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saving money on restaurant bills and eating out
Monday, February 9th, 2009Beluga caviar- not the thing to eat on a thrift-drive
Inspired by Ramit Sethi’s blog, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, which is both Suze Orman-compatible and understands how thrift and wealth are connected (no amount of big salary can make you rich if it’s all squandered on dumb stuff and mismanagement, which is why [...]
fun on Friday: cupcakes!
Friday, February 6th, 2009chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream
It’s the month of the cupcake, with the front of Martha Stewart living covered in them and several articles like this one in last week’s Guardian. So I decided to go for it, and baked a batch yesterday with the big American buttercream on top, instead of my usual fairy [...]
business update
Monday, November 17th, 2008I have a lot of cooking to do this week, and if all goes well, a small mail-order launch (US only ) for certain Full English Christmas food products that will probably be very competitively priced as well as hand-made, considering how much this sort of stuff goes for in the posh supermarkets. [...]
Allegra McEvedy live cooking class on the Guardian
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Allegra McEvedy looks like one of the most interesting cooks to come out of Britain for a long time. She’s certainly an interesting-sounding person, and I think this book looks worth checking out (has anyone got it?). Allegra is going to be doing a live online class at 8pm UK time, which is 2pm Texas [...]
garlic potatoes
Friday, September 19th, 2008What do you do when there’s nothing in the house for dinner except an iceberg lettuce and a few potatoes? Go out for food of course. But if like me you actually quite enjoy pretending to be in the rationing years of post-WWII Europe (it’s a Brit thing), you can make the delicious salad I [...]
definitely getting one of these
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008It’s the TechCrunch webtab project.
Last night we went out for a pizza at this place. It’s local-ish, and does excellent pizza, which is still a fairly notoriously unusual thing to achieve in Austin. Home Slice has a nice atmosphere, a great menu, a wine and beer bar and a good location on South Congress. [...]
roasted little tomatoes
Thursday, June 19th, 2008It’s a while since I posted a recipe, although this doesn’t really count as a recipe and those of you that way inclined will doubtless have tried it already- I put some mini-tomatoes in the oven with a bit of extra-virgin, salt and pepper, and roasted them very hot for half an hour. Then I [...]
Things I’ve learned at the farmer’s market
Sunday, June 15th, 2008One of the reasons I thought it would be a good idea to create a small business that could be part of our local farmer’s market was to learn more about how selling stuff actually works, in an immediate, obvious kind of way. Lots of people like me who grow up being academically clever etc [...]
headline of the day
Friday, June 13th, 2008Supermarkets slash food prices by millions: so no more worries for the poor British food shopper then! (Bread down from one pound fifty to minus 4,200,000 quid and 57p, etc).
Seriously, this is exactly the sort of British drama I love, and it’s making me wish I was over there trawling the aisles for bargains. Although [...]
how to handle your “fussy eater” child
Friday, May 16th, 2008I said before that my daughter is an amazing eater, and she is- knowledgeable and thoughtful about health issues, with a love of the best quality of everything and a healthy enjoyment of expensive chocolate, plus she is a great and talented cook herself.
My son, on the other hand, takes after me. Not in [...]
