The EDLO’s Birthday Buns

Ok, Birthday Fairycakes really, but the other has such a nice alliterative feel to it.
I’m following the course of action that suggests a way to a mans heart is through his stomach. If the EDLO’s reaction to the cakes is any way to judge, he’s halfway to proposing marriage already, but then are so are [...]

For Illyna, from moose

As Cas mentioned, we hosted a little dinner party on Saturday. Since then Illyna has been pestering me (well she asked twice anyway) for the recipe for the soup. A friend of mine gave me this recipe while she was living in Japan. She claimed it had no proper name and called [...]

Jay’s Lazy Sunday Afternoon Chocolate Cheesecake

A while back, Jay was kind enough to share with us one of his recipes for cheesecake. Since I’ve run out of Battlestar Galactica episodes to watch ( ), and was bored, I decided to give the recipe a whirl.
Whilst it is a simple recipe, it does take a bit of time, so pop [...]

Belated Unofficial Chocolate Guinness Birthday Cake

The 8th of May was my unofficial birthday. To cut a long and rather depressing story short, I don’t like to make a big fuss over my real birthday. A few years back Tiana decided in which case we needed to celebrate my birth on some other day. This day (and the reason why did [...]

Cas’ perfect post-yoga breakfast smoothie

Back when I started this whole health kick, JB suggested in the comments that I should try smoothies for breakfast as a handy way of getting more fruit into my diet, and overcoming my inability to eat bananas, in one fell swoop.
Try it I did, and I’ve had smoothies for breakfast most days since! They’re [...]