Friday, 3 January 2014

What is Prosciutto?

Well basically, prosciutto is an Italian dried and cured meat.
The process is this,
They get a clean, raw leg of ham and cover it in salt. This draws out the moisture making it s
They then hang it in a cool dry room for usually 2 months but originally up to 2 years. This cures the meat so that you don't need to cook it when you buy it (although you can).

cure

verb

preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking.

So I hope you all go out and buy some prosciutto from your local deli right now!
Let me know in the comments what you thought of it (if it's your first time trying).

I do not own these images

Jody

Simple Lunch Recipe

Hey guys,

I've decided my New Years Resolution is to become a better blogger. Which means I am going to have to put more effort, research and consideration into my posts and also what my blog looks like which to be honest, looks like a 7 year old did it. No offense to any great 7 year old bloggers out there. But seriously I do want to try making this a better blog.

But while I try to turn that illusion into something real, here is my lunch for you:

Salad and Sandwich

Ingredients

  • Tomato - You can use any kind of tomato you like e.g. cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, tomato medley or just a regular sized tomato
  • Feta - I used Danish Feta for mine but you can use a different one
  • Red Onion
  • Turkish Bread - or any bread but Turkish is my favourite!
  • Avocado - make sure you have a ripe one :)
  • Prosciutto


Today I had salad with an avocado and prosciutto sandwich.
Basically it's a Greek salad with no olives or cucumber. Yeah, I know; I'm a very fussy, unhealthy eater but feel free to make a Greek salad if you like.

If you don't know what prosciutto is, where have you been? It's ham that has been cured and aged and it tastes soooo good!!
























I ended up putting my salad on half my sandwich and eating it as slices.

Basically my mum bought this Nicer Dicer thing and it chops things up for you. So I thought I'd try it out on my salad. But if you don't have Nicer Slicer Dicer thingomabob then you can just cut the red onion and feta into small chunks and either cut the tomatoes in half (if you have small tomatoes) or into wedges (if you have big tomatoes). The turkish bread was fresh so I just cut off a nice big slice of that and cut it in half. I then spread avocado on both sides and placed two slices of yummy fresh prosciutto onto one slice of bread. Feel free to try it out! It is yuuuummy :)


Jody

Thursday, 2 January 2014

LUSH LOVE

 I had a swim in our pool not long ago and the temperature was lovely. Like that not cold not warm temperature that you can relax or swim in.

So afterwards I thought it would be a good chance to use a LUSH product.
I decided to go ahead and use some of my Golden Wonder and all I can say is
Oh.my.goodness.
So my bath ended up being this bluey green arromatic pool of relaxation and I could see golden sparkles floating around the bath and now I can see golden specks on me too!
I'm excited for my next bath! Ooooo I can see some pink in there!!

So if you have not tried a LUSH bath bomb then you must. If they are too expensive for your liking then wait until a sale is on like I did :) I wouldn't recommend though to people who don't like strong smells but it really does smell good :)

Jody

New Years Eve Fireworks

Hello Guys,

It's now January the 2nd and I'm finally going to put up some photos of the 9 o'clock fireworks.

This one makes me think of Disney....and magic.....
I love how they look like flowers


Sorry if the images take really long to load or if they're wasting your internet. There 23 photos there but they're not exactly professional. As you know I am still learning how to use a camera. I really should take a photography class or something. But anyway, there are the best photos I got, a lot of them a really blurry though. I think I forgot to turn it to MF.

Well it's going to be 33° C today so I think I'll go for a swim as the pool will be nice and warm.

Jody

Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hey guys,
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I wish you all a wonderful 2014! Better start with those New Years Resolutions. 
I will download the photos from my camera onto my computer and then post them this afternoon. They are only the 9 o'clock photos though because we didn't stay up until midnight.

Jody