Coles Brand has a surprisingly near-beige fresh chicken soup which I enjoy. Today I felt all creative and decided to stretch it out with a few veges and Things. Sadly a few more of my possessions were harmed in the making of this foodstuff.

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I've been taunted by TV ads for hamburgers of late. We habitually mute the sound on ads, but there's nowhere to hide from pictures of yummy food held up with sticks and sprayed with glycerine. Mmmm. Styled. Unfortunately, just about everything about a proper hamburger is extremely non-beige, so I set about considering a suitable replacement.

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Combine brown rice, mashed potato, spring onions, butter and salt into a tasty and beige-friendly sludge. ( Read more... )

Vermicelli rice noodles heated and drained, tossed with fetta cheese.

About 150 pages to go on the 5th and final book of Eddings' 5 part trilogy The Belgariad, and I am definitely into the swing of it now. Still not great writing, but easily digestible and commercially-friendly, and that's no mean feat. I can see the appeal, but it's taken a while to reprogram my brain to appreciate it. Or maybe the pending Twilight instantly makes anything else look good. Or perhaps a quick mental comparison with, say, Traci Harding makes Edding prose style seem so much more dignified, and less likely to make me froth. National stereotypes be damned.

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But our funding got cut so instead we have StephBG in our studio to explain her first day with Tofu. She's a bit tired so it looks like we'll just get the facts today and maybe save the commentary to tomorrow.

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Have just returned from the shops and an ever-so-interesting Little Chat with the staff at the butcher.

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Earlier this evening I got all adventurous and tried to oven-roast some chickpeas. Although the recipe called for up to an hour in the oven I took a peek after about 10 minutes. In my smoke-filled kitchen with frightening orange light in the oven. Eeek.

ETA: Now with added image, because last night all the camera batteries were flat.

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The beige diet is a strange thing. When I'm distracted with more important things, it seems impossibly limiting; the ingredient list short, the cooking options long and troublesome. However, when I'm paying attention and am able to put a little thought and planning into it, I become amazed at the range of possibilities and flavours available to me.

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After a particularly bad start to the day I eventually felt more myself by late afternoon.

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