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    Wonka's kitchen cooking thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted · Edited by Siu

    Last week-end I made the most delicious apple-almond-marzipan-pie I've ever had :licks_lips:

     

    What you need is:

     

    For the pastry

    180 g all-purpose flour

    85 g caster sugar

    125 g butter (from fridge)

    1 small egg

     

    For the topping

    50 g butter

    150 g marzipan

    1 tsp all-purpose flour

    juice of 1 lime

    4 big apples

    25 g sliced almonds

     

    Make the pastry first. Cut flour, sugar and cold butter into fine crumbs, add the egg and press the pastry into a ball. Pressing with your fingers, line a 25 cm (10 inch) spring-form tin with the pastry. Put into a fridge for 30 minutes to rest, then bake at 200 C for 10 minutes.

     

    Grate the marzipan with a coarse grater. In a saucepan melt the butter, add the grated marzipan, lime juice and flour. Heat and stir until the mixture is smooth. Remove the saucepan from the cooker.

     

    Peel and grate the apples, again with a coarse grater, and cover the half-baked cake. Spoon the marzipan-butter mixture evenly on the apples. Scatter almond slices on top.

     

    Bake at 200 C for another 30 minutes or until the pie is golden.

     

    Leave the pie to cool (if you can :blush-anim-cl:) and enjoy!

     

     

     

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    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    The thing is, I still ENJOY piano playing and singing, so it wasn't the end of the world when I gave it up. I can play some Mika songs, and I could learn more if I wanted to. I'm glad I wasn't pressured into doing something I didn't enjoy at the time. :biggrin2:

     

    I'll try not to pressure :biggrin2:. Luckily, she can't normally be pressured to do anything :roftl:

    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    Oh I think you're doing exactly the right thing and she's only 6 so I'm sure she'll get more interested in it as time goes on if it's something she's got a talent for.

     

     

     

    I think there's something to be said for the Tiger Mom approach. I think Mrs. P. was a bit of a Tiger Mom. Well, still is, if Elle Me Dit is anything to go by. :roftl:

     

     

    :roftl:

    But look where her approach got him. Not that he hadn't otherwise... :wink2:

     

     

    @astor - It's the regretting-giving-up-piano/singing/etc-lessons that worries me a bit, but yeah, she certainly does have some time :wink2:

    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    how old is she? 12? :naughty:

    i would make her. i was forced to play an instrument during my teen years and i'm so grateful for it now. not that i still play it (it was the wrong instrument :aah:), but as a teenager it was such a great outlet. i would just go play whenever i needed to vent. my teacher also often served as my therapist...:naughty:

    also, i was able to be in a band for a while...

     

    i have a friend who attends her kids' violin lessons and practices with them daily for an hour. i admire her, it teaches them real discipline, plus they're getting really good.

     

    unfortunately i don't have the time to do that with my kids. also, i have financial limits, so right now two of my kids have to alternate piano lesson each week...:(

    anyways, i am sure your daughter would be grateful later!!!

     

    I defenitly wouldn't force her, I think it's close to childabuse.

    If she doesn't like it now, maybe she will later, voluntarily.

    But maybe also she is going to like something completely different, like horseriding, or skating or cooking....

     

    Goodluck with your choice!

     

     

     

    She's 6. But she has a mind of her own :aah:.

     

    I'm happy she at least agreed to taking dancing lessons this term and as for now, I don't feel I should be pushing her to start with singing lessons again, mostly because we don't know whether we will be moving back in six months or stay for another year and if we did leave the coming summer, it would only be another thing she'd have to leave behind and maybe miss.

     

    There has to be a golden middle between forcing and letting it be :dunno:. What I have started doing is tricking her into performing to us :teehee:. She picks a song she likes, learns to play it on the piano and sings to us. We've had some nice discussions concerning what was good and what could be improved and how, and luckily, for the time being, she doesn't object :original:. Already it has has a positive impact on her confidence, so we'll keep it up.

    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    Yes that's definitely more fun for me. :wink2:

     

    A conversation in the Adele thread reminded me of this but it has nothing to do with Adele so I'll post it here. This girl is doing very well on YouTube, I think she started when she was 10 or 11.

     

    [YOUTUBE]iCqppkGSs80[/YOUTUBE]

     

    She sure does have a brilliant voice :thumb_yello:.

     

    I wonder, how to get a kid to enjoy singing and feel confident about it? My daughter has such a good ear for music. She sings beautifully and learned to play her favorite songs on the piano independently just by listening and is now starting to do the same on the guitar. She had singing lessons at 3 and 4 years and when we moved country her singing teacher urged us to continue with her music education. But first she had a language barrier and we didn't want to push her. Now she claims she's simply not interested any more :sneaky2:.

