Anything with mint is a winner for me and this jelly sauce is no exception. The combination of apple and mint gives the bitter sweet taste , you can use with roast pork and lamb, an ideal compliment for  your Sunday dinner.

What you Need:

8 small apples (granny smith are good especially apples with pinkish skin for colour), 450g sugar, 2 tablespoons liquid pectin, 30g fresh mint (roughly chopped), 1 juice of lemon.

First quarter the apples and add to a large saucepan, fill the pan with enough water to cover the apples and add the mint and lemon juice. Bring this mixture to the boil and then  simmer for 20-30 minutes. Take off the heat and cool. After,  drain the liquid from the apples and set aside. With a potato masher lightly mash the apple mint mixture and pour the puree into a sieve over a large bowl. With the back of a spoon push and mush the apple in the sieve to extract the juice and fine pulp, be patient you will find after a while you will have got quite a lot out of the mixture. Once you have extracted as much as you can discard the mush left overs, and take the strained juice/pulp and pour into a measuring jug and then top up with the  cooking juice, to 1 pint.

Take the 1 pint of mixture and add to a clean saucepan and mix in the sugar. On a low heat stir until all the sugar has dissolved, now add the pectin. Turn up the heat and rapidly boil the mixture for 15mins, once the jelly has done it should have reached the temperature of 105C. Take off the heat and pour into a recycled sterilised jar, seal straight away, cool at room temperature and then chill. Do not worry if your mixture is liquidly when you add it to the jar because as it cools it will set.

Enjoy.

Have you ever chosen an outfit completely dependent on the shoes you are wearing? Well, I do it all the time!

(Milk Motion) has released a variety of colours to the My Leather Boots range & boy am I in love! These shoes are seriously drool worthy. The leopard print, the shiny leather texture, the perfect fit are some of the amazing things that might draw you to Shoe Expo to buy these boots. There are so many talented designers showcasing their creations at the expo, and these shoes are among the best out there!

I chose the adorable Linen pullover from **DP** yumyum to compliment the shoes. The rich brown color gives this pullover a real snug feeling and the white shirt with it’s brilliant texture adds the perfect girly edge. Add a pair of DUBOO* <3 leggings and you are ready to head out with your fave chickas !

Style Card

Zimmy

Skin: *League* Suntan -Misty

Hair: !lamb. Unbirthday Redux – Ink

Shape: Self made

Eyes:  Poetic Colours – pc eyes by LL – Blue Autumn

Top: **DP**yumyum – Linen pullover – Brown

Skirt: Maitreya – Cleo Jeans Skirt – Dark Wash

Leggings: DUBOO* – Laundry day [thursday]

Shoes: (Milk Motion) – My worn ankle boots – *Red leopard*

Bag: MIEL – Messenger bag

Earrings: Zaara – Kaya Cornelian earing – Gold

Ring: Pr!tty -

Mask: Tiny Bird (part of  - modded)

Poses: {SMS}

Had a fantastical curry from asda for lunch today. £3.50 for curry, rice, naan bread and an onion bajhi!!

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Left Look
Skin:*MY UGLYDOROTHY -magaret_Jellish girl(Bronze) [buy@here]
Hair:!lamb. Say – Twix/Highlighty
Hair band:**DP**yumyum Katyusha
Knit cardigan:S@BBiA::Knit cardigan:blue [lucky chair prize] [get@here]
Skirt:{SMS} Flower HIghwaist Skirt Blue-Beige [buy@here]
Tights:{SMS} Shiny Tights Brown
Boots:*AuMa* UGG  LIGHT BLUE  [old lucky chair prize]

Right Look
Skin:*MY UGLYDOROTHY -magaret_Jellish girl(Bronze) [buy@here]
Hair:Maitreya Green – Natural Blond
Knit cardigan:[ATOMIC] Lazy Day Sweater_Fall -[VIP group gift]
Skirt:oyakin*old-longskirt(dark-brown)
Tights:{SMS} Shiny Tights Brown
Shoes:[PM] Freya Flats : Brown

Be Prepared !!
Every Friday, a group of designers will place an item in the front of their mainstore marked down for 50L, now you know the deal ! But this Friday, it’s a BLACK EDITION !! So, this time, 50 Designers will participate at this event ! You can get the items by following the Names on the list here.

Oh my god… I can’t believe it… I must change my high heels for running shoes!

