Frenchy No.1

Sometime ago after reading Julie and Julia (book) I was inspired to do what she did, cook french food. I debated between greek or french. The greek part was so I can learn my greek cooking but then I thought nahhh.
So I borrowed a french cookery book 'French by Damien Pignolet' he is one of Australia's finest chefs.
Of course I started with an easy soup. It consists of potatoes, leeks, onion, and chicken stock. At first I was skeptical, my greek mother and sister ain't going to like this. But let me tell you, they both thought out loud 'is that all'. They wanted MORE.
There was some leftover but maybe not for the three of us. French food is rich a little goes a long way but not for the greek with the big eye.
Well, I've made the icecream cake a few times and that is now the preferred over the bought ones.
Bon apetite.

Yummy

The ice cream cake was yummy and the good thing about this, is that you don't have to devour the whole thing as a small portion just fixes that sweet need. (Us girls have that craving from time to time)
The dairy-free cake "AKA Depression cake" was eaten with success. Phew! I really want easy cakes like this as I cannot be bothered looking for substitutes for the ingredients I can't use.

After reading Julie & Julia : my year of living dangerously by Julie Powell, this author decided to cook the entire french cooking book by Julia Child (America's answer to Elizabeth David or Margaret Fulton) So now, I also want to tackle to learn to cook French but then I decided to go Greek. So I will be perfecting my greek cooking.

I wonder how long this interest will last? For the record I only last about 2 weeks.

Baking but not really

Today I made an ice cream cake, the ingredients are very simple 600ml cream, 1 can condensed milk, Arnotts Malto biscuits. Beat the cream till soft peaks add the condensed milk beat lightly. Line the biscuits in a pyrex dish, pour the cream mixture over the biscuits then add the rest of the biscuits on top. Freeze.
You can add whatever chocolate or fruit you like, to the mixture.Tomorrow is judgement day.

Once that was made I decided to try my hand in a dairy free cake, its called Depression cake. I work with a friend who has gone totally vegatarian. I googled my way thru recipe after recipe but its true what they say, the little beauty turned up such an easy cake. No treking for weird ingredients. Tomorrow I will take it to my team meeting, fingers crossed.

Angry Tom is not happy

This project completed rather speedily thanks to code from the Church Sign Generator. Thanks!

Is this really the end? Or just the beginning#23

Newsr News


So, is this the end? or just the begining? I know that I will continue to use these sites and features as anyone knows, with computers one must always play with them to keep up the skills. When I started this program it was half-hearted, and it was very frustrating to keep hearing it only takes 15mins. But now that I'm a bit familiar with words like embed, share, subscribe the time has shortened. My favourite week was image generator, library thing. The least liked week for me was RSS feeds but I felt okay when I heard my fellow colleagues saying the same thing. Thank you to Helene Blowers for allowing us to learn from her.
By the way 2 of my friends want to do this Learning 2.0 program experience also.
Thank you to Lynette for your encouragement comments.

Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ") #22

No way I cannot believe I'm nearly finished.

I looked around the World EBook Fair - Gutenberg's Audio eBook Collection and thought it was okay, I listened to this audiobook podcast http://worldebookfair.com/eBooks/LiteralSystems/Mp3_eBooks/hprince01.mp3

I don't know if it will still be here. I did know that Yarra Plenty libraries do use a site where customers can download and listen to the audiobook and it deletes itself once the loan period is over. I think this is a good thing to have also in the collection. You may ask 'how do they listen to it in the car during school holidays' well I'm sure Itunes has thought of something, I know it can be done.

Podcasts, Smodcasts!#21

Did podcasting really start off for the hearing impaired, cause that's how I saw podcasting. This is another great feature that has been created but I dont know if I will use it, but I'm glad its there for in case I'm visually impaired in the future, I'm more of a visual person.
I did check out some podcasts directories and added one to my Bloglines feeds. I subscribed to "Free Audio Book of the Month Podcast
Each month LearnOutLoud.com releases a free classic audio book" I thought I'd give it a go.

Once again libraries could definitely find this useful to apply. I did come across this library in America http://lib.colostate.edu/podcasts/GeneralInstructional/index.html and they give instructions from introduction to catalogues, how to use them, finding journals. In the podcast they do state that a lot of people dont want to come into the library but they do make it easy for the customer to virtually visit them.

Guess what? I found another feature and its called vodcast. Vodcasts are the same, but contain video as well as audio. I found this on the BBC podcast directory.