I like to tell myself I’m getting a grip on this whole adulting thing. I like to take on strange tasks just to prove a point, I’m not sure to whom. And except when faced with the prospect of having to smush a cockroach, I try and stifle my cries of help to other, more accomplished…
recipes
Bangkok, Phuket and Vegetarian Heaven
Fish sauce is my mortal enemy. Mix it into a vegetarian dish and you’re pretty much holding my hair back while I spend the rest of the holiday in the bathroom. So, when three of us, all vegetarians, decided to go to Thailand for a vacation, it invited a lot of laughter and “OMG BUT WHAT ON EARTH…
London without pausing
Three weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in London for almost a week for the very first time. I’m not counting the time I was there as an 8-month-old foetus because you know, I don’t remember much of it. Say hello to cliched photograph #64826409! I was in the city for work, attending a conference,…
Carrot Oat and Pecan Cookies (Sugar-free)
The Desserted Girl has turned three! Apparently three years in the blogosphere is also the time I cross over straight into full-blown adulting with these carrot cake inspired, refined sugar-free cookies. Let’s celebrate adulthood, folks 😀 Soft and chewy oat cookies with wholewheat flour, a wee bit of butter and grated carrots to make us…
Flourless Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
The other day I made roasted broccoli, voluntarily. And enjoyed it, voluntarily. If you’re following my brand new presence on Snapchat (dessertedgirl), you know adulting is going to a whole new level. Today, I realised, hey, I’ll even eat almonds if you attach the word ‘butter’ at the end, pack the whole thing up in a…
Patnem Beach, Goa
(Hi! This is a long post.) I really want to say Goa is more than beaches. It is, but that’s not why I go there. I go there because literally everyone in Goa gets the kind of holiday they want, me included. You want the crowds and the clubs? They’re there. You want the fish…
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Those days are back. Those horrendous days where showers become both indispensable and pointless because when March is as ridiculously hot as it is right now, we are stuck in the just-had-a-shower-but-need-one-again rut. Those horrendous days where movement is far too much effort, and chewing even more so. Even being in Goa over the long weekend…
Loaded Crustless Vegetable Quiche
This late 20s thing comes with a lot of premature old lady problems. The inability to comprehend a plan that only begins post 10 PM, the obvious choice between pajamas and anything but, and the tragic decrease in metabolism. So. When I decided to make this quiche, I knew I wanted to skip a crust…
Peanut Butter & Jelly Brownies
Big fat very excited heyyyyy from an all new Desserted Girl! By now, you know that over the last two weeks, I caught a fabulous stomach bug, decided to torture my brain with ‘self-hosting’, ‘custom CSS’ and a whole bunch of other weird terms for reasons that fail me. I’m super excited with the result though,…