Eat, Pray, Love

Il ya trois semaines j'ai regardé le film Eat, Pray, Love. C'était quelque chose que je suis vraiment heureuse j'ai regardé parce que je pense il a reconnu que beaucoup de mes propres peurs dans le film. Peur de ne pas voyager, de ne pas être heureux, de ne pas tomber en amour. Il était tout le genre de enveloppé dans une boule de beurre séveux d'un film, mais avec suffisamment d'éléments philosophiques et de pensée des scènes provoquant pour lui donner un air intellectuel. J'ai vraiment aimé ça et il était heureux que je l'ai regardé pour la première fois sur le mien. Cela m'a permis de pleurer et rire librement dans et laissez-moi penser à ma propre vie et la nature de ce que je veux de lui, bien à l'âge de quinze ans, je peux vraiment savoir ce que je veux?

About three weeks ago I watched the movie Eat, Pray, Love. It was something I was really happy I watched because I think it recognized a lot of my own fears in the movie. Fear of not traveling, of not being happy, of not falling in love. It was all kind of wrapped up into one sappy butter ball of a movie but with enough philosophical elements and thought provoking scenes to give it an intellectual air. I really loved it and was happy that I watched it for the first time on my own. It allowed me to cry and laugh freely throughout and let me think about my own life and kind of what I want from it, although at the age of fifteen, can I really know what I want?

Anyways, the reason I bring the movie up is because there were several mouth-watering scenes of Julia Roberts feasting on food in foreign countries. Below, I've compiled a list of foods that I want to try in every country I hope to travel to one day. I will admit that I'm not the person who tends to jump at the chance to try duck liver (foie gras), and more so the person who likes to enjoy warm, comfort type, foods.

To start of with, I've always wanted to go to Ireland. In fact, my mom and I are supposed to take a trip there the summer I turn eighteen, since I made her promise to take me when I was like eight. And although I've never tasted it, I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't be a sheep/goat eating person, nor do I believe I will be interested in anything stomach and/or vital organ related, i.e. haggis. But there is one dish that I really would love to try and that is champ potatoes (also known as poundies), a potato dish that has chopped up scallions in it, and, of course, Irish coffee.

In France, I would love to try authentic french bread, a type of French cheese, perhaps boursin cheese, and champagne.

 In Italy I am dying to try authentic Italian pizza, tiramisu, cannolis, and Italian ice cream or gelato.

In Spain they serve a lobster dish called Langosta, which is made with Spiny Lobster and usually served with some sort of sauce. For dessert, Spain serves a dish very similar to crème brûlée, called crema catalana.

Truthfully, while there are many Mediterranean countries I want to visit, I'm not a big fan of Mediterranean food so with Greece, it took me a while to find something that I would eat, but, of course, I did manage to find several desserts that looked extremely appealing. The first are kourabiedes, which is a kind of cookie made from kneading flour, butter and roasted almonds and then dusted with powdered sugar. The second dessert is called loukoumades and are fried balls of dough that are covered in honey and cinnamon. The last picture is a shot of a piece of Milopita, very similar to apple pie.

Now, I'm no more interested in eating some fluffy sheep's innards in Scotland than in Ireland, so as with Ireland, I'm looking to try something a little less meat oriented, like millionaires shortbread, for example. I'd also really like to try Hot Toddy or Hot Buttered Rum, which looks delicious.

Germany has been termed the "bread country" which translates to "Marissa country". I love bread! While in Germany I will be having Brezels (pretzels), Brötchen (a small round roll), german schokolade (chocolate!), and edel (beer made with a very high quality variety of hops).

In Russia I want to try perogie's, similar to raviolis in that it's dough wrapped around some sort of meat or cheese, and white Russian cupcakes, which have Kahlua and vodka in the icing and the batter.

In New Zealand I want to try pavlova and mille-feuille, which actually originated in France, but is very popular in New Zealand. It's a sort of custard filled pastry and looks delicious!

I actually have a friend that was a foreign exchange student from Thailand. I couldn't stay the whole time for her going away party, so she made me a bunch of Thai food and gave it to me for lunch at school the next day. It was so nice of her, and it was so good! The chicken (which had cashews sprinkled in it), especially, was my favorite, so for sure, if I ever go to Thailand, I'll be sure to try it again. I'm not really sure what kind of chicken it was but I'm guessing that it was spicy chicken. Also, while I'm there, besides dropping in on my friend, Stop, I want to try Pad Thai (a friend really recommends it), and Thai coconut ice cream.



In Australia, I want to try ANZAC biscuits, a kind of sweet biscuit, and Vegemite is a slightly bitter food paste. That probably sounds super gross but it's supposed to be pretty big in Australia.

In China I want to try authentic Chinese fried rice, hamamatsu gyoza (dough stuffed with some sort of meat), and bow ties (a popular sweet, deep-fried dessert).

In India I want to try Indian rice and chapati (flat bread).

In Indonesia, specifically Bali, I would like to try spicy rice salad with shrimp and chili, and pancong, which is a kind of coconut cake.

In Luxembourg I want to taste gromperekichelcher, a kind of spicy potato pancake, and miel luxembourgeois de marque nationale, which is their national brand of honey.

In England I want to try fish and chips, bubble and squeak, a vegetable based dish, and banoffee pie.

In Switzerland I want to try brunsli, a kind of brownie, apfelküchlein, a deep fried apple cookie usually served with vanilla sauce, and salat, which is really just salad but, apparently, is very big in Switzerland and is usually served with three or four different kinds of dressing.

Austria has a lot of fruit related desserts and other dishes so all of the following would be in chocolate form for moi; palatshinken, a crepe like dessert, Viennese hot chocolate, and wiener eiskaffee, which is essentially an iced mocha.

