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The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Recipe Road Test: Nigella’s rhubarb tart Guest blogger Pixie tests out Nigella Lawson’s rhubarb tart recipe from How to be a Domestic Goddess. 9. Recipe Road Test: Fried aubergines with chilli and salad onions I test out Simon Hopkinson’s aubergine recipe from Waitrose [...]
The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Photo Friday: Catholic taste A hilarious religious painting from the Prado in Madrid, Spain. Popular with Google searches for the term ‘Catholic taste’. 9. Colonial grandeur of the American Granada Beautiful Spanish colonial architecture in Granada, Nicaragua. 8. Guest post: Sleeping around Angela [...]
Hearty and healthy winter soup. I’ve been asked for my potato and leek soup recipe so I thought I’d share it here. It’s from Mollie Katzen’s wonderful vegetarian cookbook The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. After the excess of Christmas and with just over three months to go before my wedding, I’m on a bit of a [...]
Last chance to buy Passports with Purpose raffle tickets to raise money for Heifer International. Don’t miss out! The Passports with Purpose raffle has been a great success – so far, we’ve raised $6,560 for Heifer International. As Pam at Nerd’s Eye View writes, that’s a whole lotta llama! For the past week or so, [...]
A Christmas Day discovery leads me to invent a tart in honour of the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme. On Christmas morning after a delicious brunch of Scandinavian pancake and opening the presents under the tree, we went for a walk. In serendipitous fashion, we discovered the Bells of Stepney from the children’s nursery rhyme [...]
When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney One of the wonderful things about London is how much the place is steeped in history. No matter where you are in London, it seems you can’t turn around without stumbling on something of historical interest. Our Christmas Day walk through the East End was no [...]
Samosir Island, Sumatra, Indonesia; December 2008 I said that the kids in Sumatra were shy. Well, not these ones. As we journeyed back across Lake Toba from the waterfall to our guest lodge on Samosir Island, we slowed the speedboat to pass by remote fishing villages. Typically each village was a cluster of about six [...]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse Except in my house, I’m spending Christmas Eve browsing the internet and getting fired up by anti-Christmas spirit over on Penelope Trunk’s blog. She did this last year and the year before too and I know [...]
Lintong, Sumatra, Indonesia; December 2008 We made quite an impact when we visited the local market in Lintong, Sumatra. I wasn’t even with the camera crew but we had children following us and people screaming with laughter when we asked to take a picture. No one gave us any hassle or used the hard sell. [...]
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