October, Oh October.
October 2nd, 2008
This is what today has pretty much looked like all day long. Grey, cold and just miserable, here comes Winter then. The clouds in the sky were black and looked like they were so heavy, they’d just start randomly falling. We went to the travel agents and picked up a brochure which had nothing in it that we were looking for, but we’re hopefully off to Paris for a weekend soon.
This was taken 3 days ago in the nice warm Sun, and I just love this shot to pieces. [: I think it looks pretty awesome to me.
Oh! We won a competition for a spa day at Champneys which is apparently “the place to go” as my Dad keeps saying (maybe he really secretly wants it?) I was looking into it and to get what we won, the price is £290 per person, and we just got it for the price of a magazine and SMS! Pretty cool really, so we’ll call up and book that soon. I’m so excited, it’ll be nice to have a day to just unwind and relax together in a place like that! [:
Mmh, Nathan bought coke and cheese today, so we made pasta with cheese on top and really nice, fizzy coke for lunch. It was really nice, it felt like being in a restaurant.
I was looking around Lello Ltd and it got me feeling all Christmassy, so I’ve started making Christmas cards already! I’ll need Nathan’s help and approval, but I think they’re looking pretty decent right now if I may say so myself. Hooray for Christmas! I should start buying presents to be organised.
Anyway, I have nothing else to report on apart from a little recipe for blueberry muffins which would go down so well right now!
The Ingredients:
- 190g of all-purpose flour
- 100 g white sugar
- 150g of white sugar
- 80ml vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 80 ml milk
- 3g of salt
- 145 g fresh blueberries
- 9g of baking powder
- 40 g all-purpose flour
- 55 g butter, cubed
- 3 g ground cinnamon
The Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees C. Grease the muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
- Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.
- To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.
