French Dressing!

Came across a simple recipe for 'French Dressing' from the book  'Vegetarian Cooking' ; by Ms. Jeevani H. Wickramatunga. Though I'd share...

FRENCH DRESSING

ingredients:
      1/2 cup oil
      2 tsps lemon juice
      2 tbsps cider or wine vinegar
      1/4 tsp salt
      1/4 tsp mustard powder
      1/4 tsp paprika
      Dash of pepper
      1/4 tsp basil or tarragon(optional)

Shake all ingredients together in a jar.

Makes just over 1/2 cup

Audio Extract from Anne Frank:Diary of a Young Girl

The lovely and rich voice of Helena Bonham Carter gives voice to  Anne Frank...an extract read from her diary..
Listen to it here!

http://snd.sc/k8lwQ4

(via http://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/tracks)

Photography in Nigeria: a look into child rights..through children!

An inspiring UNICEF video showing how amateur photography gave some youth a chance to view the life of Nigerian Children...

Bloggers' Night : Pretty Awesome!

Penguins Books UK : Penguin Podcast.. This is very interesting. You could listen to new writers and even well known ones presenting their works!
The latest episode:
Bloggers' Night by Penguin Books UK

site: http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/

James and the Giant Peach turns 50!

I absolutely love Roald Dahl...To still be engrossed in his work and appreciate and enjoy it even as an adult, to be lost in that imaginative world proves just how fascinating an author he was!

Send a Peach rolling on a jumsquiffling journey.. to celebrate 50 years of one of RD's brilliant novels :James and the Giant Peach.

http://www.followthatpeach.com/

photo courtesy: http://www.timburtoncollective.com/james.html

...one very amazing duet!

Interesting article about the Coelacanths... once thought to have been extinct and now research shows they can live over 100years!!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110609-coelacanths-long-lived-fish-science-animals/

It has to occur..

It has to occur
I think
At least once in your lifetime
A moment of
stupidity.

You say Yes, when
you mean No!
  and May be
      instead of
          Definitely not.

Who's that ?
you may ask,
of Nobody.

and
Why not?
for... No, it isn't.