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Coffee brownies and coconut cake 4 Mar 2012 | 05:57 pm
I've been baking sourdough bread from a homemade starter about once a week for a couple of months. This week was my first real success, and I'm very excited. It is one of my two SCD cheats (the other ...
A blogging come back, and something hot and spicy for Valentine's day 28 Feb 2012 | 01:30 am
Even though it is still summer, it is beginning to feel like we are well on the way to autumn already. Grey skies and rain, a nip of chill to the air most evenings, pumpkins ripening on the vine and t...
Overwhelmed! (and sweet chilli sauce) 28 Jul 2011 | 10:03 pm
Ben (my other half) read a book or article or something on psychology, and how men and women mean different things when they say the same words. It was pretty corny and I can't remember many examples,...
Renovation disasters and internet scams 15 Jul 2011 | 11:09 pm
Okay, so disasters is probably overstating it, but they did all feel like disasters at the time, like when I realised that the bath and the vanity unit we had bought would only allow a 35cm gap to wal...
Lazy weeknight curries 10 Jul 2011 | 01:26 am
Towards the end of my 3 weeks free of dairy, eggs, nuts, fruit and honey, I ran out of in season vegetables to add to my diet, so I decided to start of spices. While I've gained a greater appreciation...
Untitled 7 Jul 2011 | 11:29 pm
My life has been sugar (ie sucrose) free for almost 18 months, but more recently, I've also almost completely eliminated anything sweet. No fruit, no honey, the closest thing to dessert I had in 3 wee...
Fittings things in 27 Jun 2011 | 11:53 pm
A karate instructor I have trained with a few times once told us an analogy for fitting training into your life. Think of your life like a big jar, and all the things you want to do as stones of vario...
Excuses and GAPS and breakfast soup 15 Apr 2011 | 11:51 pm
So first the excuses. I've been slack with the blogging lately (not much of an excuse really...), but only with the blogging. Life has been quite busy between karate training, doing a jujitsu beginner...
Pumpkins and pumpkin recipes 24 Mar 2011 | 07:23 pm
It is, apparently, pumpkin time of year. My own ones haven't done so well, having been grown in pots and left to their own devices for a week and a half of the hottest part of summer, the plants disin...
Very belated health update (and cheesecake photo - no recipe though) 21 Mar 2011 | 10:34 pm
I've just discovered I've had this post sitting in draft since mid-Feb. I didn't post it straight away because I was waiting to upload a photo to go with it, and then it just got lost, and the cheesec...