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Orange/Lemon Almond Syrup Cake

November 16th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

2 whole oranges
2 whole lemons
Boil & Puree above.

5 large eggs
315g (1 1/2 cups) caster sugar
200g (2 cups) almond meal
75g (1/2 cup) flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 160°C.
Use an electric beater to whisk the eggs and 215g (1 cup) of the sugar in a large bowl until thick and pale. Use a spoon to stir in the orange mixture. Add the almond meal, flour and baking powder, and stir until just combined. Pour into the prepared pan and use the back of a spoon to smooth the surface. Bake in preheated oven for 1 1/4 hours or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

While cake and syrup are hot and still in tin pour syrup over cake and leave to cool in tin.

Syrup
1 Lemon
1 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup water

Place zest of lemon and juice in small saucepan. Add sugar and water and heat while stirring until sugar is dissolved. Heat for a further 3 minutes until thickened slightly.

I *never* get anything done

October 26th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

I am pretty awesome at multitasking. Especially compared to other members of my household. But anyway, sometimes this leads me to getting absolutely nothing done. For example – right now I was trying to print out a template to help me make a daily schedule. What did I actually end up doing? Hmm.. I should really reformat the PC. Oh – if I do that I’m gonna need to back everything up onto my external. Oh – it’s not plugged in. Oh – I need a NZ – UK adapter for it *Five minute hunt for an adapter*. Found. Oh – I should blog about how I never get anything done, because that won’t be the most boring blog post in all of the world to read.

I should really use baby nap time for something more satisfiying. Like napping myself. That template can wait…

Another fail

October 19th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

00:23. Oh well, kind of had an excuse, muscle man didn’t get home until 10:30pm (indoor cricket).  Let’s revisit this weeks goal list…

  1. Passport for little munchman
  2. Sell my cross trainer
  3. eBay old baby clothes
  4. Lose weight
  5. Go to bed early
  6. do my IKEA returns
  7. buy new baby sleepsuits
  8. learn to knit
  9. get a sewing machine
  10. visit H&M

One item crossed off and one item added. Trying to take a passport photo of the wee one is gonna be awesome. And relevant for like… a month. I wish there was a better system for flying with babies!

All in all I had a pretty unproductive day… went to the drycleaners, washed some nappies, went to IKEA (proud new owner of one white antilop highchair!), caught up on Masterchef Australia (seriously the best program ever made), and avoided tidying the kitchen all day. Feel seriously weird and dizzy, flipping hope I’m not getting sick.

failing at sleep (again)

October 18th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

00:03 on a school night. So much for that goal! I’m still in the lounge.. not even close to being ready for sleep.

check out what lover boy got me. ohhh yeah. can’t believe Christmas is so close… dude, this is a timely reminder of summertime in NZ approaching YEAH BABY YEAH

DecorPad is amazing.

Lets see if I can set myself some more goals for this week that I shall not achieve or probably even attempt to do…

  1. Sell my cross trainer
  2. eBay old baby clothes
  3. Lose weight
  4. Go to bed early
  5. do my IKEA returns
  6. buy new baby sleepsuits
  7. learn to knit
  8. get a sewing machine
  9. visit H&M

I pretty much know none of those are gonna happen, especially not 3 or 4 lol. dude my life is pretty awesome if these are my top 9 things to do this week ;)

love/hate sleep

October 17th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

so its 1:55am and I’m still up. I’m in bed on my laptop, hubby is on his phone browsing youtube. This is an extremely common phenomenon in our household. People are always saying to me, “Ohhh you look so tired, poor thing, it’s hard isn’t it (whilst staring at wee man)”. Haha. If only everyone knew the truth (he sleeps from 9pm – 8am straight and has done for months now) they would not be so sympathetic. My skin suffers so badly, I have at least 3 massive pimples right now – these need to disappear pronto please.

I think I have some kind of problem. It’s not that I don’t like sleep, I love LOVE LOVE the moment you climb into bed and it’s all cosy, and I generally have no problem actually drifting off to sleep. I just put off going to bed until it is so ridiculously late that I can’t bear staying up any longer. I’ve been this way for as long as I was allowed to pick my own bedtime – I’d quite often rock up to uni having had only a few hours sleep as I’d been playing counterstrike till 4am or something. Or even worse to work. Haha. Less than productive Laura on those days.

What was I doing tonight? I think i was looking up embroidery classes online. Yeah I’d love to learn but realistically I’m not going to for ages, and what’s more, it doesn’t need to be researched at 1am regardless. So here is my challenge to myself, – in bed by 11pm on school nights, 1am every other night, for a month – I can do it! Maybe this way I can spend babys nap time doing productive things instead of having my own nanna nap ;)

Oh yeah… it’s my hubbys fault too. He’s just as bad.. we are not good for each other when it comes to going to bed early…

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