{"id":105,"date":"2008-03-01T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2008-11-05T18:06:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:06:52","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t so much a blog as my repository of recipes. I&#8217;ve created it using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\" title=\"Wordpress software\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> blogging software to utilize its built-in search and category facilities, which seem particularly useful when cataloguing recipes. Of course, now that it <strong>is<\/strong> a blog, comments are also possible and any constructive interactions are welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>I use this as something of a notebook and a recipe may be documented here for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bulleted\">\n<li>it may be one of my favourites;<\/li>\n<li>I may regard it as a classic;<\/li>\n<li>I may find it particularly evocative of a country&#8217;s cuisine;<\/li>\n<li>it may be as yet untested but something I&#8217;d like to try (it will be marked as such);<\/li>\n<li>I may simply find it interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting these recipes for some time so there is a variety of measurements used: you&#8217;ll find good ol&#8217; imperial, metric, and occasionally, even, those American cup-measure thingies. They are not mixed within one given recipe, though. (Fortunately, my good friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easton-and-potomac.com\" title=\"Keith's web site\" target=\"_blank\">Keith<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~mscruise\/mscruise.html\" title=\"Marlene's web site\" target=\"_blank\">Marlene<\/a> Stillman provided me with a very pleasing set of stainless steel American measures.) For the same reason, oven temperatures are likely to be found variously in Fahrenheit (\u00b0F), Centigrade (\u00b0C) and gas marks, though I have been trying to specify all. I&#8217;ve included a handy-dandy page of basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?page_id=107\">Conversion Tables<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to save constant repetition (even though it may be good for the soul), there is a page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?page_id=144\">notes common to all my ingredient lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started by slotting the recipes into pretty traditionally categories (in the sidebar) such as: starters, main-meat, main-fish, desserts etc.<\/p>\n<p>For an extra dimension, I&#8217;ve tagged each recipe with a country of origin to make a kind of international index. This is at times a somewhat arbitrary categorization as cooking styles get blended in so-called <em>fusion cuisine<\/em>. However, I&#8217;ve tried to represent the spirit or intention of the recipes. If I&#8217;m hopelessly confused by a recipe, then, as a last resort I&#8217;ve called it &#8220;eclectic&#8221;. These international categorizations are displayed as a so-called <em>Tag Cloud<\/em> (whereby the font size varies by number of entries) in the sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re looking for something different or interesting to play with in your kitchen, dive into the sidebar and explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t so much a blog as my repository of recipes. I&#8217;ve created it using the WordPress blogging software to utilize its built-in search and category facilities, which seem particularly useful when cataloguing recipes. 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