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homemade sourdough english muffins

christinajbartlett — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:11:08 +0000

I grew up calling them muffin splits. I get blank looks when I use that term here though. And apparently it doesn’t exist on google. Why does New Zealand take a normal thing, like an English Muffin and give it a new name? Kinda just makes us look stupid. Thanks Quality Bakers. I use to […]

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kumara soup & basil bannock

christinajbartlett — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:54:40 +0000

Today was one of those days. My dad calls is Sunday-itis. It only seems to hit on Sundays… Jesse-free Sundays especially. I bet you know the type of day. It can’t just be my family that is prone to being swamped with this odd feeling every so often, around midday Sunday. It’s a day that […]

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how to: brioche buns in tin cans

christinajbartlett — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:06:04 +0000

Remember these tin can plants? And these tin can cakes? Sick of tin can ideas already? Well I’m not. We are trying hard to keep waste to a minimum here (seeming as it all just goes to the big dump pile at the end of the road) but it is SO hard. We use only […]

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pita casera

christinajbartlett — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:34:14 +0000

In French it’s maison. In Spanish, casero. Homemade. It’s become a bit of a running theme of this blog, eh? When I started De La Casa I embraced the idea of making as much as possible from scratch – hence titling it from the home. Perhaps it was for budget reasons (both being students for […]

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kitchenaid bagels

christinajbartlett — Sat, 26 May 2012 05:26:26 +0000

Something strange happened last weekend. It started out with a simple dinner with some friends from our (new) church. And it led to this. “Oh, would you happen to want a KitchenAid? I don’t use it…” What followed, a few gasps and hoots later, was some playing around with the dough hook. And some rising […]

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homemade roti

christinajbartlett — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:09:31 +0000

I am a total bowl-foodie. It’s not an exaggeration to say that pretty well every night, J and I eat dinner from a bowl. Of course, if I was cooking roasts and pork chops this wouldn’t be the case. But I have never cooked either and, well, I don’t really plan too. Instead we eat […]

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homemade crackers

christinajbartlett — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:14:19 +0000

Late notice guests for dinner? Needing snacks for the hockey game? Planning a date night with your beloved? Whip up some fresh crackers! Three ingredients, twenty minutes, your choice of seasoning – plain, salted, rosemary, Moroccan or Southwest (if, like us, you happen to have inherited a jar of it). I tell you, you’ll never […]

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sweet home alabanana bread

christinajbartlett — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:36:38 +0000

Some of the most unusual things become real events when you live up here. One is mail. Of any sort*. Another is being given a ride while running to work (yes running, because when you have a one hour lunch break to fit an appointment at the bank, get lunch and cover the 20min walk […]

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red lentil & smoked paprika soup

christinajbartlett — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:37:43 +0000

Summer is still in full swing here in New Zealand. It’s meant to be Autumn, but our evenings are most often spent on the deck under the setting sun, overlooking the sheep (with a new born lamb – I know, wrong season, huh?) and soaking up the evening warmth and stillness . Saying that, I know how quickly the weather […]

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logan bread

christinajbartlett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:24:14 +0000

Things have been a little quiet around here. Or so you would think, judging from the lack of happenings on De La Casa. In reality, J and I are over our head with organizing, sorting, moving, packing, changing addresses, sending CVs to airlines in remote places in the arctic circle… all those hectic things I […]

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