From 12:00am Friday to 11:59pm on this Friday 27 November

This week, the designers are: ( hum… long list today… Enjoy it ! )

&bean
5th&Oxford
Adore & Abhor
Artilleri
Botanical
Callie Cline
Casa Del Shai
CHEAP MakeUp
Clawtooth by Clawtooth
D*E*C*O
Deviant Kitties
Doppelganger Inc
Elate!
Epoque
Fishy Strawberry
Glow Studio
HooT
Katat0nik
Kunstkammer
Kyoot
L’Abel
Lamb
Long Awkward Pose
Magika
Miel
Milk Motion
Molto Bene!
!Ohmai
Penny Dreadful Arcade
Pididdle
Pig
RC Cluster
Reek
Sand Shack Surf Co.
Scribble
Sh*t Happens
Silent Sparrow
So Many Styles
Split pea
Sway’s Creations
The Plastik
This is a Fawn
Tiny Bird
Tres Blah
Turnip’s Homes & Stuff
Turquoise Unicorn Studios
Ty Zvezda
Tyranny Designs
Vive 9
Whippet & Buck

Ufff… this is the end of the list lol  

EDIT POST : Now I think all links are ok, if you see something wrong, please let me know on comments ! 

Have a good shopping guys !

The weather is now cold, our sim is covered in snow too, I was looking at my avatar wearing almost summery clothes and it made me feel cold…so this is my look for today! It features Miamai’s today new release, the loveliest warm pulli comes in several colours!

Stylesheet:

Hair: !lamb Babys On Fire – Butterfinger

Skin: [KA] SKINS BARDOT-Sally Tan/ Make Up 03

Sweater: Miamai_Jackie Sweater Grey

Skirt: *Muism* [Tartan Buckle Skirt]

Socks: MIAsnow -  HANDknitSOCKS

Shoes: *G Field* Figure Pumps -tartan black-

Earmuffs: /artilleri/ Knit earmuffs! (MOUTH) *red* (0ld 50L Friday item)

What do you think fashion is?  Everybody has their different views on it.  This is my little spin on how I see it.  I have used different items from *LP* Designs and incorporated it into these looks.  Some are an everday look and goes to a night on the town look.    I enjoyed putting these looks together and hope you enjoy it also.

-Mya S.

You are listening to Lady Gaga Fashion

Credits:

1st Look-

Skin- SINdecade -Wichita No. 1-Skin Gift (freebie)

Hair- Iren – Paris//black_red tipped

Jacket- *LP* design -KAROLINO SHIRT MALE UNI

Shirt- This is A Fawn -SCOOP BACK TANK {GREY}

Jeans- *Urbanity* -Ripped Jeans Denim

Shoes-  [0N] ZERO NUMBER- [0N] Wo Boots (w/resize scripts)

Gloves-  :::[NEEDFUL THINGS-Pirate Gloves

2nd Look-

Skin- SINdecade -Wichita No. 1-Skin Gift (freebie

Hair- Exile -  JULIETTE BROWN PACK

Dress- *LP* design -SANI DRESS BLUE

Shaw-  {SMS} -LACY SHRUG WHITE

Shoes-  Maitreya – Neyya * Toe-cap White

Earrings- .:: LacieCakes ::. -Elis Earrings

Bracelet- Locke Couture -LC- -Lily of the Valley

3rd Look-

Skin- ::DUTCH TOUCH:: - JOILIE CREAM DARK

Hair- Decoy - NICOLE DARK BROWNS

Dress- *BOOM* -TAMED ADEN'S BLACK

Leggings-  *LP* design - ISKRA LEGGINGS PACK

Shoes- *Kookie* -PHOEBE-NOIR

Earrings- Locke Couture -LC-  - PIERCED HEART EARRINGS BLACK GLASS

Wings- [Pink Fuel] - CHIBI WING-BLUE BLACK SPARKLE

4th Look-

Skin- Imagen- MIRA ESTE NATURAL

Hair-  !lamb – Say -Twix/Highlighty

Vest- Pig Shop-Draped Vest F’kin pink

Shirt-  *LP* design -ROZA OVERALLE WHITE

Jeans- {SMS} -DAMAGED JEANS BLUE

Shoes-  Urban Bomb Unit- Porn Star High Tops

Bow- =HooT= - CUTIEPEA HAIRBOW

Necklace-  Locke Couture -LC- - ARMY NECKLACE

Cookie- *Dreams* - HEART COOKIE

Bangle- -mix and match- -NIGHTMARE BANGLE

Tattoo-  T U L I - STARS TATTO (off lucky chair)

The first time we went to Bi-Rite Creamery, we drove by Delfina and there was a massive crowd outside.  I went home and yelp’d it and found out it had 4 stars with over 700 reviews.  I decided right then and there that I needed to try it!  I had a hard time deciding if I wanted to try Delfina the restaurant or Pizzeria Delfina first.  They are right next door to each other.  Given my recent pizza addiction, I decided I should give Boyfriend a break from pizza and try out the restaurant.  I did make a friend outside while waiting for our table and it turns out he works at the pizzeria!  He gave us a list of his favorites so I know what to order the next time I go.

