LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) are set up on a blind date by married friends Peter ( Hayes Macarthur) and Alison (Christina Hendricks) Novak. After Peter and Alison are killed in a car accident, Holly and Messer find out that they have been named legal guardians for Sophie the one year old daughter of Peter and Alison. When Holly and Messer move into the Novaks house to honour their friends wishes, they discover how much they do not get along and the commitment it takes to bring up a child.
The ending is once again predictable and it is an enjoyable movie however I would probably not see it again, I would though say that it is not a bad movie to watch.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Friday, 25 February 2011
Food on Friday.
CALIFORNIAN SALAD
Serves 6
1 small lettuce
3 small tomatoes
1 green capsicum
6 spring onions
6 radishes
1/2 avocado
1/2 cucumber
Vinaigrette dressing
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 small clove garlic
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
salt and pepper
Wash lettuce in cold water to remove dirt. Use a salad spinner or wrap in a tea towel and whirl over your head to dry.
Tear the leaves into smaller pieces and place in a salad bowl.
Cut capsicum in half lengthwise and discard steam and seeds.
Thinly slice cucumber and radishes.
Chop onions and slice peeled avocado, add vegetables to the slad bowl.
Crush garlic into a small screwtop jar, and add a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Add mustard, lemon juice and oil. Put the lid on and shake.
Pour the dressing over the salad and toss it all together gently with salad servers.
Serves 6
1 small lettuce
3 small tomatoes
1 green capsicum
6 spring onions
6 radishes
1/2 avocado
1/2 cucumber
Vinaigrette dressing
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 small clove garlic
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
salt and pepper
Wash lettuce in cold water to remove dirt. Use a salad spinner or wrap in a tea towel and whirl over your head to dry.
Tear the leaves into smaller pieces and place in a salad bowl.
Cut capsicum in half lengthwise and discard steam and seeds.
Thinly slice cucumber and radishes.
Chop onions and slice peeled avocado, add vegetables to the slad bowl.
Crush garlic into a small screwtop jar, and add a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Add mustard, lemon juice and oil. Put the lid on and shake.
Pour the dressing over the salad and toss it all together gently with salad servers.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Monday Movies
So this is another new regular feature that I am adding to my blog. It will be a review of a movie that I have seen sometime in my life. It will most likely be a recent one but sometimes it may be one that I have seen a while ago.
MORNING GLORY
Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from her job as a producer of a local Morning Television show, and lands a job producing a failing national show. To turn around the ratings Becky brings in news reporter man, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) to co-host with Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). Becky struggles to keep the hosts in order so that the show doesn't completely fail, while falling for Adam Bennett (Patrick Wilson), the news producer.
I would highly reccomend this movie, and not just because of Patrick Wilson, although the ending is a little predictable. I found it highly enjoyable and would watch it again.
MORNING GLORY
Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from her job as a producer of a local Morning Television show, and lands a job producing a failing national show. To turn around the ratings Becky brings in news reporter man, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) to co-host with Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). Becky struggles to keep the hosts in order so that the show doesn't completely fail, while falling for Adam Bennett (Patrick Wilson), the news producer.
I would highly reccomend this movie, and not just because of Patrick Wilson, although the ending is a little predictable. I found it highly enjoyable and would watch it again.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Food on Friday.
EDINBURGH SHORTBREAD
250 g Butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 1/4 cups plain flour
1/2 cup rice flour
Cream butter and sugar. Gradually add flour and work with hands into a smooth creamy ball.
Press out on baking paper lined oven trays to form 2 x 20 rounds, 1 cm thick. Pinch a frill around the edge and mark lightly into 8 wedges. Pierce all over with a fork.
Bake in a moderately slow oven 20 minutes until a pale straw colour. Cool slightly then cut through the straw lines.
250 g Butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 1/4 cups plain flour
1/2 cup rice flour
Cream butter and sugar. Gradually add flour and work with hands into a smooth creamy ball.
Press out on baking paper lined oven trays to form 2 x 20 rounds, 1 cm thick. Pinch a frill around the edge and mark lightly into 8 wedges. Pierce all over with a fork.
Bake in a moderately slow oven 20 minutes until a pale straw colour. Cool slightly then cut through the straw lines.
Friday, 11 February 2011
Food on Friday
HONEY-ICED COFFEE CAKE
Serves 8 - 10
3 teaspoons instant coffee powder
1 tablespoon hot water
125 g chopped butter ar room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
3/4 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup of custard powder
1/3 cup of milk
Honey Icing
30 g butter
1 teaspoon instant coffee
3 teaspoons hot water
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a 20 cm ring tin with melted butter, and line the base with non stick baking paper. Dissolve the coffee in the hot water and combine in a large bowl with the butter, vanilla essence, sugar and eggs. Sift flour and custard powder into the bowl and add the milk.
