We took a long weekend to Switzerland to stay with our friends for a bit of skiing. While there I was browsing through one of their recipe books. Also while there, I took a tumble on the first day, skidded on my face (with my poor chin bearing the brunt of it), and ended up […]
So last time I posted, the training cross stitch looked like this: ….because, I had ran out of thread in order to finish it! £3.48 and a little bit of time later…. …and I had finished the stitching, and dissolved the soluble canvas… (icky stuff, but probably less fiddly than waste canvas?) Then cut out […]
When you’ve had a long day, and are super tired having been called out to work in the middle of the night, you really need something quick, simple, easy, and tasty. And to be able to cheat massively while making it. This was inspired by some smoked tofu I spotted while shopping on Saturday: ..and […]
One of my/ our Christmas presents this year was this: Oh yes, a book of super cool geek chic craft projects. I had debated making an iPod case for mine…. But put it off, then left it on a plane on the way to Seattle. Sad times. Goodbye Blackie. Thankfully our travel insurance covered most […]
Tahini. That most common of all cake ingredients. I first heard about Marian Keyes’ Recipe book when I read about it in the Metro. It also reprinted this recipe, and I took a picture of it with my phone… but only realised later that it hadn’t come out well enough to read ……and by then […]
Welsh cakes were a request this morning from my dear darling husband. I had never made them before, but he had had some at Coffee #1 a couple of weeks ago and I think he was having flashback cravings. I went to the dear old BBC Good Food website, and there we go, looked fairly […]
As Sheldon once did with Penny in the Big Bang Theory using chocolate, perhaps this is a similar thing. My lovely husband picked me up at 01:30 this morning, so I decided to make breakfast in bed. When we were in the US earlier this year, we had breakfast at this amazing place in San […]
Time for another bit of fancy dress… This time the theme was Roman…. Togas… Goddesses… And warriors with Mohawk helmets. Clearly…. I wanted a Mohawk helmet. The pattern I used was… McCall’s 2060, making view F: The pattern involved 18 pieces, covering the simple, a cape with drawstring closure, to the complex, the Mohawk helmet […]
Before going away recently, I made a Bakewell tart, had some leftover pastry…. and no time to do anything with it. What to do? Well.. I did what I tend to do with leftovers. Stick them in the freezer and forget about them! 😉 But things can only live in the freezer for so long… […]
One of my favourite shops to peruse for kitchen tat/ gadgets that I simply must have is Lakeland. On a visit to York, I excitedly wandered about admiring all and came out with (amongst other things) this: I have seen rolls, and cakes baked in actual terracotta flowerpots before, but this seemed much easier. I […]
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