Up until next Thursday, BitchBuzz will be bringing you a selection of easy and delicious recipes to cook up this Thanksgiving. If you’re in the UK, who cares! Steal a holiday! Invite your friends round and cook up a treat; everyone is pretending they’re American after Obamarama anyway. All of these recipes are perfect for Christmas also, so even if you won’t be celebrating Thanksgi...
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21 Nov 2008 12:00 GMT
Mugs are much maligned, I think. I know that they’re the gift you get when someone obviously doesn’t know you well and doesn’t have a clue what to get you, but actually a well-chosen mug is a very useful thing to have.
Just witness the daily fight in my office over who gets the best mug. We’re all after the Walt Disney Studios one, which is hugely capacious and – crucially – has a large handle. My husband (he will be in less than a month, so the terminology changes now) pro...
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20 Nov 2008 16:30 GMT
Thanksgiving is exactly a week away, you have invited fifteen people over for dinner, but do you know what your cooking yet, or scarier still, how to cook it? From now until the Pilgrim loving day itself, BitchBuzz will be bringing you a selection of delicious Thanksgiving recipes worth undoing your top button for.
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20 Nov 2008 12:00 GMT
Creamy and healthy, surely not! This may normally be a bit of a culinary paradox, but you can in fact make a rather delicious pasta sauce using low-fat soft cheese, meaning your skinny jeans won’t laugh at you with every bite you take. Mushrooms and chicken go really well in creamy pasta dishes, and this one can be knocked up in as little time as it takes to boil the pasta. You can also take the leftovers to work the next day for a tasty packed lunch, eaten hot or cold.
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18 Nov 2008 14:00 GMT
If you're a fan of kitschy, tongue-in-cheek, elegant knick-knacks, you're going to cream yourself over Kitty & Dude.
There are dainty mugs with pistol handles, fragile cupcakes, and even flying pigs that hang on your wall. Described as being "personal interpretations of childhood pursuits teamed with a potent nod towards 1950’s Pop Art and culture", each work of art from Kitty & Dude is as elegant as it is fun.
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18 Nov 2008 09:00 GMT
This week, I broke one of my cardinal design rules: I gave a designer a crap brief.
Probably the biggest design crime (outside of painting MySpace in pastels and sparkle) that a non-artistic type can commit is being vague about what they want to a designer. Yes, it’s great that you’ve recognised that hacking together something hideous with Word Art and drop shadows in PowerPoin...
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14 Nov 2008 11:15 GMT
Apparently, packed lunch is the new Prêt a Manger, but that doesn’t mean you have to fill your face with soggy corned beef sandwiches, or a nasty can of soup. Packed lunches are just another place to exercise your culinary creativity and a brilliant way to save money. If you have a microwave at work, you can take pretty much anything for ...
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13 Nov 2008 17:00 GMT
Do you ever go to a Thai restaurant and order the chicken satay starter just for the amazing spicy peanut dip it comes with? In fact, I love that sauce so much that I would go to a Thai restaurant solely to seek it out, and then scoop every last morsel out of the dip pot with my finger! Don’t pretend you haven’t done it too. In order to avoid such breaches of restaurant etiquette, and to be able to eat this sauce all the time, I have created this recipe for satay beef, meaning you can eat the...
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13 Nov 2008 14:00 GMT
Back in my homeland of The Midlands, there is a Mexican restaurant that used to serve the most amazing margarita marinated chicken, with indulgent sour cream mash. Of course, with it being a booze-based dish, my eye went straight to it when perusing the menu. After I had tasted the sweet, limey chicken, tenderised by soaking in the alcohol of the tequila, I was truly addicted and ordered it every time I went there.
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11 Nov 2008 12:30 GMT
Do you still write actual letters to your loved ones? Or is a quick, vowel and punctuation free text or email enough for you these days? So few people are actually writing to each other now, that The British Library have actually commissioned a project Digital Lives where they will study personal digital collections of emails and dig around for nuggets of literary wisdom, for which we have for centuries relied upon letters.
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10 Nov 2008 16:00 GMT