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Owl Cookies

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:00:01 +0000

I’m not a particularly jealous wife. Well correction, I used to be a terribly jealous girlfriend but that was because before Mr NQN I used to date a guy that thought he was god’s gift to women. And flirted with them just enough to make my blood boil and send me off into a jealousy [...]

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Chocolate Crunch Cake & Making Your Own Xmas Hamper

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:00:03 +0000

A few days ago I woke up with a start, let out a strangled “Arrrrrrgghhh”, partially woke up Mr NQN and then scrambled out of bed as if I had found a horse’s head in it. Do you ever have those times where you forget about things? I just realised that in the chaos of [...]

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Brownie Sandwich Cookies With Salted Buttercream Filling

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:00:38 +0000

I’m not sure about you Dear Reader, but I don’t think that my nightmares are quite your garden variety. They’re not of monsters or catastrophes, they’re actually filled with visions of me living back in Tokyo and being lost and unable to find my way home. I haven’t had that nightmare for a while, at least for [...]

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Macadamia & Fruit Lunchbox Slice

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Every day for work I pack Mr NQN a lunch to take with him. Occasionally I will fill a bag with things that he can share with his colleagues although these have to be easily transportable as he rides a bike to work. Mindful that I used to overfeed the fish and cat (and I think they [...]

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Scrabble Cookies!

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:00:45 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Mr NQN and I were both going to see the doctor. Not for anything serious but because I had purchased a deal from one of those discount websites. It was for a deal to visit a back doctor to get an Xray and then a massage. Of course I just bought [...]

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Itty Bitty Happy Baby Cookies!

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:00:37 +0000

Some years ago I was on jury duty. Because I was at university, the idea of doing something that didn’t involve listening to a lecturer drone on filled me with excitement. It wasn’t an inconvenience like it would be now passed off with a teeth gritted “civic duty” but something I looked forward to. I [...]

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Giant Edible Embroidered Cookie

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:00:42 +0000

I was in the driver’s seat. Mr NQN was next to me and on his face there was a grimace fixed as if he were bearing the worst torture imaginable. No it wasn’t water torture or even my driving, it was my singing. I have an unstoppable compulsion to sing even though all evidence points [...]

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Brown Sugar Shortbread

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:00:40 +0000

“Do I ever smother you?” I asked Mr NQN one evening. Mind you I asked him this while I was about 30 cms away his face, staring at him intently and perched in between his view and the television. “Sometimes” he said “But I know that you’re starved for attention.” “Oh goody” I said “So [...]

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Love Letter Cookies

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:00:29 +0000

I don’t think that I was a particularly ugly child or teenager. I’d probably rate myself a three or four out of ten perhaps taking off some points for the fact that I grew up in the 80s and points must inevitably be deducted for bad hair choices and suspect clothing selections. Still, I never [...]

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Cinnamon Cookie Christmas Wreath

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:00:12 +0000

As you read this, I will no doubt be frantically preparing for Christmas. It will be an onslaught, self induced, of the familial kind. Mr NQN’s eccentric family will come crashing into my own eccentric-but-in-a-different-way family in our annual Christmas celebration. Somewhat foolishly, we had volunteered to have the dinner at our place as I am attempting [...]

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