Saturday, January 03, 2009
Sat Post 1: Yay! Success! Banana Cinnamon Tart!
Out of curiosity,
pie 1 (p) n.
1. A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
tart 1 Noun
1. a pastry case, often having no top crust, with a sweet filling, such as jam or custard
2. Chiefly US a small open pie with a fruit filling [Old French tarte]
Courtesy TFDMy "BanaCin"/ "Cinnana" Tart:
Same recipe for pastry case, larger proportions...
This time my almonds were properly toasted, no burning involved! :)
Pastry...
Fresh from the oven...
I don't really like bananas but was prompted by the blackening few hanging in my kitchen... Didn't use a recipe - I just cobbled some steps from the peach recipe and threw in ingredients as I liked... Brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, milk and egg was involved... and cornstarch for thickening...
After icing:
And serve with chocolate ice-cream on the side...
Not a bad attempt for all my guesswork... a tad starchy which is what the ice-cream is for... adding more cinnamon next time... perhaps chocolate chips inside the batter as well...
Labels: Food, Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
11:16 pm
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0 agnelet:
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Im...
Exams are imminent...
Study is imperative...
my immoderations need to be imbargoed...
I'm poorly equipped to do so...
I need to be cut off but then I won't have access to online sources...
If I do have connection, I will invariably sneak a peek...
This makes for an imbroglio of a situation...
I'm being immensely impractical...
this immaturity is impossible... haiz...
i'm crazy i know..... this is such a stupid -imbecilic- filler post...
Labels: Mundanus, Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
11:13 pm
__Mary Had
2 little lamb(s)__
2 agnelet:
eh...when u finish exams ah?
yo yo! jiayou with yr exams! :)
Give lamb to Mary
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Spiders!!!... Ick....
'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly.It's the swarming little ones that get me...
I don't mind the big 'un cuz you can get rid of one big thing but you can't get every one o' them babies esp when they can
hide - you know, being so small...
Caught one big mother of a spider, last middle-of-the-night with my dad...
Went downstairs to the kitchen just a couple of hours later
and there was a swarm in the box...
We'd already guessed it had the egg sac with it tho...
you see the button thingy?
From afar, thought it was clutching a mentos or a biscuit at first...
Random information:
The poem "The Spider and The Fly", written by Mary Howitt, is a children's apologue , cautioning them not to be blinded by flattery. The opening line is often misquoted in a variant of part of the line, rather than the exact words.
It can be used to
- convey irony towards an occurrence after the fact, to mean that the victim of misfortune either contributed to the situation without knowledge or should have realised the trap/drawbacks.
- express sarcasm towards an event or deed that is not likely to occur, demonstrating the speaker's cognizance/suspicion of hidden motives
- as a warning or observation regarding an event or deed that carries a hidden threat
Labels: Random thoughts, Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
2:52 am
__Mary Had
2 little lamb(s)__
2 agnelet:
eeee...TY...so eewww..hahah..so many baby spiders! Wat did u do to dem ah? hahahha
hey ty itz looks damn artistic...very creative actually...that was my first impression...hehe.....
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Vocabulary! Courtesy of TFD thefreedictionary.com
Apparently, according to the GoldenCompass personality test, I'm all these qualities... I am in doubt over some of them... Only agree to the first two in fact. What does anyone else think?
mod·est(mdst)
adj.
1. Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own talents, abilities, and value.
2. Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself; retiring or diffident. See Synonyms at shy1.
3. Observing conventional proprieties in speech, behavior, or dress.
4. Free from showiness or ostentation; unpretentious. See Synonyms at plain.
in·quis·i·tive(n-kwz-tv)
adj.
1. Inclined to investigate; eager for knowledge.
2. Unduly curious and inquiring. See Synonyms at curious.
as·ser·tive(-sûrtv)
adj.
Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured.
out·go·ing(outgng)
adj.
1.
a. Going out or away; departing: an outgoing passenger train.
b. Retiring from or relinquishing a place, position, or office: the outgoing chairperson.
c. Addressed for sending: outgoing mail.
2. Sociable and responsive to others; friendly: a warm, outgoing personality.
spon·ta·ne·ous(spn-tn-s)
adj.
1. Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated.
2. Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from external incitement or constraint.
3. Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior.
