The Blonde-crazy-cat lady-book club-odd bit of MSE-thread part 5

laura2481

I fixed it!! It's working again!

laura2481

now all i need to do is WIN!!! :rotfl:

laura2481

I need to stop playing bingo and do something constructive :rotfl:

ebonylight

I tried to play that free £1 bingo thingy but every time I did it just said I hadn't bought any cards (I selected them, I thought that's what you're supposed to do).

I think I fit into the category of People Too Stupid To Play Internet Games.

Oh well

Where's princess? x

tilly2484

Erm i'm not happy with the dead fish thing!!! If my art teacher gets one out i'll slap it in her face!!!!!Ming

Cupcakes at the restaurant were for a christening that was held there. They were very happy with them:D

Re spiced apple cupcakes, yes they are delish and make me feel all wintery and christmassy:xmassmile. I make my own cinnamon apple sauce first and then use that in the recipe. For those who are interested it's:

110g butter
135g sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground all spice
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
235ml apple sauce
190g plain flour

1. Mix butter and sugar
2. add eggs and mix until smooth. Add cinnamon, all spice, baking powder, bicarb
3. Add apple sauce, then flour and mix until smooth
4. Put into cupcake cases in oven 180 degrees 20 mins

Leave to cool and then put buttercream frosting on top (butter + icing sugar) I also add a little cinnamon in there as well.

Lush lush:A

Swinstie- yep confuz is right, baking paper is must- you do not want to waste that lush banana bread, god i love banana bread:o

Talking of bingo, anyone do that new bingo thing on tele with ulrika presenting?? Think you get tickets from tesco. Better odds than the lotto!!!

Booklist- how does it work again? So the 1st person on the list choses a book, read it and then it gets sent down the list, then the 2nd person choses a book, reads it and then gets sent down the list, then the 3rd person choses.... blah blah, have i got that right?

I know it wasn't me that put up xmas cake recipe but if anyone wants another here's one I found a couple years back which never fails me!!

175g butter , chopped
200g dark muscovado sugar
750g luxury mixed dried fruits (one that includes mixed peel and glac! cherries)
finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
finely grated zest of 1 lemon
100ml/3½ fl oz cherry brandy or brandy plus 4tbsp more
85g macadamia nuts
3 large eggs lightly beaten
85g ground almonds
200g plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground allspice

1. Put the butter, sugar, fruit, zests, juice and 100ml/3½fl oz brandy in a large pan. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the butter has melted. Reduce the heat and bubble for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool for 30 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 150C/gas 2/ fan 130C and line the cake tin. Toast the nuts in a dry frying pan, tossing them until evenly browned, or in the oven for 8-10 minutes - keep an eye on them as they burn easily. When they are cool, chop roughly. Stir the eggs, nuts and ground almonds into the fruit mixture and mix well. Sift the flour, baking powder and spices into the pan. Stir in gently, until there are no traces of flour left.
5. Spoon the mixture into the tin and smooth it down evenly - you will find this is easiest with the back of a metal spoon which has been dipped into boiling water.
6. Bake for 45 minutes, then turn down the heat to 140C/gas 1/ fan120C and cook for a further 1-1¼ hours (about a further 1¾ hours if you have a gas oven) until the cake is dark golden in appearance and firm to the touch. Cover the top of the cake with foil if it starts to darken too much. To check the cake is done, insert a fine skewer into the centre - if it comes out clean, the cake is cooked.
7. Make holes all over the warm cake with a fine skewer and spoon the extra 4tbsp brandy over the holes until it has all soaked in. Leave the cake to cool in the tin. When it's cold, remove it from the tin, peel off the lining paper, then wrap first in baking parchment and then in foil. The cake will keep in a cupboard for up to three months or you can freeze it for six months.

rubyslipper

Well my cheerful resolution lasted precisely 2 days. My mum called me this afternoon and I just utterly broke down. Basically spent half an hour wailing about having no job, no boyfriend and hating my body. That last one was exacerbated by her telling me that at a family party on Saturday there's going to be a professional photographer to take a photo of me and all my cousins with our nan. Lovely thought but my cousins are all thin and gorgeous, like soap opera gorgeous and I'm...well, patently not. No idea what to wear to make myself look thin except perhaps a circus mirror.
Anyway, meltdown. Need a job or soon I'll become the crazy lady on the estate who wears her knickers outside her trousers and yells at birds.

laura2481

tilly2484 wrote: »

Booklist- how does it work again? So the 1st person on the list choses a book, read it and then it gets sent down the list, then the 2nd person choses a book, reads it and then gets sent down the list, then the 3rd person choses.... blah blah, have i got that right?

Yep- that's it in a nutshell.

laura2481

rubyslipper wrote: »

Anyway, meltdown. Need a job or soon I'll become the crazy lady on the estate who wears her knickers outside her trousers and yells at birds.

Well- that's not so bad. At least, it apart from the underwear outside your trousers bit :rotfl:. If OH dies before me I am going to turn into a cray cat lady. There's no avoiding it really.. I'm half way there as it is :rotfl:

missymoo81

ooooh can I join tooo, i'm not blonde though but i used to be, and i dont have a cat as my bf is being a meanie, but i do love shoes and books and i have been known to watch a few episodes of jeremy kyle *(omg I can't believe I just admitted that out loud!!!)* is that enough to qualify???

missy x

rubyslipper

Hey Missy, welcome to the thread! We're not all true blondes, just honourary ones, so you should be fine. Hope you're 'enjoying' MSE so far, not sure if enjoying is the right word but you know what I mean! x