August 2011

Before I even opened this chocolate by Cocoa Bean Chocolate Co., it had made me happy for several reasons: The chocolate was brought back from overseas, specifically for me, by my lovely friend Jess. Jess also once sent me a postcard, out-of-the-blue, from one of her overseas conference trips. Her message read (in part) “Hello from New York! [...]

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Date Coconut Cashew Energy Treats

by Hannah on August 29, 2011

I’d like to thank, from the bottom of my heart, everyone who has sent well wishes to my grandpa (and my family) since his major surgery several weeks ago. Grandpa’s doctors are amazed at how he’s going post-surgery, but the reality is that he’s 91 and the recovery process is going to take some time. [...]

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You already know a fair bit about my ongoing battles with arachnophobia. And you know how, in very-very-small-but-significant ways, I’ve become increasingly able to cope with encountering spiders in my daily life. Kind of. On the positive end of the spectrum, there was the time I saw a spider in my hair whilst driving and managed [...]

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Today marks the first guest post I’ve ever had on my blog, and I must say I’m rather excited. (This is not only because my daily life has become exponentially busierwhirlingwhirling of late, and I’m quite relieved to be able to go out tonight knowing my blog is in safe and creative hands.) Casey contacted me soon after I adapted a recipe [...]

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Thai Pumpkin Soup

by Hannah on August 25, 2011

You might remember that, a little while ago, I posted a soup called Potage St Germain. I made that vibrant green soup for my grandmother as a symbol and act of love, as my grandpa was (and still is) in hospital recovering from a six hour surgery, and I wanted grandma to have dinner on [...]

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You, Too, Can Learn From My Mistakes

by Hannah on August 23, 2011

1. If you’re chatting with someone and discover a great many synchronicities in your respective lives, beware when they tell you that their hot water system just broke. You’re going to go home and discover that your toilet no longer works. 2. If you tweet, hours earlier, that “I have a very strong urge to [...]

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Donovan Brothers 80% Dark Chocolate

by Hannah on August 21, 2011

When Louise went to New Zealand recently, she brought me back not one, not two, but three whole blocks of chocolate. (I realise that the way I say “whole blocks” gives the impression that I was expecting half-eaten blocks, but I assure you that wasn’t the case. After all, I wasn’t expecting any chocolate at [...]

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I tend to describe most of the recipes I post on this blog with laudatory, glowing, effervescent words of deliciousness and grandeur. And why not? I create according to my tastes, and I like my tastes. That’s why they’re my tastes. When you think about it, this has a strange kind of logic. But unfortunately, [...]

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Finding the Silver Lining

by Hannah on August 17, 2011

Yesterday, as I was looking through old photos from 2007 for an upcoming Time Warp post, I realised with a hot-pink-and-gold-shimmering-prickling flash of embarrassment and laughter that the jeans and top I was wearing in the photos were precisely the jeans and top I was wearing while looking at said photos. Four years on. I [...]

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Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Slice

by Hannah on August 15, 2011

Yesterday, I woke up with three thoughts running rampant in my mind: First Hannah Thought: Gee whiz willikers! I’m still feeling buoyed up after last night’s performance with the Strange Weather Gospel Choir. I truly am so happy to have brought music, and music lovin’ people, back into my life. And it was so very, [...]

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