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Yummy toffee banoffi!

Once you’ve made it once, you’ll never again need a recipe for banoffi – it’s a fantastically forgiving dish

Step one, somewhat unintuitively, is the middle – the toffee. This basically involves cooking a can of condensed milk until it turns into caramel My mum always used to make this on the [...]

Why I’m taking the Ada Lovelace challenge

Costigan Quist says he’s not taking the Ada Lovelace challenge. But I think he’s missed the point, and in my own rambling fashion, I’ll shortly explain why.

Before I do though, what is the challenge? Suw Charman-Anderson set up a pledge on PledgeBank, saying “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a [...]

Jan7 – Dinner :-)

Jan7, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

After feeling awful all day Tuesday, all I wanted by dinner time on Wednesday was serious comfort food… Combine that with what was available in the tiny Migros on the way home, and what we came up with was a very basic, slightly [...]

Jan1 – New Year’s Resolution

Jan1, originally uploaded by NoirinP.

2008 was an amazing year, but I have to admit I wasn’t as diligent with the camera as I had been previously. So as the church bells rang to herald in the New Year, I decided to try taking a photo a day, [...]