We started out with a salad with pancetta and cheese shavings.  It was delicious with just the right amount of balsamic vinegar.

Boyfriend went with a lamb dish with butter beans and peppers.  The lamb was cooked perfectly and didn’t taste game-y.  It was paired wonderfully with Boyfriend’s glass of red wine.

I went with the spaghettini with fresh Dungeness crab.  The waitress exclaimed that this is one of her favorite dishes and since crab had recently come into season, it was back on the menu.  Huuuge chunks of crab in the pasta. 

The restaurant is small and cozy but it’s so bustling that it’s quite loud.  Everything was wonderful and I really can’t wait to go back!  Even the bread and sweet cream butter was amazing and we got a second plate and finished it off.   Another plus to this restaurant is that it’s about a block away from Bi-Rite.  If you can refrain from ordering dessert at Delfina, head over to Bi-Rite for some ice cream after dinner!

3621 18th St.  (between Guerrero St. & Oakwood St.)   San Francisco, CA

If you love the Lord he will bless you. You choose to be  BLESSED OR CURSED. What is it going to take in these last days ? God’s presence on you will change people around you. Be blessed by the word of God not man.

Zo handig! Een app die alle liedjes herkent aan de hand van een paar tonen dat het opvangt. Hoe het juist in elkaar zit en hoe het mogelijk is om aan de hand van een paar tonen een liedje te herkennen blijft me een raadsel. Maar het is gewoon een super app.

In tussentijd heb ik al een vrij lang lijstje met liedjes die ik “Shazam”. Wat opvallend is, is dat ik meerdere keren hetzelfde liedje Shazam.

Dit is er zo eentje

Made Saveur’s Urfa (Spiced Lamb) Kebab, from the May 2009 issue. Followed the super-easy recipe with no troubles. I did broil instead of grilling (hey, it was drizzly!). The magazine’s beauty shot is what you see at left, with that tomato. Here’s what mine looked like:


How different are they? Mine’s definitely “turdier.” Maybe I shoulda done it on the grill, just to flatten it out a bit. Whatever–they tasted great, with couscous and a salad.

It’s certainly getting wintery out there, and perhaps one of the most unlikely seasonal foods right now looks like it should adorn any self-respecting summer salad.

However, the pomegranate is apparently very much in it’s element at the moment. The sharpness of the seeds contrasts with the sweet sauce in this dish and the colours bring a reminder of summer to the otherwise wintery lamb and chest   nuts. Christmas in Morocco anyone?

By the way, the tagine as a cooking implement is by no means strictly necessary here, a large pan with a well fitted lid will do the trick.

Tagine of Lamb, Chestnuts, Saffron and Pomegranate

Serves 4

You’ll need

• 2 tbs butter or ghee
• 1kg diced lamb (I used shoulder, but leg is also good)
• 2 onions, chopped finely
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped finely
• 1 1/2 inch piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
• 250g peeled chestnuts (I roasted my own, but you can get them frozen or vacuum packed)
• 1-2 cinnamon sticks
• pinch of saffron threads
• 1-2 tablespoons runny honey
• seeds of 1 pomegranate
• small bunch fresh mint leaves (chopped)
• small bunch fresh coriander leaves (chopped)
• Salt & pepper

Do it!

