Books are marvelous things. You read them once, you read them again, and if they're really good again and again and again, always knowing deep down that what you really want to do is grow mushrooms in them...


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Turn your back for 5 minutes and it suddenly becomes fashionable to turn your feet into sandwiches, all thanks to these


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Something else to add to the list of essential modern kitchen items: racing track cookie cutters.


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I've never really been sure what to do with 1 cup of coffee, let alone 3,604 of them.

This seems a good solution though:


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I've always been quite uncomfortable with the issue of breeding animals entirely for our own consumption (whether as food or consumables). It seems somewhat wrong to give an animal a life entirely so we can take it away again ( Read more... )

It's amazing how big fads can get. The latest fad diet in Japan has apparently increased demand for bananas by around 25-27%, according to inventorfeedThe general principle behind the morning banana diet, is unsurprisingly, that breakfast basically consists entirely of bananas and water ( Read more... )

The other thing Forest Hill had yesterday was a charity shop...

:-)

The general upshot of which is that I now have a ice-cream maker :-)

Just in time for the summer!

No instructions though, but presumably it'll just be a case of making it cold in the freezer, popping the ingredients in and stirring.

Will have to experiment next weekend

One of the great things about parties is they are an excellent excuse to bake cakes.

Having had some beetroot in this week's vegbox, I thought I'd make another beetroot and chocolate cake, but in searching for the recipe I found this instead:

Beetroot & Banana cake

• 450g self-raising white flour
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As the last 3 posts seem to have been semi-serious, have something a little more light hearted:

richardwiseman has some inventive ways to pay games with Battenburg

I particularly like the snakes and ladders

Swine flu may have left the headlines, but this sounds like it could be the next big problem:

Man Diagnosed With Indifference to Marmite

(via newsbiscuit)