Namaste

It's hard to blog when you spend all your time working. It's great to take a break from the routine at school, a little visit to 'India' for the day was just what was needed.

I'm on holiday next week-horrraaay! You will hear more from me then. 

Om shanti.

Savouring the Moment

I'm Going Bananas!

Food senses if you are rushing it. It won't be rushed, folding needs time, you stir slowly and generally food tastes better if you cook it whilst you are holding a glass of wine and listening to Madeleine Peyroux or Norah Jones, which slows down this process even more. Rushed food is dirty fuel. It will burn to spite you, to remind you to slow down.

These cakes though, can take lots of beating and you can chop the hell out of the chocolate for the chunks. You can basically dump it all together and they still turn out well. Just slow down to eat them, savour each chunky chocolate bite you find.

They are now a firm favourite with my friends that I gift them to, so that I don't eat them all for breakfast! And yes, I have posted this recipe before... that is how good they are!

A cheesy day

I visited a small cheese farm on the weekend.We all got dressed-up for the day...

and looked rather glamorous...don't you think?

 So, there was cheese...

 and more cheese...

and champagne to celebrate a friend's birthday. (I kept thinking that my great friend Jo would have loved it-as there was also plenty of butter and salt on the table!Bonus!)

It was a lovely day, but I had the worst sleep that night...!

I am now trying to think of a way I can live out of the city, with a garden that spills into the valleys and space for some guinea fowl to roam. Any ideas?

What I've been reading lately

I had heard a lot about Bossypants, Tina's Fey's autobiography, around the Christmas period and wanted to pick it up. I'm sure most have you have read it by now, but I only spotted it on my friend's bookshelf the other week, so borrowed it for a weekend read. Turns out you only need a morning to read it.

Book description (from Amazon...doesn't tell you much!)
Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. Bossy Pants is her first book.

My thoughts -
Bossypants is a perfect, light 'term time' read, but, I am glad I just borrowed it, as it is not a book that I am likely to re-read. I know of Tina Fey through her famous Sarah Palin impersonations. However, I have never seen 30 Rock and this meant that the latter part of her book had less meaning for me. By the end of her book, I felt she was just filling in pages when she wrote down parts of scripts used in episodes. I did however enjoy her stories of her childhood and years working at the YMCA. I have to say, I didn't laugh out loud once though. I think she tired quite hard and I was a bit bored of her negative outlook on herself...(mm-did you see how great he looked at the Oscars!) Saying all that, it was an enjoyable Saturday morning read and I will for sure hunt own a copy of 30 Rock to find out what she was talking about!

What are you reading at the moment? Any recommendations?

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