In Egypt I want to try mahshi, which is similar to stuffed bell peppers, du'a, a mixture of nuts and herbs, and kahk, a shortbread biscuit covered in icing.

In Turkey I want to try simit, a bread covered in sesame seeds and Turkish delight, which did in fact originate in Turkey, or more specifically the Ottoman Empire.

In the Bahamas I want to try conch chowder, which is similar to clam chowder, but conch meat tends to be firmer and less slimy.

In Japan I want to try wagashi, Japanese confections made from all natural ingredients, and somen, which is wheat noodles that tend to be very popular during the summertime in Japan.

While I was in Victoria we went to this ice cream shop that I've been to every time we've visited. It's this cute little place and the ice cream is fantastic! The place is called Oh Gelato and they serve Italian ice cream there. The way they set up the ice cream is what makes it so adorable!

Also, real quick, I decided that for my marketing class, I would just write the post and then preview it instead of posting it. I might post it sometime in the future when I can edit it a little more but for now it will remain in the rough draft box.

French word of the day: Cuisine, which is the French word for food.

Au Revoir!

"Cookery is as old as the world, but it must also remain, always, as modern as fashion." - Phileas Gilbert.

Social Media Campaign

Tout le monde, de sorte que la raison pour laquelle je n'ai pas posté dans les deux derniers jours, c'est parce que je travaille sur une sorte de post alimentaire à long connexes. Mais j'ai ce projet en marketing à venir et ont besoin afin d'envoyer un échantillon de ma page ici, alors ... Je voulais juste que vous les gars savent qu'il y aura un poste consacré à la promotion de chaussures Christian Louboutin, aujourd'hui ou demain. N'hésitez pas à profiter de toutes les photos mais je vais probablement l'impression que je suis en train de vous vendre quelque chose, si juste l'ignorer. Je vais poster ce poste alimentaire dès que possible, mais je suis en train de conclure la semaine dernière et une moitié de l'école et je suis très occupé avec finales, je vais poster régulièrement de nouveau dès que possible! Merci à tous!

Hey, everyone, so the reason I haven't posted in the past couple of days is because I've been working on a kind of long food related post. But I have this project in marketing coming up and need to post my sample page on here, so... I just wanted to let you guys know that there will be a post devoted to promoting Christian Louboutin shoes either today or tomorrow. Feel free to enjoy the pictures but I will probably sound like I'm trying to sell you something, so just ignore that. I will be posting that food post as soon as possible but I am currently wrapping up the last week and a half of school and am very busy with finals so I'll be posting regularly again as soon as possible! Thanks everyone!

French word of the day: Campagne which is French for the word campaign.

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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date." - Maire von Ebner-Eschenbach.

Invisible Children

Je crois que je l'ai déjà mentionné enfants invisibles, mais sinon, c'est un club que je suis vice-président de mon école. Le point du club est de sensibiliser et de l'argent sur ​​la guerre en cours en Ouganda, en particulier sur les enfants soldats. C'est quelque chose de vraiment horrible si cette organisation ne il est préférable de recueillir des fonds pour construire des écoles, obtenir des fournitures, etc, pour les enfants soldats. Si vous voulez lire plus d'information sur elle, vous pouvez aller ici: http://www2.invisiblechildren.com/

I think I've already mentioned Invisible Children, but if not, it's a club that I'm vice president of at my school. The point of the club is to raise awareness and money about the war going on in Uganda, specifically about the child soldiers. It's some really horrific stuff so this organization does it's best to raise money to build schools, get supplies, etc., for the child soldiers. If you want to read more background on it, you can go here: http://www2.invisiblechildren.com/

Two days ago we had our big end of the year event. We went around the school and used chalk to write all over the courtyard to promote the showing of our informational video that was showed last night. They did it last year, I think, and it went really well. I could only stay for two hours and mainly worked on posters the whole time, but it was still fun. I'm a little upset with the general student population because there were only like three people outside of the club that actually showed up at the showing last night. In some part, it was poor planning, because lots of summer sports/ activities had meetings last night, so I myself wasn't even able to go, but I still would've expected more than three people to attend.

On a totally different subject, my marketing class is studying social media, which means that we will have to create some sort of tutorial video. If you have any ideas for a video that would be great! I don't really want to do a food one, nor do I want to do something too repetitive like an instructional video on how to do a fishtail braid. Please post your ideas below in the comments!


We got our yearbooks yesterday and I was kind of mad that I didn't appear on the fashion page since most everyone who knows me, knows that's my thing. There was even a quote on the page, one that I have used on here before; fashions fade, style is eternal. Which you readers probably know was said by Yves Saint Laurent. Well in the yearbook they didn't even cite who the quote was by and I couldn't find one person who knew who that quote was from. Grrr....

Over the weekend we went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and it was really good. I was a little worried that I wouldn't like it because Penelope Cruz has irritated me in some of her past movies but I really liked her in this one, and of course Johnny Depp was fabulous!

Here is a picture of my name that I had done while in Victoria. There is a lady who works as one of the vendors down by the docks across form the capitol building. She makes these for about twenty dollars and does them in about a minute. They are simply fantastic! I tried looking for her online and I think I may have found her but I'm not sure if it is the same person or not. The type of writing she does for them is a specific kind of Korean calligraphy that is about four thousand years old. It's really cool to watch someone make one and if you're ever in Victoria, Canada I highly suggest going there. Also, here is her website (I think): http://www.yournameinpictures.com/index.html .

 

Better be going. We have a standardized math test tomorrow and I really need some sleep. See you all tomorrow!

French word of the day: Annuaire which is French for the word yearbook.

Au Revoir!

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity." - Plato.