Pictures of Macaroons have been taunting me for a long time. Saying, “Make me, You know you want to. But, bare in mind - I'm a bastard to get right.”

They look so good. So perfect.
Being a perfectionist, I thought that meant I'd be able do it. Easy.

This weekend I finally made the effort and followed a recipe from Life's a feast blog, for the simple reason that it was on the first page of my Google Reader. In hindsight, perhaps I should have tried my usual trick of prefixing the search with "World's best" (there I go, trying to blame the recipe...)

I've got to be honest with you, the first batch didn't work - but I'm too proud to put up pictures of my failings. What happened was, I didn't whisk the egg whites for long enough, so when it came to piping them out - the mixture just ran out and spread into a liquidy mess.

As a poor student, I’m always on the lookout for ways of making cheap alcohol more appealing to the palate. With a house party approaching, and wallets thin as usual, my housemates and myself decided to experiment with Tesco Value Vodka and Skittles. The recipe (as one would imagine) is ridiculously simple – you stick a load of Skittles into the vodka, let them dissolve, and then drink it.

Here's the I'm Glad it Burnt Halloween pumpkin for 2009.

When growing up, whenever we had tea as children we could always tell if it had come from a jar. We called this "plop", mum would say, "Sorry I'm in a rush tonight we're having plop for tea".

Stuff from a jar, especially tomato based sauces, always have a distinct flavour that you can tell straight away is not home-made. Usually it's far too sweet and salty.

In the interest of science (and because there was an offer on Dolmio Lasagna sauces at the Co-op) I thought it would be interesting to make two and compare them under strict test conditions*.

Due to the advent of a picnic in a park and my never-ending attempts to reduce the amount of porridge oats that have accidentally accumulated over time, I thought I might as well practice making some super-tasty flapjacks.

I've never made flapjacks before, but I've heard that it's often thought that adding more syrup makes for a gooier flapjack. I've also heard that this isn't the case, and in fact adding more butter makes it gooier.