Category Archives: Eating In

There is no doubting it, blue is the new black. If you haven’t seen Avatar, well firstly, where have you been?! And secondly, and don’t lie now, but how many of us would trade in our pasty skins for the luminescent glow of the blue Navi’an skin tone, and with that a connection with our … Read More →

So. I’m still in Hong Kong as we speak and I hear all flights too and from the UK has been cancelled for today (Monday 19 April). We’re due to fly out tomorrow night but secretly (ok, not so secretly) I wouldn’t mind if our flight was cancelled also I’ve been berry berry quiet on … Read More →

Sometimes I don’t have time to cook. Sometimes I don’t really have time to eat. And sometimes, although I’m sure that this happens least out of the three, I’m just not hungry enough to eat. When that happens, the universe implodes just a little bit. So to save the world from apocalyptic disaster, even if … Read More →

I made these ages ago. Ages ago! My A.D.D. dictates that I never have any blog posts “in the pipeline”. This isn’t because I’m some sort of nerd (although really, I am the nerdiest nerd of them all) or I’m kiasu and I don’t wanna lose this pretend game I have in my head. It’s … Read More →

So. Last Friday night, as I was eating a large bowl of sweet potato mash for dinner (I know, I know, my diet is not so well balanced but geez it was delicious), I tweeted something about loving sweet potatoes so much I’d even eat them for dessert… Not ever letting anything this interesting pass … Read More →

So it’s 23 sleeps til Panu and I go to Hong Kong, but um, no one’s really counting are they? I mean I’m not mildly OCD and in desperate need for a vacation am I?? I am. Indeed I am, and shut up to all of you who say I travel too much. This trip … Read More →

My matcha craze is in full swing. Not only have I made my matcha whoopie pie, I’ve got the matcha rice krispies and matcha ice cream, the ugly (and I need to change the recipe and re-bake) matcha cupcakes and even the matcha butter cookies which died a horrible death and turned into lemon cupcakes … Read More →

* caveat: there is no recipe for meatballs in this post. I uh, bought mine from Tesco. There is a recipe for beetroot salad though! So. In case you don’t follow me on twitter, you might have missed the case of my Recent Obsessive Compulsive Infatuation with meatballs last week. I woke up Tuesday thinking … Read More →

Hi everyone. Before I start this post, I just want to say one thing: How awesome is the photo of my lemon truffle, nestled amongst the mini speckled eggs? Because it’s now my favourite of all the photos I’ve taken and you, you should definitely love it also. Kapish? Kapish. Ok. Now that I’ve gotten … Read More →

Is it a big macaron? Is it a little green burger? No! It’s a Giant Mofo Matcha Whoopie Pie! *applause* *pause* um…. what is a whoopie pie? Well, I didn’t know either until last week when Google explained it to me. Not to be confused with a whoopie cushion, a whoopie pie was basically two … Read More →

My baking effort last week wasn’t meant to be cupcakes. I was supposed to bake butter cookies, but as life would have it, I was handed some lemons. Last Saturday saw me up bright and early, ready to hit the oven and churn out 50, yes 50, butter cookies. I mean, I am known for … Read More →

Do you think I blog too much about matcha? No, really. Really? Ok you know what, maybe I do, but this is my blawg, and sometimes I get a little obsessive compulsive from time to time, but that usually passes when the next OMG-delicious-cool thing comes along. Except I don’t think that’s gonna happen to matcha. … Read More →

So, this being my first “proper” post for the year, I had wanted to come up with something really clever, something witty, something that would make y’all wanna read my blog five times a day for the rest of this nice long year. But I didn’t come up with anything. I poked around in my … Read More →

Once upon a time, I turned thirty years old. I threw a party, put on a dress and revelled in the fact that thirty, it really is the new twenty-one. I mean, my spritely youthfulness, doesn’t it just eminate from this blog? All that life! love! colour! BAH. What am I talking about. I spotted three grey hairs the other morning and … Read More →

I have a confession to make. I eat condensed milk. Like, I mean I eat it straight out of the tin. By the tablespoon full and it is the most undulatingly sinful indulgence I have ever experienced. But a few years ago, it dawned on me that eating condensed milk tablespoons at a time… in fact … Read More →

Christmas ~ a time for celebrating the birth of Christ, a time to gather with family, a time to share the wonders of a white Christmas or for those in the Southern Hemisphere, the wonders of shrimp on a barbie. But for me, too far from home and having no such religious inclination (I’m busy … Read More →

I didn’t just want to be a chocolate brownie. I didn’t want to be plain. I didn’t want to be ordinary. I wanted to be Optimus Prime. The biggest, baddest goodest, most awesomeness Transformer ever. You can’t be plain and be Optimus Prime. So I wasn’t just chocolate. I was nutty. And I was chocolate … Read More →

You know how sometimes, after you’ve been with someone for a while, you kind of stop expecting any surprises. And I don’t mean like oh hey here’s a no-reason gift kind of surprise ~ those are definitely still welcome, although maybe you do stop expecting those eventually too. What I mean is, you think you know … Read More →