- Mark Leggett
"You're only limited by your own imagination! And money. And talent. And genetics. And time. And other people. Go for it!"
Random Thoughts: Know your Limits
The Beard man said | TO live a creative Life...
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. "
- Joseph Chilbon Pearce
I'm starting slowly feeling better about myself, about my choices, about my life, and the way I see myself (or even other might see me). About my work I'm trying, most of the times I just give up in the middle of the process, I don't give everything that I have, and them I end up disappointed and unsatisfied.
One thing that I'm starting to do to change that is having some workshops in illustration. Also, in the next weeks (depending how much time I will or not have) I'm going to start another blog only with works of my own, but mostly with drawings from my sketchbooks.
Sorry for the little rant, anyway, hope you had a nice weekend!
The Muffin Tops: Turkey Curry and Carrot Muffins
Ok, this week I've done two recipes worthy of mention. It was a kind of crazy week, between this and that time was gone! On Monday between cooking the lunch, bake some muffins and went with a friend buy art supplies, time flew away. I finally went to a "new" shop in my hometown that sell art supplies, I wish I could bring everything with me! I've only bough an A2 sketchbook, Indian ink, a trio of little things for mixing ink and some brushes with water deposit. I kind wanted more things, but it's better save money, I don't know when I will need it. I've almost bought some little sketchbook, because my moleskine is nearly in the end, but I think that I have a couple sketchbooks started that I should finish before.
All right, about the muffins, was wasn't sure which kind of muffins I was going to do, ended up to decide some that I could find everything at home.
Unfortunately, when I remember to take a photo of them, they were already gone :( That's why I'm going to use a photo from the original recipe which I based myself. which is from Joy of Baking, Carrot Muffin Recipe.
The original recipe is for 18 muffins, but I did half of the recipe, so it should be around 9 to 11 muffins (I'm saying this because I've done 11 muffins, but two of them were a little small).
Ingredients: (for 9 muffins)
25 gr of walnuts
2 to 4 grated carrots
2 small grated apples
150 gr of all purpose flour
almost 150 gr of white sugar
1/2 of teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 large eggs
50 gr of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
First thing to do is peel the carrots and the apples. After that grated them. I would advice to grated them into really thin and small pieces, because mine were quite big, and were not absorbed into the batter. (they were good anyway, but I think it's matter of whatever you would like to see and do. In the picture you see a very orange muffins, while mine were more brownish colour, kind of cinnamon cookie colour, where you can see pieces of carrot). Set aside both grated things.
In a large bowl mix your dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder, the salt, cinnamon and the chopped walnuts).
In another bowl whisk the wet ingredients ( eggs, butter and vanilla).
Pour the wet ingredients into the first bowl, added the apples and carrots and mixed it all, until everything is incorporated in the batter.
After this you only need to divide your batter into your moulds (I have two moulds of silicone, with 6 spaces for muffins, they're are great, easy to use and clean).
Then take them to oven to about 20 to 25 minutes. After that, let them cool a bit before eat or take out of the moulds. And enjoy!
This curry I've done on Friday for lunch. We have Turkey breast frozen, I thought about grilled them, but after been frozen they would be a little tasteless.
I started to chop the turkey (after almost unfrozen) into small pieces. They were 3 big steaks, and they were enough for 4 portions.
After I chopped the turkey, I've put it in a large frying pan and season it with garlic, laurel and pepper (all in powder), oh and a pinch of salt. Then but a coat of white wine in the bottom of the pan, just to help cook better the meat, and also added mustard (around 2 teaspoons, of regular mustard). Then I put it in the stove, until the meat was almost cooked. After that I've added 200 ml of coconut milk, 10 gr of Madras Curry and two dry chilli (if you're not a big fan of spice, then but just one, or even none). Then it's let it all boil a little, be careful and pay attention if the curry is well mixed with the milk, because it's not pleasant feel the curry powder when you are eating.
Eat with some white rice, and you have a nice meal!
(Sorry again for no photos, the lunch time can be very crazy. Specially in the days that I have to go to Lisbon, right after lunch, I stay happy if I have time to clean the kitchen before I go).
Hope you're having a delightful sunday!
All right, about the muffins, was wasn't sure which kind of muffins I was going to do, ended up to decide some that I could find everything at home.
Carrot Muffins
Unfortunately, when I remember to take a photo of them, they were already gone :( That's why I'm going to use a photo from the original recipe which I based myself. which is from Joy of Baking, Carrot Muffin Recipe.
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| photo from Joy of baking |
The original recipe is for 18 muffins, but I did half of the recipe, so it should be around 9 to 11 muffins (I'm saying this because I've done 11 muffins, but two of them were a little small).
Ingredients: (for 9 muffins)
25 gr of walnuts
2 to 4 grated carrots
2 small grated apples
150 gr of all purpose flour
almost 150 gr of white sugar
1/2 of teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 large eggs
50 gr of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
First thing to do is peel the carrots and the apples. After that grated them. I would advice to grated them into really thin and small pieces, because mine were quite big, and were not absorbed into the batter. (they were good anyway, but I think it's matter of whatever you would like to see and do. In the picture you see a very orange muffins, while mine were more brownish colour, kind of cinnamon cookie colour, where you can see pieces of carrot). Set aside both grated things.
