Yep, it’s the school Cake Sale today and here’s our contribution – 18 high calorie garish globs finished with butter icing and sweets – yum. They’ll disappear in a minute. I’ve taken the traditional fairy cakes recipe and created these anarchic little treats in the style of gonzo cooking. Check the Gonzo cooking pages if you dare…
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Cheap Eats R Us – Grandma’s Cheese Flapjack
Posted in - from my recipe book, Cooking, credit crunch cooking, credit crunch recipes, tagged blogging mums, credit crunch, credit crunch recipes, easy bites, healthy eating, living in london, Low GI, Permalink: http://nixdminx.wordpress.com/my-recipe-bookmy-recipe-book/, porridge oats, vegetarian cooking, working mums on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Miniminx’s Grandma gave me this recipe ages ago and I’ve had a tinker with it. It’s very simple to follow and it’s something you can keep in the cookie jar as a mid morning snack or serve with soup and salad to make a more substantial meal
Cooking for 10…my Kitchen Nightmare
Posted in Cooking, Introducing the Nixdminx to the world, lifestyle, London, shopping, tagged blogging mums, Caffe Nero, entertaining, goop, gwyneth paltrow, living in london, sainsburys, vegetarian, wheat free on January 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If you’re one of those people who has guffawed at Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop.com lifestyle blog but has secretly spent hours hunting around it, I’ll bet you’ve read this week’s perfect guide to Sunday cooking. Let me take you away from the sublime life of a Hollywood A-lister – complete with dark turkey meat-meatballs and spaghetti – to the ridiculous life of the Nixdminx and my Sunday lunch Kitchen Nightmare…
No calls…but necessity is the mother of invention
Posted in 1, credit crunch recipes, job hunting, jobs, lifestyle, London, unemployment, what the hell is going on, working mums, tagged blogging mums, credit crunch, CV, job hunting, living in london, working mums on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know I’m beat when my Bejewelled2 scores are below par on King.com…it’s been a very long day. One job opp came up – way below the money I would expect but I’m going to check it out. Then the company I have been keeping my eye on for the last two years has just [...]



