Break Your Duck

Here’s a new spin on the dinner party theme. Invite 8-12 friends for a round-the-world dumpling party!

Everyone gets involved in making and then of course eating the dumplings.

Choose 5 dumpling recipes from around the world (easy to find on Google these days). My recommendations are : Japanese Pork and Chive Fried Gyoza, Hong Kong YumCha Prawn Dumplings (HarGow), Tibetan Cheese & Vegetable Dumpling, Brazilian Cheese bread (looks like a dumpling!), Indian Veggie & Potato Curry Samosa, and, I have invented a recipe to match my local flavours : Aussie (1 – Meat Pie & Peas in a Dumpling and 2 – Beetroot & Macadamia Nut).

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This Halloween, I undertook an odd adventure !… I went scuba diving in Lake Ontario (Canada) on October 29th with my family and friends from our local diving club… and we carved out some pumpkins underwater for Halloween !!

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Now here’s someone who’s not worried about breaking their duck (literally!).

This new business, Sarah’s Smash Shack, based in the USA, allows its patrons to smash plates against its walls to vent their frustrations. What a great idea – Opa !
http://springwise.com/weekly/2008-10-23.htm#smash

The saying goes you never know a good thing until you lose it. Most humans use their eyes more than any other sense to interact with the world. However when you’re blind, you need to rely on all your other senses so much more.

To help us to experience first hand the challenges that the blind must undertake everyday and also to discover the beauty of opening up our eyes (pardon the pun) to our other senses, Lisboa Sensorial in Lisbon, Portugal provides blind tours of Lisbon, led by the blind.

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First of all, put the cream away.

You don’t need cream for this full twist on a traditional recipe. In fact, you won’t recognise it for being a mushroom soup at all, possibly even after you taste it.

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When I was working in The Gambia, I travelled upriver and came to a sacred pond full of crocodiles.I asked the boys at the pool which of the crocodiles had a placid personality and moreover had had a good breakfast.

They pointed out the crocodile in the attached photo, which I petted. I was concentrating, you will understand, on the croc I was touching and didn’t see the other crocodiles approaching from behind until I later saw the photo.

FORGET James Bond. A Swiss company says it has created the world’s first truly submersible car, the sQuba – and it’s a convertible.Learn more about the underwater car and check out the photo gallery.

I am amazed that this flying squirrel suit displayed in the video below actually works. It’s wild !

http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262

You wouldn’t want to be caught out there when the weather changed though – eek !

Now this is certainly one I would say, kids don’t try this at home.

After my stay in the great Ice Hotel near Quebec City, Canada which was uncomfortable but nevertheless cool (pun intended of course), I found the below list for some more of the weirdest and most wondrous hotels in the world, with accommodations ranging from tree houses to helicopters.

Continue reading “Keep Insomniacs Busy at The World’s Weirdest Hotels”

I’ve always loved the idea of capturing in a painting some of the sea scapes I pass when scuba diving.You can imagine my delight then when I came across these two fascinating painters who grabbed hold of that idea and then took it two steps further, both in very different directions.

Continue reading “Painting Bubbles Underwater”