Masterchef Mania?

I want to be a good cook.
I want to be fitter.
I want to be studious.

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Lol at the beginning of these holidays, i promised that I'd cook every dinner.
Number of dinners cooked: none.

HOWEVER, i have cooked an apple strudel...three in fact, because the packet of pastry came in a three...and it actually tasted good :)

Today, i plan on making a chocolate souffle with raspberries, and chocolate truffles...hmmm should i make them both today? Haha and we couldnt exactly find cocoa powder, so i plan on using cadbury drinking chocolate instead :D These holidays, i also plan to make:

• Banana bread
• Meringues
• Sushi [for someone's b'day party ;) ]
  
• Dammit i forgot.

Tomorrow, people are coming over to our house to "da bin low". My house is boring...i dunno what we're gonna do...>___>

Oh and i watched Hannah Montana the movie. It was pretty good...quite inspirational...lol and the guy...hahaha the guy ;)

I've decided that I'm not going on facebook these holidays. I don't want to know about what's happening to other people.

Anywho, this is my recipe for an apple strudel...taken off the internet:

Ingredients (serves 6)

• 2 tbs caster sugar
• 1 tbs plain flour
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 large granny smith apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced
• 2 tbs raisins
• 1 sheet (25cm x 25cm) frozen ready-rolled puff pastry, thawed
• Extra flour, to dust
• 1 egg
• Icing sugar, to dust

Method

1. Preheat oven to 190°C. Combine sugar, flour and cinnamon in a bowl. Add apples and raisins. Toss to coat.
2. Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper. Place the pastry on a lightly floured sheet of non-stick baking paper. Dust the pastry lightly with flour. Roll the pastry lightly in one direction to form a 30cm x 40cm rectangle. With one short side facing you, spoon the apple mixture over the bottom half of the pastry, leaving a 2cm border around the edges.
3. Roll the pastry into a large log. Place, seam side down, on the baking tray. Tuck the ends under the roll.
4. Combine the egg with 1 tbs of water. Brush with the egg mixture. Cut several 2cm-long slits, 2cm apart, into the top of the roll. Bake for 35 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a wire rack lined with baking paper for 30 minutes to cool. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

** i used pears and cranberries as well coz we ran out of apples. But they still taste the same...if not, better! :D

~heelorli