blood orange gelato recipe

Are blood oranges in season now in Australia?

Blood Orange Gelato

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon grated blood orange zest

2/3 cup sugar divided, 1 teaspoon and remaining

2/3 cup water

2 cups freshly squeezed blood orange juice

¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

2/3 cup heavy (whipping) cream

Instructions:

Prepare a large bowl or pan or ice water

In a small bowl, mash the zest with 1 teaspoon of the sugar to release the oils

Combine the remaining sugar and water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar

Cook until the syrup is clear

Remove from the heat and stir in the juices and sugared zest

Immediately place the pan in the ice bath

Stir the mixture occasionally until it cools to room temperature

Transfer to a container and stir in the cream

Cover and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, about 3 hours

Freeze in an ice cream maker

Transfer to a container, cover, and freeze until firm, about 2 hours

I suppose it's not point just putting it up.. i have to make it.. and TAKE photos too. crap.

Owl City "In Christ Alone"

thanks to ian wei. sharing good songs is what friends do :)

New Heights - Peaches

pretty awesome song from the jubilee project!

I would like a t-shirt with that print on it

web designers are awesome

of course i wish i could be like them and speak the html language.

but that is one language that i would not understand even if i tried to learn it. Then again it is probably not impossible.

And today is cleaning room day, as i'm sure the next whole month would be as well.

I hope my nose doesn't get already flatter

ladder rungs

here i am sitting up, and staring at the first rung, right infront of me.

I don't hurt anymore from the fall.

it's been a while 

In fact, I don't remember even seeing this ladder here.

I've been flat on my back all this time

I look up to see where it goes

to see how high it reaches up to

I can't see the end

I can't climb this thing!

And then God's word, 'Not by might or by power, but by My Spirit', slides down

But I'm still sitting here, staring at the first rung.

My hands are reluctant to grab hold

My feet refuse to push me up to a stand

I'm not ready to climb. I don't have the stamina or the will power. What's wrong with the floor. What's wrong with where I am at now. 

Oh. Right.

I'm blocking the way up. 

Go first! I urge the others behind me. Don't let me stop you! 

Some take the first rung, and they start to climb

I feel my hands reach out to pull them down

Just like a madras crab.

I slap myself. 

What have I become. 

I say a prayer, just because I feel like I should. 

Nothing happens, as usual. 'Things don't happen immediately"

As always I tell myself. 

I shut a door on the people behind me

occasionally opening it, to take a peep and ease my guilty conscience

of holding them up in the queue

And I close it back again and go back to lying down.

But now, here I am, staring at the first rung. 

Someone help? Please?

Anyone. 

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

"What is real?" asked the rabbit one day. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you, and a stick out handle?"

"Real isn't how you were made," said the skin Horse, "it's a thing that happen to you. When a child loves you for a long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real. It doesn't happen all at once," said the skin horse. "You become. It takes a long time... Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.

But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand"

Without You

from Rent

Without You, the ground thaws

The rain falls, the grass grows

Without You, the seeds root. 

The flowers bloom, the children play

The stars gleam, the poets dream

The eagles fly, without You

The earth turns, the sun burns

But I die without You

Without You, the breeze warms

The girl smiles, the cloud moves

Without you, the tides change

The boys run, the oceans crash

The crowds roar, the days soar

The babies cry

Without You

The moon glows, the river flows

But I die without You

The world revives, colours renew

But I know blue, only blue

Lonely blue, within me blue

Without You

Without You, the hand gropes

The ear hears, the pulse beats

Without You, the eyes gaze

The legs walk, the lungs breathe

The mind churns, the heart yearns

The tears dry, without You

Life goes on, but I'm gone

Cause I die, without You

Without you

Without you

So I hear that people still read this. :) Why thank you very much. My heart is warmed. 

That's where I want to be, the point where I die without you God 

I want my heart to yearn, I know even without You, life goes on, but I seem to be losing more and more of myself. And I don't want that. I don't want to be without You. 

The legs walk, the lungs breathe, but I die. 

Without You.