INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PANCAKE DAY.

today i have not so much been celebrating internation women's day (every day is women's day to me!) but i have been making pancakes:



BANANA PANCAKES

* 55g/2oz butter, cubed
* 275g/9¾oz self–raising flour
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 2 free-range eggs
* 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
* 300ml/½ pint whole milk
* 1 large banana, roughly chopped
* 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil
* 8 rashers rindless streaky bacon
* maple or golden syrup, to serve

1. preheat the oven to 110c/225f/gas ¼.
2. melt 25g/1oz of the butter in a small pan over a low heat and leave to cool for five minutes.
3. put the melted butter, flour, baking powder, eggs, sugar and milk in a food processor and blend until smooth.
4. pour into a large bowl and mash the banana into the batter with a potato masher.
5. melt a little of the oil with a cube of butter in a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. wipe around the base of the pan with a thick wad of kitchen paper. (i dont know what that bits all about.. i didn't do it.)
6. drop two or four large serving spoonfuls of the banana pancake mixture into the frying pan, spacing well apart. cook for three minutes (more like a minute and a half!) or until the pancakes rise, bubbles appear and the surface appears dry.
7. flip over with a palette knife and cook on the other side for a further 2-3 minutes (minute and a half) or until pale golden-brown.
8. transfer to a heatproof plate and keep warm in the oven while you cook the remaining eight pancakes in exactly the same way.
9. return the frying pan to the heat and add the streaky bacon. cook for about three minutes on each side until golden and crisp, turning once. add a splash of oil if the rashers begin to stick.
10. pile the pancakes onto four warmed plates and top with the fried bacon. drizzle with a little maple syrup (or golden syrup) and serve the rest separately.

i got the recipe from here, but i skipped the bacon and syrup and found that three minutes cooking time was WAY TOO LONG (i burned half the pancakes) perhaps if you do it on lower heat.. either way, check the pancakes after about a minute and if they're brown enough, flip them!

i'm all pancaked up, i found this recipe for american style blueberry pancakes earlier from good food and i'm going to make them later but with raspberries. (cos english blueberries are rubbish, and overpriced. and i like raspberries. they're my favourite.)

in other news, i feel a bit shit and weepy as fuck and i think i should probably start taking my medication again. i haven't really taken it since i got my no babies implant put in a month + 1 day ago. i hadn't really noticed a difference until.. just now? i have also been watching the first series of roseanne and torchwood. and made some progress on my cardigan, i am now on the sleeves! i also really really like eating. food is awesome!

my secret private pre-derby lunch from sunday:
(sainsbury's reduced shelf) chicken & chorizo pie with chips and peas.

TYPICAL GRRLS ARE REALLY SWELL.

so.. the second typical grrls was thursday night. it was a definite improvement on the first one (i haven't written about it here in this blog because well, i wrote about it in the new zine and i didn't want to 'spoil' it or whatever but let's just say it wasn't exactly a raging success. which seven people and closing at half eleven cos no one had been there for an hour..) this time there was about 15-25 people, and we didn't know any of them. not really. familiar faces with no names or backstories attached. none of our friends could make it (except ellie, she came for about 45 mins & i played her bad romance which made emma make faces at me.) for various reasons, but that's cool (sort of) cos the people who came enjoyed it and bought some zines and donated some money to KRG and enjoyed our lady choons. i even got a request! for if u seek amy by britney cos i played do something but unfortunately i didn't have it. i told him i'll play it next time. my share of the bar takings paid for a big ass pile of distro post i dragged to the post office today.

we didn't take any other pictures. i'm guessing we felt too awkward about taking pix of strangers.



people like cake, there was two left at the end of the night & i got to take them home with me for carl (he didn't come, which is fine. he was pretty bored last time and he's no social animal anyway. not that i am either.) well, the other one was for me. them cakes were so incredibly pink! i don't think people realised that in the dim lighting of the bar.









i like to take pictures of me eating cake. and i like cake. cake is good.

the next typical grrls is THURSDAY MARCH 31st (FB EVENT)
mark that in yr calendars!

HERE. IN MY HEAD #7 / YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL #14

HERE. IN MY HEAD #7 / YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL #14











available at vampire sushi distro of course. and other places soon. i'm bad at descriptions (especially with my own stuff) so i'm not going to bother for now. ha.

in other news, i made / uploaded another mix, i call it DONT FUCK WITH ME:

TYPICAL GRRLS

it seems to sneak up on me. maybe it's just february, and the fact it's a massive 2-3 days shorter than other months. or that i'm always fairly busy in february, what with it being carl's birthday and brighton zine fest.. but i completely did not realize that TYPICAL GRRLS is on thursday until a few days ago!

TYPICAL GRRLS

JOKU RAJA.

my brother FINALLY managed to send me my kallio rolling rainbow / amnesty's joku raja campaign 2011 calendar (he was supposed to bring it with him when he visited a month ago but he forgot. obvs that runs in the family) and it arrived the other day!





it's got roller grrls & it's for charity against sexual violence. it's a double whammy i say. when i asked my brother to get me one he actually said he was going to get one for himself anyway, which kinda made me love him a bit (extra) unless of course he was going to get it to perve at roller girl which not so cool.


JOKU RAJA - PMMP

ZINE FESTING.

i suck at taking pictures at zine events. no really. i went to brighton for the brighton zine fest last weekend and these really are the only pictures i took (well, i dragged myself down to the pier to take some touristy photos, but that's a different lot) i had a really nice time though. i stayed at lianne's, and she was an excellent host. i went to the work shops on saturday but kinda missed all but the comic zines one that has somehow made me want to do one myself. well, that and tabling next to a fellow finnish lady who had done some awesome comix herself. i've gone and bought a nice new blank notebook and i've got a few ideas already. we'll see if i manage.

the distro's a bit off a mess. i was so sure i had put stuff aside for the unsent orders before i packed up for brighton but i can't fucking find the damn zines now and i sold out of a bunch of stuff. i'm gonna try to get everything in the post friday (i got stuff on their way already) and update the website sunday at the latest. i've got a whole lot of awesome new stuff! watch this space.

PHOTO DUMP.

i have been a little bit busy and/or pre-occupied, with typical grrls and finishing my half of the your pretty face #14 split with here. in my head #7, i got cath's side in the post the other day & it's awesome ♥ ♥ ♥ still got a fair bit to do though, and the only chance i'll have to print it (and more copies of old issues) is tuesday, which is also carl's birthday! for once i'm actually on the ball regarding presents. i got some stuff on my break today, and ordered another thing off ebay when i got home. also got myself a wee present while i was at it. you'll see.