cooking away ...

today (at 9pm) I made this...

a gooey butter cake...
http://tidymom.net/2011/st-louis-gooey-butter-cake-recipe/

eating away

yummy shortbready crust



whats that in the background??!!


it had an interesting taste ... the texture was familier ... mabye kind of custard pie(ish)???



hmm.. seams to resemble something???? :/



the icing (sugar) on the cake (slice)



trying to capture that perfect shot

down it falls

ok, settle down shauna~!

what the cake/slice should look like

me going overboard!

anyway, its in the cooling stage now and will be going out for testing tomorrow!

an extreemly dificult situation

no it wasn't cooking a complicated recipe or sewing something that needs precise detail.. it was much harder.. driving! hahaha

so after going to service tas five times I was finally able to go for my L's! why?? well basically - mum forgot I had a birth certificate insisting that the "copy" was the only original we had... anyway, I eventually got everything I needed and was sitting my test first thing Thursday morning! now, i cant exactly say that I know how much I passed by but lets just say that it was 100% because I was pretty confident that I got them all right lol...
so nerves started to build inside me and I really wanted to go for a drive but as it was pouring down with rain yesterday.. we decided it wasn't the best time to get into a car for the first time so today we went out to legana's industrial area and drove around a big circle! ... it was very ... (claustrophobic) in the drivers seat ... and I was freaking out when I simply turned the key.. clearly I haven't done any (under aged) driving :p

it was an interesting experience, theres so much to do! The first time a car came the opposite way I freaked out and pulled over but I got better at it and ended up doing 16.3ks (going round and round circles!) there were alot of left turns involved so we decided to do a three point turn and go the opposite way.. everything felt backwards and not right!!!

It was kind of like learning how to ride a bike all over again ... only this 'bike' can potentially ruin the lives of multiple people... and we wont mention the first time mum got me riding a two wheeler........

as for now, i cant wait to get back in the car and turn corners :P I'm even giving up my sleep in to go driving!!!

editing....

oh the joy of editing!! I just wrote a 1000+ word essay and edited it four times along with getting 2 teachers to look at it.. I started writing it 4 or so days ago and got half way through it only to start again and I am sure that I read each pargraph 5+ times as I write it and 3+ times as I proof read it. I also done a major swap of the paragraph orders which ment reading them about 7 times over and over again making sure it soulded and flowed right.. fun!
acording to my amazing calculations thats 25500+ (take careful note of the plus!)

my little word calculator... x=amount of words in peice === x*25.5 = amount of words read

(essay) 1320 * 25.5 = 33660 which is close to half of a novel
(project proposal) 2336 * 25.5 = 59568 = 20000 words off an entire novel
(last three blogs I read)  1101+784+871= 2756 which is 1000 words of half of a novel

hmm... so thats close to 2 entire novels in a week marianne...... ;)





but on a serious side, I can actually see the point in editing i mean, through editing... once i finished the essay I read through it and desided that the order wasnt right and it didnt flow proporly.. last year I would have just left it but instead I swapped it around and read it 50 billion times! but in the end I was happier with the result and glad i put in the extra effort...


and to thing that I just finished a 1300 word essay and came here to blog about it ...
... something must be wrong!

dreams... (of lemons?!?!?!)

wow!!! ok so its been so long since i was last on here that i didn't even know how to find it!! grr... 10min later however, i finally arrive!!! theres SOOO much to blog about ... one thing in particular (very exciting!) but first, i must catch my dream before it runs away on me..

hmm...

well after many times of writing my down my dream . . . I have came to the conclusion that there is no possible way of writing it and not sounding ridiculously . . .  umm . . . (i think idiotic is the word I'm looking for....)


anyway,
this dream, it was a weird dream, a good weird dream, a confusing weird dream..!!

so it was some type of a cake competition ... i think we had an hour to make some type of cupcake .. possibly a sponge ... I know chocolate wasn't involved in it though... if it was I would have dominated!!! haha anyway, I was struggling to figure out what to make (as you do in an imaginary cake competition!) but then somehow... I had this idea... maybe it has evolved/chanced since it first appeared in my dream .. maybe not! anyway, its a sponge cupcake with a lemon syrup spooned over it once it is cooked and then finally a lemon butter cream piped on top... sounds pretty yummy!!.. which is weird considering i don't like lemon... but still!!! so i think that will be something to make very soon.. especially since I have one lonely lemon sitting in the fridge that was most likely going to sit there until it was bin worthy ... not any more though!!!


oh... and I'm thinking some form of white chocolate in these cupcakes would make them 10x better!!!!!

ohh.. and there was something else in my dream... something about having a break during the competition at which stage I went into town... the town of launceston... and it was one MASSIVE shopping center... but that's another dream!!... possibly classified in the NEVER GONNA HAPPEN file.......

my lonely lemon

my vision! (found on page three of google images..)