     

    I've always wanted to be a good singer and maybe I'm simply trying to achieve my ambitions through her :dunno:. But since she does have talent, I'd like to see her work on it. Not to gain world-wide fame :naughty:. Simply for her own pleasure and for the sake of accomplishment. She doesn't understand it now, but one day she might regret not having used the gift she has :dunno:

    Adele

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    Yes her voice is very strong for 10 years old. If she keeps singing English she will get better at it very quickly because she is so young. Because he left home when he was only 12 or 13 Justin Bieber already has a perfect Atlanta accent, you'd never know he was Canadian. :naughty:

     

    My favourite child prodigy is a girl named Josie who I think is 12 now. She's done a couple of Adele covers but she doesn't really have a diva power voice. But I love her phrasing. Anyway I've posted one of her videos in the not everything needs a thread thread since it doesn't have anything to do with Adele:

     

    http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3590805#post3590805

     

     

     

    I pulled up in a cab once and she was outside on the pavement and I was so freaked out I hung up the phone on the person I was speaking to. I was yelling "OMG it's Adele!!" and then I realized I was just in a cab and not a soundproof chamber and I'd better calm down and act normal. :blush-anim-cl:

     

    But you know I would never react like that around Mika. :mf_rosetinted:

     

    Sure :mf_rosetinted:

     

    And look at this cutie!

    [YOUTUBE]JtawDJtcRg8[/YOUTUBE]

     

    Isn't she adorable? :wub2: I turned off the sound and covered the left half of the screen and simply enjoyed her acting.

    Adele

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    I am not crazy about her phrasing. She is not English? She's cute though and sounds like she's got a lot of power.

     

    On another note I went to a cinema screening of Adele's new DVD of her Royal Albert Hall performance. I think I cried at least 3 times. :roftl: She is so honest and real even though she manages to maintain her privacy. Even though I've always been captivated by male singers I don't think I could ever be as moved with Mika's or Paolo Nutini's music in the same way as Adele or Amy Winehouse even though I love them all. I think because I've always wished I could be a singer I feel a strange combination of envy/empathy/pride for brilliant female singers and male singers don't elicit the same emotions.

     

    Anyway if you love Adele get the DVD. She's very chatty and of course the performances are grest.

     

    She's Mexican, if I'm not mistaken, and only 10 :wink2:. Her articulation is unclear here and there and there are a few other things, but overall I like her interpretation and her voice a lot.

     

    As for Adele, she's like a female version of MIKA for me :teehee: - I completely fangirl her. For her music, her voice, for her down-to-earthness.

    Not everything needs a thread

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    I think that got reset when we updated the software a while ago -- it's

    a shame, because that really was a monumental figure! But... we'll

    just have to work toward topping it now :wink2:

     

    What a shame!

    I'm sure though that in 6 months the most the old record will be broken :thumb_yello:

     

     

    Yet April seems so far away :no:

    Cellar for Mikaphobics

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    i think you could punish even me with that...

    :mf_rosetinted:

     

     

     

    :aah: NOOOO:aah: you're still calling mika's music a punishment...but i like the withdrawal part...:thumb_yello::naughty:

     

     

     

    you'd be giving them THE time of their lives...:shocked:

     

    So another one who doesn't like BTT :shocked::teehee:

     

    If you don't like something and you're forced to be around it, isn't it a punishment? :blink: For us, NO! For MIKAhaters, I'd say yes :aah:

     

    Isn't rehabilitation a (sometimes illusionary) aim of incarceration? Going to MIKAgigs could convert them :biggrin2:

    The 'KEEP MIKA GOLDEN' Voting Club

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Just click on the little colorful squares beneath the pictures. Mika is on the first orange one, and the second light blue. :wink2:

     

    But they ask for the phone number, and I guess it's just for the voters from France. :sneaky2: So we can't help.

     

    Maybe it's for the best, knowing how popular he is in France. If it were UK only nomination, he'd be in a much worse situation :teehee:

    Cellar for Mikaphobics

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted · Edited by Siu

    hmm. i'm not sure why you guys see playing mika all day as a punishment? :boxed::roftl:

     

    i do understand that these will be the people that don't like mika's music, but won't they just end up falling in love with it? :naughty:

     

    i'd say play their own music all day long until they can't stand it any longer...:tee hee:

     

    First it's a punishment, but if/when they do fall in love with it (and we have to monitor it very carefully :naughty:) we quit playing it and let them suffer from withdrawal symptoms :roftl:

     

     

    Well, if they end up falling in love with Mika's music, I can't think of a better ending :thumb_yello:

     

    Happy Ending :biggrin2:

     

    hey^^

    I´d like to put in some of my classates.They call da boss a fag and say many other nasty things:sneaky2:

     

     

     

    that`s what I just wanted ot make sure:mf_rosetinted:...

    and you know... I thought we might really put a tv in there... to play mika in parc de princes and stuff you know... So they`ll listen to the album half of the day and the other half is for concerts:naughty:

    just so they get used to everything...:mf_rosetinted:

     

    ah...and. I´d like to put my classmates there for a few weeks. Depends on how they behave butthey still have to go to school ofc...

     

    When MIKA starts touring again, we give them a bit of time out of the cell and take them to every gig possible. :thumb_yello:

    Cellar for Mikaphobics

    in General Chin Wagging

    Posted

    This is a virtual cellar where we will put Mikaphobics people around us when we can't bear with them any more :naughty:

    No harm in that, but it will help us relax and take it easy when real life interferes with Mikaing :thumb_yello:

    It's like the naughty corner , but the other way round :roftl:

     

    Do I smell a plain_pumpkin.png? :roftl:

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