It's July again and that means Cookyn with Mervyn is turning 1! Woohoo, can't imagine how far we have come in 1 year, quite amazing stuff, and we look back in wonder.

One of the joys that we have is meeting likeminded food lovers and becoming friends with them. Seeing them come back and enjoying themselves is such a happy thing for us. I am always ( Read more... )

We headed down to Ikea today and yaay we got our first fresh Christmas tree for the studio! I've never ever had a fresh one, so I was pretty excited and took a nice big sniff of the fresh pine smell, what a happy smell!! :) We're looking forward to dressing it up with some cinnamon stick bundles and hopefully other food items that will last the ( Read more... )

Anyone keen to make pasta? We had 2 last minute pull outs for the 4pm class so in case anyone is interested, just email me - amanda@cookyn-with-mervyn.com! :)


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We finally managed to catch Julie and Julia. It was a lovely show to me! All about food and cooking and blogging! Perfect ( Read more... )

We've been busy preparing for the Spanish sessions. Our lovely friend John helped us to snap some pics as Merv busied away in the kitchen. Love the shots, so pretty!! Especially love this picture of Merv with the live crab that we bought from the wet market.


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Woo! Our new bookyn engine is up! Yaaay.

Would you pls give me any comments you might have on the system? Can leave a msg here or email me at amanda@cookyn-with-mervyn.com! Appreciate any feedback you might have!! :)

One of the things I wanted to change in my life was to start blogging again. This journal has been such a part of my life but lately I have neglected it completely and I've missed it! So I want to make time to blog again, maybe not as regularly as previously but at least not 2 weeks once ( Read more... )

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Is it possible to feel meat-ed out? After 2 weekends of Meat parties, I'm officially meat-ed out. Not that I ate a lot during the parties, but that's just quite a lot of meat we handled in the past 2 weeks!

These parties are funny things. We get stressed out in the week with preparations, testing recipes and getting everything sorted out and in ( Read more... )