Time to start making those homemade goodies

If you're thinking of giving home made sweets or homemade candies for Christmas, you can make my delicious
homemade chocolate truffles now, and freeze them .
If you take a look at my guide on How to make home made chocolate truffles you'll see lots of variations on the basic recipe, so that you can personalise your homemade Christmas gift. For example, if you're making chocolate truffles for a man who loves brandy, use some brandy in the recipe- simple!
If  you're making my homemade chocolate truffles for someone who loves nuts, rolls the truffles in crushed pistachios.There are lots more ideas suggested.

I've also suggested ways of packaging your truffles to make the gift look really professional. Good presentation is important.

Now that clocks have gone back, and the days are shorter, spending time messing around in the kitchen is a pleasant way to pass a few house. Just make sure you don't eat all the truffles yourself right now! Obviously you'll need to try a few, to "test" them , but try to save some to freeze for Christmas gifts.

Starting a new line of lenses- The Dukan Diet

I've looked around at the Dukan Diet lenses on Squidoo, and frankly m'dear, I didn't find them very interesting.
I've put myself on the Dukan Diet, and am just a wee bit obsessed with it right now, so I thought, let's make a lens about Starting the Dukan Diet - so I have!

I hope it will be useful to anyone thinking about starting the Dukan Diet. I'll be writing more in the next few weeks, and they will be the first new lenses I've made in ages. The spirit moves me!