Monthly Archives: May 2008

Small project: doorstop

By Alice | Published: May 23, 2008

Our house is small and has an open aspect to the back, so when we open the windows the wind rushes through, sweeping through every room in the house. It is wonderful and ever so cooling on a hot day. The only problem is that all the doors slam around. So I conceived of a [...]

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Do you do TV dinners?

By Alice | Published: May 22, 2008

I was going to post about something quite different (about sewing) but on downloading my pictures from my camera I liked these two that I took of the remainder of our TV dinner. We had a very quick to prepare meal of cold soba noodles and pea dumplings. I made the pea dumplings a little [...]

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Recipe: Tofu Katsu and Gomashio

By Alice | Published: May 21, 2008

I have been catching up on foody links and I discovered something wonderful that I had bookmarked ages ago in this real gem of a site about Japanese cooking; Just Hungry. Absolutely ideal for someone cooking Japanese from abroad. As well as being informative the writing is really great, I love this article about Delia's [...]

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On my desk… invitation and recipe

By Alice | Published: May 21, 2008

Literally what is on my desk is a recipe from a great blog I just caught up on (more on this soon!) and a wedding invitation. I am so pleased for the couple. I must consider my outfit. The handmade invitation is so cute. I love this idea of handmade weddings. However generally on my [...]

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Summer ‘drinks’: banana mango ice, and the Look What I Made meme

By Alice | Published: May 20, 2008

This is pretty much a non-recipe as it is so simple. Recently I have been very drawn to recipes that only take a few ingredients (I think this may be from reading a lot of Nigel Slater!). So today, when after work when I wanted a healthy snack, I did a twist on banana ice. [...]

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