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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even though I'm a bit off season and seafood chowder doesn't exactly constitute as a popular summer dish, this recipe is too perfect to ignore. This is my second time to make it. I made the chowder originally back in March and I couldn't fault the finished product. I don't think I've had nicer in restaurants; which is always a great confidence booster when you try create something on your own!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I read a variety of different recipes online which called for different things, but all shared one thing in common, 'Don't over cook the fish'. I decided on a homegrown recipe, by Irish chef Kevin Dundon on the <a href="http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/recipes/2011/0922/404-seafood-chowder/" target="_blank">RTE website</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sacrilege to some, I did alter the recipe slighty; this was more about cost and availability of ingredients.</span></span></div>
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<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="25">25</span> <span class="measure" data-default="g">g</span> Butter</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="1">1</span> small onion, diced</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="1">1</span> leek, trimmed and diced</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="1">1</span> small carrot, diced</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="1">1</span> potato, cubed</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="50">50</span> <span class="measure" data-default="g">g</span> smoked salmon slices (cut into julienne, long thin strips)</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="120">120</span> <span class="measure" data-default="ml">ml</span> dry white wine <span style="color: #0b5394;">(I used yellow tail chardonnay)</span></li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="450">450</span> <span class="measure" data-default="ml">ml</span> tarragon-scented fish stock or water<i style="color: #0b5394;"> (I used two knorr fish stocks, jelly consistency)</i></li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="225">225</span> <span class="measure" data-default="g">g</span> mixed fresh fish fillets- skinned and cut into bite-sized pieces - cod, haddock, hake or salmon. <i><span style="color: #0b5394;">(I asked for smoked mixed seafood at the fresh fish counter)</span></i></li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="175">175</span> <span class="measure" data-default="g">g</span> raw dublin bay prawns and mussels, scrubbed clean. <i><span style="color: #0b5394;">(I used one pack of frozen mussels, used straight from frozen)</span></i></li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="1">1</span> <span class="measure" data-default="tblsp">tblsp</span> chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley</li>
<li itemprop="ingredients"><span class="amount" data-default="175">175</span> <span class="measure" data-default="ml">ml</span> Cream</li>
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Heat a large pan over a medium heat. Add the butter and once it is
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College is finally finished..I've been a student for as long as I can remember. It feels strange, but great. Even though I thought I'd miss it, during the last couple of weeks I couldn't wait to get it over with. One of my last final projects was this review website I created. Click <a href="http://emmaratcliffe.net46.net/" target="_blank">here</a> to see reviews of some of Dublin's better coffee houses. </div>
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</div>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117886161413140811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046260723099990576.post-25587468674192342222012-03-01T00:51:00.001+00:002012-03-20T17:17:59.020+00:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>Shutterbug and Absolut Style at Set Vintage Clothing Kilo Sale</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love Blanaid Hennessy and I love </span><a href="http://www.shutterbug.ie/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Shutterbug</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Blanaid and her brother Eoin own the lovely vintage store, a must-visit place if you're ever in Kilkenny. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My sister and I make this recipe any chance we get. It's the nicest chocolate mousse <b>ever</b>. It's <i>really</i> easy to make and it's really filling because it's so rich so I like to eat one (or two) as a snack instead of after dinner. This may be wrong on many levels but you won't understand until you taste it for yourself. It's addictive.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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Not wanting to hurt someone over Christmas, postponing a break-up until the New Year so one can enjoy the holidays. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">No one wants to be seen as a destroyer of Christmas cheer, or feel comfortable knowing that they are being discussed with pure hatred over the turkey and stuffing at the family dinner table. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Couple's problems may be ignored during the festive season as Christmas is a time for good moods and it's nice to share it with someone, whether it's a boyfriend, girlfriend, family and friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">A New Year means new beginnings and what better time to start afresh on a new path of discovery than the first day of a new year? Everyone loves the (worn out) comedy gold on New Year's day that is a myriad of 'Sure that was last year!' jokes. The ones where you proclaim that you haven't had a cigarette/cocktail/sausage roll since last year, knowing well it was probably less than 24 hours since you enjoyed a multitude of such things but since ringing in a New Year, cracking these jokes is almost a right of passage and makes you chuffed with yourself all the same. This could be the case with couples. Maybe the idea of leaving someone or a relationship behind in a year that's done and dusted might be as a result of new years resolutions. A time for change, a time for reflection, a time to realise what is or isn't working.