recipe #8

Last night I made a chocolate self-saucing pudding in my crock pot. YUM.


For the self-saucing bit, I had to sift a whole lot of cocoa and brown sugar over the top, and then pour boiling water over it. Anyone else ever tried sifting brown sugar? It gets... complicated. Because not only is brown sugar as prone to lumps as icing sugar - so you get these huge big balls of sugar rolling around and positively refusing to be sifted - but it's also really sticky, and instead of going through the sifter it sticks to the sifter holes and starts getting more sugar to stick to that sugar, and on and on until you have this big mass of sugar all hanging off the sifter and not falling onto the pudding...

Fun Photos!

Here's this week's batch.

Day 50:


This is the wall of a pie shop, where Mum and I stopped for lunch.

The whole place has exciting Australian-themed stuff on the walls - you can see here a saddle and an Aussie flag. Not sure how to explain to non-Aussies why a saddle would be considered to be part of an Australia theme, but believe me, it is.

I had a pie floater, which I've been craving for weeks. It's a meat pie upside down in mushy pea soup. Delicious, but very filling.

( 6 more photos under the cut )

relaxed, single, rich, bored, and... bored

So, tell me - all those extra dollars that I have now that I'm no longer paying off a car...

Poll #6124 expenses

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What should Mez waste her money on?

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chocolate
10 (47.6%)

yet another cd of country music
1 (4.8%)

Community season 2
4 (19.0%)

the Crazy Cat Lady action figure (complete with cats)
3 (14.3%)

a proper couch that is comfortable to sit on
17 (81.0%)

a pony
5 (23.8%)

Leverage season 2
3 (14.3%)

a holiday in New Zealand, earthquakes and all
4 (19.0%)

bribery, in efforts to find a better job
1 (4.8%)

a Crazy Cat Lady tshirt (assuming one exists)
3 (14.3%)

more chocolate
8 (38.1%)

Georgette Heyer novels
4 (19.0%)

charity, good works, savings, investments, and sensible things like that
9 (42.9%)