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In further proof that Mondays are my day for attempting maintain delusions about myself as simultaneously domestic goddess and organised and enthusiastic member of the university community I've started up a soup club for Monday lunchtimes. For those of you who haven't been brainwashed since an early age to the strange rituals of teachers, this ...

There's a phrase in Allucquere Rosanne Stone's The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age that has kept popping into my head lately: 'The machines are restless tonight'. Stone goes on to think through the implications for how we think about machines and their agency and the colonialist overtones of that phrase, while I, of ...

Just a quick recipe before I head home to cook dinner. Part of my resolutions for this semester is bringing healthy lunches to uni, which I generally suck at unless it's leftovers. However, planning ahead to make salad is another option, slightly complicated by the fact I prefer cooked over raw vegetables. So here's my step-by-step plan for ...

Bruscetta is my favorite summer food. It's perfect on days when it's too hot to bother cooking, and you need something flavorful to tempt you into eating. Recipe: Chop up tomatoes into small cubes. I prefer roma tomatoes, just on the edge of over-ripe, with the seeds scraped out and the skin still on. Feel free to vary according to your ...

Well, one of my office sweepstake horses did. And that means I have won a pile of (chocolate) gold coins - which, I must admit, is more my style of winnigns than any serious gambling. It's been a while since I've posted a recipe, so in honour of the event, here's what I brought along for the celebration. Caramellised Onions and Chorizo ...

My first run of this recipe involved a pleasing amount of home-made/grown ingredients, with the exception of the gnocchi (which I know how to make but decided not to, in the interests of dinner before 9pm). But I like the recipie so much I made it again on the weekend, proving that shop-bought ingredients may not be as good for the soul, but they ...

This recipe comes from my sister, and today seems a good day to share it - given the suspiciously quiet Scholars Centre. The Breakfast (Hang-over) Bake has all the important post-big night out breakfast components, and is prepared in advance, so all you need to do is put it in the oven while getting more water and painkillers the next ...

What do you do if you have a surplus of limes lying around the house? This is obviously one of the great existential questions in life, which I was forced to confront this weekend after I got suckered into the on-sale limes from the fuit and vege shop last week. They were looking yellow and rather miserable, so something had to be done. Normally ...

Monday recipies are back! And now that the weather is cooling down, it's the perfect time for soup. Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup(warning: if anyone in your house doesn't like these ingredients, wait till they are out for the evening, as the house will smell like the soup for some time.)Ingredients:1 head broccoli1 brown onionnob of butterchicken ...

In honour of my sister's new 'crystal-look' Tupperware cakestand (it is actually blatantly plastic and rather tacky) I made cupcakes on the weekend. I tried to be good and leave the majority uneaten so they could be displayed, but the various emotional traumas in Grey's Anatomy had to be redressed by cupcake consumption, and so the few ...