Secret Ingredient Chocolate Cake

I’ve heard of vegetables in desert cakes before, like carrot cakes and potato cakes, but only a few times have I heard of beetroot in a cake, and if there was one cake I would want to try it would be this chocolate beetroot cake. Moist and sweet without being cloying, with the perfect shade of pink frosting. Delicious.

See the recipe and hilarious story of Joy the Baker and the dance every lady goes through with her boyfriend’s mother.

Vegetable And Herb Garden Ideas

For a couple of really simple but great ideas on growing your own vegetables and herb garden, take a look at the Dig Home Design site.

Here is the link to the Dig Home Design site

Teeny Tiny Food Sculptures By Shay Aaron

Isreali artist, Shay Aaron, makes miniture food sculptures that will blow your mind. The tomato is just one of the fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, salads and cakes that are made into jewellary.

Original pictures fromNazia at The Wondrous

5 Balcony Garden Ideas.

For all those people out there, myself included, who live in an apartment there is one thing (well actually quite a few things, but that let’s save that for another time) that I always miss terribly, a lovely healthy garden to run around in. I miss the feeling of having the green grass between my toesies, or watching the trees sway from side to side when the wind picks up.

Oh well I guess in a case like this the only thing left to do is to move, or even better, get myself a balcony garden. Something not too big, just big enough that it can fit onto my balcony & so it can have more than 1 plant in it, but also it has to be small enough so that come winter I can safely move my babies indoors to share in the glorious wonder of that phenomena called central heating.

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