Worm's World

Ok blog, (and by inference everyone that reads it) I haven't really been ignoring you, in fact my phone is full of half written notes that I'm sure would have made excellent, witty, insightful blogs but to the honest the last few months have been manic, flipping between horrible and wonderful - and at some point I'll write it all up, perhaps. Until then, lets just start afresh. The blog post title, in case you were wondering, is a fair assessment of the cards / gifts I got for my birthday - many cards with cupcakes, many robot related presents (and sometimes the other way around)

Author: Colman Andrews Date: 2007 (Original 1997) Published: Grub Street Amazon Link: Catalan Cuisine: Europe's Last Great Culinary Secret Birthday present! Thank you sweetie x It also looks like it's full of yummy salt cod recipes - yeah for salt cod... Ooh, update, I found a veggie recipe! -  Mallorcan Aubergine Omelette (it was very moorish!) Vegetable Paella with artichoke hearts

I don't usually remember dreams but I've just woken up from an ace one my buddies from afternoon play will appreciate: My schoolgirl self, and naturally an old school friend I've not seen in a decade, were picked, along with other girls of about 14/15 to join a secret elite, girls only board game academy / boarding school - the mission statement of the place was to make us excel at strategy boardgames like Carcassonne, Settlers & Monopoly in order to shape a generation of women capable of running the county, Enders Game style... I think it sounds epic, anyone want to buy the film rights....

originally posted on wormella.com I've reached a bit of a milestone in my effort to catalogue the cookbook collection - I've reached 200 titles - there's a couple more, but I'm almost grateful it's not close to 300 I thought we had - that does seem a little obscene. I'm not done, I need to cross reference, some how, and work out which ones I've missed - and any new ones will get added of course - I've also started actually using it, noting successful recipes I cook out of them (and trying to get Pete to do the same). It's also proved my initial theory that blogging and tagging does make for a pretty useful inventory system you can access from anywhere.

I've reached a bit of a milestone in my effort to catalogue the cookbook collection - I've reached 200 titles - there's a couple more, but I'm almost grateful it's not close to 300 I thought we had - that does seem a little obscene. I'm not done, I need to cross reference, some how, and work out which ones I've missed - and any new ones will get added of course - I've also started actually using it, noting successful recipes I cook out of them (and trying to get Pete to do the same). It's also proved my initial theory that blogging and tagging does make for a pretty useful inventory system you can access from anywhere.

Author: Mrs Shantaben Anubhai Patel This is an independently produced cookbook my mother in law gave us as part of an indian curry set (balti dishes, food warmer etc) - She 's a local woman in Swindon who'se written down all of her family recipes.

Yep, It's a cookbook about using your food processor - lots of recipes for smooth things like dips