One of my favourite fellow Bay Area Sewists, the lovely Rebecca, challenged me to a microbe-making summer quest, inspired by this post. You can buy those patterns from Etsy, but I wanted to explore making some more in the same vein as my beautiful E. coli. For my first one, I decided to pick a […]
This was a labour of love. One of my best friends from the UK was getting married, and I wanted to make them something as a wedding gift. I had a little something in mind, but it was a project that I knew was going to take a long time, so I was initially kinda […]
I have a fairly large, and getting bigger, collection of books dedicated to natural and vegetarian cooking. Before selecting this book, I did a bit of research into what it would add to my library: Sarah Britton is the lady behind My New Roots, a blog, recipe site, and now book dedicated to what she calls “all-inclusive” […]
A few months ago my friend and I had a our first play with the beta version of IBM’s Chef Watson. However, at that stage….. it was mostly a case of “Go home Watson… You’re drunk”, after the recipes told us to “de-bone” the tofu, or take something and cook it in 2/3 “Theutes”….. Yep. We […]
You know how it is. You think to yourself “yep, I must do that later” and then the thought completely vanishes from your mind. Yup. I got a new car (first and probably only time I will ever have a brand new car in my life!) at the end of last year, and since then […]
A few weeks ago we went to Florida with some friends. On our last day we had run out of regular bread, so had to eat some of my friend’s Gluten Free bread. I now feel the pain of Gluten Free bread. It is a tragic thing. So for my next book to review I […]
Hello. I am a teetotal drug-free Vegetarian. Mr M is teetotal, mostly vegetarian (due to lack of any meat in our apartment), and mostly drug-free. His only drug is caffeine, and he indulges in a caffeinated cup of coffee once a day in the mornings, but has now switched to decaffeinated coffee for the most […]
As a Microbiologist, I am a big fan of growing stuff. I am not green fingered, I will kill any plants that you might place in my care. I also don’t drink, so making my own beer or wine holds no allure. But I did keep going my own sourdough starter for many years, nourishing […]
May was such a crazy month! We took a trip back home to the UK for a week at the beginning for one of my best friend’s weddings, then crazy busy work with drama drama drama all over the place… then another week off for a surprise (to me) trip to Florida to (among other […]
Until I moved to the US, most of my exposure to Swedish food came from IKEA, much like I imagine it does for most people. But our relocation agent that helped us find a place to live and do battle with Social Security and the DMV is Swedish, and invited us round to her house […]
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