Or if you are a woman (no sex discrimination intended), you are probably PMS-ing. The “P” here being “Perpetual” – it’s what I labeled my best friend of 21 years. She has whole-heartedly embraced that.
But I digress. This is about verbs. Yep. That must be it. Oh those verbs!
Here’s to a verby week, folks. Whatever that means, I just made the word up. 🙂
How often do you get jellyfish in your drink? Fancy a drink with one? I thought so. Have a look at this:
Now, I hardly ever post anything that has got to do with alcohol, but with this one I can’t resist as it is too beautiful not to share with the world. Don’t you agree?
Besides, I’m only too happy to feature yet another fantastic creation from the awesome and talented blogger, Jas of All Trade who not only has made a recipe out of this but enlighten us with a little science in drinks for this week Fabulous Friday Feature.
Keep the ingredients refrigerated before mixing. Fill half of a shot glass with Crème de Cacao. Top with a layer of amaretto and then Bailey’s, best pouring slowly over a teaspoon. To finish, add drops of grenadine and watch tentacles forming underneath the amaretto layer. Way too cool!
Hell yeah! I agree this is way, way too cool. I may not have a need for this, but I’m sure someone out there does. Jas advises against using ice or you will not be able to see the jellyfish effect. There! That’s all science for you.
You know what else is cool?
Jas has now published her first and very own e-book featuring home-made Balkan Cuisines and it is now available for purchase at only $2.99 from Amazon offers. There are over 50 flavorful recipes with mouthwatering photos of dishes from the Balkan region and I assure you that if you have seen her photography on her blog, you’ll be in awe at all the amazing pictures she has taken.
Do hop over to her Jellyfish Shot and Cookbook post and leave her some bloggily love. Better yet, purchase her book. Imagine all those back-breaking work she has done and I’m so excited for her. I heard she’s going to have them on paperbacks too.
Meantime, here’s a recipe shout-out from Jas and her amazing (and possibly dangerous!) concoction:
With such a talented blogger like Jas, we’ll never ever have to worry about running out of recipes for food and drinks. She’s also been an inspiration and everything she writes about oozes love. She has inevitably planted some seeds in my head that perhaps, one day I may just compile some or all of my recipes and make an e-book out of it.
Perhaps.
One day.
When the stars are aligned.
or when there are jellyfish in my drink.
Another day, another year as Muslims all around the world celebrate the start of a brand new month Syawal, with the end of the month-long fast during Ramadhan. Like the previous years, we would always be back in Singapore to celebrate this occasion with family and friends. Not this year.
This year, we are far, far away from my family. The farthest I have ever been on such festive family occasion. It’s also the 2nd time in the 11 years that I have been away with the first being when Squirt was still a newborn back in 2012 and we didn’t make it back home. This year, we just couldn’t make it back for it would cost us way too much to afford a flight back to Asia.
The Muslim community here who have observed Ramadhan fasted for about 18-20 hours from when the sunrise to when the sunset for the entire month. That’s a very long time as compared to in Asia where it would only be about 12-13 hours without food or water. Still, it has been a pretty ordinary day here in the Netherlands.
While I know there’s a small population of Muslims in my neighourhood, I haven’t seen Eid being celebrated as we would have back home.Or perhaps I’m just not as clued in.
More than anything, I’m missing the aroma of my mom’s home-cooked that would fill the corridor from the doorstep right to the elevator 50 meters away and stuffing my face with her Rendang, Ayam Masak Merah, Roti Jala and her melt-in-your-mouth pineapple tarts. I was thinking of doing my own cook-out with some simple kuehs, but decided that I did not have the energy to do so given the current state of our home.
Syawal is also a month of get-together, to remember the departed and to once again bury the hatchet, undo the wrongdoings yet again and to start on a clean slate once more after a full month of cleansing. In the spirit of festivities, let’s also remember to do our part for the less fortunate and refrain -from all wastefulness and extravagance. Most of all, let’s all exercise kindness for human-kind and let go of all hatred regardless of race or religion not only today but every single day.
From us here in the Netherlands, here’s us in spirit wishing everyone a Happy Eid Mubarak or Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri as commonly known in Singapore and wishing you a blessed Syawal.
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