1. Heat the tagine/pan and add the ghee (or melt the butter)
2. Add the onions, ginger and garlic and saute until softened and coloured
3. Stir in the saffron, cinnamon and add the lamb
4. Pour in some water to almost cover the meat and bring to the boil
5. Once it’s boiling and smelling great, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for about an hour
6. In this time you can roast your chestnuts for about 20 minutes in a hot oven (about 200 C) if you need to. Remember to put a little cross in the flat side of each chestnut with a small knife, or the lovely smells of your tagine will be accompanied by a version of the 21-gun salute!
7. After an hour of slow simmering, add your roasted and peeled chestnuts and stir in the honey.
8. Re-cover and cook gently for about 30 minutes more.
9. By now the meat should be lovely and tender. Season to taste with salt and pepper and toss in about half each of the pomegranate seeds (click here for the best way to deseed it), chopped coriander and chopped mint.
10. Sprinkle the remaining seeds and herbs over the top and serve with some fluffy, buttery couscous or some bread for mopping up.

enso…

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Skin:*MY UGLYDOROTHY -magaret_Schick eye(Brown)[buy@here]
Hair:!lamb. Unbirthday Redux – Ink
Knit : AOHARU_BT_TurtleNeckKnit_Nude[buy@here] 
Vest : (Milk Motion) My admiral vest bottom v2 /ribbon
Pants : mijn.t [VINTAGE MONDAY pants] – CHOCOLATE [buy@here]
Boots:ANEXX_LaceupBoots_DarkBrown/Female[buy@here] *New released*
Socks:**MIS** November Group Freebie – Baggy Socks – Golden
All pose by GLOW[buy@here]

 It’s that time of year.  Another year older and wiser.  I’m taking this time to tell family and friends that they have been a wonderful blessing to me.  I am so thankful that I get to speak to them all the time.  Thank you to the many that have emailed me from cyberspace.  This is the time of year I love for many reasons. One thing I have learned is if you trust a fool you are a bigger fool than them. Read God’s letter and you will be able to deal with anything that comes up in life.  I  can not believe how the  world is ever-changing.  Thank You Lord for protecting me.  I know you take care of your own. Wishing I could do more for the helpless families there are so many. I serve a living God. Trust him he will provide. Where there is a will there is a way. Remember God is not a seasonal God. God is always there, yesterday, today, tomorrow. God’s gives us victory. I’m going to read St. John Ch. 8   We are judged by God’s Law. “Be Free” 

Deuteronomy means:  these words.

I’m a guest writer on Rasa Malaysia! It’s one of the most comprehensive and wonderful food sites on East Asian food there is. Needless to say, I’m beyond thrilled!

There I was dreading the inevitable demise of yet another weekend when I received an unexpected message. It was Bee of the amazing Rasa Malaysia asking if I’d like to write a guest post for her wonderful blog. Oh my! Are potatoes my favourite vegetable? (Or something else to which the answer is a more obvious YES!) What an honour! After a quick discussion, we decided my post would be on kababs.

Kababs were the way I first ate any meat as a child. Not because that’s how my mom wanted it, but because up to that point I had steadfastly refused to eat meat. The smoky flavours and spicy one-bite poppers were what convinced me to try my first chicken tikka. (This was tikka as a kabab, simply unadorned & roasted meat, without any of the gravy that makes it chicken tikka masala), I was hooked from the first bite and have never looked back. I grew from strength to strength with lamb botis and mutton seekh. A smorgasbord of kababs that then taught me to enjoy meat in other forms.

Read the rest of the post at Rasa Malaysia!

Wednesday 4th March 2009 00:19am Lion and Lamb Walk

We had some very heavy snow for about a week then. The University was closed for many days giving us almost a whole week off to play around in the snow. After having a very warm day inside me and Arron thought lets go out and take some photos. We were out for a good couple hours as it kept coming down around us.

Bring on next year!

D

Hormones are evil.  They fuck with you.  They screw with your mind.  My hormones are especially vicious, and they are always out to get me.  It’s their mission.  They wait for that kick of protein, that boost in ego, and bam, I’m left wanting to chew through the walls because walls are my enemy.  They are our enemies.  You don’t agree? Take a good look at walls one day, and you’ll see how they stand there, erect and proud, defying gravity with all their nails and plaster, just there, in your face, preventing you from walking in whatever direction you want to go.  I want to go forward and there’s a wall there, I look behind and there’s another wall.  My hormones don’t help me, either.  They are like a junky’s monkey, except they are not a monkey, not really, not crawling up my back, they are more like ants feasting on my emotional stability, my poor brain cells, my relationships.  I don’t like hormones.  I don’t like walls.

Outfit inspired by my last post.  Enjoy!  It might be my last one for a while!

