This year I rather bravely attempted a bookish challenge, consisting of reading many different genres. For the Modern Fiction category I read 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I’m not going to enjoy writing this review. Because, to be clear from the get-go, I did not enjoy this book. The 1108 pages (ebook version) went by painfully slowly.Continue reading “Book Review: 1Q84”
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The Easiest Scone Recipe in the World
While Little Sister was job shadowing at the local rehab, they spent a day helping patients find their way around the kitchen. One of the patients had to make scones, which he then gave to the nurses at the ICU. Anycase, the recipe seemed so amazingly simple that we had to give it a try.
PB Cookies!
Yvonne at Trials in Food posted this wonderful recipe for Peanut Butter cookies. As you might recall, while on break I tend to unleash my ill-formed powers upon the kitchen, and this seemed an easy enough opportunity. The recipe calls for a mixer, I mixed by hand. It’s notably tough, but manageable.
Book Review: Kitchen Confidential
As a rule, I do not review non-medical books on this blog, unless it forms part of a Top Ten Tuesday. However, since my recent discovery of the myriad of book blogs, Goodreads and the ability to read while maintaining my schedule has led to me rather bravely attempting a bookish challenge, I have decidedContinue reading “Book Review: Kitchen Confidential”
Cupcake Catastrophe
…yes, I really did just start a recipe-post like that. The recipe is great, promise. I myself, perhaps not so much. FriendAtMedSchool and I decided to bake cupcakes with nutella icing. This is the Cupcake recipe:
Banana Loaf Recipe
A while ago I wrote about baking, cooking, and my awesome banana bread. Yesterday I made it again (the boy said it was the best he had ever tasted) and I realised I never posted the recipe. So here it is. I think the original recipe is from a South African cookbook called “Kook enContinue reading “Banana Loaf Recipe”
Answers to Misguided Questions
WordPress has this wonderful little thing called STATS. Recently I amused myself by viewing all the search terms that has brought readers to this blog. This one goes out to all the poor misguided souls who Googled something, landed up here and still did not get their answers. I apologise profusely.