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Another of the recipes in Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide is for Jaffa Cakes. I knew about them beforehand, having read the Tomb Raider series from Dark Horse Comics that was set between Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise of the Tomb Raider, and introduced more of Lara
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One of the most relevant dishes out of Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide is Beans on Toast. As a British staple, it was mentioned in Lara Croft’s original biography from 1996 as her favorite food. The irony is, it’s actually a reverse export from America.
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Onto my next batch of recipes! Back in 2021, Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide was published. As a massive Tomb Raider fan and foodie, I was intrigued, so I preordered it along with the official Alien cookbook (which I'll cook through one day), and both
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When I was doing research for the prior blog posts on the recipes from Lessons in Chemistry, I came upon an extra recipe that wasn’t shared on the site: Crown Roast of Lamb. This is a visually striking dish made as part of a montage of meals made on
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We come to the end of the Apple TV+ provided recipes from Lessons in Chemistry: Bananas Foster Flambé. This was perhaps the most dangerous recipe from the show, since it involves igniting alcohol and violent flames. According to an interview with Courtney McBroom, it is the show’s homage to
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There is nothing better than a roast chicken. When you sink your teeth into that crispy skin, when the flavorful juices flood your mouth, there is no greater feeling in the world. Of course, it can be tricky to do if you’re inexperienced, and ovens are temperamental, some cooking
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In this post, we come to the final pie made on Lessons in Chemistry, using the A-PIE-ogenesis crust: Chicken Pot Pie. It appears toward the end of episode 4, when Elizabeth Zott is on a tear after discovering one of her daughter’s classmates has been stealing her
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Chocolate and peanut butter are one of my food combo weaknesses. I’m not saying I’ve eaten Nutella and peanut butter mixed together on toast, or right out of the jar, after midnight… and I’m not saying I haven’t. These brownies from Lessons in Chemistry have both
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When I began to cook through of the recipes from Lessons in Chemistry, I knew that the one recipe that would be the most complicated to do was Oysters Zott. This is Elizabeth Zott’s take on Oysters Rockefeller, which are fresh oysters on the half-shell that are topped
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Following on from my previous post about the blackberry pie from Lessons in Chemistry, this post discusses making The Garden Galette from the same show. Of the three pies, it has the smallest role, but it’s still impressive and attractive. I made it as the second dish from Chemistry.
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My first post in this series focused on the lasagna in Lessons in Chemistry. Actually, that was the fifth recipe I’d made from the show. I began my cook-through first by making the pie crust from Chemistry, cleverly called “A-PIE-ogenesis”, then used it in three of
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In the summer of 2024, while considering ideas for the scope and content of this blog, I watched the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry with a close friend. The eight episode miniseries is based on a novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus. It tells the story of