I should start by saying that I am not a great lover of Jamie Oliver. I bought one of his books in the sale to find out what the hype was all about (Jamie's Italy) and was generally unimpressed. There was really nothing there that inspired me and the things I did cook from the book were quite a bit of effort with a mere plain, but nice result ( Read more... )

There is no better feeling than waking up after a day where you have felt incredibly ill and have been fighting with an ever increasing temperature, and touch your forehead and it is nice and cool and realize that not only is your stomach nice and calm, but it is also demanding food ^_^ Go stomach! So, yes. Yesterday was horrible as my illness took ( Read more... )

So, I am leaving for my trip around Japan tomorrow and have discovered that my planning skills are made out of death doom and destruction. God knows what I was thinking when I put one trip only 4 days after the next. I still haven't recovered from my jet lag, have pretty much no food in the house and also (which is worse, considering I am leaving ( Read more... )

I love cooking for myself. I enjoy cooking in general, but I think cooking for myself is my all time favorite :-D I don't need to worry if people will like it or not, I don't need to panick if the sauce is a bit too liquid, I generically don't need to be bothered by anything, except if I will like it or not ^_^ and to make a long story short - I ( Read more... )

Got up early this morning to cook Garry's bento, which was actually very good fun. I just wish I had gotten up a little earlier, mainly because I spend most of this morning paranoid about not getting it done before Garry had to leave and cooking takes its time... Have to calculate about an hour for a bento I think, though I assume if I make it more ( Read more... )

Did plenty of cooking lately, which I enjoyed greatly. Pretty much all of my meals have turned out nicely too, which rather pleased me. I did as usual overestimate the amount of cooking I would do though and if I don't cook that fish tonight it will go off >:-( I hate it if I have to throw out food because it has gone off. Had to throw out quite a ( Read more... )