So last night, instead of making a stir fry as I intended, I ended up making grilled chicken. And tweeted about it. It was AWESOME so here's the method I used!

( Lemon Pepper Chicken )

So last night, instead of making a stir fry as I intended, I ended up making grilled chicken. And tweeted about it. It was AWESOME so here's the method I used!

( Lemon Pepper Chicken )

Bacon & Lentil Soup
Split Pea & Vegetable Soup (with ham stock)
Chicken & Bacon Not-A-Tagine
Bolognese mince
Italian wedges
Mustard mash


Recipes! 'Cos I really like everything I made, and I'm gonna bore you all.

( Bacon and Lentil Soup. )

( Split Pea and Vegetable Soup )


( Chicken and Bacon Not-A-Tagine )


( Bolognese Mince )


( Italian Wedges )


( Mustard Mash )

Bacon & Lentil Soup
Split Pea & Vegetable Soup (with ham stock)
Chicken & Bacon Not-A-Tagine
Bolognese mince
Italian wedges
Mustard mash


Recipes! 'Cos I really like everything I made, and I'm gonna bore you all.

( Bacon and Lentil Soup. )

( Split Pea and Vegetable Soup )


( Chicken and Bacon Not-A-Tagine )


( Bolognese Mince )


( Italian Wedges )


( Mustard Mash )

So I finished the requested texture tutorial from my last wallpaper post. Saved all the pics to a folder in my pen drive, changed the configuration on my gallery so that I could upload the ginormous jpgs and pngs... and forgot the .doc file. Sigh. So the tutorial will be up tomorrow. I promise.

In the meantime, Have a recipe. (Tweeps may be tired of me and my soups by now, but damn I make good soup...)

( Thai-style Chicken & Noodle Broth )

So I finished the requested texture tutorial from my last wallpaper post. Saved all the pics to a folder in my pen drive, changed the configuration on my gallery so that I could upload the ginormous jpgs and pngs... and forgot the .doc file. Sigh. So the tutorial will be up tomorrow. I promise.

In the meantime, Have a recipe. (Tweeps may be tired of me and my soups by now, but damn I make good soup...)

( Thai-style Chicken & Noodle Broth )

So, since the amazing fen parties at the start of this month, I've been getting both domesticated and craft-oriented. I've been knitting, I've been drawing, I've been baking... so, here, and now, finally, is the BICCIT RECIPE!!!!

( ingredients - seriously, this is all it is )

( and then.... )

( and then... )

( the variants )

(for those of you who know me well, can I just say - my sister gave me the original recipe. <deadpan voice> she has her uses </deadpan voice>)

So, since the amazing fen parties at the start of this month, I've been getting both domesticated and craft-oriented. I've been knitting, I've been drawing, I've been baking... so, here, and now, finally, is the BICCIT RECIPE!!!!

( ingredients - seriously, this is all it is )

( and then.... )

( and then... )

( the variants )

(for those of you who know me well, can I just say - my sister gave me the original recipe. <deadpan voice> she has her uses </deadpan voice>)

It took me... what, five weeks? to get just short of 2000 words written of a chapter I hated. Taking the decision to bin it and come at from a different angle has resulted in almost 1000 words in just a couple of hours. And right now I love it. It works. So yay!

Final Straw is back on track and I'm going to post it soon. And I will be happy with what I post - if I'm not happy with it then there really is no point so - again - thank you all for telling me just how insane I was being yesterday!

(Oh, and I spotted this on my gmail rss feed thing the other day and plan to try it out this weekend. It's like they made them just for me!

It took me... what, five weeks? to get just short of 2000 words written of a chapter I hated. Taking the decision to bin it and come at from a different angle has resulted in almost 1000 words in just a couple of hours. And right now I love it. It works. So yay!

Final Straw is back on track and I'm going to post it soon. And I will be happy with what I post - if I'm not happy with it then there really is no point so - again - thank you all for telling me just how insane I was being yesterday!

(Oh, and I spotted this on my gmail rss feed thing the other day and plan to try it out this weekend. It's like they made them just for me!

Oh. My. God. I am so never having kids! I knew this anyway, but yesterday just totally confirmed it! Kids were kinda hyper, my neice isn't quite verbalising properly yet - she is saying words and constructing sentences but she's lazy about it and babbles more often than not, so having a conversation with her? Surreal doesn't even begin to cover it! And we played Monopoly. I hate the game, I suck at money and counting and all the logic stuff you have to kinda have a basic awareness of to play the game and I was playing against a 2 year old and a 3 year old. They ganged up on me. I lost.

Heh!

Also watched Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Wars: RotS and most of Goblet of Fire. You might be thinking, hang on, there's not one of those films that's under a certificate 12, WTF are kids that young doing watching them? And I have to say I kinda agree, but on the other hand they don't watch them alone and they *never* (at least when I get to hear about it, and from observation I can see it's true) use them as a tool for quieting them. They talk about the films, they ask questions, and I get such a kick out of that - film graduate here, hearing a three year old ask the kind of questions some of the first year students on that course didn't think about just makes me grin!

