THE START OF SOMETHING NEW

Hi guys, 

Something a bit different for all of you.. it will be a series of blogs happening once a week, this is just explaining it all so next week it is not just out there....

This is year has been crazy in regards to my love life (if you can even call it that).  That is all due to something called Plenty of Fish (POF for short). Yes. It is a dating website and I know what you are thinking, why would you do that etc etc???   Well some friends persuaded me (forced) to get it earlier in 2014 maybe mid February and I was saying no no no no.. you get the picture.. for months.

It got to May and I thought hmmmm why not, so I made an account (free of course lol not going to pay for one).  Didn't use it till July properly and then I didn't use it till January.  I will tell you what happened in July next week.

Each week I will let you know who I saw ( I saw loads) who I talked to (talked to way more).

It will be under these headings:

Name:

Time:

Date:

How long talking before date:

Where the date was:

Good looking:  /10

What he was like:

How the date went:

Overall satisfaction:

The part above is for if I went on  a date with the guy.  If I didn't I will use these headings:

Name: 

How long talking to:

When it stopped:

What we talked:

Why it didn't work:

I am looking forward to this and cannot wait to start writing it! 

Catch you next week!

MAKING RICE

Heyy, I thought I would do a recipe today with pictures to help you! I have been wanting to do this for aggges but have not had a chance to as i said I wasn't able to download the pictures!! I am so sorry I haven't had a chance to update in so long and I have so much content.  Youtube has got to me I admit....



So the ingredients used are:

1 cup of rice (but this can change to 2 cups etc, depends how many people eating)
1 vegetable or chicken stock cube (2 stock cubes if larger quantity)
1 onion
1/2 Spring onions
A handful of cherry tomatoes
1 pepper
1/2 celery
Vegetable oil to fry onion
Salt and pepper for seasoning
Cinnamon for seasoning (optional)

These are some of the ingredients I used but you can use anything such as mushrooms, sweetcorn, peas, just add them in Step 3 and make sure the mushrooms so add them first with tomatoes so they have longer to cook!


The recipe is:

1) Finely dice the onion  and put them in the frying pan with a little bit of vegetable oil. Fry until soft. Add chopped tomatoes.

2) Meanwhile  while onions are softening chop the rest of you vegetables.

3) Add rest of vegetables to pot once onions are ready, stir and leave for 3 minutes while measuring the rice and boiling the kettle.

4) After 4 minutes add the rice and stir well.  Measure the water and add the stock cube and mix together.

5) Add water to the rice and vegetables stirring. Mix in the salt, pepper and cinnamon to taste and carry on stirring. I used a wooden spoon but some use a normal metal spoon.

6)  I tend to leave it for about 10 minutes on a medium setting; putting the lid on fully. I didn't go far after 10 minutes I would come and stir it so it wouldn't stick to the bottom of the lid.

7)  When the water is absorbed, give it a taste as it might be still underdone so will need more water (not too much) and then let that be absorbed.

8)  You will know it is ready as it will not be hard when you eat it, it will be soft and yummy.

Voila it is ready!!! You can reheat if you want for next day... never had it cold but bet it is nice! I like to add cheese to my rice, it melts and is lovely!!!

Chicken Alfredo made by moi

Okay, I made this recipe a couple of weeks (or was it months?) ago! I will take you through it!!

Ingredients:

Fettuccine (or any other pasta you like)

1 to 2 cups of broccoli florets

1/2 cup of butter

1/2 teaspoon minced garlic (I didn't use)

2 cups heavy cream

1/8 garlic powder (again didn't use)

1/8 black pepper

1/4 freshly grated Parmesan cheese

2 to 3 cooked chicken breast, diced ( I brought mine fresh and fried it).

METHOD :D

1) I started washing and breaking up the broccoli florets and putting them in some boiling water.

2) I then diced the chicken and put it into a frying pan to cook!

3) I took the broccoli off once it was cooked and then drained it.

4)  Melt butter in the saucepan and add cream, minced garlic and garlic powder

4) I then grated the Parmesan

6) I put on the fettuccine to boil and cook

7) I put the chicken and broccli into the sauce

8)  I then sat down to eat it

I hope you enjoyed this post! I don't usually make food, I just bake most of the time but it was a nice change, especially as I want to be more creative!! It actually tasted quite nice and surprised myself as I can be fussy with food!!!

This was the recipe I used if you don't understand mine! :P http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/chicken-broccoli-alfredo/acc6f2db-a150-4b3e-abbf-4a58c00184cd?p=1 

2015

Helloo everyone! Happy belated New Year!!! Hope you all had a good one! I know I did! I went to my local pub with my bestie and spent the night there where it was cosy and quiet.

NYE

So it has been a while since I last posted and I have a valid reason... I promise!!!  I had so many recipe posts to post but my laptop went into meltdown and I had to reset it which means everything was lost. When I say everything... I MEAN EVERYTHING.  All my pictures were on my ipod and I can't plug in my ipod until I redownload my music; because clever me didn't back up anything!

