Next theme...

Cheers luvvie! So a quick recap

Kenji: Weather

Calypso: A diary entry

Jailo: “Everybody dies but only some people truly live” What is truly living for to you?

Ruben: hittin' the dance floor

Emzski: green
me (for Oct 1): I like to ride my bicycle...


and next chooser, Berni

x

Helloo!

Sorry for my slow announcing of next theme chooser - a timely reminder Bron :)
So on that note I choose - Bronsoir of course!
xx
Emski

Next theme chooser?

Green greets Emski, the hungry hoards wanna know who's up next... x bron

New Post and Comment feeds

Hey all,

Country Squire asked me how we can alerted when a new post or comment is added.
We can do this by subscribing to a 'feed'. There is a feed for posts and one for comments. For those in the know, the URLs are;
For Posts
http://inspirazzi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

For Comments
http://inspirazzi.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

I only have Thunderbird on my machine, so I'll run through how to subscribe to a feed on that. I think you can subscribe from within Gmail itself, but haven't looked into it. If you use Mail or any other Application to check your mail, there will probably be a way to check from there.

In Thunderbird go to the Tools menu -> Account Settings.
Press the button on the bottom left Account Actions -> Add Other Account
Select Blog & News Feeds -> Next
Rename the account or leave it as Default (Note this name is for ALL feeds, not just Inspirazzi) -> Next -> Finish
Select Blog & News Feeds (or whatever you called it) from the window on the left of the Account settings Window. Click Manage Subscriptions -> Add.
Under Feed URL: put one of the URL's I've suggested above -> Ok
Close the Feed Subscriptions Window and press OK on the Account Settings Window

You should now have that feed show up as an account in Thunderbird and will be alerted when new content is posted. Note you'll have to repeat the Subscription Process for both Posts and Comments if you want them

Green

...in dreams existing
perfect life imagined full
surrounded by green...

Burning green

Emily's green theme was mulling in my head when I came across the work of Yulia Brodskaya (papercrave.com/yulia-brodskaya-paper-illustration). She's taken the formerly daggy craft of paper quilling and made it into something delicious and clean and modern. I wanted a building being enveloped in green tendrils, like licking flames and hungry happy plants, and it turned out pretty much as I'd hoped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco


boring one this month i know. sorrrry guys. xx

Quiet on the set

Kermit sniffed the pine air rolling in from the verdant hills as he struggled into his Robin Hood outfit, it was an early morning start once again in the forest. The new crew had rocked up early in their Jeeps and were eager to get these last few scenes captured on film before the protesters returned once again.

The canetoad Director flicked a plump olive at some stage hand dropped his martini glass into the bush with a chinkle and called Kermit over for a quick shot of Absinthe pre shoot, Kermit manly ambled over in his bulky outfit, ripping his boots through the Ivy, they took a shot each and then gasped as 'princess' emerged from her caravan nibbling down the last of her Mint Pattie and flicking her lime angel hair before gently tossing the wrapper away behind her, it tumbled like a weak heart, flashing to the forest floor in the early morning light, before being trampled into the moss by an awkward camera operator.

A baffled shout wafted across the minty scene, all eyes flicked keenly to where the protesters were emerging from the thick undergrowth, globby jungle paint smeared across their cheeks, placards waving in anger.
OMG! broiled the Director, its just a movie! Everything is biodegradable, here have an apple you freaks.
The activists surged on like an angry wave of zombies, swatting with their signage until the cries had subsided.

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This is not my post. This is a post to say that I'm going to post on Saturday. I have my Inspirazzi ready in my head, but won't get time to implement until Saturday. This is so anyone who does post doesn't feel too lonely.

... Ahh... but I never said Which Saturday did I... Well I did intend it for last Saturday, but ... I didn't do. Then pressed for time, I thought I'd just try something on a weekday. Epic Fail. No matter I'm posting it anyway.

My idea was to try and cook a dish (well the original plan was a whole meal entree, main, dessert.. yeah that didn't happen) that would be entirely green. I was planning on using vegetable juice to colour whatever wasn't green, and to try to co-ordinate other ingredients. Didn't work though.. and not only did it not work, but having used Chinese Mustard Greens, the green Mash tasted weird. But. I did manage to repair the Mash in a later dish by adding some onion, garlic, the chopped roasted green chili and frying it.. I think it just needed some settling time.

So here is a picture of the Green mash with lamb and zuccini.. Yeah not really inspired, but I was trying to get it all done in half an hour to feed the ravenous family..

Of course Bern suggested that I should have done Green Eggs and Ham, which I did think of, but somehow got confused and couldn't work out how to make the Ham green.
Other ideas were;

Green Creme Brulee - Dyed with Pandan leaf
Green Jelly - thought the rules (yeah I made up the rules) stated that there were to be no artificial colours, so I got stumped on this, as the only green fruit I could think of was Kiwi, and him (yeah Kiwi is a him.. do you ladies really want to claim a fruit that look like a ... well you know what he looks like) and Gelatine don't like each other. Of course I could have used Agar.. that's what I should have done.
Green Lip mussels with Coriander white wine sauce.. I debated with the judge about this one, as the Green Lip mussels aren't actually green.
Gai Yang, Thai grilled chicken, with basil and green chili to make it green.
I was also thinking of a Vegetarian dish, like a green Quiche in honor of our topic chooser, but didn't get very far there either..

Well the thought is supposed to count, but doesn't really when it comes to food. Unless I could start the thought diet, were you think about what you'd like to cook, and then you eat a salad.. or cardboard.