Got home hella late - kids were in bed by the time their parents got home - and I had to be up at 5:30. I actually didn't sleep well at all last night - kept on waking up and checking the clock frantically. It's the one thing I kinda hate about holidays - I get so used to not following a schedule that getting back into one sucks. Ah well, only in work today and tomorrow and then I'm off to Not Fade Away - the *last* Angel convention run by Starfury (I put the emphasis there 'cause it's actually... the third *final* convention? Something like that anyway. They keep having just one more every time. I think this really is it though - ticket sales have been okay but not stellar.) I fly down on Friday, will be meeting up with thedothatgirl and acrazywench and no doubt will be having a lot of fun this weekend coming! Actually... I was going to make this a seperate flocked post but I'm going to throw it out in public. smileawhile has a ticket as well but she's not able to go this time (Uni exams clashing - sucks!) would anyone be interested in taking it off her hands? It's in Heathrow, this weekend, give me a shout if you're interested! (you can email me if you'd rather not comment - shona[at]moments-lost.co.uk)

(check out the random segue!)

The roadworks on my way into work - the ones that have been pissing me off an a daily basis and adding at least an hour to my journey every day? - all gone! They were supposed to be gone on Saturday but they overran and on the TrafficScotland site they were listed as being up until the 11th. Drove up this morning, sitting at 70 (or actually just over but hey, that's not actually legal so I did not just say that) at the point where I'm normally crawling along in first gear. Dawns on me that the yellow signs saying "Delays possible" aren't there... Huge grin comes onto my face as I see the tarmac in front of me gloriously free of orange and white traffic cones...  Yay! They were still clearing them on the other side of the road but it looks like it will also be clear by the time I go home tonight - I may even be able to make the 31 mile journey in less than an hour - woo, and indeed, hoo!

And on the way into work I heard an extended trailer for Doctor Who on the radio and I have to kinda squee about it - so to avoid spoiling those at US rate, I'm gonna do the whole font color=background color thing below the cut, highlight the text to read it!
( This week on Doctor Who... )

And ETA - a recipe that smileawhile asked me for and I thought I'd share. This is my 'what I make when I don't have a clue what else to make' recipe.

( Yes, I can cook. Honest! )

Oh. My. God. I am so never having kids! I knew this anyway, but yesterday just totally confirmed it! Kids were kinda hyper, my neice isn't quite verbalising properly yet - she is saying words and constructing sentences but she's lazy about it and babbles more often than not, so having a conversation with her? Surreal doesn't even begin to cover it! And we played Monopoly. I hate the game, I suck at money and counting and all the logic stuff you have to kinda have a basic awareness of to play the game and I was playing against a 2 year old and a 3 year old. They ganged up on me. I lost.

Heh!

Also watched Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Wars: RotS and most of Goblet of Fire. You might be thinking, hang on, there's not one of those films that's under a certificate 12, WTF are kids that young doing watching them? And I have to say I kinda agree, but on the other hand they don't watch them alone and they *never* (at least when I get to hear about it, and from observation I can see it's true) use them as a tool for quieting them. They talk about the films, they ask questions, and I get such a kick out of that - film graduate here, hearing a three year old ask the kind of questions some of the first year students on that course didn't think about just makes me grin!

Got home hella late - kids were in bed by the time their parents got home - and I had to be up at 5:30. I actually didn't sleep well at all last night - kept on waking up and checking the clock frantically. It's the one thing I kinda hate about holidays - I get so used to not following a schedule that getting back into one sucks. Ah well, only in work today and tomorrow and then I'm off to Not Fade Away - the *last* Angel convention run by Starfury (I put the emphasis there 'cause it's actually... the third *final* convention? Something like that anyway. They keep having just one more every time. I think this really is it though - ticket sales have been okay but not stellar.) I fly down on Friday, will be meeting up with thedothatgirl and acrazywench and no doubt will be having a lot of fun this weekend coming! Actually... I was going to make this a seperate flocked post but I'm going to throw it out in public. smileawhile has a ticket as well but she's not able to go this time (Uni exams clashing - sucks!) would anyone be interested in taking it off her hands? It's in Heathrow, this weekend, give me a shout if you're interested! (you can email me if you'd rather not comment - shona[at]moments-lost.co.uk)

(check out the random segue!)

The roadworks on my way into work - the ones that have been pissing me off an a daily basis and adding at least an hour to my journey every day? - all gone! They were supposed to be gone on Saturday but they overran and on the TrafficScotland site they were listed as being up until the 11th. Drove up this morning, sitting at 70 (or actually just over but hey, that's not actually legal so I did not just say that) at the point where I'm normally crawling along in first gear. Dawns on me that the yellow signs saying "Delays possible" aren't there... Huge grin comes onto my face as I see the tarmac in front of me gloriously free of orange and white traffic cones...  Yay! They were still clearing them on the other side of the road but it looks like it will also be clear by the time I go home tonight - I may even be able to make the 31 mile journey in less than an hour - woo, and indeed, hoo!

And on the way into work I heard an extended trailer for Doctor Who on the radio and I have to kinda squee about it - so to avoid spoiling those at US rate, I'm gonna do the whole font color=background color thing below the cut, highlight the text to read it!
( This week on Doctor Who... )

And ETA - a recipe that smileawhile asked me for and I thought I'd share. This is my 'what I make when I don't have a clue what else to make' recipe.

( Yes, I can cook. Honest! )