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I was browsing the Internet for some new dinner ideas and found this cake recipe by accident - it was not supposed to be dinner! Since I had all the needed ingredients at home, I decided that I could have a try. So I did and here's the recipe, should you want to try it too! INGREDIENTS: -3 cups of plain flour -1 cup of oil -1 cup of milk -3 eggs -3 full tablespoons of cocoa ( I went for pure cocoa powder, so my cake is a bit more bitter than it would turn out if I used sweet cocoa- I guess you can choose whatever you like more.) - half of a jar of your favourite jam ( I've used apricot jam, but I can't really tell it is in the cake) -2 teaspoons of soda - I also added 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar You can make a chocolate icing too, but I didn't have it at home, so I didn't do it. STEPS: 1) Preheat your oven to 180 degrees. 2) Mix the eggs and sugar until you get a smooth texture. 3) Then, add the liquids - the milk, oil and the jam. Mix wel...

Hello! Today I had to get up early for work and I spent there more time than I actually should. It turned out that there were only two members of staff in for the evening and I got asked if I'd stay an hour longer to help out a bit. So I decided to stay and I survived it. There was however quite a stressful situation when I served a lady and while she walked away she dropped her bottle of wine but she said that she didn't know how it happened and there was wine all over the floor just in front of the massive queue that built up by the time I could serve the next customer. And then it got quite busy and I was on tills until I could go home. Then I quickly grabbed some things and the bus was here just on time. When I finally arrived home I talked to my mum for a bit on Skype because there are some issues with our tickets for Poland and I am so annoyed and angry and I don't know what to do any more. Sometimes I think that it would really be better if I came back to Austria bec...

Today I could finally get some proper sleep and in fact Eryk's sister woke me up at 12. Eryk was already at work and I cleaned up the horrible mess in our room, played with Maya and sat downstairs with the girls as they were filming a new video. I also did my make-up sometime later during the day and when the girls left I decided to also film a video, not a vlog. After that I wanted to bake some muffins and as it is Halloween quite soon, I thought that I could kind of give them a spooky look. But in fact they don't look Halloweeny at all but at least they should taste nice. And to be honest, that's the more important point with food. I didn't do the dough myself because we recently bought a Sponge Cake mix and wanted to try it out so I've used it today for the muffins. I just needed to add 8 tablespoons of milk and two medium eggs and used Nutella, desiccated coconut and some Halloween Haribo's to decorate the ready muffins. At first I also wanted to add a M...

Today I had work again and I was so tired all morning long that I thought I was walking and working while sleeping. With time it got better and they say ended quite fast I'd say. While me and my friend were checking the bread are we spotted some ready pancakes and thought we'd love to have some, so during my break I quickly grabbed to packs of 6 and as I came home some time ago I just had three nice pancakes. I went for two pancakes filled with lots of Nutella and chopped up strawberries, and the third one was only filled with my favourite Hartley's apricot jam. It somehow reminded me of when I spent an evening at an old friend's house and his mum made pancakes with apricot jam and Nutella and they were the best pancakes I've ever had. But today I didn't want to mix Nutella with jam any more as I had enough of Nutella already. Well, I enjoyed it, and I just love sweets. Sorry, can't change it. This week I have my October Holidays so I won...

T\Last night Maya kept us awake for so long that we were totally exhausted. She was just like a newborn baby that needs to get fed every three hours. We didn't know what was wrong with her but she just kept scratching and hitting the cage walls and it was just so loud that we were scared that our house mates would wake up because of the noise. I got out of bed about eight times and Eryk about five or so. It was just horrible. She had enough food, so she was not hungry but when we took her to our bed she wanted to play but she was also very aggressive and kept biting us. And so we put her back into the cage and the scratching began again and so on and so on throughout half of the night. In the morning we somehow managed to put her to sleep by massaging her belly and head. Well, so then we could finally go to bed at about five in the morning. This also means that we were sleeping until twelve and stayed in bed awake until about one which is just totally horrible! And as Eryk had to g...

Today I went to college again and after that I brought Eryk to work and did some little grocery shopping because I wanted to make a salad and bake some muffins again. What is really really really strange about Britain, is that they sell Christma stuff in August already! Is this normal?! It is still summer, so why think about Christmas already??  So when I came home I just quickly brought the laundry back inside and started cooking. I needed some dinner for myself so I went for spaghetti with broccoli sauce. This was really easy to prepare so once the noodles were in the pot and the sauce was cooking I started preparing everything for the muffins. Now my dinner is ready so I decided to quickly write a post before mixing together all the ingredients for the muffins. I will probably update you once they are done. Well, so college was ok today and I made a new friend, which made me happy obviously. I found todays' lesson a bit boring because we didn't really learn anything new, ...

Today I woke up and it was raining nearly all day long. Eryk and I stayed at home and all we did was being lazy, eating snacks, playing with Maya, playing games and instagramming. In the afternoon I decided to cook something and all I did was just a tasty cheese and bacon pasta bake. It is such a simple, quick meal, but so tasty at the same time! My belly is still so full that I can't move too much. Now Eryk is at work for the next four hours and I will spend another lonely, lazy evening in front of the computer watching some series and eating crisps. At least I finally managed to revise some French earlier today because in 5 days I will have my first day of my French course and I thin it would be better if I'm going to be prepared well. Also, tomorrow I am going to revise some Spanish as this course starts in 4 days already. Oh dear, I will have four days of college a week and I will also need to work! Thank god the courses are only about 2 hours a day. Look at this cutie ...

Today Eryk has a day off from work and he made breakfast for us after we woke up. While I was waiting for the food I had a chat with my mum on Skype after some days break because I didn't manage to see her online. Noah starts to ask where I am and why I am not coming home where he is. It makes me a bit sad but I know that he is okay and will understand that I go to school and so on. I was sitting in bed for a long time after breakfast, having some cuddles with my sleepy baby Maya. She is so cute when she's asleep that I could sit with her in bed all the time. I think she grew already a bit over the last week. She is so long when she stretches herself and sleeps like that! In the afternoon Eryk and I went for a walk together and it actually is finally warm today! I mean, it is not hot but warm enough to not wear a jacket or hoodie or stuff like that. I actually wore tights underneath my skirt and my fluffy cardigan but I realised that I could have gone without the c...