5 Things you Should Know About Living in Self-Catered Accommodation
July 13, 2018
You Probably Won’t Set Fire to the Kitchen When I started university, I was certain that I was going to set fire to the kitchen and burn the whole block down. Despite not being a bad cook, irrationally I believed that in a moment of lost concentration that I would turn away from the oven, …
Baby Steps: Cooking for One
May 27, 2018
In keeping with this series, today I’ll be talking about my journey towards achieving peak ‘Master-chef’ status. Before moving to university, I rarely cooked for myself, let alone anyone else. When I did, it was to make my “signature” wrap which took about 15 minutes and honestly, tasted like a soggy £3 post night-out mess. …
Two Easy Student ‘Recipes’
June 22, 2017
A reoccurring theme in my most frequently cooked meals is that they don’t involve specific ingredients or measurements. That’s because I hate cooking from recipes. I prefer just to assess what I have in or what I’m in the mood for and then just chuck it all in the pan. I buy a lot of …
Living with allergies at university
March 30, 2017
The title of this blog post won’t come as a surprise to anybody who knows me in real life, as sadly/humorously my defining character trait is ‘nut allergy’. Countless times over the years, when asked to give an unusual fact about myself, I’ve gone with the line ‘I’m allergic to everything’, which isn’t quite …
The Food Diaries
October 21, 2013
WARNING: This post may make you hungry. So I’ve been living off my own cooking for a little over 3 weeks now. I have to say, I am amazed that I got this far. Before I moved into self-catered accommodation the only food I knew how to “cook” was microwaveable. Think pot noodles, Cup a …
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