Christian Laboutin 2009 shoe ad campaign pics

my most coveted posession at this moment in time

I used to know an old lady who lived down the road when I was little, called Dolly.  She had one of these sweepers and she would teach me to knit, let me play with all the appliances, e.g. a top-loader washing machine, and this.  I would go and eat copious amounts of Battenburg cake and deliberately get the crumbs all over the floor so that I could have something real to sweep up!

was just on my internet travels looking for a retro Phone for my new house when i stumbled upon this, made me think of other nostalgic vintage household gadgets etc. that we still have will do a post on that at some point.

Anyway as you can see I got rather side-tracked from what my original post was about.

These pictures below which combine two of my loves shoes and art!

this is my favorite, love the sweets!

abandoned places, sheds, rust, rot and decay!

I love the sinister no. 13 that was painted into this old lock-up in red paint onto the old peeling black.

It makes me think of a place you would find a film noir baddie hiding out for the night.  It is the sort of place you can imagine Mercy from the Blackpool set gritty BBC British drama Funland running an illegal, underground casino, or where one of the busts happens in Ashes to Ashes!

   

These cobwebbed haunts remind me of Miss Havisham and her house in Great Expectations.

http://www.derelictlondon.com/home_page.htm

http://www.abandoned-britain.com/photos.html

http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/27/abandoned-buildings-property-and-other-places/

mushroom madness!

Amy Sarabi

Christopher Kane

copy of Disney's Bambi drew at the same time as the mushroom pic

This drawing above is inspired by some buma-shimeji mushrooms that I brought reduced today in the supermarket to go into my delicious mixed mushroom Stroganoff, (recipe below)

OK those were just some pictures that I took of the Mushrooms, below is the recipe and pictures through the stages of cooking.

It is just a recipe I came up with and is very simple!

For the Stroganoff, Ingredients:

assorted mushrooms about 250g makes plenty for two

single cream

1/2 onion

olive oil

lots of black pepper

pinch turmeric

paprika

1. Chop all the mushrooms, or divide if whole small variety.

2. Chop onion finely, whilst doing this heat the oil in large-ish pan with some black pepper.

< 3. Add onion to pan, gently brown.

4. Add Mushrooms, keep stirring until wilted down.

 
 5. Now add around 100ml cream basically so it's not too wet, but with a sauce quality to it.
n.b. as the mushrooms simmer down their juices all add to the sauce and flavour but can make it too wet so add a little cream at a time.

This is after adding more black pepper and the spices keep it on a low heat and just let it brown slightly the sauce should be much lighter however than if you were to make this with meat.

then add this to whatever takes your fancy!

Below I served it with spicy Singapore rice noodles and pea shoots

I got these as a bit of an experiment as I already know that I am allergic to the more well known variety of mushrooms, Shiitake, and I wanted to see whether these would have an adverse affect so that I can avoid them in the future! Another reason to keep the recipe simple in mine I used regular bog standard market variety and Chestnut mushrooms.

I love these hoodies would like to see it in red though!