so everytime i update this thing these days i seem to be apologizing for silence of some kind. what with a busy week, plus the election, plus the usual academic, financial and psychological worries i can't honestly say there's been much i've said that hasn't been similar to the ramblings of a madwoman ( Read more... )

so again i've been flitting around in my tiny, cramped kitchen making veg-based meals, this time just for krista and myself (no one else partook so we polished off the leftovers today). nothing particularly remarkable, just a soup from one of my new covent garden soup books (the first one, simply called book of soups). sweet potato has to be one of ( Read more... )

so basically am back in a cooking groove. i think it's the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes. i'm terrible though, i only ever really repeat recipes if they're easily memorized or i'm feeling totally uninspired. unless of course i'm cooking for other people. in an odd way i sympathize with mothers who get frustrated cooking the same thing ( Read more... )

so basically i've been tinkering about in the kitchen again today. since it's the easter holidays and my days don't really have any offical structure to them, cooking and faffing about in the kitchen is increasingly becoming the only way i keep myself getting too bored. and luckily because of my house's strange communal haphazard dynamic there's ( Read more... )

ok so this is a recipe i got from (don't laugh) the guardian's 'cooking for kids' pamphet, from like, a year ago. it is actually full of a lot of cheap and filling recipes (i've made the chorizo chicken from it before to great success) and i tend to turn to it when i'm feeling mega-poor and in need of back-to-basics cooking to settle my mind ( Read more... )

so this is a recipe from my beloved bible, the new covent garden soup for all seasons book. it's actually in the winter section, under november, but i bought one of those tesco seasonal root vegetable packs and it turned out to be mostly carrots, and since i've made this before, i decided that despite there being three other carrot soup recipes in ( Read more... )

so i finally got my timetable. american poetry after modernism and representing the great depression. not my ideals, but i guess i'll work with what i have, and at least they're somewhat intellectually coherent. my masters at this rate is gonna have some fairly wide-ranging term papers. i was wondering actually if i set up a filter on here if ( Read more... )

oh man, my body is aching this morning. from all the lifting i did this week presumably. i do feel like i got rather a lot done, mind. i've been properly cooking again, and this week tried a new recipe to use up some sprouts in the fridge; obviously it's going to be divisive cos people either love or hate sprouts, but it's a sophie grigson that you ( Read more... )

so, yeah, again i'm just recipe posting. it's got a lot to do with the fact i'm just trying to get myself through the day to day at the moment. i can't let myself dwell too heavily on the fact that i'll be graduating soon and a hell of a lot of stuff is hinging on my dissertation, which i still don't think is very good, and i don't know, i seem to ( Read more... )

so, yet another recipe. because yet again i seem to have spent the predominant amount of my time in my room, working on the dissertation that just won't quit. or trying to and getting distracted by masters applications, nagging emails from grandparents, other people's emotional debris, that kind of thing. this week is my last counselling session ( Read more... )