Lego Cake

 Chose a Lego Cake to do for the littlest's birthday - why I have no idea and I wish I'd chosen something simpler! Its much harder than it looks and these *&^%$ moulds ate up half the icing until I realised oiling them might help. Other two children very much wanting to help and looking at me struggling with the icing decided to 'just watch Mummy' - sensible. Moulds very cheap on Ebay - Ive never bought tools to make a cake and should have stuck with a DIY job. Final straw was the cake sticking to the pan and half of it refusing to come out - whyyyyyyyyyyy. Never mind, overall was an ok job and didnt collapse, the youngest loved it and its all finished, other than some leftover lego icing bits! Stuck the icing on with jam, first time using it instead of buttercream. After the non stop disasters with the cake and moulds, didnt really want to try buttercream.....Jam did a fantastic job.

Tiger prawns from Costco and Leicester's Indian restaurants!

How do people manage work full time and sort out a healthy homecooked dinner and children's activities and social events and clean the house! Managed fine before I was married and the children arrived, now struggling and dont want to give in to pizza on a daily basis.....
This picture is raw tiger prawns from Costco, its around £7 for 13 and they are gorrrrgeous, I've loaded them with rechade masala here (my incapable phone camera makes it look pink) and they tasted divine.......lovely for when you have a few people over who dont mind using their fingers!

H's Father's Day present of sorts was a cricket match in Leicester, so off I went on a search for a good Indian restaurant, and my extensive research proved that yes, the proper Indian restaurants are much better in Leicester than Birmingham!!!!! Shock horror.
This pav bhaji was the best we've had outside Bombay, dead serious. Other than the chunk of butter in the middle. I've never got it spot on and dont know anyone who has.
This is from Indigo on the main restaurant road in Leicester and it was lovely for less than a fiver. Also had chaat (99% lovely) and a few other things. Highly recommend a visit there, or a bit of research on the many proper Indian places to eat (South Indian, Gujarati etc). Much better than the balti oily stuff that passes itself off as Indian cooking here anyway.
Wish one of them would open a branch here in Birmingham......anyway, going to India soon and very excited about it, then realise there has been very little shopping done until now, cue panic......

Hilarious!

13 Annoying Things NRIs Do When They Return To India

MAY 8 , 2014

1. They acquire a goofy "foreign" accent.

I always find it amusing how a U.S return can carry a Brit accent. Seriously?

2. The really corny ones start using American slang. Even though they've come back from South Africa.

"Yo! Sup dawg?" Wait, what? Don't you dare call me dawg. You are a dawg.

3. Sports for them is now all about N.B.A and baseball.

And as soon as there's a India v/s Pakistan cricket match, they forget everything go "Sachin! Sachin!"

4. They now find everything to be "too spicy."

All Indian cuisine is way too spicy for them now. Curry or no curry.
 

5. They drink only and only, bottled water.

And sometimes they demand sparkling water too. Whatever that is.

6. They crib about the pollution in India.

You should be glad we're not China. And if you've come back from China, you need to S.T.F.U.

7. They have a thing for "labels" now.

Even if they can't pronounce Gucci and Versace.

8. They need tissues. All the time.

Hehehe. We know what's going on here.

9. They now need industrial strength mosquito repellant.

Okay, we get it, we have mosquitoes. But you knew that already right? And it's not like you've never been bitten by one, right?

10. Stray animals are scary for them now.

"O.M.G! A dog in the middle of the street. Is this a zoo?"

11. It's always "too much noise" for them. Everywhere.

"Why are you talking to each other? It's too much noise ya!"

12. Everything is dirty.

"Chee! I can't have this Pani Puri. It's so dirty!"

13. Every sentence starts with a "back in the states..."

You know, back when you were sane, you weren't such a huge pain in the ass.



Laughed out loud at number 12 and Imran Khan's hilarious avatar.
H takes shedloads of repellent and I hate to say that I've always thought it unnecessary until I had a bad case of malaria a few years ago which spoilt my trip.
Some of the things above are for people in America, no clue about living there, but can think of a few people living here who it would pertain to :)
 Other than the repellent, none of the above applies to me :) Gloat gloat gloat.