1 can butter beans, drained and mashed with a fork + a long looooong drizzle of olive oil + the juice of 1 very juicy lemon + salt + 1 mashed garlic clove + lots of paprika = THE MOST DELICIOUS THING. It is like hummus only without having to fork out for tahini! Which I approve of, because seriously, who ever uses all that tahini ( Read more... )

I don't even know, you guys. I am not usually one to experiment with bread products - baking is the one area where I will usually stick to a recipe - but we went to Wellington for the weekend (and got told by everyone we knew to MOVE BACK, ALREADY and nodded mournfully, for we miss it so) and bought delicious bagels for the home trip, as is our ( Read more... )

I think I define adulthood as the ability to eat muesli for breakfast, a chicken salad wrap for lunch, and then, for dinner, say "fuck it" and cook buttermilk pancakes with crispy bacon.

Really amazing bacon, too, I mean even raw it smelled delicious, I was almost sorry to drown it in a sea of maple syrup, but goddamn, I did. It looked like there ( Read more... )

Though it is not for cannibals. Or animals. Nor does it involve a Turkish bath. (Sorry.) But it's been a while since I posted anything food-related here - or anything else, for that matter - and this is like being punched in the face with FLAVOUR, so here you go ( Read more... )

It is two days since I turned 23 and I am feeling pretty good. My birthday on Sunday was great. The morning started with tiny pastries, proceeded to derby practice (so much less brutal than the first session! I hardly died at all!), made a pit-stop at home to cool off, shower and assemble lasagne, and then we all went and saw True Grit and came ( Read more... )

Many years ago, my favourite book was this red-bound hardback volume of Russian fairy tales. Not only were the stories totally awesome - Baba Yaga, flesh-eating horses, magic apples and so on - but the illustrations were these incredibly lush, full-page watercolours in this kind of art nouveau style. Anyway, the cover was disintegrating even when I ( Read more... )

Beowulf, with added watercolours:


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I just had two days in which I ate delicious food (yaaaay, Wellington On A Plate is on and I have some disposable income!), hung out with friends, and saw Scott Pilgrim, which rocked! And now I have a two-day backlog of the most negative-nelly parts of this meme. Ahh, such is life.

( Day 13 - A guilty pleasure )

The rain is sheeting down the windows and I don't know when my employers are going to pay me, but I have beef casserole and Master and Commander, so I am content.

Speaking of meaty goodness, it occurs to me that someone asked for my chocolate chili recipe freakin' ages ago, so I'm going to put it up here for all and sundry. This was originally an ( Read more... )

I really have been terrible about posting, haven't I? I think it's because I end up feeling guilty spending a significant amount of time writing anything that isn't course-related, but since I also bear the title of Master Procrastinator I end up writing NOTHING AT ALL. Similarly, I got stuck trying to figure out a different, better style for the ( Read more... )