So, we had a bank holiday. Yes, I know it's a while back.

I experimented with ( hairstyles and gluten-free brownies )

( The Problem of Coffee or, I Make Better Tea Than You Do )

Well, as some of you may recall my task last weekend was to work out how to make beer cake. Cake which tasted like, and contained, beer.

Preliminary results from the beery-cake investigation board are now in.

( The report is quite long. It does contain pictures of cake. )

Lots of people have been doing a 25-days-of-Christmas thing, answering a different question each day, and I've been enjoying reading their answers. I haven't been doing it myself, because I've already banged on endlessly about Christmas ( Read more... )

Anyone who communicates in any way with snow-leopard may have noticed that, in recent months, she's gone a bit evangelical ( Read more... )

Every so often you hear of an odd combination of ingredients someone is cooking, and think "no, really?". Oh yes, they assure you, really. Sometimes, of course, you think "no, just no" (a colleague of mine recently recommended chicken-breast stuffed with nutella. Eww. I mean, he likes it, go him. But I don't think I'll be trying it ( Read more... )

Today's foolish experiment ( Read more... )