For Kelvix and anyone else who wants to give this a go. A traditional Dutch biscuit:
( Speculaas Chunks - English )

By request after last night's party. This recipe is the child of a Dutch friend's super easy honey and date cake and the Edmonds Cookbook fruit muffins.

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No football today due to a typhoonToday was Can't Be Buggered to Cook Day, so I finally made good on my resolution to try out the Nigerian restaurant a few blocks over. At 7:30pm the place was completely empty and the woman behind the counter looked surprised to see a customer. I enquired after dinner ( Read more... )

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For the last couple of months, I've been having cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Don't ask me why I've started following Dutch custom now of all times, I think I had the vague idea I needed more dairy in my diet. However, strange to say, I've run into more than a few English people who think cheese is bad and unhealthy, it doesn't seem to have a ( Read more... )

Friday night - Met up with Thomas Zahr from afp and his family who were visiting from Cologne. Followed Gideon, who knows these things, to Drummond St near Euston station which has lots of good Indian restaurants. Hadn't had dosas (pancakey things) since following someone else to a fantastic hole-in-the-wall near Gare du Nord. It has definitely ( Read more... )

British rail service is about as reliable as this blog but I can't blame them for us not being able to get further than Paddington this afternoon. There was a fatality on the tracks so trains were cancelled and we couldn't make it to the birthday party we were going to. Boo ( Read more... )

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After the non-existent Germans Uwe and M had left, I noticed that a third can of wasabi peas (don't ask) had appeared on top of the two that they'd already given to me...

M had arrived on Friday struggling with a heavy suitcase and it was soon apparent why. They had brought Food. Apart from the wasabi peas, there were two bags of nut corners[1] ( Read more... )