it turns out

that my laziness with a keyboard and rebelliousness against a former place of employment make me seem incredibly gen y. according to http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/04/23/friends-dont-lie-2-friends/ my lack of capitals is very gen y... how disappointing for me, when i am so precariously entrenched in gen x...

sour cream thief

i was going to bake, but between buying sour cream and having time to bake on sunday someone (gee i wonder) ate some sour cream. so i didn't bake, coz i needed a full tub. oh well, i will bake some time this week. not sure when - i am singing tonight, having kylies chicken on tuesday, singing on wednesday, singing on thursday then having a friend over for dinner on friday. i need to have half my baking done for sat morning, the other half was for me to enjoy this week... but such is my life - i'll fit it in some time, it should only take half an hour, so maybe if the sour cream is at home tonight i will bake when i get back from singing...

hutch. and brunswick.

slice....

the recipe below is not mine. it is something i ate last week. i will be making it soon, and then it will be mine, coz i'm gonna make it different. i just need somewhere to put this so i don't lose it...

sour cream slice
1 pkt plain cake mix
add 125g melted butter and
1 cup coconut
spread mix in slice pan, press down and bake in 180C for approx 20min.
spread with 1 sml tin of pie apple (or stew ur own)
top with a mix of 300ml sour cream and 1 egg (beaten together)
sprinkle with cinnamon and bake for another 15-20 min, until sour cream sets.

seriously good stuff... when i make it i will put my recipe up. it's something i used to make when i was about 14 or maybe a bit younger, but i lost the recipe and this is the first time i have found anything like it. This recipe comes from Robyn's Mum.

my weekend construction

no baking over the weekend, didn't have time. i spent 5 hours of sunday evening building a deluxe wide screen cat tv... this is also known as a rabbit hutch... one end is a double story hutch (1.26x0.9m), and as well as that we have added a run (1.83x0.6m). the damn thing is huge and prolly cost about $500 all told. i would recommend to anyone else, buy the extension that is available, don't try to make it ur self. it's cheaper and easier. but when we release the hounds - i mean put the bunnies in - this evening i'm sure they will love it. they better... pictures to come, it was 9pm when we finally finished so i didn't get a lot.

what's in a name

Hunter:
4. an animal, as a dog, trained to hunt game.
7. hunter green. a dark green color of yellowish cast.

Quarry:
Synonyms: aim, chase, game, objective, prey, prize, quest, ravin, victim

Brunswick:
Brunswick green. [G. Braunschweiger grun, first made at Brunswick, in Germany.] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

the cat - hunter, the rabbits quarry and brusnwick. i like to theme my pet names.

previous themes in my life... cat Kes (star trek voyager) cat willow (buffy) dog yoda (Star wars) dog jaja (also star wars) sci fi much??

i had a series of fish named finger, cake, filet, sushi, sashimi, and a few called chips.

i have a few photo's of the runny babbits - they are sooooo cute, but i am tired and lazy. soon. Quarry likes to hide his face in ur jumper, or betwenn ur knees, and when we let him hop around the house he was a bugger to catch. eventually cornered him in the bathroom. Brunswick is identical to quarry, but about a millimetre bigger all over, and a lot bolder. will sit on ur lap quite happily, will even sit upside down on ur lap. when it was time to be picked up again he just sat and was picked up. decided to do a big leap on to the couch poof, then wasn't brave enough to get down. i love my little bunnies. we adopted them from the rspca. better to have preloved bunnies than have to work out how to raise a baby one. and they keep each other company.i'll have photo's really soon.

update - this photo is of Brunswick and Quarry. they are identical. seriously...

lemon tea cakes

yummy goodness and a cooking lesson for boys all rolled into one.

today was a good day. nor scratch that today was great. last night i have a small group of people over for a few drinks and polite conversation, a few of them chose to sleep on my lounge room floor. more than happy to supply pillows, blankets, and looks of confusion as to why they would ignore the super deluxe double air bed already pumped up in the other room... seriously?

anyhoo, this morning rolled around, i cooked franch toast for 5 very appreciative bellies, i played with my new pet rabbits - post to follow - ray ray connected my new dvd/vid player (thanx k-rudd). ray ray played with my nintendo 64 (yes, from the mid 90's). there was discussions about xbox 360's. i now own one... thanx ray ray. i mentioned that i was going to make cupcakes and ray ray was in awe - he's never made cupcakes from scratch. i think it freaked him out even a little bit more that we did the whole thing without looking in a book, and the end result is yumtastic. so ray ray and i made cupcakes (recipe below) and we played games on the tv, and me and ray ray and rose played with our two new pet bunnies. then rose and i made lasagne for dinner - i made a rocking white/cheese sauce. i was impressed with my mad cooking skills, coz i have no mad gaming skills... amped - snow board.. my average score was about 4000, the lowest "wow you made it" score is 50,000... get the idea. mad gaming skills - i don't haz them. teaching 18 yr old boys the simple joy of a good batch of cupcakes mad skills? i haz them!

Tea cakes with lemon icing

125g butter
2 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 cups SRF
1t baking powder
1t vanilla
1 1/2 cups cold strong tea (three tea bags)
1 1/2 cups sultanas

Lemon frosting
2 cups icing sugar
1/2 lemon - juiced
some butter (that's the technical measurment of course...)


OK. beat butter till fluffy-ish. add sugar, beat. add eggs one at a time, beat. add baking poweder and vanilla, add flour, tea, flour, tea, flour. add sultanas, 3/4 fill muffin sized patty cases. 15 mins @180C, rotate every which way. about another 15 mins - test with a toothpick. for icing - beat it all together. make it lemonny to taste.

my white suace...
melt the leftover butter from cupcakes and icing - about 75 - 100g at this point. whisk in flour till it becomes a paste - about 1/2 a cup i guess, i didn't measure. add milk, peppercorns, mixed herbs. keeps whisking till ur arm drops off, then chage arms. when that one drops off rope in ur partner for a bit. keep adding milk add cheese, add more milk. eventually you will have enough, the heat will thicken it and bake out the flour taste. it was simple and tasted great.