Brown, brown, brown Originally uploaded by framboise. Slowly getting back to some semblance of a normal life. Felt alert enough tonight to cook without burning the place down, though how one can achieve that with an electric stove, one can only wonder. Something other foreign postdocs have noticed (i.e. moaned about during lunch) is the […]

Santos writes about a whole snap* of KitKats, which, despite knowing they’re probably full of E numbers, make me crave that feeling of teeth sinking into the yielding, softly crunching wafer, accompanied by the brush of the lips with a smear of chocolat. Which lasts all of 5 seconds, after which the whole finger is […]

What we should eat What we prefer to eat What we can afford Technorati tags: fauchon, macarons.

Obligatory food post. After all, I’m just back from France: home of the gastronomes. There’s something about eating in company that makes it very difficult to take photographs of the food. (Anyone else keep their food blogging a secret from work mates?) So, I’ll have make do with a list of salivating dishes and a […]

Saffron has uploaded a Flickr tag fight between Vegemite and Marmite, and it looks like Vegemite is winning… I suggest all Marmite-lovers get their cameras out and fight the good fight! Technorati tags: marmite.

Roast lamb Originally uploaded by framboise. P cooked what will probably be our last lamb roast for a wee whiley. It was simply delish. Something about Scottish lamb just cannae be beat (although I’m sure the Kiwis will beg to differ). It may have something to do with the sheer difficulty of getting enough to […]

The crazy month that was August is nearly over. Thank goodness for that. I don’t think I crawled into bed any earlier than 1am for over a month. Being totally worn out from the constant partying, I lost all sense of reason and invited my entire lab to my first LA BBQ. Technically, it’s the […]

While flicking through my old shots on Flickr, I realised I forgot to write up this recipe a couple of months back. So I’m back-dating the post, ‘cos I don’t want it cluttering up my recent slew. –20th Sept 2005 (yeah, i know.. slack!) The first proper meal I cooked in LA, with a $5 […]

Caramelised Onion Frittata Originally uploaded by framboise. ===================================== Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, To give her poor dog a bone. But when she got there, her cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. See the rest of the rhyme here. ===================================== Thanks to Nigel Slater, we dogs got our bone […]

Longan floating in lingonberry Originally uploaded by framboise. It’s warm (you just can’t extend to hot, not in Scotland). And dry. In fact, we’ve had so little rain that there’s a hosepipe ban in the South-East of England. Expect one to follow shortly for Yorkshire. We may not be as close to drought conditions as […]