Using electric beaters, beat on low speed until the ingredients are combined, then increase speed to medium. Beat for about 3 minutes until very smooth and lighter in colour. Spoon into the prepared tin.
Bake for about 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake. Stand for 5 minutes before turning onto a rack to cool.
When cold transfer to a serving plate and spread with the icing.
To make the honey icing melt the butter, then stir in combined water and coffee, the honey, vanilla essence and half the icing sugar. Gradually stir in the remaining iceing sugar to mix a spreadable consistency
Serves 8 - 10
3 teaspoons instant coffee powder
1 tablespoon hot water
125 g chopped butter ar room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
3/4 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup of custard powder
1/3 cup of milk
Honey Icing
30 g butter
1 teaspoon instant coffee
3 teaspoons hot water
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a 20 cm ring tin with melted butter, and line the base with non stick baking paper. Dissolve the coffee in the hot water and combine in a large bowl with the butter, vanilla essence, sugar and eggs. Sift flour and custard powder into the bowl and add the milk.
Using electric beaters, beat on low speed until the ingredients are combined, then increase speed to medium. Beat for about 3 minutes until very smooth and lighter in colour. Spoon into the prepared tin.
Bake for about 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake. Stand for 5 minutes before turning onto a rack to cool.
When cold transfer to a serving plate and spread with the icing.
To make the honey icing melt the butter, then stir in combined water and coffee, the honey, vanilla essence and half the icing sugar. Gradually stir in the remaining iceing sugar to mix a spreadable consistency
Friday, 4 February 2011
Food on Friday
I have decided to add some regular features to my blog to make it more interesting and more regular. So the first one I have decided to implement is Food on Friday, basically on Fridays I will add a recipe.
PASTICCIO (Greek lasagne)
Serves 6
225 g dried fusilli or other short pasta shapes
4 tbsp double cream
salt and pepper
fresh rosemary sprigs to garnish
Sauce
2 tbsp olive oil plus extra for brushing
1 onion sliced thinly
1 red capsicum deseeded and chopped
2 garlic cloves chopped
625 g lean minced beef
400 g can chopped tomatoes
125 ml dry white wine
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
50 g can anchovy fillets, drained and chopped
Topping
300 ml natural yoghurt
3 eggs
pinch freshly grated nutmeg
55 g freshly grated Parmesan Cheese.
1. To make the sauce, heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and capsicum and fry for 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the beef and cook stirring until browned.
2. Add the tomatoes and wine,stir well and bring to the boil over a medium heat Simmer for 20 minutes or until the sauce is fairly thick. Stir in the parsley and anchovies. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
3. Bring a large pan of lightly salted water to the boil over a medium heat. Add the pasta and cook for about 8-10 minutes, or until tender but still firm to the bite. Drain then transfer to a bowl. Stir in the cream and reserve.
4. To make the topping beat the yoghurt with the eggs and nutmeg until well mixed and season to taste.
5. Brush a large shallow ovenproof dish with oil. Spoon in half the pasta mixture and cover with half the meat sauce. Repeat these layers, then spread the topping over the final layer. Sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top.
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for about 25 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and bubbling. Garnish with fresh rosemary sprigs and serve.
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PASTICCIO (Greek lasagne)
Serves 6
225 g dried fusilli or other short pasta shapes
4 tbsp double cream
salt and pepper
fresh rosemary sprigs to garnish
Sauce
2 tbsp olive oil plus extra for brushing
1 onion sliced thinly
1 red capsicum deseeded and chopped
2 garlic cloves chopped
625 g lean minced beef
400 g can chopped tomatoes
125 ml dry white wine
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
50 g can anchovy fillets, drained and chopped
Topping
300 ml natural yoghurt
3 eggs
pinch freshly grated nutmeg
55 g freshly grated Parmesan Cheese.
1. To make the sauce, heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and capsicum and fry for 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the beef and cook stirring until browned.
2. Add the tomatoes and wine,stir well and bring to the boil over a medium heat Simmer for 20 minutes or until the sauce is fairly thick. Stir in the parsley and anchovies. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
3. Bring a large pan of lightly salted water to the boil over a medium heat. Add the pasta and cook for about 8-10 minutes, or until tender but still firm to the bite. Drain then transfer to a bowl. Stir in the cream and reserve.
4. To make the topping beat the yoghurt with the eggs and nutmeg until well mixed and season to taste.
5. Brush a large shallow ovenproof dish with oil. Spoon in half the pasta mixture and cover with half the meat sauce. Repeat these layers, then spread the topping over the final layer. Sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top.
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for about 25 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and bubbling. Garnish with fresh rosemary sprigs and serve.
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
The Tap Man.
So on Saturday we had a sausage sizzle for the community at the front of our church. There is a building across the road that has a tap on the side. Now there was a homeless guy hanging out across the road where the tap was. This guy decided that he needed to turn the tap on full blast. My mother saw the tap was on and went and turned it off. Then the homeless turned it back on again. So another guy from our church went and turned it off. This kept happening the homeless man would turn it on then we would turn it off. Eventually we used a wrench to turn it off and he couldn't turn it on again.
