What do I see each morning when I open the shades on my kitchen window? ( Read more... )

Coles Brand has a surprisingly near-beige fresh chicken soup which I enjoy. Today I felt all creative and decided to stretch it out with a few veges and Things. Sadly a few more of my possessions were harmed in the making of this foodstuff.

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I made a cake today. In modern parlance it was The Cake Of Death, or it would have been if I'd added peanuts at some stage.

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I've been taunted by TV ads for hamburgers of late. We habitually mute the sound on ads, but there's nowhere to hide from pictures of yummy food held up with sticks and sprayed with glycerine. Mmmm. Styled. Unfortunately, just about everything about a proper hamburger is extremely non-beige, so I set about considering a suitable replacement.

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Proper pizza uses the following ingredients: tomato, cheese, processed meats, mushrooms, olives, onion, capsicum, anchovies, herbs etc etc. Every single one of them big bad No items for beige. Eating pizza (specifically the Works from Greenwood Pizza) is one of my greatest acts of defiance. I know it's theoretically possible and indeed traditional ( Read more... )

Combine brown rice, mashed potato, spring onions, butter and salt into a tasty and beige-friendly sludge. ( Read more... )

1. Combine puff pastry, sugar, butter, and maple syrup.
2. Apply heat.
3. Wait :-(
4. Eat :-)

Vermicelli rice noodles heated and drained, tossed with fetta cheese.

It's easy to find new and exciting ways to break the beige diet. Earlier this week I snapped and ate... a whole raw carrot. The very next day ( Read more... )

About 150 pages to go on the 5th and final book of Eddings' 5 part trilogy The Belgariad, and I am definitely into the swing of it now. Still not great writing, but easily digestible and commercially-friendly, and that's no mean feat. I can see the appeal, but it's taken a while to reprogram my brain to appreciate it. Or maybe the pending Twilight ( Read more... )