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    How to Make Terrible Gnocchi
    jdettmann
    • Apr 10, 2017
    • 3 min

    How to Make Terrible Gnocchi

    The pesto would have been better tossed with small snails than with the gnocchi I made. I know I have a tendency to toot my own horn on...
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    It Turns Out, You Can Go Home Again
    jdettmann
    • Jun 29, 2016
    • 3 min

    It Turns Out, You Can Go Home Again

    Sample bookshelf from my parents’ attic: Just one of the many collections of books that tells you probably more than you need to know...
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    The Mysterious Chocolate Cookies of Misery
    jdettmann
    • Apr 17, 2015
    • 2 min

    The Mysterious Chocolate Cookies of Misery

    I made the cookies using an amalgamation of recipes on the internet, which I found by googling ‘cacao almond cookies’. They all contained...
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    Talking Turkey
    jdettmann
    • Nov 22, 2012
    • 2 min

    Talking Turkey

    Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...
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    Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.
    jdettmann
    • Jun 26, 2012
    • 2 min

    Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.

    Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...
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    Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast
    jdettmann
    • May 14, 2012
    • 3 min

    Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast

    Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...
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    Cooking With Gusto: Blackberry Sponge Pudding
    jdettmann
    • May 4, 2012
    • 3 min

    Cooking With Gusto: Blackberry Sponge Pudding

    It has, as you might expect, a very small freezer section. We like to keep it very full of food stacked so precariously that it is...
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    What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition
    jdettmann
    • Apr 13, 2012
    • 2 min

    What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition

    Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...
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    My Kitchen’s Adequate: Or How I Resisted The Title ‘Salad Days’
    jdettmann
    • Mar 23, 2012
    • 2 min

    My Kitchen’s Adequate: Or How I Resisted The Title ‘Salad Days’

    Anyway, My Kitchen Rules is a cooking competition, and last night the competitors each had to choose a dish and cook it in ninety...
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    And Finally, Monsieur, A Wafer-Thin Mint.
    jdettmann
    • Mar 16, 2012
    • 1 min

    And Finally, Monsieur, A Wafer-Thin Mint.

    As you can see, this is a very ordinary photograph of some bacon in a bain marie. Why would anyone put such a bad picture on their blog,...
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    Smells Like Too Many Spirits
    jdettmann
    • Mar 14, 2012
    • 2 min

    Smells Like Too Many Spirits

    This week I moved all our wine from the hall cupboard into wine racks on top of the spare room wardrobe, relocating the spirits to the...
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    You’re Older Than You’ve Ever Been And Now You’re Even Older
    jdettmann
    • Mar 12, 2012
    • 2 min

    You’re Older Than You’ve Ever Been And Now You’re Even Older

    Approximately how many candles I will need for my birthday cake this year. It’s my birthday soon. I’ll be older than ever before. There...
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    Highly Commended
    jdettmann
    • Jan 28, 2012
    • 3 min

    Highly Commended

    The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...
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    Going Viral
    jdettmann
    • Jan 23, 2012
    • 3 min

    Going Viral

    Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...
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    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
    jdettmann
    • Dec 19, 2011
    • 2 min

    There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging

    Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
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    Travel Gobstoppers
    jdettmann
    • Nov 28, 2011
    • 3 min

    Travel Gobstoppers

    My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...
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