Tap tap tap, is this thing on? Well, well, well, I guess to say I haven’t been blogging much would be a gross understatement! Teehee. Well, I’m just not very good at keeping this blog I guess. Every time I thought of something I’d like to blog, it’s usually in the dead of night when I’m trying to sleep and can’t be bothered to get up even to scrawl ideas on a piece of paper. (Yes, most of my greatest ideas occur to me when I’m trying to sleep!) But I do want to keep this blogging thing up. So I thought I’d just start with a brief update.
— I’ve been terrible at keeping up with my list and book reading. Especially on the “blog more” thing. HA! I did manage to make some pizzas and enjoy time with Annette.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that making a pizza is neither difficult nor costly. In fact, each pizza only uses little of each ingredient, that the ingredients that I bought lasted for several pizzas! (Hmm, makes the $3.95 pizza seems expensive.) For this pizza here I used cabanossi, mushroom, capsicum, olives, and cheese. Love it. But I cheated and used a store-bought pizza base instead of making the dough myself. Yay for quick meals! But the store-bought pizza base is rather on the thin and crispy side, so next time I might try to make the dough myself too.
— I’ve been doing quite a bit of baking here too, especially during the cold months, it’s a great excuse to use the oven and warm up the place (not to mention the beautiful aroma that fills the whole place). Our favourite around here is the chocolate and banana cake (recipe from Cadbury). The recipe recommends sprinkling pecans on top, but as you can see I substituted that with flaked almonds. And I also used vanilla instead of the cinnamon. This cake is so yummy I made this many times already.
— I’m also still knitting and sewing, I love my crafting time. Recently I made this little apron for Annette. She’s been very keen to “help” me in the kitchen, so I thought I’d make her an apron to make her look the part. It’s made of some chocolate brown duck cloth with bias binding around it, and some cute japanese fabrics for the pocket (these ones are the Little Red Riding Hood and Little Bo Peep prints — so cute).
— My parents will be visiting soon, staying here for about 3 months. I’m quite excited, last time I saw them was over 3 years ago and I was busy with a newborn baby back then. So hopefully this time around I’ll get to spend time with them properly, and that they’ll get to spend some time with Annette too.
— Um, what else? Oh yeah, Australian Idol is on again, and I’m watching of course. Rather unenthusiastically at the moment, however. Only two weeks into the finals, and two of my favourites are already out. Harrumph. I thought Holly rocked and I like the songs that she picked, I was sorry to see her go. And I like Brianna’s style and quirkiness, and she has a gorgeous collection of vintage dresses, too bad about the bum notes. I guess she’s not mainstream enough to win the competition anyway. Ah well, I still enjoy watching the singing — although what’s up with the themes? Disco?!? Gaaah!
Ok, that’s it for my brief update for now! Hopefully it won’t be months before you hear from me on this blog again ;)