Because it’s autumn here and this was just the thing for a lovely, sunny, bright and breezy day 🙂 Ingredients (per person) A large double handful of baby spinach leaves, torn 1 beurre bosc pear (or one with similar soft texture), cubed 50g of soft feta (more or less), crumbled 1T pecans, roughly crushed 1T […]
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Why yes, yes I am still alive. Maybe. Probably. *checks for rotting limbs that may indicate zombieism* Nope, all clear. I am definitely, absolutely, 100% alive. Later in the week, I might even post pictures of my trip to Laos with school. See be have Plans to be Organised. Randomly, I found this article
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Family friend’s 18th party on Sunday, and it was the family team at work in all our usual roles: Mum on food, Jess on decorations, me on cake, and Em on stand-by/gofer/jack-of-all. Friend wanted a picnic in the park–less clean up, good choice!–and the weather held out, which is not usual for this time of
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Also, in other (much more exciting) news, I am now making sugar-free chocolate by the block, and you can have some, if you’d like. Check it out at http://cobbettandpaws.wordpress.com 🙂 In fact, because I am excited about my chocolate, how about I offer you a block? Comment below with your name and some way to
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**Random sidetrack while I am writing today’s real post** (for which I am WELL KNOWN in the classroom, especially ask my year 8 extension class this year :D) Harry Potter 4 is on in the background and the ads just came on. KFC have a new product out, I can’t find the name of it,
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My best friend in high school introduced me to this, and I haven’t made it in yeeeeears. But, I have lovely fresh sweet potatoes grown only a couple of hours away from here waiting to be used, and a bazillion and one eggs (otherwise known as 43 o.O) in the fridge because both Boyo and
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The bread experiment: full points for flavour, half points for texture. Crust was perfect, inside edible while hot but gooey and gluggy after cooling. But the shoggoth is starting to bubble away, so with luck *fingers crossed* that will prove better. 🙂 Read more:#MadeItMonday: Yet More Cake (Wedding Cake This Time)Made-It Monday: Gingerbread House!Made-It Monday:
Husband has decided he wants a shoggoth – not quite the Lovecraftian version, but the edible version, which is actually fairly close 😛 Anyway, that is what the Sparkly One calls it, and I have adopted the name. So, I am researching shoggoth-making, and we have our first little experiment sitting in a jar on
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