Archives for the ‘Savoury’ Category

80s mashup in Paris

By rkhooks • Jun 6th, 2010 • Category: Food, Food events, Going out, Paris, R khooked, Savoury, Sweets, culinary events, recipe

On the 3rd of June I held my first clandestine dinner in Paris. Never to be one to do just a ’simple’ dinner party I had make it more of a culinary event and decided upon doing something fun with the 80s and French food. The 80s are not one of the decades to be [...]



Beer smelling tamagotchi

By rkhooks • Apr 20th, 2010 • Category: Bread, Food events, Going out, Savoury, Workshops

Last week I started to dabble in with sourdough. I got a crash course in sourdough bread baking but was still a little dubious as my track record with looking after living things isn’t that great.  Maintaining a starter felt all too much like having to take care of a plant or a beer smelling [...]



Edible Immigration Tales

By rkhooks • Apr 1st, 2010 • Category: Biscuits, Bread, Dessert, Drinks, Food, Food events, Going out, Lately Khooked, Other, Savoury, culinary events

Once upon a time there were two Brit girls who met in Paris over muffin making at an adorable cookbook store. They soon found out that they had many things in common: a pâtisserie diplome from Le Cordon Bleu, the love for food and lots of fun.
They had many adventures in Paris and beyond. But [...]



Behind the scenes of Edible immigration tales

By rkhooks • Mar 27th, 2010 • Category: Bread, Dessert, Drinks, Fish, Food, Food blogs, Food events, Going out, Other, Savoury

The journey began with a Eurostar train from Paris to London followed by a 12 hour flight from Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur where I had to strip off all my winter layers (tights, jumpers, jacket, scarf, gloves, woolly socks…) as Malaysian heat is like being in an enormous Sauna. Enough time [...]



The one thing I had to eat

By rkhooks • Mar 26th, 2010 • Category: Food, Going out, Savoury

I had 24 hours in Kuala Lumpur before flying on to Sydney for the Edible immigration tales (more to come soon). And there was only thing on my mind in terms of eating when my cousins asked me what I fancied for makan (Malay to eat – over there you don’t ask people how they [...]