In a large bowl mix your dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder, the salt, cinnamon and the chopped walnuts).
In another bowl whisk the wet ingredients ( eggs, butter and vanilla).
Pour the wet ingredients into the first bowl, added the apples and carrots and mixed it all, until everything is incorporated in the batter.
After this you only need to divide your batter into your moulds (I have two moulds of silicone, with 6 spaces for muffins, they're are great, easy to use and clean).
Then take them to oven to about 20 to 25 minutes. After that, let them cool a bit before eat or take out of the moulds. And enjoy!
Turkey Curry
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| curry powder | source unknown |
This curry I've done on Friday for lunch. We have Turkey breast frozen, I thought about grilled them, but after been frozen they would be a little tasteless.
I started to chop the turkey (after almost unfrozen) into small pieces. They were 3 big steaks, and they were enough for 4 portions.
After I chopped the turkey, I've put it in a large frying pan and season it with garlic, laurel and pepper (all in powder), oh and a pinch of salt. Then but a coat of white wine in the bottom of the pan, just to help cook better the meat, and also added mustard (around 2 teaspoons, of regular mustard). Then I put it in the stove, until the meat was almost cooked. After that I've added 200 ml of coconut milk, 10 gr of Madras Curry and two dry chilli (if you're not a big fan of spice, then but just one, or even none). Then it's let it all boil a little, be careful and pay attention if the curry is well mixed with the milk, because it's not pleasant feel the curry powder when you are eating.
Eat with some white rice, and you have a nice meal!
(Sorry again for no photos, the lunch time can be very crazy. Specially in the days that I have to go to Lisbon, right after lunch, I stay happy if I have time to clean the kitchen before I go).
Hope you're having a delightful sunday!
Inspiration for the WeekEnd
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| part of 365q project by the photographer and designer Julian Bialowas |
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| part of 365q project by the photographer and designer Julian Bialowas |
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| part of 365q project by the photographer and designer Julian Bialowas |
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| Bookish Girls By Lizzy Stewart |
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| Whole By katiedaisy |
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| drawing random people at Starbucks By Beverly Ealdama |
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| Longstitch couro By Zoopress studio |
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| thursday afternoon By Beverly Ealdama |
my own photography
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| Let me grow, there is no more hiding By mafaldafernandes |
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| Words are falling down By mafaldafernandes |
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| You've been there through the times, through the nights that were dark By mafaldafernandes |
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| I would cross any line, I'd swim across the sea By mafaldafernandes |
Sting in the ear - Oh Land
Hope you're having a nice weekend!!
Sting in the Ear: Running up that hill
Last week I talked about Kate Bush, and actually it all started with an urge to ear and share the different versions of the music Running up that Hill.
Oddly, I was cooking and the music came to my mind, and as I started to sing I though about sharing it.
Official music video for the single "Running Up That Hill" written and produced by British singer Kate Bush. The song was the first single from Kate's 1985 album Hounds of Love and released in the UK on 5 August 1985. "Running Up That Hill" entered the UK chart at number 9 and eventually peaked at number 3. The single also reached the top 30 in the United States.
Originally the song was titled A Deal with God, but representatives at EMI were hesitant to release the song as titled due to possible negative reception due its use of the word God.
Bush changed the title; however, the album version of the song is listed as "Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God)". The executives of EMI initially wanted to release another song, (Cloudbusting,) as the lead single from the album. Bush successfully convinced them to release Running Up that Hill first, citing that it was the first song to be written for the album, and felt that it better represented the broader feel for Hounds of Love.
Links
Kate Bush
Placebo
Wikipedia Running up that hill
Within Temptation
Oddly, I was cooking and the music came to my mind, and as I started to sing I though about sharing it.
Kate Bush
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| Kate Bush |
Official music video for the single "Running Up That Hill" written and produced by British singer Kate Bush. The song was the first single from Kate's 1985 album Hounds of Love and released in the UK on 5 August 1985. "Running Up That Hill" entered the UK chart at number 9 and eventually peaked at number 3. The single also reached the top 30 in the United States.
Originally the song was titled A Deal with God, but representatives at EMI were hesitant to release the song as titled due to possible negative reception due its use of the word God.
Bush changed the title; however, the album version of the song is listed as "Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God)". The executives of EMI initially wanted to release another song, (Cloudbusting,) as the lead single from the album. Bush successfully convinced them to release Running Up that Hill first, citing that it was the first song to be written for the album, and felt that it better represented the broader feel for Hounds of Love.
« I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman, can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each other's place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! [Laughs] And I think it would lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God!' You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal With God", that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title.» [Radio 1 Classic Albums interview with Richard Skinner aired January 26, 1992]
Kate Bush sings with David Gilmour
Cover version by Placebo (original music video)
Cover Version by Within Temptation
Links
Kate Bush
Placebo
Wikipedia Running up that hill
Within Temptation
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