gender correct yogurt

Yes, that’s right. You read it right. What the hell is the world coming to when a company manufactures, and retailers stock and sell, yogurt products specifically targeted to boys (football) and girls (pink. Of course). GAH.    

living on the cheap

This is a fascinating read (PDF) about a couple who are living on about £22 per week for food.  I’m not sure I could easily go that far, but I might give it a go sometime …

butternut squash – a primer

A very useful post from Fiona at Frugal Cooking, on how to stretch a butternut squash into several meals. I think a lot of people don’t really know what to do with one of these, and they’re a wonderful veg!

no freezer?

An article in today’s Guardian claims that “foodies” don’t have freezers any more.  Can this be true? We have two* – a huge USanian fridge/freezer in the kitchen, and an upright in the shed outside.  Inside is used for things we’ve cooked and frozen – at any time, it will contain some permutation of chilli,…

the credit crunch

From today’s Guardian, comes an article about organic food and the credit crunch. There have been masses of these in the broadsheets recently, about how eating organic is a middle class thing, and people are going back to eating rubbish now they have no money. Well, I’m not – I’d rather eat pulses and organic…

black bananas

I have a number of ways of using up old bananas – these are my usual suspects: grown-up banana bread (by Nigella) banana muffins with sunflower seeds – a staunch favourite, and the batter freezes well banana and bran flake muffins – newly discovered, and meaning I now keep bran flakes in the larder! I’ve…

things to do with beetroot #2

(#1 is a beetroot and chocolate cake, which works better than you could possibly imagine) I don’t care for beetroot.  Not AT ALL.  But They will send it to me in the veg box from time to time.  Hanne Blank has just posted a recipe for stirfried beets with ginger, onion and pork on her…

saving money on food

I think pretty much everyone wants to do this, don’t they? There’s an excellent article at Epicurious.com with 35 great tips – I don’t think there’s anything there that I’m not doing, but it’s worth noting nonetheless.  I think the actual cooking tips are the best, but then they’re just reinforcing what I practice!

fried rice

I refer you, with pleasure, to Hanne Blank’s post on how to make – and indeed how not to make – fried rice. Apart from telling you exactly what to do, in a style of cooking that is exactly like my own, it is screamingly funny.  Enjoy

a Mars a day …

Years ago, Mars Bars were advertised with the slogan “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play“. A chap in Liverpool seems to have taken this advice to heart, and apparently consumes over 4,000 of the things per year. I don’t see how this can possibly be healthy, but he claims to be…