This month the members of the Tots100 Center Parcs Blogger family have been asked to turn our hands to all things sweet, particularly chocolate, by getting creative in the kitchen and sharing our best recipes on our blogs. Now I must confess that whilst we in the geek family are partial to a bit of […]
Meal Planning Monday 13/08/2012 – eating a bit less
Recently there was a Horizon documentary on the BBC entitled “Eat, fast and live longer” (and that punctuation is very important!). The geekdaddy and I watched it on iPlayer last week, and it had quite an effect on us. It showed some pretty convincing evidence that selective use of fasting (or at least significant calorie […]
Meal Planning Monday 09/04/2012
I’m sitting here late on Easter Sunday having just produced my meal plan for the coming week and converted it into an online shopping order. I’ve had a lovely Easter weekend, and only had to cook a family meal for one of the whole four days! On Saturday we met up with some good friends […]
The cake is not a lie
I don’t cook. No really, I don’t. I follow recipes, and produce meals out of necessity, rather than pleasure. So I’m not quite sure what possessed me to suddenly want to make a Christmas cake this year. I blame Waitrose – every week I’ve been in there for about the last two months they’ve had […]
