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Watermelon Rind Jam (I’m totally serious here)

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:00:33 +0000

Someone once left a karaoke microphone behind at our place (if I were to hazard a guess when it was probably one of our theme nights) but since it doesn’t connect to anything I use it to annoy Mr NQN by pretending to interview him and sing to him. I think he has hearing like [...]

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Banana Jam

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:00:43 +0000

Enough about me and my childhood for a moment which seems boring in comparison to what I’m about to tell you. I should probably tell you more about Mr NQN’s formative years as they make him the mysterious man he is today. As part of a hippie family, Mr NQN and his family lived in [...]

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The Tuna Salad Dip That Took Six Years

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:00:54 +0000

Dearest Reader, did you know that I spent the first six years of my life upside down? Every day when my father would come home from work he would find me, upside down, my head buried in the soft cushion of the couch. Every night, when we would gather in the lounge room to watch [...]

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Three Day Strawberry Jam

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:00:10 +0000

“You’ve got a great talent” Mr NQN said to me one evening. I smiled, I wondered what he was going to say. Cooking? Singing (ok perhaps not)? “You have a talent for getting in my way whenever I’m trying to do things” he said giving me a look. Hmmm… well that wasn’t the sort of [...]

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Made From Scratch: Make Your Own Butter!

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:57 +0000

My friends and I were talking one day at an article that recently appeared on The Smoking Gun about singer Katy Perry’s rider. A rider for those that don’t know, is a list that someone puts together of a celebrity’s must haves. In Katy Perry’s rider she had: Finncrisp, fresh cut crudites, organic fruit, pinot [...]

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Bacon Pâté aka Bacon Jam’s Sister

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:00:34 +0000

Despite all preconceived gender stereotypes, and despite the fact that I love weddings and the colour pink, I have to admit that I’m not the most romantic person. Take this year for Valentines Day, I wrote all of you Dear Readers a post on Valentine’s Day and how we never really did anything special for it. It [...]

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Finger Lime Caviar Butter

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:00:26 +0000

I consider myself a bit of a feeder and a sharer as opposed to just an eater. If I like something I’ll morph into a Mama that adopts an accent and tells people “You gotta try this. Eat! You’re wasting away!” (I do a great NY accent borne from watching every episode of Seinfeld several [...]

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Bacon Jam – Your Wildest Dreams Come True!

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:00:49 +0000

I first heard about this rather bizarre concept from the blogger Morta Di Fame (meaning literally dying to eat, a concept I can wholly understand). She linked to a recipe for Bacon Jam which was originally a product that a company called Skillet Foods makes and sends around the United States. Knowing that I’d have [...]

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Mandarin Curd – The Best Thing about Winter

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:00:13 +0000

I’m not too fond of the fruit in season during Winter. Give me tropical fruit and the luscious range available during Summer any day. The only exceptions to this Anti-Winter fruit rule are the Quince, Pear and Mandarin. In fact I prefer mandarins vastly to orange as they have a more floral perfumey scent than [...]

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Vanilla & Cherry Jam

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:00:14 +0000

I have a long history with Cherry Jam. A long and sordid one if I am to be truthful. I probably shouldn’t tell you this in case you turn away in disgust but I have been known to eat it by the spoonful. And I suspect trying to qualify it by saying it’s a teaspoon [...]

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