How to curl your hair with GHDs... after half a bottle of wine

I could blame Twitter peer pressure for this.

But really, when I filmed it, it seemed like a great idea.

Now? Not so much.

FlogYoBlog Friday: The Trivia Edition

Hey hey, Flogsters!

I am going to embrace my inner nerd today and tell you about a secret fetish I have... Quiz Nights.

I love them so much I would go so far as to say I heart them.

I am very experienced when it comes to Quiz Nights and have even been on the winning team a few times. If I don't place, I get annoyed and wish I'd worn the tshirt I had when I was little that said "If I can't win, I don't want to play". Then I give evils to my team mates for not paying attention... at which point they ask how many real questions I got right and not just stupid stuff you learn in NW. But that's not the point.

For your enjoyment I've put together some of the answers to the most common Quiz Night questions that will guarantee* you a placing should you commit them to memory. You're welcome.

1. The Sea of Tranquility is on the moon
2. The science of kissing is called philematology (wish I'd known that at school, I could have said I was studying hehe)
3. The highest number of surviving children from a single birth is eight - remember Octomom?
4. If you're in a cold, dark house with one match and are shown a candle and stove and asked which do you light first, it's the match. 
5. Aphrodite, the goddess of sexy time, emerged from the foaming semen of her father’s castrated testicles (most fucked up birth story ever)
6. The most popular sport in the world is soccer
7. The letter K is worth five points in scrabble
8. Wile E. Coyote caught Road Runner only once, on the 21 May 1980
9. Lake Baghdad is on Rottnest Island
10. The best blogger is Glow... I almost had you there, didn't I?!

Now that you're all edjamacated, let's Flog, baby.

How to FlogYoBlog

1. Follow Where's My Glow?
2. Bow down at the alter of Mummy Time; Blog-goddess, all round groovy gal and creator of FYBF
3. Grab the FYBF button and post it on your sidebar or in the post you're linking up
4. Link in your favourite/best post from the week (don't just put your homepage URL)
5. Follow at least 1 linkyer/blogger then be nice and spread the comment love

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*Guarantee is worthless - it's having me on your team that ensures a win

Run DMC Vs Tricky

Oh look, it's a three minute vlog where I say about half a dozen words... that should be, er, interesting.

He Did What!? Wednesday - By Me and Mia

How do you like them apples? - By Me and Mia

My hubby and I have recently taken to having our groceries delivered by Homeshop. At first I felt a little guilty, like I was being lazy or something, but after testing it out a few times I thought what the hell, anything that makes life a little easier for us is a winner in my book! I'm prepared to pay the $9 delivery fee to have someone else run around the store and collect my groceries for me, bag them and bring them straight to my door.

The other night it was time to make another grocery order, and Hubby said he would have a go at doing the online ordering. I had already made a handwritten grocery list anyway, so all he had to do was find the stuff on the website and add it to the basket, then order it. I was nearby while he tackled the task, and he had to ask me a few questions here and there about specific brands, measurements etc., but overall he completed the order with minimal fuss.

The order was delivered the following day, and we set about unpacking it. I undid one of the bags to find a 1kg bundle of Granny Smith apples inside, when I had written on the list that I only wanted 3 single apples.

"Uh, Hubby? Did you order a kilo of apples? I only wanted 3."

He looked at me, puzzled. "Mmm....no? I don't think so?"

I looked back in the bag.....to find two more 1kg bundles of apples.

"Um, did you order 3 lots of 1 kilos of apples, instead of just 3 single apples? There's 3kg of them in here."

"Oh.....I must have. I didn't see that I was ordering that much, I just saw "apples" and ordered 3."

I looked on the printed list that came with the grocery delivery. There is was - "Granny Smith apples 1 kg x 3 - $14.98".

"You didn't notice when it showed that the apples were costing $15?"

"Um, no."

So, after a lesson in checking the fine print, I am up to my elbows in apples and have so far made some apple puree for Mia to have with custard, and some lovely Apple & Caramel Scrolls. Anyone else got any great recipes including apples so I can somehow work my way through them all?!!

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Janelle is the beauty and brains behind Me and Mia (she's the Me part) and it's her creative outlet.

She is married and has two fur babies and one real baby (Mia, obviously). She is a self-confessed history geek, bookworm and lover of writing - she even participated in NaNoWriMo last month!

She blogs about everything including parenthood, writing, adventures and if her tag cloud is to be believed, Harry Potter. Have a chat to her on Twitter here.

Next week: We get clinical with Dr Bron

Send your S/He Did What!? submission to Glowless@wheresmyglow.com

Chunky Chocolate Ripple Cheesecake

I'm rather new to this whole baking thing so I, err, may or may not have screwed up a recipe for chocolate snowballs the other night.

Now there are a few things I'm basing this on:

1. The first lot of dough was white... I'd forgotten to put in cocoa. Then I realized I also had a cup of sugar sitting there waiting to go in too. Oops.

2. I put the oven on fan forced instead of normal. Double oops.

3. The snowballs didn't hold their shape ended up like snowflats and by the next morning they were too crunchy (but tasted awesome). Triple oops.

What do you do when you have a batch of snowballs cookies that are a akin to rock? Smash 'em up and make a cheesecake base! Huzzah! So, here's my fabulous recipe that I created, based on a plain cheesecake recipe (I am getting good at this making recipes up thing):

Chunky Chocolate Ripple Cheesecake 

Alternatively titled "Oh-crap-I-ruined-the-biscuits Cheesecake"

Ingredients:

• A batch of failed snowballs or a packet of biscuits, whatever floats your boat, about 175g
• 75g of butter
• 85g of dark chocolate (I used Lindt because it was on special)
• 250g of cream cheese
• 250g of ricotta
• 2/3 cup castor sugar
• 250mL thickened cream

Method:   
Base:

• Smash up 150g of your failed snowballs/biccies until they look like breadcrumbs 
• Add melted butter and combine
• Press in to a greased and lined 18cm pan, cover and chill it while you make the rest

Snowflat base

 Filling:

• Melt your chocolate (microwave, double boiler, I'm not fussy) and allow to cool to room temperature
• Beat cream cheese, ricotta and sugar using an electric mixer and make sure to sing Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' while you do - it makes it turn out better
• Add the thickened cream and beat for five minutes
• Smash up the remaining 25g of your snowflats so that they're chunky and carefully fold through
• Pour the mixture in to the prepared base and smooth it out
  
  

  

  Cookie pieces mixed in
• Drizzle most of the melted and cooled chocolate over the top and mix it around, being careful not to touch the bottom so you get a top layer of chocolate flavoured cheesecake (I think the soft centre of the Lindt chocolate really helped this part because it was really runny)
• Once the top layer is chocolatey, drizzle a little bit more on and swirl it to create your ripple
• Freeze for two hours

See those layers? And the cookie chunks? AWESOME! 

Serve it with berries if you want to be all arty-farty or just inhale it like I did.

*insert rapturous applause*

Whaddya reckon? Is there a food blogger in me?