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Summer!
I’m closing my eyes to the fact that Christmas is a week away. La, la, la – fingers in ears – I can’t hear you! I’m still coming to terms with the fact that it’s summer, and it kind of has been for two months in my corner of the world. What can I say?…
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Vegetable Casserole
I’ve never been able to work out what to do with polenta, and so, I’ve pretty much avoided cooking with it, especially because it’s such a pain to make — stir, stir, stir. I’m an impatient cook. However, I had a few spare minutes the other afternoon, so I made up a pot of polenta,…
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I ran away from my computer…
I turned off the computer around Saturday lunch time and didn’t turn it on until this morning. Monday. Over 24 hours without a word typed or an email read. It was heaven–and felt like a guilty indulgence. Saturday morning I made carrot muffins. (This was when I was still kidding myself that I’d be writing…
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Potato Flour
Impulse buys! Weirdly enough it’s not dress shops or shoe stores where I have to worry about impulse buying. It’s supermarkets. The other day I walked in to buy a couple of things and discovered potato flour on the shelf. So of course I bought it, even though I have no idea what to do…
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It’s Donut Day!
I’ve decided. Today is donut day. I made a startling and not so happy discovery a few days ago. Donut shops are disappearing! This is outrageous. Worse than that, the local supermarkets have stopped selling them … well, Woolworths sells some rubbishy thing filled with red food dye. That is not a donut! Donuts are…