boys and their bbqs

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well the last two nights have been a bbq affair.
monday night was hotdogs as we were watching several NFL games and was getting into the spirit of things. It was more of an aussie snausage snizzle really but the thought was there… Even if a vikings win wasn’t – and the bears had a bye week so it really was nothing to write home about…
But i got to wear my new Petersen Guernsey that i bought on the weekend… He had a good game – pity our quarterback didn’t.

but last night my boy had a hankering for some kebabs – i had some chicken already in the fridge so we marinated that with some oil and barbeque seasoning (thanks 5 ingrediant fix’s Claire Robinson for the idea!) and then he strung them onto skewers with mushrooms, capsicum, and cherry tomatos and barbequed them to perfection… i made the potato salad – potatos, egg, peas, red onion, mushrooms, and potato salad dressing. not my most inspired effort – usually there’s some bacon, spring onions, fresh parsley, sometimes i’ll put corn in there… but i remembered the bacon after i had finished and didn’t have any of the other ingrediants at hand…
but it was delicious anyway… and i have some leftovers for work lunch today…
show me potato salad!!! (onya family guy)

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1. Children Collide – Say You’re Wrong (262)

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Coming in at number 1 with a whopping 262 playcounts…
“i’ve locked myself inside my head until you’ve gone away”

This was the first children collide song i ever heard and i still frickin love it.
Continue reading 1. Children Collide – Say You’re Wrong (262)

Lost day

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Well ive spent the morning with my boy at the doctors. Not so fun – but he’s ok and is now snoring soundly on the couch.
I did what i do best and shower him with affection – and cook him food.
So there’s two soups on the stove – a nigella pea soup (peas, spring onions, lime juice, and top up with just enough water to cover. Boil then once the peas are mushy remove the spring onion and blend!)
And just a vegie soup – which was a good way to use up all the vegies in my fridge… So when he wakes up hopefully he’ll be hungry – he’s not allowed solids for 24 hours so soup should go down a treat.
Im a bit of an italian nonna – i show my love through food… xxoo

I’ll do anything finale

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So it’s the final of ‘i’d do anything’ tonight… The music talent show which sets out to find the next nancy for the west end…
While i’m waiting to find out who’s won it – i’m cooking up some improvised pasta sauce creation which i’m not sure about either! So i frickin love it all!

Looking forward to beers with my best gal tomorrow…

Now lets see how my stories and my dinner turn out…

i love my lists

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there’s nothing i love more than a list – except perhaps an automatically generated list.
The smarts at apple have provided me with an automatic playlist to fall back on since i got my first ipod (poodle) at 18…
Since then i’ve had to reset the play counts a couple of times due to computer failures, iTune upgrades gone wrong once or twice… But i haven’t had to do that for a good couple of years so most of the top 20 are well and truly in the 200+ plays column.
What surprised me about this list is the same artists popping up… Muse, Birds of Tokyo, Rise Against, Zero 7… I would count myself as a muse fan from way back – but zero 7 is a sunday morning / going to sleep album – Rise Against is a running album – Birds of Tokyo got hershed when i last went travelling (i had just seen them live and was reliving it over and over again)
Also there’s 5 songs that i haven’t even listened to in the last month…
I can’t see those top 2 songs getting knocked off any time soon…

The top 20 Most Played Songs on my iPoodle… Continue reading i love my lists

Radio inspired dinner

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eggy bread cups

Thank you 720 for dinner – yummo!!!!

Outfit was just the tights and socks i wore to work with a cute pair of grey (cotton on) shorts, with my silversun pickups shirt…
I just loved the red shirt – pink tights combo… Plus its super comfy

Also shouts to instagram – awesome pic sharing and simple maniulation program…

Pasta love affair

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Well tonight’s fettucine kicks all over last night’s attempt…

Bacon, pancetta, and onions fried in a saucepan, tipped in a can of evaporated milk, some corn flour, and mustard powder. Stirred the stuffing out of it to compensate not mixing the corn flour and milk first. Brought that to boil then added some fresh english spinach and parmesan, then the fettucine.
Gloopy, sticky, stodgy, pasta goodness… Just a day late…

Now to sit down and enjoy my top chef and project runway i taped last night but didnt get a chance to watch…
Tuesday night awesome-ness (sparkles-ness)