(Or “Salted Maple Christmas Caramels” if you insist). The internet is full of recipes for “Christmas caramels – ideal for gifting! 😀 <3 :D” and the like, but you know what all of them have in common? A) they refer to this confection as caramel when it is sodding CLEARLY toffee and B) they require […]
Bakes
Queen of the Biscuits – on totally overthinking your food choices
I work in the kind of office where, at 11am every day, someone will come over and offer you a cup of coffee and a biscuit. It’s very civilised. Because I am British, I have extremely strong opinions about biscuits (and all kinds of baked goods). Because also I am trying to lose weight, I […]
Five Minute Dinner – Kinda Carbonara
This is what I like to think of as Friday night food. You know when you don’t have any plans, and it’s been a long week, and you’re coming home to your partner, and you said you’d get dinner? And you stand in the supermarket and gaze at some leeks and think “I can’t be bothered with […]
Maybe Perfect Healthy Pizza
Cauliflower crust pizza! Ruler of Pintrest, holy grail of paleo, deeply unlikely idea. WHY AM I DOING THIS? Pizza is hands down my favourite food. I bloody LOVE it, especially really dirty, Dominoes-style takeaway pizza, with double cheese and a pot of saturated fat on the side to dip my crusts in. Yeeeeeeeeah! But as […]
How to Meditate
A lot of people want to start meditating but aren’t sure how or where to begin, or what meditating really is. This confusion is because it’s a difficult question. Lots of people mean lots of different things by meditation. What I mean is sitting very still and emptying my mind. I do this because it […]
Most Comforting Pasta Bake
Guys. It’s winter. WINTER. Properly November. Bonfire night and Halloween are gone, and we’re all staring down the barrel of three whole months of getting up in the dark and coming home in the dark and getting dressed in front of the fire because you didn’t get the windows replaced in summer like you were […]
Breakfast Melba
Breakfast is totally rubbish, isn’t it? The shittest of all the meals. Who wants to get up extra early in the morning and try to eat cereal (SO BORING) or toast (SO BORING unless you put nutella on it) while stumbling around in the near dark trying to decide if you can style out leggings […]
Breathing to Avoid Freaking the Fuck Out
Life is often full of overwhelmingness. This could be because you get panic attacks, or uncontrollably angry for a few seconds, or suddenly really sad or unsure of yourself, or an impulse to hide. For me this normally happens during confrontations, but we all have our triggers – and there might not be a reason. […]
Yoga for Anxiety
I think everyone has days sometimes where life seems overwhelming and terrifying and you kind of feel… chased. This routine is for those days. You don’t need a yoga mat for any of this stuff – you can actually do most of this routine in bed (recommended, because, bed). You can light a candle or […]