Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 February 2013

Procrastination...

Ahhh, someone should write a poem called, 'Ode to Procrastination'. I believe its a skill that everyone develops as they grow older, but even more everyone has adapted their procrastination differently. This post is procrastination from doing my english CA :S

As some or none, since no one reads this blog may know, I've just returned from a wedding :D My cousins to be precise, twas in India hence I left last Friday and returned yesterday morning. As my first proper Indian wedding, the experience was amazing and unforgettable, not only because of all the celebration but my cousins also make my visits worthwhile and memorable. There were several moments that I will cherish forever including the endless dancing on the engagement night, diligent attempts to steal the grooms shoes (a tradition that we failed to achieve because his friends had hidden them in the car before hand, although our efforts were not unrecognized as one of them acknowledged us at the end of the three day celebration) and of course, the usual business of nonsense with my cousins in no better location than a HOTEL!!!

I love hotels, we ordered room service on the first night :D I should explain, that our parents were really encouraging the prospect of room service but on the first night none of us were hungry (this is my two cousin sisters, were all of the same age) and so we decided not to eat anything for dinner, im not sure why they didnt, but in my case, just looking at food made my tummy tumble. So as you can imagine, after around two hours of non-stop dancing we were famished, thus we ordered something to eat downstairs at the reception after paying a visit to our mums room (we three were in one room while our other cousins were across the corridor in the room opposite and our mums were in the rooms on the floor above.). Our visit had two prime reasons, i needed to return my outfit i had worn that evening and to ask if permission to order food. My cousins know that if they want something the person to ask for an optimistic response is my mum, simply because she's the youngest of our aunts and well shes most likely to say yes. surprisingly though, she said NO! anyway, I decided to take some money out of her purse because i also know that she wouldnt want us to stay hungry and so i reached into her purse in the pitch black and took out what i thought was a bare 200 rupees (thats just under £3), however, i was shocked to see when we left the room that i had actually taken out 1500 rupees :S oppppsssss, (thats just under £20) sure it doesnt seem like much in pounds but it sure felt like a lot, anyway it was a good thing that i had taken out such a wholesome amount else we wouldnt have been able to afford much.

After ordering our food we ran the hot tap to the tub in the bathroom, having decided that we wanted to massage our feet since we had been wearing heels all morning and even danced in them for a while - BAD IDEA. When our food finally came the staff-man-service-guy was looking very... odd and rather happy, strangely happy :S anyway, he gave us the wrong change... I got very annoyed at this, how dare they think were so incapable that we wouldn't realise we were given the wrong change, now that I think of it we should have asked for a receipt. Anyway, we very quickly finished the food but having ordered too much half a plate was left on the table, thats probably the only regret we had, that last half plate gave a sickening after smell whenever we went near it and the hotel staff wouldnt even come to clear it up!

I'm being told off for blogging now, and i agree ive procrastinated enough, so I guess I should start my English. Byee... sorry for boring you with this irrelevant story. :)


Saturday, 8 September 2012

Hello.
School has started again .... yay :/ Going into year 11 wasn't nearly as scary as opening my maths GCSE result (i got an A*  :D), but then again, this is 'The Year It Gets Real!'.
or serious as sow said but its always been serious we just never took it seriously but this year is no joke.
Serious aside                                                                                             (haha get it) I've just come back from a house warming party, soooooo boring! im gonna make sure that all of my future house warming parties are fun and exciting (dont just involve talking to complete strangers) or I just won't have a house warming party and invite my closest friends and family....

wikipedia says: a house warming party is held within the first 90 days of a resident moving into a new house.
ahhh, the most important part of the party is the gifts given by guests to furnish the house :P

reading on you find that the origins of housewarming is quite literal. In the olddddd days, when a person moved house there would literally be a housewarming, in which friends and family would bring firewood and add it to the fireplace, this would not only warm the house but was believed to scare of evil spirits. awesome.

haha, wikipedia is hilarious! there's even a list for the variation of housewarming parties :P
but im not going to dwell into that, for in fact i am blogging for my new found love for baking! :D

I have always loved baking but today I have reached a new peak in my baking for i made something completely on my own :D Having been inspired by this weeks episode 'The Great British Bake off' i decided to make some meringues, sure they were sweet and simple but for someone who rarely bakes or has a skill for following recipes i think i did exceptionally well (especially with separating the white frrom the yellow when cracking the egg).
At first i was worried because having taken out the meringues and tasted one it wasnt that nice chewy consistency that i was after and so i concluded that i had burnt them (if thats possible) but then after adding whipped cream and leaving them to cool they became as chewy as well.... a meringue is meant to be :P



YUM!

I should be back with my next baking adventure.
TTFN
xxx

Sunday, 5 February 2012

snow and cakes...

Hello who ever still reads my blog :P
Last night I came out of the shower after agonisingly untangling my hair without my detangler (wasnt too pleased about that)... and i saw one of the most beautiful sights ever.... it was SNOWING :D
Then this morning i happened to wake up at 3:45 (no idea why) and i see a sheet of white puffy snow covering the world outside my window : )

Later i find little footsteps running through the deep snow.

