This blog has been rather quiet recently, and I’m afraid it will continue to be quiet for the next couple of weeks – I am sitting a singing exam on September 9th, so currently all those waking hours which are…
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Recipe: Easy, Yet Awesome, Tangy Lime Guacamole
This barely qualifies as a recipe. It has two ingredients, other than seasonings, and the method could be summed up in a single sentence. Except, this is me, Catherine McWordy, writing this, so we all know that I will rabbit…
Slow cooker, pressure cooker, other cookers…?
Kitchenware Direct is trying to make me buy kitchen gadgets. It’s being quite blatant about it, actually. I’m immune to the allure of roasting tins – I have quite a nice one, thank you – and while I adore Le…
Not dead!
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Things I probably should not know about:
Picaken. A pie inside a cake. See, now I know that such abominations exist, it’s become absolutely imperative that I make one. I think we all know this is how it works. The only question is on what occasion. And…
Recipe Index Update
OK, I’ve just brought my Recipe Index up to date. I hope. Firefox crashed on me part-way through, but I think I found everything again. Note to self: update your recipe index more than once every four months or you…
Leftovers…
Remember that evil jelly from Pericles? And how I planned to have it with berries and cream and meringues for dessert when we had people to dinner the next day? Well, I did. And it was fabulous. Also, beautiful. I…
Recipe: Chocolate, Apricot and Rosemary Cupcakes
I woke up on Sunday morning with this recipe in my head – not, I am glad to say, being dictated by my subconscious in a dream, but more a natural progression of the fact that I hadn’t slept well…
Good Food Day
Quite a nice food day today. For one thing, my copy of Hermé’s Macarons arrived this morning, so I got to spend a significant portion of my day at work being an Evil Temptress and making people drool over both…
Don’t do what I have done…
Edible glitter is, admittedly, awesome. And it makes last-minute birthday cakes look fabulous with very little effort. But it isn’t cheap, and should not be wasted.