Messing around with recette du chef Pierre Jancou, proprietaire du restaurant Racines à Paris, parue dans Elle à table: 6 œufs 300g de chocolat noir 120g de beurre demi-sel 1 expresso très fort 80g de sucre en poudre cocoa nibs (merci Monsieur David Lebovitz!) Préchauffez le four à 200°C.Fait...

Cottage Cheese "Pancakes" 85g cottage cheese 1.5 large eggs 23.5g unbleached all-purpose flour 28.5g unsalted butter melted A week ago, it was Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday, the day before the 40-day season of Lent during which Christians in the Dark Ages would pray, do penanc...

Due to the many Sloth-venly discussions of late, did not junk but actually went to have a play-around with the looklet.com beta site when the invitation code came in the mail. It's like Polyvore but with live model paper dolls thrown-in for dress-ups. In a backalley somewhere, a model was aghast to ...

We bid a sad farewell to James (the epistle of). Much straightforward practical wisdom there and much to think about and work out in our lives. Now that manybooks are visible at a glance, have been reunited with the Puritans. They don't profess to be the complete word of God but there's much biblica...

do i deserve this luck  i don’t thing so!!!some  people want this thing but y i feel this way not being happy for wat i have ryt now do i hurt somebody n hindi ko nalalaman!!! yah i know not all i wanted eh pwdeng maging akin bat plz yon lng makabalik me sa lugar n yon daming pumipigil!!! i ...

The day after national fencing competitions, we used to wake with a start at 2pm on Sunday, after a night out at the local with the other uni teams and a long dangerous early morning drive back to campus bumping along unlit backroads in the Hungarian's Hungarian "it brought me to England from Hungar...

Somewhere between thanking God for opposable thumbs for stirring and hand heels for kneading and electricity for oven-baking, while waiting for the malted* wheat and bran and barley dough to rest and rise, we were talking about the application of James 4:13-17 to baking**. Come now, you who say,"Tod...

Twas the night before Thaipusam, when all through the houseBeef tournedos were sizzling, and thankfully not the mouseJapanese sweet potatoes and butter-cream were mashed up with careKnowing that dinner for the hungry four would soon be there. Bleagh. The perils of dodgy doggerel. Though grain-fed An...

Saturday night pizzas and sparkling rosés. A cake in oven* after the pizzas. Then chocolate chip biscuits and earl greys. And we were telling stories of stories by telling the stories. Because the best way to describe a story is to tell it. What a wonderful thing to be a real teller of stories, to ...

At dinner, there was an old Christmas tree resisting retirement to the storeroom. It attempted to stay relevant for the lunar new year of the ox by having a squeezy cow tied to it with red ribbon and garnished with a plastic gold ingot. Looking down from her tree perch, festive cow observed the conv...