Archive for February, 2007

“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain,
and resembles the sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nostalgia is a tricky beast - it is often the rose-tinted glasses through which we view events of the past, but sometimes is the genuine wistful longing we feel when [...]



For someone who proclaims that they aren’t a chocaholic, I sure seem to post a lot of chocolate recipes! Am I just in denial? Perhaps somewhere under this hardened exterior lies a sweet, gooey, intense rush of chocolate love?

Maybe I should just take a deep breath, step forward and admit it - my name is [...]



2007
10 Feb

Please stand by

Sorry for the lack of posts folks, but there’s been a couple of things happen recently.

The bigger thing is that after almost 30 months at my place of employment, I handed in my resignation and 2 weeks notice this week. No, I don’t have another job to go to, but with going back to Uni [...]



The final, fluffy round-up of Souffle Season has been put together over at Running With Tweezers - head on over, have a look and email Tami with who you think should win this edition of ‘Hay Hay it’s Donna Day’ :)

I have a substantial post on making dumplings coming up…but there’s a heckuva lot of [...]



With the success of this humble yet untried (by me) recipe, I get to mark yet another food-to-try off my list!

The humble sponge roulade - otherwise known as a swiss or jam roll. It seems simple enough, nay, in it’s barest of forms it almost seems a bit plain-jane or boring! Nonetheless, I had put [...]