The dark side of Chinese take away

Posted by Meg

Several thousand pounds spent by English teenager on Chinese take away.

not only do they roam but they’re yummy too

Posted by Sarah

I may be a city gal born and bred but I’ve spent my fair share of time in the country and along the way I developed a bit of a fondness for animals of the livestock variety. At times it has bordered on obsessive and at various stages of my childhood I begged for a cow, a pig, goats, sheep, a llama and a number of other creatures. I think the only farm animal I didn’t want was a chicken- a hatred resulting from a traumatic encounter with a bird named Betsy- which is fine since they’re not technically considered livestock. Completely unrelated to my agricultural dreams, I happened to fall in love with everyone’s favorite ginormous land mammal: the American Bison, also known as buffalo. I’m not quite sure where this love comes from but while other little girls decorated their trapper keepers with dolphin stickers I perused the library for bison facts. At an embarrassing late date I realized that bison are in fact considered livestock, a discovery that lead to the most unreasonable request I have made of my family to date: I wanted my very own buffalo. As one might expect my family refused to fulfill this request. And then they laughed at me.
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more google fun!

Posted by Meg

Also: Google Recipe Collections.

google recipe search

Posted by Meg

I made a new discovery today: Google Recipe Search! It’s got drop down menus to select ingredients, cuisine, course, number of servings, language and it looks like it has all my favorite recipe sights indexed. Outstanding!