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Combined with my need to eat healthily and carefully count calories (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/fit-at-40\">I still have another 5kg to lose before the end of March<\/a>) I&#8217;m currently taking on most of the responsibility for our meals, spending a good chunk of the last two weekends in the kitchen, with a good share of my culinary creations heading towards the freezer for use as ready meals.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no Masterchef contender, but my food generally seems to go down well, and it&#8217;s good to try something different from time to time. Last weekend, I was creating a Spanish-inspired meal for friends and I decided to make Crema Catalana for desert. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spanishfood.about.com\/od\/dessertssweets\/ss\/cremacatalana.htm\">The recipe I followed<\/a> is pretty simple but I found myself thrown by two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Cups&#8221; of ingredients (give me grammes, or even pounds and ounces).<\/li>\n<li>Strange terms like cornstarch (could that be cornflour?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I finally found a use for a kitchen computer as, with a little help from my smartphone, I had determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/How_many_grams_are_in_a_cup\">quantity in a &#8220;cup&#8221; depends on the product<\/a>. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/howto\/cup-to-gram-conversions\/\">a handy reference at AllRecipes.com<\/a>. So that was number 1 sorted. As for 2., well, yes &#8220;cornstarch&#8221; is what we, in England, call &#8220;cornflour&#8221; and there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_English_food_terms\">a useful Wikipedia entry on &#8220;International English&#8221; food terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[English is the language spoken by (most) people in England and adopted by many other nations. Some of the variations even make sense (color instead of colour, for example) but I speak, read and write <em>English<\/em> &#8211; and find the term &#8220;International English&#8221; to be nonsensical.\u00a0There is English, and there is American, Australian, etc. I know that languages constantly evolve, but&#8230; OK, I&#8217;ll come down off my soapbox now.]<\/p>\n<p>My time in the kitchen is not normally a topic for this blog but I thought these references might be useful for others. 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