Rants

Folks, I need advice! My mother’s old garlic press (read - older than me) had gotten awfully rusty and icky so I tossed the bastard and bought a replacement…but it snapped in half the first time I used it. I just bought another and I cannot, for the love of me, get the garlic to [...]



2007
16 Dec

A call for help

Folks, I’ll be blunt. This is not a food related post.

To be honest, it’s about something that has me so angry that I’m almost literally spitting chips.

The iPond. A miniscule fish tank that has an inbuilt speaker that can be plugged into an mp3 player is being sold worldwide, and it needs to stop [...]



2007
21 Nov

Oh, HALP!

About to leave for Info Society exam.

Am feeling as neurotic as a squirrel which has lost all its acorns the day before winter.

*insert random, endless stream of expletives here*

If I survive, when I get back, there’s a recipe in it for you lot! So think of me as I try to breathe…



I apologize for this non-food related post but there’s something that I need to air.

The internet is a big, broad expanse and it is impossible to keep track of it all as there is simply no way of doing so. Therefore, when putting my words and images online, I realize that there is a chance [...]



“Urrrgh” I grunted as I carried the multiple shopping bags back into the house. My mother had been pestering me to try making Okonomiyaki for a few days, and I thought that today, with it’s 39 degree C heat would be the perfect day to stand over a hot stove and fry up one after [...]