Pancake Nightmare

everyone who knows me thinks i'm a great cook. Everyone who knows me a little bit better knows that i'm a terrible cook. Even though everything i like is Vintage and old fashioned, i'm a terrible cook and couldn't even bake a normal egg. As you saw with my 'Bunny Hops' (who turned out great, BTW.) I'm learning quick. So today when my mom was at a friends house, I decided to make pancakes, but smaller. (we call it Pannenkoeken, but I don't know what the American version is)

easy, you'd think. Well, think again. The first one came out of the pan in little pieces, but that always happens to the first one, my mom says. The second time I forgot to use butter and the third time it burned. But then the fourth one was perfect! And eventually I got better at it, an the last one was the best, I'd say. Ah well, Practice makes Perfect.

The room does smell lovely now. That's the great thing about cooking. (and your little brother hugging you saying it's delicious! )
                                                                                                  

How To Live WOW!

A big problem for me at school always occurs after the first few weeks; the big thrill of going to school again and kick some ass, showing the teachers that you're worth way more than they give you credit for, is gone. Homework becomes boring again and you're looking forward to every weekend.

Some things I always do is looking at movies that make you feel good, that show you that everyone can be someone. (even Disney movies). And the same goes with songs ofcourse. I have a playlist on my i-pod that I always listen to when I go to school on my bike, because they make me want to go to school.

So this whole week I've been sick at home.  It wasn't really bad or something like that, just the normal cold, and a nice break from going to school for 8 hours. (yeah, from 7:30 untill 5:15, thank you very much!)

My mom bought this book for me; ''How To Live Wow!'' about how to do something with your life. it's a really great book about how to make your own luck, and I highly reccommend it to everyone who want's to do something with their life, but doesn't exactly know what.

Love Maaike

Bunny Hops

So this is something I used to make with my grandmother when i was little. She'd make everything and I would sit with her on the sink and got to lick the spoon afterwards.

I wanted to make some this weekend because a friend of mine had a really bad day last week, and what better medicine is there than chocolate? It's the first time I made it on my own though- but I must say it looked (and smelled) really good!

Ingredients;

- 2/3 bars of chocolate. (you can use any kind

of chocolate, but without nuts, or anything else in it. I used milk chocolate.)

- cornflakes                   (just normal conflakes, without suger or anything else.)

- you'll also need a wooden spoon, two normal spoons, and two pans, a big one and a

small one.

And ofcourse, before you begin, wash your hands and wear an apron to make shure you won't get stains on your clothes.

Fill the first pan with water, and put enough in it so that the smaller pan can loat on the water. You'll need to heat it up, but it can't boil.

Put the chocolate in the small pan, and let it melt. It helps a lot if you break the bars in small pieces.

When it's melted you only need to put the cornflakes in the chocolate and make shure they're all covered in it. Then you need to make little ''hops'' of it with picking small bits out with two spoons.

Let it cool down for a couple of hours – it'll go faster if you put it in the freezer or in a cool basement. –

As an extra you can wrap it up nicely and give it away as a present, be original.

love, Maaike