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wouldn't call myself a Miley fan at all, I'm indifferent toward her really. Her body looks amazing here though so I'll commend her on that, she looks like she's been working hard.</div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today I went for lunch in the The Grange, a cute café and gift shop in Ballyboughal. I tend to go when I have time off work or college, so I went today with my time off for recovery. The café is part of the Gourmet Food Parlour family, a chain of little gourmet food by day, tapas by night establishments. The menu offers things like gourmet sandwiches, soups and salads using a selection of rustic breads, goats cheese, stuffed olives, sundried tomatoes...things like that. I had the warm goats cheese salad, pink lemonade and espresso</span></span>.<br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While blogging about surgical procedures is totally random and most likely holds no relevance to this blog, I'm going to do it anyway! I recently had my tonsils removed, last Thursday in fact. A tonsillectomy is supposed to be more painful when you're older anyway, so that was to be expected. However, thinking I'd be back on my feet as normal after a week was a bit of an understatement. So if you're having yours removed for whatever reason, consider the following as what I have experienced seems to be general run-of-the-mill stuff compared to other tonsil-less creatures who wrote about the aftermath of their procedure.</div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I came home Friday and ate even more feeling like some kind of tonsil-less marvel who broke the mould. My all day feast included cake, ice-cream, yoghurts, Chinese food and a family size bar of Dairy Milk, naturally. Chewing bored me as I was chewing like a cow mixed with turtle-like speed but at least I was tasting my food. I thought tonsillectomy?! Whatever, tonsillectomy. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">I woke up on day 3</span> with my eyes watering with the pain, throbbing ears and glands and what felt like tiny shards of glass in my throat. My tongue was swollen with the outline of my teeth. Do not underestimate the pain of day 3. Realising this was my first real day without the aid of Morphine or Difene, I had to rely on Solpadene every four hours to numb the pain. I spoke too soon on the joys of recovery, or rather avoided speaking at all really. When I did speak, I sounded like Elmer Fudd. My reallys became weallys. My rabbits became wabbits. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 4 & 5 and the funny diction continues, as does the swelling. I don't need as many painkillers, I'm getting used to the pain when I eat but I don't bother eating much, it's too tiring on the throat. At this point, savoury foods taste normal but a little dull, the flavours are muted. Sweet foods on the other hand I have gone off totally. Anything with sugar in it taste like a dead ferret.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Day 6 & 7</b></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While in most cases with illness and surgery, the more time that has passed, the more you begin to repair yourself and get on with things. A tonsillectomy for some reason is totally different. I've had surgeries for various things before and would <i>like</i> to think I'm pretty good with pain but this was definitely the most painful experience I've had, this may be because the tonsils themselves are such vascular organs, I'm not entirely sure. Day 6&7 were the worst for pain, I went back to painkillers every four hours and barely ate anything as the pain was too bad and it was impossible to swallow during these two days. If you are going for this kind of surgery, it is wise to take at least two weeks off. You'll be too tired and in too much pain to be able to do much and judging by my experience so far, it takes quite a while to recover!</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Day 8 </span></b></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today is day eight. I woke up in pain in the middle of the night in my ears, head, glands and throat. I took painkillers and haven't since, and that was 6 hours ago. I did however go out for lunch, which was a great cure for my cabin fever. Eating does hurt the throat after 10 full minutes of trying to eat a meal so I brought half the salad home. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's starting to improve slightly so hopefully it will continue from here! I didn't expect the whole thing to be so exhausting, I'm still swollen with a strange voice and I'm a little apprehensive (like many are) on trying to eat without the aid of painkillers but that day will come eventually. I'm sure it will all be worth it at the end and hopefully food will start to taste nice again too!<br />
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All in all, it's definitely a surgical procedure where one should consider that pain manifests and eases in no particular order in relation to the number of days that pass.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Tonsillectomy pros: </em></strong><span style="font-size: small;">Hopefully no more pesky tonsilitis or reduced flare ups, and for psorasis sufferers, a reduced chance of skin ailments reoccuring as a result of tonsilitis. There is a possibility of weight loss. You catch up on all the sleep you've missed out on and then some. Novels and magazines are read. Bad daytime TV is watched. Movies are viewed in abundance. Writing is done. Cleaning and organising happens. Cooking and Baking ensues (even if you can't or don't want to consume it yourself) and you basically have up to two weeks to do whatever you want or need to do! This excludes the consumption of alcohol and hard partying, obviously.