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  • Recipe Chocolate Shopaholic
    Chocolate Shopaholic
    A birthday cake for Jena. She may be only 10 years old, but she still had some definite, yet simple requests. Make her a chocolate cake --- and surprise her. If you knew Jena, you would know that her request would not be as easy as it sounded. So[...]
  • Recipe Shopaholic: Mitsuwa Marketplace
    Shopaholic: Mitsuwa Marketplace
    I readily admit that I’m horribly nosy when it comes to what’s in other people’s kitchen cupboards. It says almost as much about them as a medicine cabinet, only without as much taboo. Ours has a pretty huge mishmash of stuff from[...]
  • Recipe Shopaholic: Tea stuff and colanders!
    Shopaholic: Tea stuff and colanders!
    We had something of a housewares shopping frenzy yesterday whilst visiting some friends in Turku a few days ago. Which was good, because there’s still lots of stuff in the kitchen that needs stocking. They took us (the poor boy got dragged[...]
  • Recipe Shopaholic: The generosity of friends, and Tokyokan too!
    Shopaholic: The generosity of friends, and Tokyokan too!
    Yesterday, we set out for Helsinki bright and early. It’s a little less than a 3 hour drive to get there, and we were trying to avoid traffic both ways. The weather was ridiculously humid and warm in a Floridian sort of way. Luckily the[...]
  • Recipe Win a Special Edition of Confessions of a Shopaholic!
    Win a Special Edition of Confessions of a Shopaholic!
    Yummy Mummy is giving away 250 special edition copies of Confessions of a Shopaholic ? complete with a sneak peek at Kinsella?s newest novel in the series, Mini Shopaholic . Ends Oct.13/10 Yes, Quebec can enter[...]
  • Recipe I
    I
    And now, a break from the relentless recipe barrage to contemplate the joy that is Japanese food labels’ liberal borrowing from other cultures’ languages. I’m sure there have been many posts made on these beauties, in all[...]
  • Recipe Bebe Tarts
    Bebe Tarts
    So here’s something that I rather expected to see more results on when I Googled it the other day — bebe tarts! They are cute little pink tarts about the size of your palm. Very much the sugar bomb, but so good with coffee. The boy would[...]
  • Recipe Viili Viili Good.
    Viili Viili Good.
    So one of the great things about Finland is that they’re big on lactose free and reduced lactose dairy products. While all I could get in the States was milk and maybe some vanilla ice cream if I was lucky, practically every dairy product here[...]
  • Recipe Soft Ginger Cookies
    Soft Ginger Cookies
    I posted the recipe for this to my main journal back in 2001. Have been making it for ages, so I suppose it’s about time I actually took pictures of these guys. A perennial favorite that even non-fans of ginger end up liking. And for those[...]
  • Recipe Confessions of a curryholic
    Confessions of a curryholic
    Hey!!! Oh my gosh I had the best lunch today! I was dying to make a curry like the one I ate in disney world....I honestly never thought that adding coconut milk to something savory would be a good idea but I was so surprised in disney that I[...]