The 10 Best Things I Bought in 2011
From Londonelicious: A food blog, 4 month ago Similar articles
I really enjoyed writing my “Ten Best Things I Bought in 2010” post, so I thought I’d give this another shot this year. The list is a little different because I’ve had a place to live all this year, so I don’t need things like toasters anymore. I find myself buying more little luxuries. So here’s what I bought and liked in 2011. My Black & Decker Rice Cooker. I love this little guy. Throw some jasmine rice in, some frozen prawns, and some frozen peapods...
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Plants and people
From Gweipo , Today, Similar articles
Plants are the darndest things. Â I've never thought of myself as having green fingers, and in fact I know pretty much that I don't. Â Part of it is an appreciation for nice gardens / pot plants etc combined with a complete lack of interest in how they get from point seed to point beauty. Â And all the details in-between.On our walk yesterday my son was reminiscing about our little garden in Hong Kong. Â Our little cement garden, with it's couple of meters of planter in which we...
Aux Champs-Elysées
From The Bold Soul, Yesterday, Similar articles
I'm in the final day of frantic packing, cleaning and organizing for my trip to the States on Friday (why, oh why did I book an 8:20am flight' WHAT WAS I THINKING') and for some reason I'm inordinately more anxious about this trip than I usually am when I travel. (And no, I'm not having premonitions about bad things happening to the plane. I'm just freaking out about the piles of laundry, the messy kitchen, and the fact that I haven't vacuumed, food shopped, or ironed Georges' work shirts...
So much to say - Shepherd's Bread
From Lucullian Delights, Yesterday, Similar articles
I can't believe myself it but I managed to bake this month's Bread Baking Babes bread and I loved it. I really must get better on that front because it is such a great way to discover new breads and to share it with you so that you too can bake them! But first I have some other things to tell you.   First of all I know that there have been and still seem to be issues with accessing
Addendum to the PB post
From Bugigangas, Yesterday, Similar articles
I forgot to mention (sleepdeprivationexcuse) that I think my peanut butter turned out so well without a Vitamix blender because I added extra-oily Brazil nuts. They seemed to help creamify everything. If you use "dry" or harder nuts like almonds, try mixing in an oilier nut or adding oil (peanut, walnut, olive) to help get things moving towards the right consistency without blowing your food
Comfort Zone
From Delhi Bound, 2 days ago, Similar articles
I really like this blog ... they are doing a cool thing and they have great things to share. Awhile back, they wrote about living outside of your comfort zone. Click over to read their post ... When we moved to Delhi, I thought we were taking a pretty big leap to pack up and fly across the ocean, all in search of something new. A new job for the Husb, new schools for the kiddos and a whole new lifestyle for myself. What I didn't bargain on though was a DAILY struggle of...
in Greece now...
From Not so desperate yugowife, 2 days ago, Similar articles
Yesterday I talked with a former basket ball player who said he "stopped playing because things got unprofessional". He told me how the team went from traveling in business class and staying in nice hotels to 9 hour bus rides, no overnight stay, cold showers and no salary for months on end. "What is this'!" he kept saying. Another sportsman told me he only received part of his 2011 salary in March 2012. Players are being signed up a month at a time. These are people who were well off here in...
Potty, dolphins, biking and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
From Not so desperate yugowife, 3 days ago, Similar articles
In all honesty it has not been the best week-end: mainly the kids were just crazy impossible (pink marker on the couch and poo smeared in the toilet bowl for the billionth time made me crazy) and whiny despite a really nice visit to the zoo and the dolphin show followed by an afternoon at the beach. The dolphins at the Attiko Parko show  flamingos at the Attiko Parko ZooI think we really need to get some time away from them - we are so tired of repeating the same things over and...
Spuds with a twist - Potatoes With Broad Bean, Cheese, Mint and Sesame Seed Filling
From Lucullian Delights, 3 days ago, Similar articles
  On Thursday I'm off to England where I will teach food photography at Plate To Page Somerset with my friends Jamie, Jeanne and Meeta. It feels unreal but this time I will go unless I break a leg or something. Or war breaks out. Or something worse (and that would be horrid things happening to my family). Like the nightmares I'm having in this period, I wake up ever so grateful I was only
Beauty and marketing
From Gweipo , 3 days ago, Similar articles
Sometimes it is possible to get things just horribly wrong. Â My dear children and husband gave me the luxury of a facial yesterday morning as a mother's day gift. Â 90 minutes of pampering (I can't remember when last I had a facial). Â It was great. Â But then after, the beautician sat me down and did the hard sales talk on me. Â Was I aware that I had wrinkles. Â Well, duh, shock horror, I'm 46, if I didn't there would be something rather un-natural about the matter....
Michael the Movie star!!!
From Life as we know it, 3 days ago, Similar articles
 At work, Michael and his colleagues did a safety awareness video. Basically, it speaks for itself : promoting safety at work in order to go back safe, healthy and in one piece to the things you enjoy doing. There are 2 kite surfers in this video and Michael is the kite surfer in the black rash vest and black shorts, with no hat on. http://player.vimeo.com/external/39409060.sd.mp4?s=95120ade5cef72793dbf3131c6939979