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Has something as simple and accessible as tap water lost it's title as the number one essential in facial cleansing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Browsing through the beautiful blog of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Garance <span style="color: black;">Doré (<a href="http://garancedore.fr/en">garancedore.fr/en</a>), I found an entry on her skin routine which includes advice from her dermatologist who advises her to avoid cleansing her face with tap water <strong>at all costs</strong>. This poses the obvious question, how will facial cleansers foam? How will soap lather into soft smooth bubbles that visit every sullied pore?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I wasn't really surprised when I read it, as many cleansing and beauty routines (featured on <a href="http://intothegloss.com/">intothegloss.com</a>) belonging to those in the fashion industry have too abandoned the idea of tap water, favouring spring water or 2011's most popular choice, rose water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sure, it's a rosy idea. Having totally pure fresh and glowing skin, with no harsh contaminants tap water allegedly brings, providing you are hydrating yourself within, using facial products that don't include harsh chemicals and don't smoke, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">While I can't promise myself that I'll always make wise choices in terms of product ingredients and realistically don't have the income to abandon good old fashioned water as my primary tool in facial cleansing, I have been using rose water for a while and it's true that it's <strong>amazing for the skin</strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It is said that rose water is a fantastic anti-inflammatory, it reduces wrinkles and fine lines, tightens pores, reduces acne and is extremely gentle on all skin types and cleanses gently while restoring mositure to the skin. While I can't vouch for the wrinkle comments, all the rest is true. It smells great, it's incredibly soothing and is a very gentle and effective cleanser. When around my two pet cats, I rub my eyes like a maniac due to my allergies and I end up with bloodshot, puffy, red eyes. When I put some rose water on cotton balls and place them on my eyes for 5 minutes, my eyes are restored to their pre-cat-company selfs and always look bright and refreshed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">When I feel my skin tone is uneven, I use a combination of rose water to remove my makeup, cetaphil and rosewater to wet my face and my clarisonic (highly recommended sonic facial cleanser, read about it here - <a href="http://www.clarisonic.com/">www.clarisonic.com</a>) to even tone and smooth dry areas and afterward my skin squeaks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you suffer from any skin problems in terms of acne, uneven skin one </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">or dry patches, I highly recommend rose water (about a fiver a bottle on ebay) for cleansing combined with the Clarisonic. Neither will disappoint and both are worth every penny!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gossip Girl was nothing but resplendent this week, with Serena throwing Blair a Breakfast at Tiffany's </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">themed bridal shower complete with pearl chandeliers and floor to ceiling duck egg blue boxes, the Tiffany and Co. signature colour, of course. Best friends, eh?</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3.) <strong>My FAVOURITE.</strong> Lee Stafford's Hair That Never Grows Past A Certain Length growth treatment. This is my second tub, the first one lasted quite a while, despite the instructions to use an egg sized amount each time you wash your hair. At first I wasn't sure that it would be any more than a conditioning mask, as it just left my hair extremely smooth and shiny. But after 3 or 4 applications (in between shampoo and conditioner) I started to notice my hair felt stronger, had definitely grown a little, felt thicker and extremely shiny. It smells extremely clean, people always comment on the scent. Every time it makes hair feel fresh and light, it never feels weighed down. The instructions on the tub say to leave it on for 5 minutes, but depending on what I'm doing or where I'm going, sometimes I leave it on for 5 minutes, sometimes 30. My absolute favourite product at the moment...I will most likely get three tubs in Boot's 3 for 2 promotion at the moment so it will be roughly €20.90 for three.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the end of last month/this month (so far) I received a few gifts and made a few purchases and reviewed some of the products. Something unfortunate happened this month where I had to take a dive into emergency savings and pay out <em>quite</em> a bit, so Penneys will be the way forward..hence the inclusion of some stuff from there in this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This Ciaté nail polish I received free with the September issue of Marie Claire. It's called My Fair Lady, it's a nude peachy pink colour and it's normally about €10. All good things. I'm not a nail polish person as I'm ashamed to say I don't look after my nails but this was very impressive, easy to apply and gave that shiny plastic fake Barbie nail look that I love. One coat and I could still see my nails, two and I could still see the brush strokes. Three and it was perfect. It has a tendency to chip though, after two days of wear. Still worth purchasing for the colour alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The growth treatment I've only used three times...it seems good so far. It makes me hair feel healthy and soft and extremely shiny, although I'm not sure if that's due to the glittery flecks in the product that does it. The smell lingers for days which is a plus and it smells like new babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This little sticker kit for organising is also from Paperchase, for €3.25. It has page markers and to-do list stickers, as well as tiny clocks that can be stuck everywhere and drawn on. Cannot WAIT to use these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That's it really for purchases so far. Hopefully I'll strike gold soon or win the Euromillions so I can buy more things I don't need...</span><br />
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