TrashCan: Huzzah for Autumn!

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Huzzah for Autumn!

I have been lurking throughout the blogworld today and, by clicking on a link from a link from a website I have never read before, I have come across this gorgeous sounding recipe -

Pumpkin Muffins

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 tlbs Canola oil
2 tlbs buttermilk
1 egg plus 2 egg whites
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp vanilla
1 and 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup pecans, chopped and toasted

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

1. Combine sugars, oil, buttermilk, egg, egg whites, pumpkin and vanilla.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon.

3. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.

4. Fold in pecans.

Bake in prepared muffin tins for 15-18 minutes.

Check out 'A Happy Miscellany' - she takes fabulous photos.

I am continually delighted by the skill and artistry of the people who post in the 'Gentle Arts' blogoverse I inhabit. And by surfing randomly I have so many happy accidents.

I shall look forward to making these muffins over the weekend and will put up pictures if I can get a shot before the 'Terences' in my house eat them all!

2 comments:

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...: Hi Trashalou, did you see Jamie Oliver did a similar recipe this evening? The idea sounds great. How many sleeps now?? Lucy x

P.S. 5 letters today!; 16 October 2007 11:52 pm
Monkee Maker said...: That's right! Show off about the fact that you can make muffins, why don't you?!

And I bet yours'll look like proper ones too .... unlike SOME people's!

Happy Baking :); 17 October 2007 3:04 pm