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  • Christmas Chocolate Giveaway

    OK, not exactly chocolate, but Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s Willie’s Chocolate Factory Cookbook. Five of them, in fact. And to qualify for a chance at getting one of these books absolutely gratis, all you have to do is leave a comment (remember to put your email in the email box so I can contact you – don’t…

  • A first Christmas

    Our Christmas tree is finally up, with a mix of home-made and store-bought trimmings. It’s our first Christmas tree because we thought it’d be nice for our new family to have one. The butterflies and snowflakes were be-glittered by Naomi. The pretty bows were tied by Naomi too. Heck, she did everything. I just helped…

  • Gingerbread CSI

    Last year’s cookies We’ve decided to stick to other, simpler shapes for this year’s Christmas cookies because our gingerbread men fell apart in various stages of the baking process, rendering them unrecognizable. The cooling rack looks more like a crime scene.

  • Mad season

    It’s December, and I am impossibly busy, not because there’s all that much work, but because a series of domestic calamities has put paid any notion of putting up our feet and having a break. Naomi and I have been cruising along the past couple of months, becoming more and more the typical young Singaporean…

  • Christmas gift ideas: give a pair

    We were getting last-minute grocery for dinner at Cold Storage Takashimaya when we saw outside the cashier’s, a stall selling Crescendo flavoured olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars. The company’s representative in Singapore has stalls like this all over town, but for some reason, we stopped for the first time, for a sampler. Unlike many…