• Outfits: Pixel Dolls
• Shoes: Shiny Things
• Thong Necklace: Earth Stones
• Hair: Lamb
• Veil hat: Elegance Hats
• Poses: [Glow]

Lady lights a cigarette, puffs away, no regret
Takes a look around, no regrets, no regrets
Stretches out like branches of a poplar tree
She says: I’m free.
Sings so soft as if she’ll break and says:
I can sing this song so blue
That you will cry in spite of you
Little wet tears on your baby’s shoulder
Little wet tears on your baby’s shoulder
-Regina Spektor

Incredible song, deep, deep, blues.

Lizzie really liked the look of Kenzie Craven’s of Kenzie & Co new releases over the weekend – the Tight Turtleneck Sweater Dress and Plain Socks (which aren’t so plain mind you) .  So with notice in hand, Lizzie popped over to her Tableau locale and snatched up a dress and pair of socks and set out to nerdify this smexy, smexy dress.  But Lizzie then had a brilliant idea (*ding* – light bulb appears above her head), why not create two looks – our beloved nerd Lizzie and the Starlust roamin’,  The Velvet goin’, Indie lovin’ HIPSTER LIZZIE Yay.  And honestly it took only a few tweeks in accessories and hair to create this two different looks cause you know many Hipsters are nerds incognito or just afraid of their inner nerd creeping out, LOL.  Anyway so let’s take a look at Lizzie’s look for today shall we?

Jellies and huge attachments, this is signature nerd girl Lizzie, LOL.  Lizzie still adores her Fashionably Dead Jellies and her Saya Camera.  And Lizzie could care less that her Jellies are old school prim shoes for sure.  Finally detailed and so well made, these shoes will forever give a sculpt version a run for their money, ha!

Ah here we present my friends HIPSTER LIZZIE!  With an emo look on her face and fancy, smancy shoes Lizzie is transformed to all that is cool and hip, LOL.  She looks so DEEP and oh so full of angst don’t you think, ha.

Well lets be honest, she’s not quite the full on Hipster Girl though it seems.  You see her super fun “Ferret Bag” that she found some time ago whilst trolling some Japanese sim helps to show that her inner Nerd Girl is alive and well, ha.  Skye Fargis and Lizzie tried to find this bag but it appears to not be available anymore, *sigh*.  And the poses used in today’s post from Dare and Kuri Style are super hip in and of themselves regardless of whether or not they are used by a nerd girl or a hipster girl – YAY for poses!

Okay folks that it’s for today.  Hope you enjoyed seeing Lizzie as HIPSTER LIZZIE, YAY.  And who knows, maybe Hipster Lizzie will show up in the blog from time to time as well, ha.  Alrighty, I shut up for now so take care my friends and have a great second life!

Look 1

• Hair:  >TRUTH< Tallulah – carrot

• Skin:  Curio Skins – Petal Frex [Dark] June-Pure 4

• Eyes:  []::Tuli::[] quiet eyes ~ blue

• Dress:  Kenzie & Co – Tight Turtleneck Sweater Dress – Red

• Shorts:  :: DUTCH TOUCH :: (Sep) Jeans  Kneelenght

• Socks:  Kenzie & Co – Plain Socks – Midnight Green

• Shoes:  (fd) Fashionably Dead – Jellies – Blood Orange

• Scarf:  /artilleri/ Taylor scarf STRIPES  *peach/yellow*

• Glasses:  (W) Wrigglesworths – Diamond Lined Brown Readers

• Camera:  Saya CAMERA BROWN

• Poses:  Dare

Look 2

• Hair:  !lamb. Unbirthday Redux – Twix

• Skin:  Curio Skins – Petal Frex [Dark] June-Pure 4

• Eyes:  []::Tuli::[] quiet eyes ~ blue

• Dress:  Kenzie & Co – Tight Turtleneck Sweater Dress – Red

• Shorts: :: DUTCH TOUCH :: (Sep) Jeans  Kneelenght

• Socks:  Kenzie & Co – Plain Socks – Midnight Green

• Shoes:  MIEL -  PLAID JANE  – DARK

• Earrings:  Dark Mouse Wild Leaves Earring – Gold

• Glasses:  (W) Wrigglesworths – Diamond Lined Brown Readers

• Bag:  nManMa ferret_bag_BrownVer._M_C1 (could not find the location any longer – creators are Chiyosuke Camel and Shikura Noel

• Poses:  Kuri Style

It’s hard to juggle a DSLR, a wine glass and a plate of pork belly in the dark, so I really didn’t take a lot of pictures at Primal. I’ll be updating this post with more thoughts shortly, but I thought I go ahead and post what I have.