Last year there was a day at work where we sat around the common room table and discussed our favourite biscuits, as thrilling as that topic is. My choice was Griffin's Hundreds and Thousands biscuits, which are evocative of fairy bread, another childhood favourite. Maybe it is the childhood association which is making Whittaker's new limited edition Hundreds and Thousands chocolate flavour so popular. I have wanted to try it all week but it has been sold out everywhere. This afternoon I happened to come across a supermarket worker unpacking boxes of the bars, but not to go on the shelf - they were selling too quickly.

The chocolate is not as pink as it looks on the packet. It's white chocolate with biscuit pieces and hundreds and thousands scattered through. It does manage to taste just like the biscuits, but in a concentrated, sweeter form. The best thing about it is probably the texture, melting chocolate with crunchy bits of biscuit and little rocks of coloured sugar.

Whittaker's definitely have the most creative flavour range out of the main supermarket brands. Their kiwifruit chocolate and white chocolate raspberry are other unique offerings - Cadbury's fruit and nut doesn't stand up to these fruit flavours in my view. I hope Cadbury will be inspired to come out with some more creative flavours. Their berry panacotta from their desserts range a couple of years back could do with a return.

Rainy Saturday afternoon following a week-long headache with a 160 page case to read for work on Monday. Fortification in the form of Great Expectations and soup.

Saturday afternoon soup

Following the Revive Cookbook 2 soup template. makes truckloads.

You will need:

• 2 onions
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp panang curry paste
• 4 potatoes
• 3 carrots
• handful kale
• 2 bok choi bulbs
• 1 cup red lentils
• 1 litre chicken stock + 2 cups water
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 tbsp honey
• coriander

Directions:

1. crush garlic cloves with side of knife, peel and roughly chop. Add to large pot on top of stove and heat with a splash of oil.
2. peel and dice onions and add to pot.
3. allow onions and garlic to soften for 5 minutes.
4. add curry paste to pot
5. grate carrots, dice potatoes and roughly cut kale and bok choi.
6. add all vegetables and lentils to pot.
7. add liquid and simmer for 45 minutes.
8. add salt and honey, check seasonings.
9. blend if desired.
10. serve with coriander.

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