Sunday 31 October 2010

A bounty of sugars

I was going through my cupboards today and found that I currently have 7 different varieties of sugar therein. Who needs so much sugar? Come to that, who the hell knew there were so many varieties of sugar? Ironically - or perhaps just annoyingly - despite this sugary glut, I didn't actually have the one type of sugar I needed for Nigella's Everyday Brownies. I've made do by mixing the two types which I think are closest to the one she wanted, so hopefully it'll be ok.

But it occurred to me, upon discovering my blatant sugar addiction (to say nothing of my apparent compulsion for buying too many kitchen supplies), that really, I ought to still be writing about my foodie life. There's a push at work for us to be blogging about our work and responding cleverly and intellectually to world happenings, but to be perfectly honest, if I'm going to spend time writing on things other than academic articles, I'd rather spend that time writing about food and my frenzied efforts in the kitchen. So I have returned to this blog and hope that I'll find a form of creative outlet here, whether others enjoy reading about that or not, and that my kitchen capers will benefit from the blogging.

How are things in your kitchens? Well, I hope?