Due to a shopping mishap yesterday, this house contains a lot of (what I believe to be) oriental garlic. It tastes a lot like wild garlic. Beyond the sorts of things mentioned in Wikipedia's usage notes, does anyone have any particularly good recommendations for uses thereof?

I was making pavlova bases last night (in a massive rush, about 10:30pm, because my day didn't go at all to plan ( Read more... )

Hmm. This morning, I very probably shouldn't have gone to work. However, Monday's forecast snow was a non-event, the weather didn't look that bad, and I'd promised to deliver something to the office for one of my colleagues. So off I went ( Read more... )

As a special seasonal thing, M&S are selling turkey, cranberry and stuffing-flavoured crisps. I tried them in November or so. They're fine. They taste like generic savoury-flavoured crisps ( Read more... )

Note to self:

3 + 8 << 2

is not the same as

3 + (8 << 2)

That's an hour you just spent tracking down a bug based on a mistake you've made several times before.

Yes, I know, brackets. Normally I'm assiduous about brackets. But for short lines like, say,

3 + 8*2I actually think they detract from readability ( Read more... )

I'm quite a fan of Promod for online clothes shopping (although, like most clothing retailers, they sell some ghastly stuff as well).

Today in Promod's 'Romantic Boutique' section I learned that their delicate colours "will sublime my skin".

Ow!