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So Long Sasasunakku, it’s Been Real

Sasa — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:30:32 +0000

Sasasunakku has been one of the longest running and most rewarding projects I’ve ever undertaken. I stumbled by accident into the wormhole that is the foodblogosphere one weekend in 2009 and didn’t emerge for a week, it was a revelation to me that other people thought about food as much as I did; I literally [...]

My Berlin Kitchen: A Review

Sasa — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:38:04 +0000

I confess, possums, I wrote this nearly a month ago and haven't had the wherewithal to take pictures of something I've cooked to go with the post, but now I have and here I am. Since this is a review, I thought I might make something from Luisa's book but instead, I have made something that comforts me - the way the food in her book comforts her. These furikake twists are a riff on cheese twists but use furikake, or rice sprinkles, nori and cheese and by the awesome powers invested in puff pastry turn out to be just as delicious with what for me are the flavours of growing up.

This morning I woke up early-early, before the sun was up. Since it’s Monday, and we ate too much at the beach over the weekend, I was determined to walk to yoga, and start the week off right.

As I walked out the door, feeling a little jittery from lack of breakfast but knowing I’d regret having eaten porridge before a series of twists, a UPS man stopped me on the stairs and handed me a package. I knew it would be an advance copy of Luisa’s “My Berlin Kitchen,” which I’d been looking forward to reading since she announced she was writing a book. See more on sasasunakku

A Little Dithering, A Little Catch-Up and a Lot of Mozzarella Cheese

Sasa — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:43:45 +0000

Possums, hello! There’s something I want to talk about. I’ve been meaning and meaning to come here but I didn’t know quite what to say - it (whatever "it" is) is as yet unformed so I think I need to approach it sideways as one might a nervous cat, or like many things in peripheral vision it might disappear.

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Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag Lieber Florian

Sasa — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:03:07 +0000

December the 16th is, in my opinion, one of the most auspicious days of the year; without it, my life would be immeasurably poorer. The reason it’s such a happy day is because it’s the birthday of three (three!) of my favourite people. I know it’s not the done thing to choose favourites but let’s face it, we all do, right? And the favouritest of them all, is the one beginning with F. Also, the word “favourite” is beginning to look as if I spelt it wrong so I’ll stop using it now. Also, it would be weird if the month of December went straight from the 15th to the 17th, don’t you think?

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Halloumi and Making Friends and Influencing People

Sasa — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:21:48 +0000

Even though this weekend marks the end of my first semester back at school, what I really want to say is: I made cheese! Not once or twice! But thrice! Don’t mean to show off or anything (I’m showing off) but I made halloumi, mascarpone and there is a camembert maturing in the cupboard under the stairs as I type. Camembert!

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Warm Tunisian Orange and Almond cake and How I Got to Like Mums

Sasa — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:45:03 +0000

I really like mums. I didn’t always particularly though. When my friends and I were unruly teenagers skulking in parks after dark and knocking back gutrot that bore so little resemblance to actual vodka that it was labelled “vodka flavoured beverage” in basements, parents - our own and and others - were to be strictly avoided lest they... Actually I’m not sure exactly what, it was just the implied threat of having to have a conversation or something I guess.

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How to Become a Guinea Pig and Spinach Pesto, Quinoa and Gorgonzola Salad

Sasa — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:17:57 +0000

I’ve been feeling a bit like a guinea pig lately. Don’t worry, Peruvians have not been trying to eat me, it’s just that we’ve been doing a lot of experiments on ourselves at school. The most challenging has been one where we were divided into two groups and half of us were assigned to a diet high in saturated fat while the rest of us were on polyunsaturated fat. The other involved pricking my finger with a piece of metal repeatedly and bleeding on a bit of gauze but we won’t go into that because this is a family friendly blog we have here. See more on sasasunakku

A New Point of View

Sasa — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:30:58 +0000

Hello my lovelies, how I’ve missed you while I’ve been away! That was the longest time I’ve been away from Sasasunakku since I started, way back when, with Smitten’s bagels, and I’ve thought about you every day. See more on sasasunakku

The Funny Things You Miss and Strawberry Tiramisu

Sasa — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:58:34 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, my photos don’t seem to have said goodbye to my old kitchen yet. I’m sure a therapist could have a field day with that (and probably with me in general if I’m honest) but I insist it’s only because I still have pictures of stuff I cooked there to post.

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Japanese Food Onomatopoeia: Shuwa Shuwa and Tamarind Lemonade

Sasa — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:52:52 +0000

I'm home! It feels like a warm bath on a cold day to go eat Korean wild sesame steamboat with my friends and then call Peppermint Patty, an ice-cream parlour (and I do mean parlour) to ask them if they'll stay open just a few more minutes so we can come in and squeeze ten of us in a booth while we eat poisonously green and orange ice-creams, make rude jokes and laugh uproariously then watch Iain win a hideously ugly stuffed turkey for Anna in one of those pick -up-a-toy-with-a-claw machines. Even if it is cold. Even if I miss F.

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