The next day I had to go up the street and on my way back I came across the tap man. He tried to talk to me. But he was not speaking English so I could not understand what he was saying.
The next day I had to go up the street and on my way back I came across the tap man. He tried to talk to me. But he was not speaking English so I could not understand what he was saying.
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Book Update.
So anyway I have been reading a few books lately I thought I might tell you about them.
The Miracles of Prato.
It was an interesting book but probably not one I would have chosen myself. You can find out what I thought about it here.
The Book Thief.
This is a book about a young girl named Liesel Meminger living in Germany in the late 30s and early 40s. She starts to take books and learns to read, from these books. It also portrays her relationships with those who live around her and how her foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter from the Nazis. As well as her growing up.
I found this book really interesting as it gives a different perspective on that era not least because the narrator of the book is Death.
The Secret Life of Bees.
Lily Owens runs away from home with her black housekeeper in the summer of '64 when race riots where breaking out cause of the new Civil Rights Act. She stays with the Boatwright sisters who teach her about bee keeping and she learns about her mother whom Lily believed she had killed when she was 4.
It was an interesting book because of the racial aspects but I thought there was too much wierd religion. The sisters were Catholic but with there own rituals added in and it seemed to me that it was completely devoid of God and the whole focus was on Mary, like she had God's power. I googled the author and found out she had journeyed into feminine spirituality and I found it kind of wierd.
So the next book I will read is The Time Traveler's Wife.
The Miracles of Prato.
It was an interesting book but probably not one I would have chosen myself. You can find out what I thought about it here.
The Book Thief.
This is a book about a young girl named Liesel Meminger living in Germany in the late 30s and early 40s. She starts to take books and learns to read, from these books. It also portrays her relationships with those who live around her and how her foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter from the Nazis. As well as her growing up.
I found this book really interesting as it gives a different perspective on that era not least because the narrator of the book is Death.
The Secret Life of Bees.
Lily Owens runs away from home with her black housekeeper in the summer of '64 when race riots where breaking out cause of the new Civil Rights Act. She stays with the Boatwright sisters who teach her about bee keeping and she learns about her mother whom Lily believed she had killed when she was 4.
It was an interesting book because of the racial aspects but I thought there was too much wierd religion. The sisters were Catholic but with there own rituals added in and it seemed to me that it was completely devoid of God and the whole focus was on Mary, like she had God's power. I googled the author and found out she had journeyed into feminine spirituality and I found it kind of wierd.
So the next book I will read is The Time Traveler's Wife.
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Friday, 17 December 2010
30 days of blogging - Day 30 - Your favourite song.
My favourite song is hard to decide so I'll tell you a list of my faourite songs.
If you believe me - Relient K
Deathbed - Relient K
More than Useless - Relient K
I am understood - Relient K
Gone - Switchfoot
In the light - DC Talk
I can't think of any more at the moment.
If you believe me - Relient K
Deathbed - Relient K
More than Useless - Relient K
I am understood - Relient K
Gone - Switchfoot
In the light - DC Talk
I can't think of any more at the moment.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
30 days of blogging - Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned
In the past month I learnt thaqt I am still a private person there are some things that I don't like to share, and that I feel uncomfortable sharing. I also learnt that I still have trouble keeping up with things I have committed to sometimes, especially if they are not essential.
I also realised again that I love my family and that they are really important to me.
I also realised again that I love my family and that they are really important to me.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
30 days of blogging - Day 28 - A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
So how have I changed well I've had my ears pierced. I think I've lost some weight. I have finished my TAFE course. My mother told me that I have matured a whole heap in the last 12 months. I guess I also feel a lot better about myself ( most of the time ).
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
30 Days of Blogging - Day 27 - Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
I am doing this challenge because I have been highly irregular about doing posts on my blog and I thought that if I did this then it would get me into the habit of blogging more regularly. It has been interesting and I will try and more regularly post now.
Monday, 13 December 2010
30 days of blogging - Day 26 - What you think about your friends
I love my friends or else why would I be friends with them?
I think they are loyal and funny and just great to be around. They are always coming up with great ideas and good just to be with cause they make me laugh.
I think they are loyal and funny and just great to be around. They are always coming up with great ideas and good just to be with cause they make me laugh.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
30 days of Blogging - Day 25 - What I would find in your bag
Depending on which bag you looked in you would find
my waller, my phone, receipts and move tickets, keys, pens, random bits of paper, a $2 coin, note pad, lip balm, other stuff I can't think of right now.
my waller, my phone, receipts and move tickets, keys, pens, random bits of paper, a $2 coin, note pad, lip balm, other stuff I can't think of right now.
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