Cooking for 2… no 5. Move over Jamie Oliver!

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  Fish and Rice

  Cook a meal from scratch. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dinner for two. Cook it from scratch. Using raw ingredients. A simple meal is best e.g. pizza, soup, hamburgers etc.

LEMON AND GARLIC FISH WITH RICE AND BROCCOLI

INGREDIENTS:

• 1kg hoki skinless fillets (skin off)
• crushed garlic
• butter
• 1 lemon
• lemon juice
• 2 cups rice
• broccoli
• water
• salt and pepper

METHOD:

1. Put the oven on 220’C
2. Make aluminium foil sheets about 40cm long (5)
3. Put one piece of thawed fish on each sheet (the left over fish can be used to even up the amounts)
4. Put a teaspoon of garlic on each
5. Put a teaspoon of butter on each
6. Squeeze a squirt of lemon juice on each
7. Salt and pepper each one
8. Cut the lemon thinly and put even amounts of lemon on each fish
9. Carefully fold the parcels up (totally closed with no holes to steam fish) Place in oven dish and put in oven
10. Now the rice. 2 cups of rice in microwave rice cooker with 4 cups of water
11. Put in microwave and press ‘RICE’
12. When the microwave beeps take rice out, stir and add broccoli, put lid on and put back in the microwave.
13. When rice finishes (microwave beeps again) take out rice and broccoli and dish onto plates.
14. Take fish out (about 20min in oven) and slide it out onto the rice.
15. EAT with people that you love.

Stop junk mail! (after all it is junk).

• Stop junk mail! A pizza flyer? For me? You shouldn’t have…….No. I mean it . You shouldn’t have. You see, every year two million trees are cut down to make the junk mail we get through our doors in Australia.

By having a PO Box we automatically stop junk mail, but it also means no council pic-up which mean we have to find other ways to get rid of junk furniture and appliances.

Read a story to a young child (or two!).

• Read a story to a young child. This is a particularly enjoyable activity will provide untold joy to a young child (and they may even repay the favour one day).
• Make someone smile (the more people the better!) remember it takes half as many muscles to smile than it does to frown.

Today I read a story to Violet and Harriet…… well not really I read them a chapter of  ‘Morgen the Monday fairy’. It was fun and it made them smile.

Make someone smile……. You!

• Make someone smile (the more people the better!) Remember, it takes half as many muscles to smile as it does to frown.

Why don’t you watch this video?

HT: Paddy

Walk a parent.

• Walk a parent. like dogs, grown-ups get cranky when they stay indoors all day long. Unlike dogs, who walk an average 1088 km per year, parents walk just 318. Keep them off the furniture and take a grown-up for a walk!

Last night I walked my mum and my younger sister up to a High School meeting at school. It was fun and we got to walk back too.

Why don’t you try it too?

Image from homewardbound.

Stand up for someone!

• Stand up for something. If a friend was being bullied you could wait for someone else to do something. If your school wasn’t recycling, you could wait for the principal to do something. If the planet was heating up, you could wait for the government to do something. Don’t wait! Speak up. Change the world. Starting from now.
• Make someone smile (the more people the better!) Remember, it takes half as many muscles to smile as it does to frown.

There is a group of girls at school who have a circle which if you come in it uninvited (and invited sometimes) they say something nasty. Personally, I have been called fat, gay, lesbian, bossy and ugly by these girls at different times. I have learnt to stay away from them.

My friend was having some trouble making friends and some girls were asking her  nasty questions.  I comforted her when the Deputy Principal was talking to her and some of her other friends. I didn’t really say much but I hope that was enough. She plays with me and my friends most of the time now and that makes her smile…… and me.

image from http://www.sl-designs.com

Make someone smile (or kill themselves laughing)

• Make someone smile (the more people the better!) Remember, it takes half as many muscles to smile as it does to frown.

Watch this video

and now this one

and finally this one.

Write a letter. (Hey! that’s easy….K*….. see!)

• Make someone smile (the more people the better!). Remember, it takes half as many muscles to smile as it does to frown.
• Write a letter

I send it off today, it was to my old friend Susy who I haven’t seen for more than four years!!!!!!!

Here is a  photo of what I sent her:

The smile package. It should make Susy smile when she receives it.

1. A card I made myself.
2. A little piece of paper with all of my details.
3. A purple bookmark which says “bookworm”.
4. A glow in the dark horse (she likes horses).
5. A photo of me.
6. A little butterfly necklace that I made (and packaged).
7. A little stuffed cat (she likes cats too).
8. The cats bed.
9. The cats lead can be attached to a bag.

Oh! I just realised that I have done another of the activities.

• Recycle your toys. There are millions of forgotten toys in Australia. Unused. Unloved. Under the bed. (and in your sock draw) It doesn’t have to be this way. Give them away. ( This is what I did with the cat) Swap them. Love your toys. And when you are done lovin’, set them free!

*And for those who didn’t get it, K is a letter. Did that make you smile?

I’m tired and my brain is melting…. must be climate change!

Photo by Remi (my sister)

A couple of days ago my teacher Mr Kay gave me my homework, spelling, mentals and…… two sheets…….

The title….Change the world!

The sheets consisted of 14 suggestions of little things, like take shorter showers and make someone smile. It also had a couple of suggestions on how to present your work like a diary, scrapbook, tables(boring) and ….. a blog!

So blog gets A+ and everthing else (especially tables) gets F-.

I am going to do around one thing a day and do (hopefully “gulp”) one post a day.

I hope you enjoy reading about my attempt to change the world.

(you could join in too…… if you do tell me about it in the comments)

by Bronte