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What buns in the oven really mean

By E | Posted on: April 11, 2009
This bun likes to play games. This is a really cross hot bun. These buns just don’t get it. And these buns show you what happens when you forget to slash crosses to let the demons out!
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Frozen rice isn’t more-ish

By E | Posted on: April 11, 2009
In the interests of science, I regret to say that the rice pudding ice cream was not a winner. It was one of those situations where you take two or three perfectly delicious components – rice pudding studded with real vanilla, a rich and creamy custard, and that ROCKING cinnamon toffee sauce – throw them [...]
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Arise autumn

By E | Posted on: April 9, 2009
We might still be wearing shorts and sandals, but it becomes cleverer by the day to carry an extra layer with you, just in case. (Of course some of us are clever in that way all year round – or paranoid). Mornings are darker, and when the sun does announce itself, it comes with an [...]
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Those were the days

By E | Posted on: April 2, 2009
I’ve been working pretty hard, battling it out with Gillian McKeith (note how Channel 4 acronyms You Are What You Eat as “yawye”: an appropriate new word for the nonsense-speak she spouts), but sometimes all I want to do is run away from the computer into real world of our lovely kitchen and create something [...]
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More bongs (and the wonders of spam)

By E | Posted on: March 15, 2009
So I’m sitting here pretending to work, but really scheming about what to make for dinner, and I end up reading a recipe on MaverickEats for pasta with sardines and goat’s cheese (how I got there is one of the great things about interwebbing and social networking – I’m mentally scanning through what’s in the [...]
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Bong feeds thousands

By E | Posted on: March 13, 2009
This is funny (from USA Today): ‘Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’ stumble over an alleged pot-smoking incident has been an apparent bonanza for the San Francisco Food Bank, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The multi-gold-medal winner got into hot water after a photograph surfaced showing him communing with a bong at a South Carolina fraternity party. [...]
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I don’t like popcorn

By E | Posted on: March 12, 2009
Something really strange happened to me last night. The philosophe was out of town for the night, and Mogwai and I were looking forward to sharing a nice big girly bowl of popcorn in front of the box, like we often do when we’re alone. I put the kernels in the pot, turned on the [...]
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Poor Heston

By E | Posted on: March 9, 2009
I do sympathise with Mr. Fat Duck, who is hemorrhaging a bucket of money every day that his restaurant is closed, following the “mystery” illness that has apparently befallen up to 400 of his diners. It’s a sad fact that there seems to be some opportunism involved in claiming illness (and perhaps being rewarded with [...]
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Signs, or wonders, or nothing at all?

By E | Posted on: March 6, 2009
It is a curiosity of contempoary media that things get recycled all the time (how eco-friendly!), even when it clearly ain’t “news” – which is often enough doubtful anyway, but at least some stuff published is actually “new”. So today the Telegraph had a sidebar slideshow on “Religious Imagery in everyday life” for no apparent [...]
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How to kill your appetite (and other normal instincts)

By E | Posted on: March 2, 2009
Today the Telegraph posted an article called “10-minute body sculpting”, which sounds like a quick workout, but in fact details how to ‘fight the urge to eat’. Surprise, surprise. Is it any wonder that people are so bloody confused about what to put in their mouths? According other sources, the UK has seen something like [...]
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