All definitions courtesy of
TFDLabels: Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
10:57 pm
__Mary Had
0 little lamb(s)__
0 agnelet:
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
self-contradictory: my way of life
haha. i know i said gdbye to this blog but i couldn't help wanting to post some stuff somewhere.
i figured, since i've finally figured out my pw and id through trial-and-error(a lot of it) might as well make use of it eh.
so. these are some new words i've learned. (incidentally, thefreedictionary is now my new best friend and is on my favourites list.) yeah, a note, some aren't really new words but words that i tot i knew but was slightly off the mark. and the synonyms are only ones that i like.
Fugacious: adj.
1. Passing away quickly; evanescent.
2. Botany Withering or dropping off early
synonyms: ephemeral, transient
Cussed: adj. Informal
1. Perverse; stubborn.
2. Cursed
synonyms: obdurate, unrepentant, obstinate
Mores: pl.n.
1. The accepted traditional customs and usages of a particular social group.
2. Moral attitudes.
3. Manners; ways.
synonyms: convention
Bohemian(apart from the geographical sense): n.
A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.
synonyms:
recusant, nonconformist
Hehe. i love tfd. new words lead to more new words some i've seen before and misinterpreted, some i haven't seen before. it's fun. :)
thefreedictionary.com~~~ Okay, i admit it. i'm a nerd. totally.~~~
p.s. i'm going to change my blogskin soon. i'm not that into inuyasha anymore. yeah soon. just not right now ok. cos i've got schwk and stuff. *promises to self.*Labels: Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
2:18 pm
__Mary Had
0 little lamb(s)__
0 agnelet:
Give lamb to Mary
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Increase your vocabulary
fa·ce·tious
(f-sshs)
adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
[French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin factia, from factus, witty.]
fa·cetious·ly adv.
fa·cetious·ness n.
i got a job at 7-11. it pays a measly 3.50/hr.
i regret quitting the student care. but only a little bit. okay. a lot.
but i did it because i was afraid i wasn't teaching them right and tot i had better pull out before they get abysmal results in their exams and while there was still time to remedy any damage i might have done.
what's done is done and i can't change that. what the heck? i missed inuyasha while typing this??? all because of quarelling. whatever. i shall catch shaman king then and see if i can borrow the rest of InY dvds from szm...
Labels: Jobs, Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
11:20 pm
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0 agnelet:
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Increase your vocabulary here...instalment 2
des·ul·to·ry (dsl-tôr, -tr, dz-)
adj. 1. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.
2. Occurring haphazardly; random. See Synonyms at
chance.
[Latin dsultrius, leaping, from dsultor, a leaper, from dsultus, past participle of dsilre, to leap down : d-, de- + salre, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]
desul·tori·ly adv.
desul·tori·ness n.
De`sume´
v. t. 1. To select; to borrow
des·ue·tude (dsw-td, -tyd)
n. A state of disuse or inactivity.
[French désuétude, from Latin dsutd, from dsutus, past participle of dsuscere, to put out of use : d-, de- + suscere, to become accustomed; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]
credit: thefreedictionary.com
Labels: Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
11:15 am
__Mary Had
0 little lamb(s)__
0 agnelet:
Give lamb to Mary
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Increase your vocabulary
haha... it seems my resolution to stay away from the net is not in the least useful...
my day starts with sleeping to 11am then turning on the com for hours at a time then watching tv and drifting about the house until dinner time and then i watch tv to 12pm then lay on my bed attempting to read chinese books until 2am then sleeep until 11am again...
anyway for the past almost 1 hr i have been online reading other ppl's blogs and rediscovering my affinity with the English Language... searched a
dictionary for the word
deprecating and discovered these words that i have never come across before... :
In`dep´re`ca`ble
a. 1. Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated.
In`dep`re`hen´si`ble
a. 1. Incapable of being found out.
In`des´i`nent
a. 1. Not ceasing; perpetual.
credits: thefreedictionary.comLabels: Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
12:53 pm
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Monday, June 06, 2005
~~~updating...~~~
lazy to write stuff lately....saw the class blog and found out what chu put on my blog link....
been reading
mr miyagi's blog after the straits times article
feel obligated to put in some bombastic words so here goes:
[ the word of the day is:
esprit d'escalier \es-PREE des-cah-lee-É\, n.
french. (duh.) not directly translatable, but "esprit d'escalier" means roughly "wit of the staircase." big help, right? the french use "esprit d'escalier" to refer to the regret one feels after barely missing an opportunity to dish out a perfect comeback. quip-challenged people (e.g. me) know all about this phenomenon. ]
lifted from :
http://www.ransford.org/pipermail/word-l/2002-April/000040.htmlmood: apathetic
Labels: Vocab
mon chef d'oeuvre
5:08 pm
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