Sunday, March 28, 2021

Embroider a Lily






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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Marble cake


Ingredients

  • 225 g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  • 225 g Fairtrade caster sugar
  • medium British free-range eggs
  • 225 g British self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
  • tsp Madagascan vanilla extract
  • 100 ml British fresh whole milk, plus 1 tbsp extra
  • tbsp cocoa powder
  • tbsp chocolate sprinkles, to decorate

For the ganache:

  • tbsp golden syrup
  • 60 g Fairtrade caster sugar
  • 100 g Fairtrade smooth dark chocolate, broken up

Method

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Beat the butter with the sugar until light and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well. Mix in the flour, vanilla and 100ml milk until smooth. Spoon half the mixture into another bowl and stir in the cocoa and 1 tablespoon milk.

  2. 2

    Grease a 20cm cake tin and dust with flour. Place alternate spoonfuls of each mixture into the cake tin. Drag through a skewer to create a marbled effect. Bake for 30 minutes, then cover with foil and bake for a further 10-15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave to cool for 10 minutes.

  3. 3

    For the ganache, heat the syrup, sugar and 2 tablespoons water in a pan, stirring. Bring up to the boil, then remove from the heat. Add the chocolate. Leave to melt, then stir until glossy. Spread on the cake and top with the crispies.

     

    Cook's tip: if you don't have chocolate wheat crispies to hand, you can top with any kind of chopped nuts or a few shavings of chocolate.

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Friday, March 26, 2021

Empowering Feminist Quotes from Inspiring Women


"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher


"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
Madonna


Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


"Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
G.D. Anderson


Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'
Gloria Steinem


I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou


"I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That's me."
Maya Angelou



Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg


"You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'"
Erin McKean


"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."
Melinda Gates




THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR