Huge MAC haul

Lately I've been making a lot of food posts. Today is going to be my latest haul. I've not done any beauty for a while, since I've been having cold sores. And as for my tutorial video, we've still got some software problems, so that might take some time to fix :(

But on the note of beauty:
MAC and Disney have made a make up collection called Venomous Villains (VV). And I've been really excited about some of the stuff in that collection. I love Maleficent!!! I ordered my stuff online. I have been on the page, and a fair few things are already sold out!

I've been getting some other permanent line MAC stuff this month too, and below are my pics of what I got :) (except for a picture of the greasepaint stick in French Quarters from the Dr. Facilier part of VV)




The VV Collection haul.

From the Cruella part: Sweetjoy and De-Vil

From the Evil Queen: Vile Violet and Vanglorious

Maleficent: Violetta lipstick (beautiful color, is a permanent color in the Pro range)

Wrong Spell lip gloss (is a strange color, but I weirdly like it)

Some of my permanent line haul

Innocence, Beware! lipstick from Cruella

Impassioned lipstick (permanent line haul)

The 2 mineralize eye shadows from Maleficent: She Who Dares and My Dark Magic

Painterly Paint Pot (from my permanent line haul)

Permanent line eyeshadow inserted into my new Pro Palette: (top to bottom, starting top left)

Shroom, Vanilla, Malt, Twinks

The 219 pencil brush

Bite Of An Apple blush (Evil Queen) and Truth And Light, magically cool liquid powder from the Dr. Facilier part (this stuff is really funky. Feels cold to the skin, sorta wet. Gives an amazing glow to the skin)

Top left: Briar Rose beauty powder (Maleficent). Top right: Oh So Fair beauty powder (Evil Queen). Bottom: Bite Of An Apple Blush (Evil Queen)

Maleficent nail polishes: Formidable, Mean & Green, Bad Fairy

Heartless lipstick

When I have cold sores, I don't really use a lot of makeup. I'm scared of getting the virus in to my products. I stick to a bit of eyeshadow, mascara and some concealer. But as soon as they are gone, I'll be playing with all this stuff, and I shall upload what I get out of it :)

I've already got some swatches of Mean & Green nail polish, and I'm going to try out Formidable today. I'll upload my swatches later. Nail polish is luckily not going anywhere near the cold sores :D

As for food. my dinners lately have been salads with different meats. Not the most exciting food to blog about. Although I might share my currently favorite dressing with you in an upcoming post. I might even make some muffins today as well.

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Egg fried rice dish

I had a lovely conversation with my sister last week. And we started talking about food. She asked me about this rice dish I'd done when she'd visited me a few years back. I finally remembered which dish she was talking about :)

I originally learned an egg fried rice dish from my friend Sarah, who had been living in Thailand.
I actually can't remember which spices she used and so on, so over time I've changed it a bit.

Below I'll do a quick run through of the steps.

Enjoy the slide show :)

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First cut chicken breast into small thin pieces. Then put the chicken in a bowl with Teriyaki marinade.

Chop carrots in thin pieces, and finely chopped an onion.

Then make a marinade with Tamari (any soy sauce will do), smoked paprika, ground ginger, pepper, line juice and finely chopped garlic. Mix all the ingredients in a small bowl.

Fry the teriyaki chicken. Then removed it from the frying pan for later.

Next fry the onion and carrots till the onion is clear and the carrots are tender. Then add the marinade you mixed.

Next add the fried chicken again along with some boiled rice. Mix it all together.

Then ad whisked egg to the pan and stir till the egg is all fried.
And the dish is ready to serve.

You can do this without the chicken and use the rice as a side dish.

I'll hope you enjoy this dish.

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Sushi

So I LOVE sushi!!! It's yummy.

Today I made 2 kinds.

This first picture is what I made with the left overs, that I didn't have nori for :)

My fist roll here is a simple one. Rice, smoked salmon and yellow pepper wrapped in nori. Simple but I love salmon.

The one in the next picture I did some prep for.

I chopped some prawns and put them in a bowl with dill, wasabi paste, mayo, finely chopped red pepper, juice from half a lime and some light seasoning with salt and pepper. Mix it and roll it up in the nori.