I am about half way through so hopefully once that is done I can start again!!

I will tell you what I have been up to in the meantime, I had a job, I quit my job, was not working out at all.  Joining an agency for more experience!

My aspirations for 2015 are:

- Find a good job that I love

- Spend more time with my friends and family

- Go on holiday

- Blog more!

What are your resolutions or aspirations?! :) xxxx

BOOK REVIEW- THREE GIRLS SET

I have a few things in store for guys.... recipes, more book reviews, fashion and more!

Recently, I have brought more books on my kindle and am starting to read them and was thinking of writing book reviews on them?? I won't do them all at one as that we be soooooo boring but will do one in between other posts.

I will start the review of with the "Three girl" series... I brought these books on my kindle as a package of three.

The first book was called:

THREE GIRLS AND A BABY

This was actually a good book to my surprise... I don't like to give to much away but I usually know where a book is going half way through but I was shocked to say the least when it took a turn for the better!! I came to love all the characters and their certain traits and personalities and laugh along with them!  Who wouldn't want their best friends along for the ride when they are pregnant?!  Ginny the main character in this book was a strong willed character who came to terms with being pregnant and all in all came out on the other side!!

After reading this I was said that I would not like the other books as much because the first had made such an impact.

The second book was called:

THREE GIRLS AND A WEDDING

Okay so I finished this books as well, and I must say it wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.... the story line was good.  It was in Jen's point of view this time, one of Ginny's BF and seeing her work through her problems was fun to see.  The story line was a bit more obvious this time which I liked because I could go with the flow and know what was happening BUT that is too say, I still preferred the first book.  I wonder what woulda happened if I read this story first would I be the same??

I haven't started the third book until now, because I wanted to write my opinion on this first but onto the last book:

THREE GIRLS AND A LEADING MAN

So it is the 09th of May nearly a week after I finished the second book and have not even started it?!?!?! I seem to go through phases where I like my kindle and then when I don't.

So it took me a bit of time to get into this book as I was reading another one and again I did not want to not like it because it would break by heart!!  The character Annie, was the one I did not like, I don't know why, she just did not appeal to me!

Okay I finished this a couple of days ago AND I LOVED IT!!! It was as good as the first if not better, I was amazed the storyline was just up my street and I couldn't wait to read more! We still had the other characters within the story but it was a different kind of element because, she was an actress and the guy she got with was not expected!


If I had to pick one to read, I would choose either the the first one or the last one myself because I connected with the characters on a level in which I knew them and if I met them I would feel I know they're personalities well.

I found out there are two other books one following Kiki (another character introduced in Book 2 +3) and one about the girls in the future alternating chapters!!! I will be reading that one as Kiki's one I don't think I will like it.

LIFE

So the other day, I was thinking about life and where it takes us.  Right now I think my life is so jumbled up, I used to have such a clear view of where I wanted my life to go and where I should be right now but it isn't and here I am thinking over here.  I don't remember much of when I was a childhood but I always thought that I had no worries in my home life but oh was I wrong, for the last 3-4 years it has been going down isn a spiral and is not stopping anytime soon.. my perfect life going to be scrambled and will have to get used to that.  But what happens if I don't what to get used to it, or get over it?! How do I do it? How do I adjust to things being different, families being apart, who do I choose? Why do I choose?

Things in my other life will be messed up, but knowing me I won't show it, I will put a smile on my face and push through my daily schedule fooling everyone.  Why won't I ask for help? Am I too proud? I think it is because I don't want to burden everyone with my problems, I am usually the one to help everyone not push all my problems on everyone else.... the bad thing about this is that one day it will all come to a boil and I will explode....

Funny thing is it isn't going to happen for a couple of year but even knowing it will happen makes me want to cry and just hide away till everything is fine.  Life is very funny, putting so many obstacles in the way to see if I can overcome them.  I know there are a lot of worse things about there for other children and I wish I could help every single one of them, but right now I just want everything to be perfect.  I want it to go back to how it used to be, where everyone is happy and gets on with each other and then everything will be fine.

The reason for this is because once it happens my LIFE will not be the same ever again and things will come out, not nice things but nasty things and what will I do then, just sit back again and listen or would I be involved?! Probs be the latter one and I am the oldest which means I will need to check on my sisters and make sure they are okay as they will take it harder than me!

On a happier note..... I am looking for a job and the internet it coming back :)

FINDING A JOB

Finding a job is the hardest thing in the world... especially when in your profession there is no good jobs available.....

So everyone I finished uni can you believe after 3 years it has come to this and now is the time to look for a job.  I look in papers, the internet, phone calls and nothing it seems like there is NO jobs available.  Why is life like that? You spend so much time in education and then when it is time to spread your wings you can't??

I wish it was different and that I could find a good paid job which I will love but only time will tellllll!