Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Monday, 26 April 2010

I baked!

I've been baking... 

I made these: 

A giant, chocolatey cheerio...

The top bit is supposed to say 'Charlotte' in Japanese... #epicfail. The bottom bit says 'SaTAN'. It originally just said 'STAN', but that was boring.
Boring ones...
I then played with the chocolate for a bit. I need to grow up! :P

And yeah, most people reading this probably know about this from twitter. I just thought it was vaguely bloggable about! XD

Oh, and you can find the biscuity recipe here. =]

And just like every time I bake, I must say that I really enjoyed it and I'm going to start baking more often. :P

Friday, 19 February 2010

PANCAKEDAYBLOG:PART2!

Last night J, my 11 year old cousin stayed at my flathousethingy. We had another pancake day! I know it was a couple of days late, but hey ho! This time I actually took some photos! =D

 
It started off quite well...

 

Then it started to go a little wrong...

 

The pancakes went all burnt and looked disgusting... They actually tasted quite nice!

 

We had lots of fun flipping them. I was a lot better at the whole flipping thing than J so I decided to a) give her a flipping lesson, and b) show off. Showing off was a bad idea. I was flipping stuff almost to the ceiling and it was going quite well until I simultaneously tried to flip a pancake really high and take a photo of the pancake at the same time. My concentration died and SPLAT...



Pancake mush on the floor! It happened twice! Personally I think I looks more like a brain than a blob of pancake mush... I ended up stepping in it and getting the steps outside covered in pancakeage.

I got a little pissed off at how wrong it was going so I kicked the bottom of the cooker...

 It broke... Luckily I managed to fix it. 

 

We made a lot of mess. The picture is of what I like to call 'pancake shavings'. I cleaned everything up though! It may have gone horribly wrong, but it was actually quite fun and even though the pancakes looked disgusting, they tasted rather yummy! I blame the fact that we used pancake mix... Making pancakes from scratch is a zillion and one times easier! I'm glad I didn't leave the room at all while we were making pancakes. J kept turning the gas thingy so if she had left it loads of gas would have gone into the room. WE COULD HAVE ACTUALLY DIEDED! Every time I noticed it I quickly had to search for my lighter and light the cooker (yeah, the thingy that makes a spark or whatever to make fire isn't working, so I have to use my lighter). I'm surprised my hands aren't completely frazzled as I had to do that quite a few times!


But yes, now I finally have pancake pics! =D

Sunday, 19 July 2009

Stuff and stuff.

After spending from midnight until whenever I fell asleep completely freaking out about spiders, I woke up to find that a) a whole pack of chocolate digestives was now empty and b) I really, quite desperately needed to pee.

I very jumpily (not jumpy in a boing kinda way, more of a fuckisthatblackbitonthewallaspider kinda way) made my way to the toilet (quite an achievement considering a few hours ago I couldn't leave my room) and urinated. It was one of the best pees of my life because I had been holding it in since I saw the spider.

I'm not sure what happened to the chocolate digestives... The pack was definitely full earlier and I'm sure it can't have been the dog because it was closed with a pretty good knot and stuff... I don't think dogs can untie knots... I must have eaten them in my sleep.

I cautiously made my way back to my bedroom and gave Morrissey his medicine (an hour earlier than I was going to because I wanted to go back to sleep). Instead of going back to sleep I ended up realising I was awake and writing this. Currently Morrissey and Miyavi are cleaning eachother or something and it's adorable. I wish I had my camera to make a video of it!

Morrissey terrified me last night. I honestly thought he had died for a few minutes. He didn't appear to be breathing and he was staying very still. I opened the cage door and he still didn't move. In the state of freaked outishness I was already in, I was all like 'Fuck' and shouted to my grandmother that Morrissey was dead. She came out of her room and I think she was really sad about him dying. She asked if I was sure he was dead so I poked him. He glared at me and kind of licked my finger. I felt stupid. Now I'm really scared of him dying. Meep. I think he's getting a bit better though.

The spider was big and on the wall. It was horrible. Nobody else could find it (I'm sure they didn't even believe me about it), so I barricaded myself in my room. Tears streaming down my face (yes, I actually cried o_O), I sat in my room for hours just freaking 0ut and whatnot. I remember getting harder and harder to breathe and I made a pact with myself never to leave my room because all escape routes had potential spiders. In the event of a spider actually being in my room, my plan was to somehow break the window and climbb down the front of the house. Stupid, much? I'm so glad I fell asleep. If I hadn't, I'd still be freaking out now. Horrible, horrible night.

Yesterday was cool though. I made bread using this recipe. It tasted pretty good and it was great to pretend it was someone I didn't like whilst beating the crap out of it. I got told that I would kill the yeast by stabbing it and that it would also die when I cooked it. I proceeded to cry about it (heh, I think I was slightly hormonal or something yesterday- I hardly ever cry)! All I could think was 'poor yeast'. Luckily, I soon got over my yeast sympathy. I think I'm going to start baking more stuff again.

I'm going to stop writing this now.