Last week, I did a show on Athlone Community Radio (athlonecommunityradio.ie) with a fella called Eugene called Inniu Inné Amárach. This week, Eugene isn't able to do the show, so I got the gig!
I'm scared s**tless, but I will do it and I will be happy I've done it! I'll post my script after the show.
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
To do: continue driving lessons and be legal about it.
Well I've done my second driving lesson. It was scary as hell but I survived the worst bridge junction in the history of time, a really confusing set of traffic lights and a big massive roundabout. Result.
I am also now insured on Mammerific's '09 Yaris so I can practice (under her supervision as she clings to the passenger door for dear life) to my heart's content.
I am also now insured on Mammerific's '09 Yaris so I can practice (under her supervision as she clings to the passenger door for dear life) to my heart's content.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
To Do: Make cookies from scratch for the first time
Inspired by Jamie Oliver and the contents of my kitchen press, I decided today to make cookies. I followed Jamie's recipe from The Ministry of Food and this is what I did.
First I gathered my ingredients (above minus egg!):
125g Butter
100g Caster Sugar
1 Large egg
100g Plain flour
25g Pinhead porridge oats
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 packets of white buttons :)
Method:
Mix butter and sugar in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon until thick and creamy. I found this hard and put the bowl in the microwave for 10secs to help it along!
Beat egg seperately, then mix well with butter and sugar.
Seive flour into the mix along with oats, baking powder and salt. Mix until smooth.
Here, I added my Buttons (quatered) and mixed in well.
As per Jamie's recipe, spoon mix onto cling film and roll into a sausage with diameter 7cm, and put into the freezer for 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 190deg.
When the 30 mins freezer time is up, unroll and cut 1cm slices of the sausage. Place faaaaaaar apart from each other on 2 baking trays and bake for 10-12 mins until a golden brown on the edge. Leave to cool for five minutes and then keave for a further ten on a wire rack.
Et Voila! The finished product. They may look like slices of bread but they taste like little pieces of yumminess.
125g Butter
100g Caster Sugar
1 Large egg
100g Plain flour
25g Pinhead porridge oats
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 packets of white buttons :)
Method:
Mix butter and sugar in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon until thick and creamy. I found this hard and put the bowl in the microwave for 10secs to help it along!
Beat egg seperately, then mix well with butter and sugar.
Seive flour into the mix along with oats, baking powder and salt. Mix until smooth.
Here, I added my Buttons (quatered) and mixed in well.
As per Jamie's recipe, spoon mix onto cling film and roll into a sausage with diameter 7cm, and put into the freezer for 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 190deg.
When the 30 mins freezer time is up, unroll and cut 1cm slices of the sausage. Place faaaaaaar apart from each other on 2 baking trays and bake for 10-12 mins until a golden brown on the edge. Leave to cool for five minutes and then keave for a further ten on a wire rack.
Et Voila! The finished product. They may look like slices of bread but they taste like little pieces of yumminess.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
To do: maintain a beauty regime for at least 14 days...
After six days of overindulgence due to the presence of my favourite lebanese cousin, my skin is in bits. A synopsis of our bold habits could include Mexican food, chinese food, turkish food, spanish food, and a mixture of numerous nationalities of alcohol.
So on my To Do list at this moment in time is to, for once, and hopefuly for longer, keep a beauty regime for at least a fortnight starting today.
My regimen is as follows
Morning:
Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit cleansing gel
Oil of Olay Moisterising lotion
Night:
Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit Face Scrub
Oil of Olay Moisterising lotion
Johnsons two tone eye make-up remover
Clinique Acne Solutions Spot healing gel
I can only imagine that the most promising part of my new regime will be the Clinique above..If only because it cost three time the price of the others!
Day one: over.
Let's hope day two to fourteen are just as successful :)
So on my To Do list at this moment in time is to, for once, and hopefuly for longer, keep a beauty regime for at least a fortnight starting today.
My regimen is as follows
Morning:
Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit cleansing gel
Oil of Olay Moisterising lotion
Night:
Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit Face Scrub
Oil of Olay Moisterising lotion
Johnsons two tone eye make-up remover
Clinique Acne Solutions Spot healing gel
I can only imagine that the most promising part of my new regime will be the Clinique above..If only because it cost three time the price of the others!
Day one: over.
Let's hope day two to fourteen are just as successful :)
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