by Hannah on January 31, 2011
Today is five weeks plus two days since Christmas. You know what that means, don’t you? Yes! Exactly! Five weeks plus two days since Christmas is the traditional day to blog about presents made and given to fathers and paternal grandmothers! What, you didn’t know that? For shame. Now, the best thing to do when you’re making an edible gift [...]
by Hannah on January 30, 2011
My apartment is trying to kill me. No, seriously. Stop laughing. This isn’t one of my light-hearted-romp-of-a-post stories about me acting like a nincompoop. My apartment is trying to kill me. It’s tried to do so in various ways over recent months, but seems to have settled on the Oldie But A Goodie tactic of [...]
by Hannah on January 28, 2011
I’m going to admit something right now, and I want you to promise not to hate me, harangue me, hold it against me, or do anything else to me that starts with the letter “h”. (Apart from humouring me. You can definitely humour me.) Promise? Okay. Here goes: I haven’t eaten pancakes in about a [...]
by Hannah on January 27, 2011
One of the best things about having an awesome, intelligent, enthusiastic, supportive, and generous PhD supervisor who knows you really well is that you have a PhD supervisor who is awesome, intelligent, enthusiastic, supportive, generous and knows you really well. How do I know this? I know this because my PhD supervisor not only encourages [...]
by Hannah on January 25, 2011
Theme: Citrus Recipe: Nacho Cheeze Book: Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen Look, I know what you’re thinking. “Nacho Cheeze? How does this fit into a Citrus theme? I smell deception and lies! Deception and lies!” Wait, no. That’s not quite right. This is probably what you’re thinking: “Raw vegan Nacho Cheeze? Cheese with a Z? Cheese [...]
by Hannah on January 24, 2011
Words of advice for anyone else currently wandering around in sticky, energy-sapping heat: 1. If you get into your car, put your seatbelt on, press your foot down on the accelerator, try to turn the wheel, and find that nothing happens… don’t freak out. There’s a chance that, when you got into the car, you [...]
by Hannah on January 22, 2011
Sometimes, a girl finds herself in the mood to eat a block of chocolate where the primary focus is not the chocolate itself, but the flavours added to it. In such cases, a girl might reach for a Chocomize White Chocolate with Crystallised Violets, Soybeans and Toffee, or a B.T. McElrath Chile Limón Bar. At other [...]
by Hannah on January 21, 2011
Yesterday (also known as a beautiful, sunny, blue-skied, 26°C summer’s day in Canberra), my mum and I went to see the Ballet Russes exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Because mum and I quite like each other, such mother-daughter outings are becoming regular events. These events have two requirements: 1. They must be fun. [...]
by Hannah on January 20, 2011
It’s hard to know how to follow up a post showcasing one of my favourite recipes of all time (my raw brownies with chocolate icing, if you must know). At first, I thought that the best way to commemorate the deliciousness of that recipe would be to post something entirely unrelated to food afterwards, so that [...]
by Hannah on January 18, 2011
Are you ready? I’m about to pull out some hyperbole. (Although it doesn’t feel like hyperbole to me; it feels like trutherbole.) So, are you ready? If you’re not sure, look at the photo at the top of this post. Really look at it. Are you ready? Okay. This Raw Brownie with Chocolate Icing might [...]