Further examination shows they are the footsteps of the eversleepy but equally adorable, Keyla : nextdoor neighbour's cat :P


I also made some yummyliscious cupcakes while repeatedly listening to 1D (they're songs are awsome :p)


As yummy as they look, i would probably only be able to eat half, theyre really big and there's LOADS of icing :S. I was experimenting with icing techniques, so i bought an icer thing with the bag and the different nozzles, dunno what its called ;)

Have a fun time in the snow... I wonder what bushy park is like, must be amazing. My riding lesson was cancelled because of the snow :( so i didn't see.

TTFN
xxx
LETS HOPE ITLL SNOW TONIGHT= NO SCHOOL TOMOZ



Sunday, 4 December 2011

Chilly nights, pretty lights...

Yesterday, my mum took me to London to get a hair cut, to be honest you can't really make out any difference, but it was really fun, the hairdresser used this really cool heater thing to dry my hair so it didn't go all frizzy - her name was Nicola :D.

After that my mums friend came to meet us and we went to the Patisserie Valerie to eat YUMMY cakes.

Pretty + Yummy! But the icing made me feel sick afterwards. 

this photo is awful but oh well. (my mummy got a haircut too)
Then we went shopping on Oxford Street to buy COATS - how exciting... we spent 3 hours buying 3 coats and went to like 5 different shops!(Debenhams, Forever 21, New Look, Dorothy Perkins, French Connection, Jane Norman...) it was tiring at the end but then again too much shopping is tiring, isn't it?
The Lighting was really pretty hence the title, oh yh i forgot my coat that day because it was sunny in the morning yet it wssnt actually that cold in the evening.


This was a little street next to miss.Selfridge leading to Carnaby street i think.  I was the one to notice it! :)


M&S decorations.


These are all the miss. Selfridge window displays they were the best!



This photo is all SQUIGLY

There was a SNOW MACHINE in this one!!!





Soz this pic is really sweet!
i introduce you to Keyla's Hobby - SLEEPING.

TTFN
xxx


Saturday, 8 October 2011

Baking is fun...

Hello,
Today my cousin and i decided to bake a cake, just for the fun of it. Last week, we attempted carrot cake, but it wasn't a great success because it tasted all floury and gooey and the icing wasn't too great either. So today we thought we'd keep it simple and we made a fresh cream cake, which by the way tastes YUM!
although we did learn that you should use Single Cream for the cream on the cake instead of double cream because that makes the cream to think and clumpy, but it tastes the same. Anyway, here are some pics of my fun baking time...

These are my flour domes...

or maybe i'll call them flour igloos



my mummy chopping mushrooms and my cousins mixing the batter...

 And voila....
Our cake. It has pineapple butterflies...

Strawberry fans (you can't see them very well but the 
strawberrys are sliced into a pretty fan shape) ...


Well, that was that, i hope to do cooler cakes but this was a lot of fun and tastes YUM YUMMMM.
Keep following 
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

I'm speechless...

Hi
Wow, its been a long time. I'm meant to be doing my DT homework, but lets say this an further extension of it. So, today in DT we had to make mood boards for inspiration when it came to designing our chairs and we had to choose a style period from history. I've decided to stick with Surrealism, although my other option was Art Nouveau, i just think you can be REALLY creative with surrealism. Anyway, more to the point as i was wasting time for a good reason - i was picking letters for my Surrealism Title, they're all different so as to look surreal and weird. As i was doing that randre, my DT & AS Computing buddy decided to show me this amazing artist/ photographer/creative guy (not sure what he fits in really, all of them i guess) called Carl Warner, as she was wondering whether his work was surrealism. In the end we found out that it was and randre was annoyed that she hadn't chosen that style. OH WELL, now i can use his images ( should i feel bad?)
Anywhooo, so i would like to give credits before you see his images soooo

CREDITS:            
    Lechar Swerdna   -  for introducing me to this guys amazing mind and work
   Carl Warner         -  for having an amazingly imaginative mind and producing his astounding work
      (maybe he should go at the top, oh well. Here are some of my fave's)


London :)

CHOCOLATE LAND

This is one of my favourites :D

This is randre's favourite :D

This one's called 'Lake District Cheesescape' 

The sea waves are red cabbage leaves!

This is another favourite, i think the  dangly bits are carrots :)

As much as i love it, its a wast of chocolate cake. I think the sea is salmon.

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The sea is made out of fish!!! This is actually a video and it looks absolutely amazing.

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I actually saw a programme where he made this foodscape.


He also does adds, although i think the fish looks slightly out of place.


Courgette State Building...

He also has lots of videos, i especially like this one because the palm trees are made out of paperclips, but i cant put the actual  video on, he's it can't be embedded so here's the link.
The link to his website is http://www.carlwarner.com/, where there are 4 folders of his foodscape work and more kl videos. I think his work is fun to look at too, i mean guessing and figuring out what food he used for in what, its really inspiring. I'm hoping it will inspire some imaginative chair ideas from me. We shall wait and see. 
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anyway, keeping following, havent said that in a while. i hope to do another post soon about peacocks and my late obsession over them. YAY. 
TTFN
xxx.