The pokemon crochet journey!

Beauty surrounded the Daring Bakers this month as our host, Sawsan, of chef in disguise, challenged us to make beautiful, filled breads. Who knew breads could look as great as they taste? For the challenge, I have made a sweet bread! Even though I am tempted to re-make this recipe at some point with some ham, pesto, sundried tomato and roast capsicum. Cinnamon Sweet Bread Ingredients * 1/4 cup warm water * 3/4 cup warm milk * 1 large egg * 60 gm butter, softened * 1/4 cup white sugar * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 3-1/4 cups flour, approximately * 2 teaspoons dry yeast * 1/4 teaspoon cardamom, optional - this was about 8 pods ground up. * 60 gm butter (melted, for the layering) * 4 tbsp cinnamon (layering) * 1/2 cup sugar (layering) I combined the egg with the milk, water, sugar, butter and yeast then I set it aside to froth for about 10 minutes. I added 3 cups of flour into the bowl and then I kneaded everything together. In the end I didn't need...

So....onto my first challenge for the cooks side of things this year! The February Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex. The challenge brought us to Greece with a delicious, flaky spanakopita - a spinach pie in a phyllo pastry shell. So I used mainly Paul Hollywood 's recipes and made a few changes of my own to see if I could make it better! And I wanted to make my phyllo pastry from scratch as that was one of the challenges I had wanted to take up on this kind of bake. I would do it again, actually. Making this pastry from scratch was quite a lot of fun, despite there also being a lot of chances to just buy sheets of this pastry from the shops. So obviously the first thing I set about doing was starting up the pastry. Ingredients Pastry 200g strong white flour 100-120ml warm water 1 tbsp olive oil pinch salt cornflour, for dusting 90g butter, melted 1 egg yolk, for glaze Filling 900g english spinach, washed and cut up salt and peppe...

A short while ago I went to Crown Burswood and saw a wonderful show put together by a group of magicians. To cap off the trip though, we went and had dinner at Nobu which was a wonderful place to go eat. The only thing that irked me just a little bit was the strange way they welcomed you into the restaurant. I understand that it is custom to welcome the guest with a hearty yell of irasshaimase when you walk into a restaurant...but I find it distinctly odd that the people at the front counter don't welcome you, then you get lead through a room quietly and then the waiter that initially brought you from the front door into the adjoined room then YELLS it out to the room and it echoes around. ...it's strange. At least tell it to us at the front counter as well if you're going to do that. Anyway...onto the food part. The food itself was wonderful. Scallop tiradito $21 First thing that came out was the scallop tiradito. This was absolutely delicious. I had to be re...

It's been a long time since I made any blogs here but I haven't forgotten my crochet plans! At this point in time I'm slowly ambling towards WaiCon which means the amount of things I'm going to make without a pattern will temporarily (insanely) increase! And then I'll go back to patterning pokemon again. Recently I made a little rainbow snail. This is a Stacey Trock - Freshstitches design. She taught me how to crochet with her online classes and it's because of her that I've been inspired to make my own patterns to share with everyone! The next pokemon on my list I believe will be ratata or one of the two genders of nidoran! I have the yarn to make all of them. Although before then, if I have the time, I'll make up some patterns for kirby, bobombs or piranha plants. I would post up a pokeball tutorial but everyone has a pokeball tutorial so I don't think I will bother with that one! I have made 30 pokeballs in the past few months though. Ho...