Sushi is quite simple to make. All you need is a bamboo mat. I usually put cling film between the mat and the nori. I find it helps me to make less of a mess. If people request it, I might try and film next time I do sushi, to give an idea of how I do it all :)

For the sushi rice, I follow the boiling instructions on the pack, and then I add my marinade (rice wine vinegar, salt and sugar) and stir to cool, before I use it.

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Easy linguine

I was going to spend today experimenting with stuff for the make-up competition, but I woke up with a cold sore, and am feeling ill from the meds for it, so I'll just settle with posting last nights dinner.

Below you have the image of my ingredients

Peeled and chopped tomatoes

Lean mince

Chunky cut onions and fresh garlic splits

Chunky cut red and yellow peppers

Sage and smoked salt

Smoked paprika, cinnamon, thyme and pepper

Basel and garlic linguine

You boil the linguine.

Fry the mince in a bit of oil. Then add onion and garlic and fry till onions go clear. Then add the peppers, tomatoes and spices and herbs. Let simmer for a few minutes and serve. Top with some green olives.

Variation tips:

You can add cream or some red wine to the dish for a different flavour.

Or if you're in Denmark (or if you have access to it), you can add a scoop of Buko Pikant Ost (a cream cheese with a spice/herb mix), and then not add the sage and smoked salt. It'll give the dish a really lovely taste :)

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New Looks + Still for my first tutorial

So the above picture was taken after I filmed the tutorial. I still need to get the footage on the PC and edit it, but I thought I'd share the result of the makeup.

In this picture I've used a gold shadow in the inner corner, and a gel liner from Clinique (think it's called Egyptian) and blended that out. I think it gives a really nice color as an eyeshadow. I've not been using much of it, so I thought, I'd try something new with it, cause I really like the color. I'll be doing that again :)

This look is made with a Gosh quad called Tucan (yellow green blue and turquoise). I just thought I'd try and make a look solely with that palette. I might try one with the other Gosh quad I have (think that one is called Aloha, pink blue orange and green).

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dinner today :)

I started today by making desert :) Vanilla and lime pannacotta.

Below you see my ingredients:

7 sheets of gelatine
3 dl of soy milk
3 dl of soy whipping cream
3 dl of soy yoghurt
Vanilla
2 limes
6 tablespoons of sugar

You start by cutting the gelatine in strips and put them in a bowl of cold water to soften.

Then in a pot you put the milk, sugar, vanilla and finely grated peel of 1 1/2 lime. Heat, but don't let it boil. Take of the stove. Squeeze the water out of the gelatine and and to the pot and stir to dissolve. Whisk in yoghurt and cream and add lime juice to taste. Strain the liquid and pour into moulds. Put in the fridge to set.

It takes about 4 hour for me before they are completely set.

And since I'd spent my time today making pannacotta and filming my tutorial, dinner today was:

Hope you'll enjoy

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FOOD :)

Been having some video camera issues these last few says, that I hope will be fixed soon :)

In the mean while I'm going to share what I made for dinner today :)

Right. In the above picture you see my ingredients:

-Lean minced beef

-Sliced and slightly boiled potatoes

-Boiled beluga lentils

-Yellow pepper

-Onion wedges

-Peeled and chopped tomatoes (did this my self, but tinned is OK too. I'm just lucky to been able to get some fresh from the greenhouse)

-And my bowl of spices

The bowl has:

-Smoked paprika

-Ground Cumin

-Chili powder

-BBQ spice mix (any for beef or chicken will do)

I start by frying the mince in a bit of oil (I use a sunflower and olive oil blend)

I then drain the mince and put it in a bowl.

Then I fry the onion until they start to go clear.

Then I add peppers, potatoes, lentils and mince.

When that's all starting to get warm I add my spices.
Then I add the tomatoes. At this point some liquid will be needed. I used a bit of soy cream I had left over, but water or tomato juice will work too).

Let is bubble away for about 5 minutes.

Pile on the plate and serve with a fried egg on top.

Hope you'll enjoy

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