Cassoulet

A trip to Melbourne and a visit to Chez Olivier saved me from having to recreate this complex dish - spiced sausage, duck, pork and beef along with beans.  Such a high calorie, high fat, high protein dish took no time to fill me up and I wasn't able to finish it. It had a stewy meat broth sauce along with the tastes of the various meats.  I quite enjoyed it, but felt like I wanted to put some veggies in to add colour to the dish.  

Episode 2 Complete

And she has finished episode two! Yay.  Decaf coffee made in my recently bought coffee machine and a baked potato. Yum!

Decaf Coffee

Potato (with some lovely additions)

Peaches and Cream

 I actually made this ice-cream! It's surprisingly simple, yet a bit time consuming. I found this recipe a little too sweet.  I love my ice-cream super creamy, but still tasted great and much better for me, considering the number of preservatives and chemicals you can find in bought ice-cream.  It's not as morish too, so I only ate a small amount at a time. I find it hard to stop eating bought ice-cream.  I'm not sure if that's because it is so much more creamy or I wonder if there is some chemical in it that makes you want to eat more and more.  Underneath my homemade ice-cream is some fresh peach. White and yellow.  Delicious!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A strange story that does not really impress me. I often wonder how certain movies and stories reach classic status. I usually expect some sort of underlying profundity in classics. A message for adults, while entertaining children, or some sort of keen moral insight. But if that is contained in this story, it is lost on me. Maybe the surrealism was avongard for the times, but now it's just weird and disjointed. A simple short story of basic entertainment value.

Luther's Address to the Christian Nobility

What an important speech! Thank God for the revelation and conviction given to this man to empower him to break down the heresies of Catholicism. My faith would not be the same without his impact.

Harry Potter

I have read all the books and watched all the movies and it really has become a favourite series. So engaging and exciting.  I enjoyed it enough that I bought the DVD's which says a lot for me.  I try to only buy movies that I am going to get value for money from, which means I have to be confident I will happily watch them quite a few times.
I could write a proper review, but I feel as if the series is so ubiquitous that anything I could say about it would be redundant and repetitive ;).

Lobster Puffs

I've just come back here after about 2 years and checked out my stats. Virtually none, but not quite.  I immediately felt washed with guilt that someone might have actually read my blog and felt like blowing their brains out out of boredom.  Then I found myself chuckling.  I'm sorry for the boringness of this blog, it is really just a pastime for myself for my own entertainment.
So anyway, I made lobster puffs yesterday! Nearly thirty dollars worth of lobster later...

They weren't what I expected.  Imagined they would be pastry puffs rather than dough puffs, but these work I guess. Taste good. I did notice varying images defined as lobster puffs online though, so maybe there is another recipe using pastry.  As far as posh hors d'oeuvres go I'm not sure they'd quite cut it at Emily Gilmore's house.  I still have some of the lobster mix left, so maybe I'll have a go at making a pastry version. 

And here is my imagined version: