that canadian girl

Over the past few years, I’ve written quite a few posts about my amazement at many people’s fear of cooking unknown foods, resulting in Britain households cooking on average 4 meals each. But while watching Hell’s Kitchen (the Marco Pierre White version, not the Gordon Ramsay one), which is a worthless show by the way, [...]

Tonight, my aim was to figure out how to make the best pomegranate juice-based cocktail. It took three tries but this last one is definitely the best one. Here’s the recipe, and anyone who comes up with a name for it, since “pompom” and “pomtini” are taken already… will get ummm… something nice. Like a [...]

Learning to cook Back in March, I wrote about my disbelief at Britain can on average only cook 4.1 meals. I’m still adamant that this stat has got to be wrong, my brain won’t let me accept that people can have such a creativity lobotomy that they’re unable to put 3-4 ingredients together in a [...]

I gasped at the stats I heard this morning on Radio 1 and had to go find the original article myself for a bit more information. Research highlights our lack of imagination in the kitchen, with few of us bothering to cook new dishes, and most living on around just four regular dishes. The average [...]

On this lovely relaxing Saturday afternoon, the foodie in me has been let out. I’ve just ordered 20 vanilla pods from an online store based on the island of Mayotte (near Madagascar), after reading about it on Clotilde’s blog. The foodies will agree that 20 pods is… a lot! Enough for a multitude of tasty [...]

I watched the “F*** Off, I’m Fat” show on BBC Three this evening, and I’m seething at the thought that the Beebs has produced such a pile of tosh. Now, as a disclaimer before I start, I’m not a wee little girl. Well, I’m only 5’2″, but I AM a UK size 14, so while [...]

Always make homemade chilli to coincide with Andrew being away the following day and evening, or at the very least, ensure to spend as much time as possible in open air spaces to avoid overdose of toxic gases. No joke, I nearly died.

Mmmmm… only 59p too! [Photo taken at Sainsbury's this morning, hohoho!] [Edit 20/08/06: Just to clarify, the sweets are "American Hard Gums", but the packaging was folded to look like "Lard Gums" instead. Andrew does wish lard gums could be bought in shops though!]

You know what, I think I’ve got brand envy. It’s a bit like penis envy, but it’s specific to marketers rather than men (though men working in marketing can have both, I imagine). I envy the innocent brand. There, I said it. I feel a bit better already. To put how I feel simply, think [...]

I truly love advertising campaigns that get noticed without being driven by a big budget, like the Logitech QuickCam YouTube girl or any good ol’ virals, but I’m also a sucker for the likes of the Bravia superballs and the VW Singing in the Rain. And here, the big McGuys have created a pretty cool [...]