Has it ever happened to you that you watch a TV show and they play a song that calls out to you so much you try to look for it online? This happens to me all the time! The best songs are from House, Bones, and CSI LV.
I would frantically memorize two or more lines from the refrain so I can type them on Google with quotation marks and the word Lyrics and hopefully something useful will pop up. But now I found this amazing site that caters to people like me. Heard on TV is exactly what the name says, they allow people to search for particular shows, by season, and episodes are arranged in chronological order. I find that cross referencing between Wikipedea and Heard on TV makes it a whole lot easier to find songs from particular episodes.
To whoever came up with this site, thank you! You saved me potential frustration at listening to random songs on youtube just to find the one I'm looking for. And to the amazing people in House, Bones, and CSI - I don't know how you find great music, I do know how to write up contracts for that kind of thing, but your discovery enriches my life. Thanks!
My husband and I are big animal lovers. We sometimes sit and imagine what life would be like with a dog. Sometimes I take it to the next level and actually search the internet for wonderful, adorable dog related products.
Someday when we have a dog we are going to build it a castle or a Spanish villa because we want our neighbors heads to explode with how cute these dog houses are.
A modern high end custom house, perhaps? Heck, I wouldn't mind living there.
This is great concept, creating a tiny, efficient home office in a stolen space. The desk under the staircase utilizes what would normally be a storage area. While the sleek design of the white console table and the slim white chair doesn't add any visual clutter, the desk seems to be floating and self contained, perfect for small areas like a hallway or in a living room.
I'm still looking for the perfect home office set-up, for now I'm wishing for a small shelf where I can organize my books and craft tools without taking up too much space.Read more...
I am currently addicted to The Sartorialist and a lot of other street fashion blogs. Yes, I realize that this is very much like leafing through a fashion magazine but I like fashion better when real people are wearing it with attitude and not waif-thin, paid models who are genetic freaks of nature.
All photos from The Sartorialist.com
vintage dress with leather belt and lovely red shoes perfect for a luncheon or cocktails, not that I go to either of those...
beautiful, fresh, casual, and classic the hair and the sunglasses add so much character to the outfit
I call this look the "merry widow" look can't imagine wearing it during the day but she pulls it off.
I read his book and this guy is a genius. He saw a disparity between the runway and what people were wearing on the streets and found a way to bridge the gap through his blog. The book was surprisingly insightful for something about fashion.
It's almost my birthday and I decided to start the celebrations early by baking yummy cupcakes.
I found the "Best ever chocolate cupcake recipe" from another blogger. Stole the idea from bleeding vampire cupcakes and injected orange marmalade in the middle of my chocolate cupcakes, then iced them with wonderful 7 minute frosting.
It took me about 2 hours to bake everything plus 11 minutes of slaving over the stove whisking egg whites for the icing... But it was all worth it.
You be the judge, do they look delicious or what?!
I stumbled upon this recipe/video when I was looking for the perfect vanilla icing recipe, they're totally unrelated except for the fact that I adore both vanilla icing and gulab jamuns.
The next time I'm with my sister we are so making this! It will add to our hilarious memories of living in Singapore and walking through little India looking for the best gulab jamuns. In case you're wondering, we found the best ones from a little street parallel to Serangoon Road (might be Lembu Road) about two blocks down from Mustafa Centre heading away from the Boon Keng area. It's a tiny hole in the wall bakeshop with an A cleanliness rating, folding tables and plastic chairs cafe style, and a glass display shelf filled with Indian sweets. Utterly delightful!
I never imagined my favorite Indian dessert would be easy to make. So glad I stumbled upon this and that the ingredients they used are easily available.
Gulab Jamun makes 15 smaller balls
Instant Dry Milk (Milk Powder) – 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour – 2 tbsp Yogurt – 2 tbsp Clarified Butter – 1 tbsp Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp Water – 2 cups Sugar – 2 cups Rose Essence – few drops, optional Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp or to taste Saffron – few strands, optional Oil – for deep frying
Method:
1. Make the syrup in a pan by adding Water, Sugar, Rose Syrup, Cardamom Powder and Saffron. 2. Put the pot on the flame and bring to boil. Once it starts boiling, reduce the heat and allow it to simmer. 3. Meanwhile, get the oil for deep-frying ready. Heat up the oil on low-to-medium heat. 4. For the dumpling, in a mixing bowl , add in all dry ingredients i.e Instant Dry Milk , All Purpose Flour, Baking Soda. 5. Mix well and add in the Clarified Butter and after that slowly start mixing in the yogurt. Make into a dough. 6. Allow it to rest for 5 minutes. Make desired size balls, make sure they are smooth and do not have any creases. 7. Test the oil by dropping a small piece of dough, if it sits at the bottom of the pan for a minute before coming to the surface, the oil is ready. 8. Carefully drop 3-4 dumplings in the oil and keep rotating them for an even color. 9. Once the dumplings are a dark golden brown, take them out into a paper towel. 10. Bring the syrup to another quick boil and drop in the dumplings. 11. Turn off the flame and cover the Gulab Jamuns and let them soak in the syrup for 45 minutes to an hour. 12. Gulab jamuns can be served hot or cold. This recipe makes about 10-15 Gulab Jamuns.
Tips:
1. The one thing we cannot emphasis enough is the temperature of the oil for frying…it is the key to making good gulab jamuns. It has to be on low-to-medium heat. 2. The dough is a little on the crumbly side…so use a little oil on your hands and make the ball and flatten it out and then roll it to a ball…this will help smoothening out the cracks.
