30 day challenger

What is this all about?

I'm Oliver Emberton, and I commit myself to continual 30 day challenges. So should you.

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Why 30 days?

30 days appears to be the right length to form a new habit. Too short and I wouldn’t really be stretching myself; too long and I might feel like I couldn’t survive to the end.

Cooking challenge day 13: Salmon Eggs Benedict

Cooking challenge day 13: Salmon Eggs Benedict

One of my favourite dishes and a bit more of a challenge – this doesn’t take long, but it did require I tried poaching for the first time.

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Cooking challenge day 13: My 2nd ever dinner party

Cooking challenge day 13: My 2nd ever dinner party

Following my first ever dinner party last week, I invited over my good friends Billy and Mel for a meal.

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My First Ever Dinner Party [VIDEO]

My First Ever Dinner Party [VIDEO]

If you’d like to see just how my Valentines Day dinner party went, here’s a short video.

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Cooking challenge day 12: Macaroni cheese

Cooking challenge day 12: Macaroni cheese

Before the storm comes the calm. Tomorrow I’ll be throwing a 3 course dinner party, filming it, and putting my guest’s opinions up on the Interwebs. So today, I chose something simple.

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Cooking challenge day 11: French style chicken, kinda

Cooking challenge day 11: French style chicken, kinda

Today didn’t go quite according to plan.

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Cooking challenge day 10: Thai green chicken curry

Cooking challenge day 10: Thai green chicken curry

Today needed to be simpler after the unrelenting carnage of yesterday’s dinner party. I plumped for a thai curry.

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Cooking challenge day 9: My first dinner party

Cooking challenge day 9: My first dinner party

Today was Valentines, and my first ever dinner party. For two. Married. Women.

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Cooking challenge day 8: A Polish tribute

Cooking challenge day 8: A Polish tribute

If you followed yesterday’s challenge, you’ll know I stayed up till 3am rearranging my dining area to be fit for guests.

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Cooking challenge day 7: Lasagne

Cooking challenge day 7: Lasagne

Today I wanted to cook something more complicated. So I naively decided to attempt lasagne.

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Cooking challenge day 6: Hot & sour noodle soup

Cooking challenge day 6: Hot & sour noodle soup

Today I learnt never to cook when tired. Pretty much everything went wrong with this one.

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