While Hotel Chocolat chocolate flakes don't actually make very good hot chocolate - the little buggers just don't dissolve, they are bloody marvellous on porridge. Just having my second bowl of chocolate porridge for breakfast - porridge oats in bowl, add lots of skimmed milk, tablespoon of chocolate, microwave for 2 minutes ( Read more... )

You're probably grateful I haven't been clogging my flist with daily updates of my plant consumption, but here's a few notes on the last week ( Read more... )

The NHS's 'Five a Day' slogan, exhorting everyone to eat at least 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, is one of the most successful in history (certainly for recognition, and also for behavioural change, if more successful with fruit than veg). The number five was chosen rather arbitrarily, as the original aim for 10 portions sounded too scary and ( Read more... )

While I was pregnant, I could digest fat again. Sadly that ability has now vanished. So this Kumquat needs a low-fat diet ( Read more... )

The Very Good Taste Omnivore’s Hundred:
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Either this weekend or next, I want to see the Deep Sea Fish in 3D at the IMAX in Waterloo - these are the only 4 days they are on on a weekend afternoon ( Read more... )

On Monday I found out about the Democrat primary for expats being held yesterday. However I forgot to take my passport to work, so gave up on that to devote my evening to making pancakes instead ( Read more... )

I want sushi this weekend. Good sushi, not the kind of stuff that you get in supermarkets (which to be fair can be OK if you let it de-refrigerate first ( Read more... )

Now *that* was a damn fine Christmas, and what I want to do again in future.

I cooked dinner (melon with port or ginger, followed by turkey, 3 types of stuffing, chipolatas in bacon, roasties in goosefat, parsnips, carrots, beans, washed down with champagne/red wine/Bramley apple juice), for the appreciative audience of surrealtigrezz, some_fox and postmodern_minx, with the filthiest ( Read more... )

Happy 4th of July to all the Americans on my flist ( Read more... )