It hasn't escaped my attention that I've been writing online a lot less recently. Short-form communication is nice for instantly showing people things, but if anyone goes back through social media after we're all dead, Twitter is not going to be something that even gets looked at. They'd have collapsed from boredom before getting through the first ( Read more... )

We made bread!


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I had an appalling dream in which Jeremy Clarkson was now the co-presenter of Newsnight with Pax-Man (both coincidentally shown here in this classic video), and that they were interviewing Piers Morgan. Even in the dream I commented that the mass of concentrated ego was likely to make the room explode, but in real life, I think I'd quite like to ( Read more... )

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If you'll allow me to redeem myself for a moment, I also made these last weekend, with the use of just seven fingers. And Whitney.


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I made something new last weekend!


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Knowing my usual escapades in the kitchen by now you would probably be surprised that I was ever allowed anywhere near that end of the flat, but I have one skill there that isn't genetically suppressed (or washing up) - somehow, I do have a baking ability. I made some very nice scones for a brunch gathering the other week.


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I've been inundated with requests for the recipe to the Squared Cake. Actually that's a blatant lie, I haven't received a single one, but I thought that writing it up would be a good way to keep on revelling in my bakery-inspired bigheadedness for a while. Besides, I think that having some sort of easily available recipe library (now two in total) ( Read more... )

Since the mention of sticky toffee pudding in my last entry, I've had requests for the recipe from mercuryanna and adararose_2, who both had the opportunity to try the AMH version of it while in Scotland. I'll put the recipe I use up here - this attempt came out of a second year H.E. class, and is the only thing I remember from it ( Read more... )