Five-minute chocolate cake

Craft: magazine featured a five-minute microwave chocolate cake the other day – now there’s something hard to resist. The comments weren’t entirely favourable though, and the idea of three tablespoons of oil in a one-cup cake seemed… excessive.
A little searching uncovered a slightly modified version which replaces half the oil with yoghurt. Promising, and definitely [...]

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Rockstar magic

You know how sometimes your job title just doesn’t do justice to how awesome your job actually is? When you’d rather be a ‘Director of First Impressions’ than a receptionist, or a ‘Nerd-Rustler’ instead of an IT recruitment specialist? Or, as James and his workmates debated, something much, much cooler-sounding than a ‘digital modeller’.
I think [...]

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Just in case you ever need to know…

There’s an excellent post over at VeganYumYum on food photography.
(And if you ever need to impress someone with vegan food, you can’t go wrong with Comtessa’s vegan chocolate raspberry cake from Moore Wilson on Tory Street.)

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Craft round-up

Despite being generally un-enthused about most things recently, I’ve still been producing the odd crafty item.
That stash of embroidery floss I bought from the stitcher’s closet was carefully selected to cover most of the patterns in Beatrix Potter Counts, and one of my very favourite patterns was the tailor of Gloucester. Plus, he’s apt for [...]

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On wheeee!

I seem to be suffering end-of-winter blues, which is not, as you might think, a sadness that winter has ended. While I love a warm fire and rainy days with no guilt about staying inside reading/crafting/gaming, I’m heartily sick of layers, being cold, and being deprived of sun. I need something to bring me out [...]

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