One of my Daring Deeds was to bake bread. I might make this a habit as I do like bread, but don’t eat a whole loaf before it gets dry. When I’m baking I can choose the size myself, hence four smaller loaves rather than a big one.
I completely forgot that the dough has to rise first and had already preheated the oven, so I made cake, too, but that’s for another post.
It’s only a lake. But I’m happy with whatever swimming water I can get, and with last Thursday I also started Daring Deed No. 20.
Actually I like cooking. I just seldomly do.
But that is over! Starting yesterday I began the completion of Daring Deed No. 101, eat no pre-made food for a month.* That’s a hard one. For some people it might not seem so hard at all, but I’m a student living on my own with a super market within five minutes reach by foot and a weakness for pizza. No canned, bagged or otherwise packed meals for 30 days straight.
Expect food photography.
My lunch today was zucchini pasta after a recipe from Palandurwen. I used Provence herbs, marjoram and ginger (one thing I learned from Ratatouille: always do something unexpected) as my maine spices and substituted the grated cheese by radish sprouts.
It was rather tasty and I think I’ll cook it again. And I still cannot understand people (read: Scoundrel) who don’t like zucchini.
P.S.: The giveaway ends tonight at midnight (GMT+1), there’s still time!
- – - – - – - – -
* I also finished No. 51 today and handed in my paper on “The Characters of The Wind in the Willows and their Species as described in Brehm’s Life of Animals. A Comparison. “.
notes for the new list
Well, today is the 22nd day of November and so the deadline for my daring deeds expires tonight. This here is a little conclusion about these goals. I did 50 of 101, that’s nearly 50%! I’m sure I could do even better, my new list is already there.
P.S.: I also linked back to posts that covered a Daring Deed so you can see some parts of the progress again!
A week ago was my mothers birthday and I gave her something I had started as a project a year ago.
Fairy lights made from egg cardboard! I painted the “flowers” with my pigment aquarelles after I pretty much drowned them, as the water allows the colours to flow down the structure of the paper like little veins.
My mother loved her gift! I had already feared it was too useless for her, but it was just right.
The flowers look a little bit like nasturtium or field bindweed blossoms, both flowers that I really like.
It’s a little bit like I’m brightening up her rainy, dark autumn evenings even though I’m not there myself.
Picture and poem by C. M. Barker, as always.
Best and dearest flower that grows,
Perfect both to see and smell;
Words can never, never tell
Half the beauty of the Rose -
Buds that open to disclose
Fold on fold of purest white,
Lovely pink, or red that glows
Deep, sweet-scented; What delight
To be fairy of the Rose!
Yes, I’ve learned another one and so finally did something for my Daring Deeds again! The Roses in my secret garden are still partly abloom, the one in the mint bed in colours like milk mixed with honey or caramel though pale old china amber to bright yellow, the one in front of the shack in deep, dark red like rubies, but even brighter and at last my favourites – the ones at the arch – in lovely pink like told above, partly blending into a yellow similar to the mint roses.
Roses are one of my main themes recently, as it seems – I’m watching MariMite at the moment, dried buds hang from my mirror, the Scoundrel and Bambi had a university project containing roses some weeks ago, I’m thinking about Briar Rose, Snow White and Rose Red and The Beauty and The Beast designs for T-shirts and pillows and the dried petals fill a cake tin at the window sill… But I think I’ll have to devote another post to this topic. ^^
