Running With Scissors
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Well, Helen has tagged me, so I better do this quick cos she is a Bossy Girl and might beat me up otherwise.
Four jobs I've had:
1. Pie seller
2. Coffee maker
3. Opera chorus singer
4.Administration slave

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1.Fugazi instrument doco
2.Sabrina (the old one)
3. Niagara
4. Donnie Darko

Four places I've lived:
1. Turramurra
2. Glebe
3. Eastwood
4. Annandale

Four TV shows I love:
1. Cutting It
2. The Simpsons
3. Airline
4. Airport

Four places I've vacationed:
1. Melbourne
2. South West Rocks
3. Auckland
4. Brisbane

Four of my favourite dishes:
1. TVP and bean enchiladas by Ben
2. Breakfast feasts involving pastries, toast with butter and coffee.
3. Green Gourmet mock meat everything
4. 'Beef' and black bean sauce by Ben

Four sites I visit daily:
1. www.usyd.edu.au (email checking, mostly)
2. www.naturallycurly.com (am vain and obsessed with hair)
3. www.ebay.com.au Duh.
4. www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

Four places I'd rather be right now:
1. Eating breakfast buffet at Melbourne Grand Hyatt
2. Japan.....sigh.
3. In warm tropical location drinking cocktail out of pineapple or coconut.
4. Curled up in bed on a cold winter's day, looking out the window at a Japanese garden.

Four people I'm tagging:
1. Vanessa Berry.
2. Nicholas Carvan.
3. um-don't know anyone else with a blog.
4. As above.
Fiona expressed these musings at 11:23 PM
Synopsis
The life and times of a girl who likes cake.

The Cast And Crew
Fiona: A genius musicologist with a giant brain, who loves cake, pies and aeroplanes. Captain of Skybed 2.
Rob: Fiona's gentleman caller, also owner of a giant brain, and captain of Skybed 1.
Vanessa: Sister of Fiona, recently returned from a jaunt around the Continent.
Timothy: Friend of Fiona and gentleman caller of Vanessa, currently swanning around in Paris.
Nicholas: Friend of all of the above.
Helen: Platonic wife of Fiona, artist, and senior lecturer.
Mother: Self-explanatory.

Links to Alleviate Your Boredom
www.engrish.com
home.iprimus.com.au/ncarvan/
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Seventeenth

Recipe Of The Week: Orange and Raspberry Cake
Ingredients
125g margarine
3/4 cup (165g) caster sugar
2 eggs, or egg replacer equivalent
1 1/2 cups (225g) self-raising flour
1/2 cup (125 mL) orange juice
3/4 cup raspberries. If you use frozen ones, don't thaw them, please.

1.Grease deep 20cm round cake pan, line base with baking paper, sprinkle with sugar.This helps your cakey to rise, as the mixture clings tenaciously to the sugar as it climbs up the sides of the pan.

2.Beat butter and sugar in medium bowl til all light and fluffy.

3.Beat in eggs one at a time, beating til just combined between additions. Or, if you are using egg replacer, divide it in half, pretend it's eggs and do the same.

4.Fold in flour and juice, in 2 alternate batches, ending with a flour batch.

5.Fold in 1/4 cup raspberries, gently now..

6.Now, assemble your cakey. Spread 3/4 of cake mixture into your pan, sprinkle with remaining raspberries. Spread with remaining cake mixture.

7. Bake in moderate oven (180 degrees) about 1 hour. Stand cake in pan 5 min,then cool on a wire rack.

8. Ice your creation. Orange or passionfruit icing would be nice with this one, I think. I usually just sift some icing sugar until I get sick of it, then add enough orange juice or passionfruit pulp to make a nice consistency.

9. Share with your friends and bask in praise (it'd be nice if you mentioned me, but if you don't, I'll forgive you). Or,
consume alone.