These cookies aren’t the kind that will win any beauty pagents. No siree bob, these are the kind of cookies that would make the mirror crack as they groomed their warty selves in the morning whilst asking any available reflective surface if they were pretty – in the hopes that one would survive the ensuing [...]
All you christmas food-basket giving types will know what I mean when I say the time leading up to the silly season is a mad rush to bake – creating a short-list of goodies to be made, weighing up in what order they can be made and how long they’ll stay good for, shopping for [...]
I haven’t posted much in the way of food recently because I frankly haven’t been home before 9pm on most nights, and my wonderful mother has on most occassions put out some leftovers from the family dinner for my famished self. Why so late? Well, I’ve developed a bit of an addiction to going to [...]
There is something about certain words and the mouthfeel that they give which will make me develop either a like or dislike of them, almost in spite of what the words themselves mean. For example, I find I can’t feel much for the word ‘fluctuate‘ – saying it makes my mouth feel awkward, almost as [...]
Every bite of these chocolate laden discs is one of sheer pleasure This was the exclamation from my brother after I’d consumed one of these chocolate chocolate-chip discs of doom, and he was absolutely right. Those who know me know that I’m not one of ‘those’ chocaholics – you know the ones, with noses tuned [...]