Monthly Archives: January, 2013

Sunny Flowers

Today I thought I’d write about sunflowers. I love gardening but alas my thumbs are black. I am sometimes able to coax plants to grow, but most of the time, I get to the point where I feel too busy or too lazy or too hot to go out and water them. Sometimes we get …

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The Heat is On.

Wow.  I have tried and tried and tried to be as comfortable as possible in this heat but geez, it’s so dang hard.  Turning the aircon on doesn’t help that much even as I have ignored nagging thoughts about our next electric bill. You wouldn’t know what a heatwave is until you have experienced it …

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Let’s Get Naked Longaniza – Updated

I have updated my recipe.  Here is my simple pork longganiza recipe: What you need: 1 kilo ground pork — we get ours from an Asian meatshop in Darra.  Don’t use the minced pork you use for your almondigas or pork omelette — it should be the pork that’s ground up like they are stuck together …

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Choc Ripple Cake!

It’s still school holidays and my daughter wanted to make something for dessert. I thought hmmmm, which one?  How about a Choc Ripple Cake?  It’s very easy and best of all, cheap 😛 to make. Recipe here: a packet of Arnott’s Choc Ripple biscuits (250 grams) — you can actually use any chocolate biscuits if …

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Happier Year

It hasn’t been easy celebrating the coming of the New Year… Horrible news before the year ended consumed most of the time that should have been left for planning what to do to celebrate.  The shooting of the children in Newtown.  The brutal gang rape and murder of a 23 year old Indian medical student …

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