1) A bathroom where you don’t feel less clean after you’ve come out of it.

2) An area for an oven.

Now don’t get me wrong, my name isn’t Curly Sue and I don’t have 6 brothers and 11 sisters all living on a little house on the prairie. Neither do I have perfectly bobbed hair and walk around the house all day in an immaculate dress with perfectly manicured nails even though I am cleaning and baking all day.

I mean it may be fun to sit at home all day and bake but it’s not for me. The thing is I don’t like the television and don’t own one so to me having an oven is like having a TV.

As you guys learn your show’s characters I learn my ingredients, as you get deeper into the plot, I get deeper into adding the subtle flavors of the dish. As your plot thickens and you don’t know what will happen at the end, my dish is going into the oven I don’t how it will turn out. We both wait on tenterhooks, wait for the outcome. And then the climax builds I watch the minuets tick as the cake rises, you watch your villain get stalked. Then Bang! Your baddie is caught and the scent of the delicious cake explodes through my oven.

So I am always on the hunt for new recipes of cakes, or biscuits, or pies, or ANYTHING!

And if it’s cheap then all the better!

The best thing about Hungry Nation is they don’t tell you to put a sprig of thyme that can only be found on a lonely prairie on the top of Ben Nevis! They use stuff (ingredients) that I find down my local corner shop!! Awesome! With their simple but very effective, cozy cooking style  I feel I could cook anything. In fact in the words of Bernard from Black Books “My oven’s so good it could cook bits of oven”

The Food Network goes behind this triangle-shaped wonder, and gives you the low-down on how candy corn was originally created by the Goelitz Brothers Candy Company, and gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how candy corn is made, along with Bill Kelley, President of Goelitz and a fourth-generation candymaker.

Did You Know? Top 5 Candy Corn Trivia Tidbits:

1. Thank goodness for mass production: In 1900, the Goelitz Brothers Candy Company, later known as the Jelly Belly Candy Company (yes, the same awesome folks are responsible for Jelly Belly, too!), started mass-producing the candy. However, due to the relatively primitive machinery of those days, it was only available seasonally from March to November. Its recipe has remained unchanged throughout the years.

2. Sweeter than you think: A cup of candy corn actually contains fewer calories than a cup of raisins. If that’s not good enough to soothe away post-Halloween sugar-induced guilt, I don’t know what is.

3. Layered, not stirred: Candy corn is actually made by using molded layers, with orange as the first layer, yellow as the second layer and white as the third. Next time you wish to eat your candy according to hierarchy, keep this fun fact in mind.

4. Corn-colored holiday: Candy corn was even rewarded with a holiday of its own, with October 30th marking National Candy Corn Day.

5. The secret ingredient: Part of what helps candy corn retain its unique texture and mouth-watering taste? Marshmallows. We swear!

Happy Halloween,

The 5min Team

One of my favorites is pumpkin pie, with its perfect sweetness and texture. In the words of Paul Allen Smith, pumpkin pie is a Thanksgiving classic that represents the harvest season, and it wouldn’t be the same without it.

Go to the kitchen and start smashing those pumpkins into pumpkin pie!

So take it easy on the turkeys this Thanksgiving, and seek for other sweet alternatives…But don’t over do it, or you might end up like this!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

But there is a limit, after all, and when dining out becomes a habit, you need to start taking some precautions, especially when working out isn’t your favorite hobby. That’s why People Jam’s Andrea Beaman and her advice on How To Order Dessert became one of my golden rules, because with that I learned how to convince my guilty friend to indulge herself after the low-carb-lettuce, and try out the dessert, taking the tension away from our table.

The rule is simple: order one healthy dessert, and an unhealthy-but-oh-so-yummy one. Berries and cheesecake, pears and tiramisu, apples and caramel pudding or cherries and chocolate mousse, it’s your pick. The important thing: make sure that those calories just provide you with a sweet memory.