tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33294613203160086182024-03-12T18:08:57.785-07:00Jenny's WonderlandLife, Musings and Pretty Thingsanoldfashionedgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173627524035458154noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329461320316008618.post-17658675170291386022014-06-04T09:31:00.000-07:002014-06-04T09:32:42.522-07:00From My WindowLiving in the middle of nowhere (not quite an ivory tower but has the same effect) there's not a great deal to see from my bedroom window. But on rare occasions there is a visitor who is worth recording!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a picturesque little village, that seems to have dodged the marring hands of time, ugly architecture and commercialisation. On a clear day, the sunlight kisses the climbing roses and the road is swathed with a golden haze. Half closing your eyes you can imagine away the telephone lines and angry red signs and you are walking to the village shop, basket under your arm the song you heard on the wireless dancing round your head wondering whether the village team will win the cricket tomorrow...?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What better way to be welcomed back to England, than with afternoon tea, bunting and raspberry lemonade!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Cookie </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Dough is one of my favourite things. Since discovering this recipe on Pinterest I have been dying to make them myself. So here goes...!</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Depending on how large you make them, this recipe should make around 28 cookie dough bites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">8 ounces butter (softened)<br />1½ cups light brown sugar<br />1 teaspoon
vanilla extract or essence<br />2 cups flour<br />6 ounces chocolate chips </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">UTENSILS:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Measuring devices</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Large Mixing Bowl</span><br />
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First, the butter and sugar need to be creamed together.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now the plate is needed. However it is advisable to use a larger one than pictured below, I got rather sticky!</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VzoznfegqZc/UswiP897efI/AAAAAAAAA8E/QGd_zY-qh-4/s1600/chop+butter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VzoznfegqZc/UswiP897efI/AAAAAAAAA8E/QGd_zY-qh-4/s1600/chop+butter.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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This will make the butter easier to mix with the sugar. Then...</span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-suqNhL7wwwI/Uswjtcw4x_I/AAAAAAAAA8Q/cC0hpMdCeko/s1600/measure+sugar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-suqNhL7wwwI/Uswjtcw4x_I/AAAAAAAAA8Q/cC0hpMdCeko/s1600/measure+sugar.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This was when I realised that I needed a larger bowl!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now you will need to add the remaining ingredients to the mixture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Now it's time to get your fingers messy! Knead the mixture until the dough looks smooth, then ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Leave in the fridge until firm. Should take roughly 30 minutes. Store in the fridge, but keep at room temperature about ten minutes before you serve them. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Too add an extra something, dip them in melted chocolate, or drizzle it on as a topping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I love it when someone in your family has a culinary urge. Such happened the other day when my younger sister had a sudden urge to make some biscuits. I was naturally there to help with the important things like eating the uncooked pastry, unused toppings and other such things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I have come to the conclusion that I like unfocused photographs. Perhaps it is because I have recently acquired a DSLR camera and have never before had the ability to manually change the clarity of an image. Perhaps to other people such photographs appear unskilled and blob-like, but to me it is as if making a painting has been done using the lens as a brush. The first image is undoubtedly the most successful, but I'd be interested to know whether anyone else shares my view on the technique in general?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Good food, good company, homemade cushions, lots of bunting and a sleeping dog to warm your toes...what more could you want!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The whole family was home for what felt like the first time in the summer, and coincidentally it was my parents' Wedding Anniversary, so my brother, my sisters and I made dinner for them. And so serenaded b Josh Groban, we set about making a rather experimental mocha cake!</span></div>
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anoldfashionedgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173627524035458154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329461320316008618.post-25691846977342731992013-08-24T01:17:00.000-07:002013-08-24T01:17:56.717-07:00Little Women<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />anoldfashionedgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173627524035458154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329461320316008618.post-75863601254833441382013-08-22T11:01:00.002-07:002013-08-22T11:01:44.997-07:00The Land of Flat Pack Furniture<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I love Ikea, although you do tend to enter the building with joy and excitement in your heart and leave with not much left apart from a desire to get out, invariably feeling drained of all energy. I visited Ikea recently, the purpose of the trip was to buy some cushions to make covers for. This was accomplished, although in their wrappers, the cushions looked rather like the plastic cheese you sometimes have in burgers! I spent the rest of the day coveting house set ups and not knowing whether to be endeared or freaked out by the stuffed animals who were watching me. But I found that a bowl of chips can calm frazzled nerves and fill an empty stomach, (despite instantly regretting it once finished eating!). My main achievement of the day was putting together my first piece of flat pack furniture! The Resistant Materials GCSE finally coming in handy...?</span><br />
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<br />anoldfashionedgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173627524035458154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329461320316008618.post-2000748120835415432013-07-05T10:21:00.001-07:002013-07-10T15:05:35.236-07:00An Easy Healthy Meal: Bean Casserole<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Having lived off cookies for several days, I decided it was time to make something healthy. I thought documenting it would help me remember the process, although I can't claim any credit for the recipe! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">The Bean Casserole could be served and eaten with jacket potatoes, rice, bread, or anything else you have in your cupboard I'm sure would work! The meal outlined below is for a Bean Casserole served with rice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Clove of garlic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Red Onion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">A White Onion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*Note on the ingredients: Onions, Garlic, Tomato paste etc. add flavour but are not vital, so can be mixed out on a budget. The recipe is pretty flexible so you could add courgette, aubergine, or carrots instead. So its a good meal for finishing off left over vegetables.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There are good day and there are bad days. Everyone knows that. Everyone has that. But recently the clouds above your head have all been a darker shade of grey, and you can't find the sunshine to shift them. You just want to be fixed, someone to come and fix you...a knight in shining armour. They are rather thin on the ground these days. And knowing that the only person who can or is going to fix you is yourself makes the clouds rather heavier. When the tears come they almost a relief, its a relief to feel <em>something. </em>Something, anything, when life is full of nothings...</span></div>
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...If I had an enemy bigger than my apathy, I could have won...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...at least it might have been easier, if you knew what you were fighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Have been meaning to have a go at making my own bows for an age now, and finally got round to it!</span></div>
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not to miss a single day, which I managed (although sometimes it was a bit close)
apart from one day when I had no internet. So that was an
achievement! My writing hasn't been particularly amazing though, thanks to writing a lot of my posts around ten in the evening! But I'm definitely glad I attempted the challenge, thank you Elizabeth for creating it! </span><br />
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anoldfashionedgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173627524035458154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329461320316008618.post-76154289507428370022013-05-30T07:18:00.001-07:002013-05-30T07:18:11.963-07:00Day 30: Inspiration and AdmirationWho Inspires you? Who do you admire?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...The man with a camera and fairytale lens,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">And the one with a brush that built a dreamland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The woman that was brave enough to keep a son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The girl who spoke her mind and the one who isn't afraid to be herself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">Those who care more for others than themselves, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">And those that will do what is right despite what people think.</span><br />
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