It turns out that I was “tagged” by Lil at iFaNTaBuLouS for a meme called “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” a couple of days ago. Far be it from me to refuse to play along!

Welcome back to blogging everyone, after the Christmas break! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays. I certainly did, with Santa bringing me everything from a pasta machine to some signed books from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.

Christmas may be just finishing but to me the season isn’t quite over until New Year has been and gone. [...]

Mulling wine was historically a way of making bad wine drinkable again, by heating it up with a handful of spices, sugar and herbs until it becomes fragrant and sweet. Mulled Wine is synonymous with Christmas both managing to capture all the familiar smells we love, and providing us with a satisfying warm drink for [...]

Advocaat is one of those drinks that gets brought out every Christmas, and noone seems sure quite what to do with. In short, it’s the European version of Eggnog (but without the milk) – and if made right, can be delicious. It’s also much more delicious when made (instead of bought), and can be made [...]

Just a quickie. I’ve spotted that this week is the 2006 Food Blog Awards and I don’t have any nominations. I would never suggest anyone votes for me with so many good food blogs out there – but that doesn’t stop me feeling left out!

Here’s the second part of this post – a meme called “Three Things”, which I read about over at Brilynn’s site. I wasn’t actually tagged, but Brilynn left an open invitation, which I’ve jumped on.

Obese people need to exersize more. No, really? More here…

Finally – Beer Goggles explained – in Mathematical terms!

The countdown to Christmas starts now! Pierniki are little Polish cakes (called Prianiki in Russia) – which are flavoured with cinnamon and cloves, and generally eaten in the festive run up.

Well today is (was, if you’re in England) my Birthday.
I’m a couple of glasses of wine in. Speak to you all soon!