Cook with Jamie

January 22, 2007

One of my favourite Christmas Presents for 2006 was a Jamie Oliver cookbook titled ” Cook with Jamie, My guide to Making You a Better Cook “.

A beautifully bound book printed in my favourite combination of colors, Black and Gold. A fantastic “Kitchen Bible” of tips, tricks and easy to do recipes. Last Sunday’s dinner AND Auntie Pat’s Birthday Carrot Cake recipes came from this book.

Another clever idea was on the inside cover. Before Christmas came round, Penny had asked me for a photo of myself. And here i was, thinking she gave me a photo frame for Christmas. But in actual fact, the picture was glued onto the blank space on the inside cover.

Isn’t that such a clever idea? Coincidently i was dressed in the right colour too!

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Marley & Me

April 30, 2006

Last night, i finished reading a book my sister passed to me called “Marley & Me”. A wonderful heartfelt tribute to a cranky labrador written by John Grogan. Before i started on this book, i was forewarned by my sister that it wasn’t going to be easy reading it. Not because of its thickness, literary style, or font size, but the downright honesty and detailed adventures of this big ol’ dog, will wrench out memories i chose to keep at the back of my mind.

As i read the last few chapters late late last night, i weeped in the solace of my pillow and duvet, contemplating whether i should stop reading the book. But i couldn’t just drop the story just like that, i HAD to finish it. Everything came flooding back, good and bad memories of our family’s beloved dog ‘Flicka’. This book just made me realise how the wounds were still so fresh… i really really miss her. So for the sake of other blog readers who hadn’t seen the video before, here’s the video i did awhile back, in memory of Flicka.

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