Reading]

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