Cooking time!

My mum not long ago showed me how to make a typical English diner, “Actually she’s showed me how to make “Quick Shepherd’s Pie” and we call it like this because it’s a faster and easier way to cook this meal... I’m starting to learn to cook because soon I’ll be living all alone!



So here we have the ingredients we need to use:
- ½ pack of lamb or mince meat
- 1 pack of “Bisto” to make gravy
- 6 medium potatoes and latter on mash them
- ½ cup of water
- Salt and pepper
- Grated cheese to put on top of the mashed potatoes
- Finally, 2 teaspoons of butter

Now I’ll write down more or less the instructions you have to follow to cook it:
1) First of all, preheat the oven to 180ºC for at least 20 minutes.
2) Secondly, we have to put the mince meat and the ½ of water in the pan and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes.
3) Boil the potatoes for at least 10 minutes and after mash them up and mix in with butter to prevent it of drying up.
4) While the mince meat is simmering we have to add the contents of the packet “Bisto” into the meat. Introduce salt and pepper.
5) Now we can poor the mince meat into the bottom of the casserole dish and after that we’ll put the mashed potatoes on top of the mince meat, covering the whole thing up. We sprinkle the grated cheese on top to give it more flavour.
6) Finally we put it in the oven for at least 20-25 minutes until the top of the Shepherd’s pie is browned.

If anyone wants to try a typical English meal, follow these instructions!
I recommend this dish to anyone, especially the ones that are going to London soon!

Good day!

Carnival!

Hi... it’s Sunday 21st and I’ve lived to the full day and night... Yeah that’s right it’s been Carnival and I have enjoyed it big time! Do I regret it today...? Got hangover, I’m tired, my feet hurt... Nah, I don’t regret it at all! It was too great to miss...

Friday was a very busy day for me; first of all, we went to an excursion with the school to Girona University and got back from there at 3 o’clock. Straight after that, at 4 o’clock my driving teacher picked me up from home to go straight back to Girona again... I drove there and back from 4 to 8pm... When I got back home, Clara came straight away... it was her birthday that day and I planned a surprise diner for her!
Friends came and surprised her and then we went out to eat at a Restaurant called Il Nonno. We had a lovely diner, great pizzas and pasta. We all got out of there at 11pm and then we went to the Carnival at Empuriabrava! Great! Lovely! Don’t think so... By the end of the day I was shattered! Dead and gone... I just lasted 30 minutes, I was too tired.

Saturday was the big party! My friends, Clara and I dressed up as Guti (He’s a Madrid player), I’m not a fan of Madrid, we just made fun out of him like they do in Krakòvia!
We dressed ourselves in Madrid clothes, sprayed our hair blond and put on makeup on our face to make it a bit funnier...
It was a great night because there were a lot of people and we had a lot of fun! I’d go back if I could!

I recommend Carnival to everyone because it’s a good medication against stress!
Hope to see you all there next year!

C ya xxx

Fish!

Good afternoon to all! Today I would like to talk about a hobby I have enjoyed since I was just a child... I have kept tropical fish for at least 8 years in my 70L aquarium!
Unfortunately it’s a very hard hobby because fish are actually very delicate animals, they need perfect conditions to live in, a lot of species don’t get along with each other and some of them are quite expensive!
On the one hand, this hobby helps me to look after things and also be a bit more responsible. I personally think that having an aquarium is quite decorative and makes a bedroom just that little more special! This hobby has improved my knowledge about marine life; this works at my advantage because I would love to do a career as a Marine Biologist.
Now I would like to show you and explain to you the different fish that I have got at the moment, hope you enjoy!

First of all, we will start with the most common aquarium fish called the Neon tetra. As you can see in the image, this fish has a great fluorescent-blue colour going right across its body and below this blue stripe we also can observe red colouring at the end of its body. These fish grow up to be no more than 2’5cm long and they love going in groups of the same species of 20 individuals. They prefer an aquarium with many plants so then they can hide from other fish. They’re timid and pacific fish, in other words an ideal fish to keep.


Secondly, I also have a group of 5 platys. These fish are available in many colours, from red to orange, black to green, white to silver... Great hardy fish and very friendly, not scared at all, they even try to eat your finger if you put it in the aquarium. One of my platys has given birth to 50 little babies also known as fry.



Finally, I have my sucker mouth. This fish is very special to me because I’ve had for many years, it was one of my first fish I ever had, so I wouldn’t be afraid to say that it’s more or less 8 years old. This type of fish is loves cleaning the algae from the aquarium and it’s only lively at night time when the other fish rest. These fish live with any kind of fish because they’re very peaceful and relaxed. These fish can grow up to 50cm. I must say that mine is only 25cm long but that’s big enough for the aquarium I’ve got. Here you have a great photo of it!



Hope you’ve enjoyed it!

Danger!

Hi everyone, how are you? I hope that everything’s just great for all of you!
So yeah, it’s been a while since my last entrance. My last entrance was probably a couple of months ago... But don’t worry because I’m back on track and ready to right anything that slips through my mind!
Well, I’m very pleased and excited to say that I’m finally a driver! I’ve been waiting for this moment for 18 years (and so has my mother because she hates being a “taxi” driver).
I passed my practical exam just yesterday, Monday 22nd of February 2010, a date to remember for a long time...
I got up that morning at 6 o’clock with a very weird feeling in my stomach, it must have been my nerves and I also had a bad stomach after a whole weekend partying until 7 o’clock in the morning because of Carnival!
We arrived at Girona at 8 am. When we got there I found out that I had to examine myself on the easiest track “Celrà” so I was well pleased. I thought to myself: “Can’t get any luckier than this!”, but I was wrong... I was so lucky that I even got the easiest examiner there was that day!
While I was driving, she was just talking to my teacher about travelling... I was gobsmacked! Every now and again she told me to turn left or right, nothing very tricky. Only 10 minutes went by and she told me to stop on a nearby parked car, I thought I failed but she just told me that I passed! I was like, what the f***?!
So here I am with my “L” driving in my mum’s blue car, don’t worry, I haven’t crashed yet and don’t be scared if you see me because I’m actually not that bad!

Watch out!

Well got to go, I’ve got to go and park the car in the garage! Wish me a lot of luck!