Oats make me happy. You may have guessed. Breakfast makes me happy. You may have guessed. Home-toasted muesli is just the ant’s pants. I toasted a batch today and added bran flakes and dried pineapple. Stand back, citizens, she’s out of control! Deliciousness awaits me every morning. I do have a warning: be vigilant in [...]
Tagged food“So bethini, what have you been doing with oats lately?” I hear you ask. “Well, voice in my head,” I reply, pouring another cup of mescaline tea, “I’m glad you asked. Things have been exciting on the oats front.” I wanted oatmeal cookies. Something about them sounds infinitely comforting to me: they sound chewy and [...]
Tagged adventures in cookingAs I wended my windy wallowing way around the (w)internet, nibbling blogs and sampling, uh, other blogs, I came across Mostly Eating. It’s an incredibly pretty food blog and I’m a sucker for a pretty blog, but then I spotted a post about breakfasts. Well, by now you should know how I feel about breakfasts [...]
Tagged adventures in cooking, breakfast, foodDelicious? Probably. 101 Cookbook’s Bittersweet Chocolate Tart received rave reviews at the party we took it to. You could hear the clink of forks dropped in amazement as people took their first bites. They probably weren’t just being polite. Right? After all, you can’t lie during Earth Hour. The Killer Pandas come after ya. But [...]
Tagged bakingMy first. Just when you thought life couldn’t be more cool, you discover that your garden bed is full of radishes, little and crunchy and fresh and ever-so-slightly peppery. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but this is so awesome; okay, so you buy vegetables at the markets, eat the eatable bits, and put the [...]
Tagged favourite things, sproutyLife — my life, let’s be clear — is fantastic right now. The bounty of summer, showering me in free fresh fruit since spring, has turned into figs. Fresh wild figs. Oh, I’m one happy blogger/knitter/eater/person/pantry wrangler. I’m so happy I could weep, but it’s so hard to weep when you’re kicking your heels up. [...]
Tagged awesome, favourite thingsOkay folks, it’s the second exciting installment in the “Reasons My Life Rocks” series! When I’m munching my oats, those oats can take many permutations; but there is one non-optional accessory. Coffee. Hot and steamy time: Savoury, dark, strong nectar of the morning (and mid-afternoon, usually). Divine brew of the roasted seeds of the berry [...]
Tagged favourite thingsMy life rocks. Many facets of it are awesome and beautiful and inspiring, but if I listed them all (a) you’d be overwhelmed and kill yourself in despair; and (b) we’d be here for weeks. So, in the interests of keeping things moving along, I’m going to post just a few things that are very [...]
Tagged favourite thingsIt’s autumn and I’m stoked and the world keeps giving me fresh food. The other day, a coworker brought in the biggest damn bowl of cherry tomatoes I’ve ever seen — surplus from his crop. Those cherry tomatoes will haunt me in my dreams, as I weep through the tomato shortage of winter. I am [...]
Tagged awesome, banging onIf you’ve been paying attention at all, you’ll have figured out by now that I’ve got a breakfast…thing. It’s not really a fetish. I mean, I don’t need a bowl of muesli near me to have an orgasm or anything. But, well, I think breakfast is bloody essential to overall health and happiness, and also [...]
Tagged awesome, baking