Dukkah

2/3 cup of hazelnuts

1/3 cup sesame seeds

2 tablespoons coriander seeds

2 tablespoons cumin

2 teaspoons black pepper

1 teaspoon salt

Toast hazelnuts. Rub in a tea towel to get husks off.

Toast sesame seeds

Toast and grind cumin and coriander (unless using already ground)

Grind black pepper (unless using already ground)

Whizz all ingredients in blender until you have an interesting texture.

Apparently great with a lot of things. Mine tends to stay forgotten about until I get served up egg mayonnaise in which case this stuff turns something fairly average into an absolute treat.

Trade

As messy as it’s magazine (they could take a tip or two from Gumtree there) but we love it – http://www.trade-it.co.uk/

Unwell

Child #2: “I’m not very well. I have an asthma. I need to go to hostipal.”

Farties

Child #2: “Daddy smells of poo. And farties. And burps.”

Child #1 [glumly]: “I wish I didn’t have a nose”

FPTP

The 2010 Election result:

Votes Seats Votes per seat
Tories 10.7 million 306 35,000
Labour 8.6 million 258 33,000
LibDems 6.8 million 57 119.000

                                            

Design

http://blog.onlymarketingjobs.com/how-a-web-design-goes-to-hell/

Franglais

Child #2: “Oh no. A star fell from the nuit.”

Spelling

Daddy [going through this week’s spellings]: “How do you spell ‘I’m’?”

Child #1: “Easy. I – apostranaut – M.”

Stairs

Child #2 [matter of fact-ly]: “I’m in love with the stairs”

Child locks

Mummy: “You’re not having any chocolate because you were very naughty. You shouldn’t have opened the car door while daddy was driving.”

Child #2: “It’s not my fault. You should have chosen another car. An indigo one.”