Teacher Appreciation Cupcakes

Show any teachers in your life some chocolatey, strawberry-ey love this week! Thank you school governing body for our early morning treat :-) We also got wonderful brown paper bags full of goodies at lunch time - what a special day!

Woeful Wednesday - Energising Efforts

It's woeful wednesday again and despite not having taught a lesson yet today I am CAPUT out of energy. So I'm drinking a huge cup of very sweet coffee and trying to hype myself up to start a new and extremely challenging chapter with my grade 11s..

Energising Efforts:

more awesome coffee piccies

1. Get the caffiene flowing in my veins (feel the heartbeat skyrocket!)
2. Music: soundtrack mix (preferably lots of vibey Disney stuff - think Hercules and so on...)
3. Work - preferably something completely non-essential and non-urgent (like making stationery choices for next year :-)

Soup

I've been making a lot of soup lately. As in, a large volume of soup, not many different types of soup.

My recent soups have fallen into two categories:
1) Tomato soup: lots of tomatoes + garlic + a can of tomato puree + plenty of brown sugar
2) Pea and Potato Soup: split peas + lots of garlic + however many potatoes are turning greenish + plenty of Italian herbs, salt, pepper and other seasoning

What's quite fun is that even in our teeeeny tiny kitchen these soups can both be cooked at once in our two big pots - one on each stove plate. You have to be careful that the handles of the pots are angled away from each other though, because otherwise they don't fit after all.

The downside of this is that when they're both cooked and whizzed and generally ready to eat we then have upwards of six litres of soup and no matter how delicious that soup might be it is impossible (trust me on this) for two ordinary people to finish upwards of six litres of soup before the aforementioned soup goes funny. Not funny haha, funny yuchhhh.

But that's okay, because it's precisely why the freezer was invented. And there is something very satisfying and homely about a freezer full of soup in ice-cream tubs.

Not labelled ice-cream tubs, unfortunately. But once again it's okay, because tomato soup is RED and pea soup is GREEN. And in any case once you've defrosted one of them well that's the one you're going to have for supper so you might as well get used to it.