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What’s in a Name?

Meat and Three Veg

Sweet Tooth

 My favourite dessert is a oreo cake

Ingredients              

• For the Cake:
• 3/4 cup (about 3 3/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup (about 3/4 ounce) cocoa powder
• 1/2 plus 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (about 4 1/3 ounces) granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• For the Oreo whipped cream:
• 50 Oreo cookies
• 4 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

1.

Make cake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°. Line bottom of a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper and lightly coat the inside with non-stick pan spray. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt into large bowl; set aside. In medium bowl, whisk sugar, sour cream, oil, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.

2.

Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients until smooth. Pour batter into pan and bake until cake is just firm and toothpick inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes, then remove from pan to completely cool on wire rack, about 1 hour.

3.

Carefully cut 6 Oreo cookies in half; set aside. Chop remaining cookies into 1/4-inch pieces; set aside.

4.

To Assemble Cake: make the Oreo whipped cream in 2 batches. In bowl of standing mixer fitted with whip attachment, whip 2 cups cream on medium-high speed to soft peak, spoon into large bowl and refrigerate. In same mixer bowl, whip remaining 2 1/2 cups cream, sugar, and vanilla to soft peak. Fold into already whipped cream.

5.

Place about 1 cup whipped cream in bowl and refrigerate until ready to decorate cake. Fold chopped Oreos into remaining whipped cream.

6.

Slice cake in half horizontally to create 2 layers. Place bottom layer on serving plate. Spread about 1/3 of Oreo whipped cream onto cake. Top with second cake layer and use remaining Oreo whipped cream to frost top and sides of cake. Chill in refrigerator for about 2 hours to allow cookies to soften.

7.

Place reserved whipped cream in pastry bag fitted with star tip (re-whisk if necessary). Pipe 12 whipped cream rosettes around perimeter of cake and garnish with reserved Oreo cookie halves. Serve.

Making a Fashion Statement

VE Day!

Women at Work

One day you are walking along the deck of the ship
when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you
see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You
run towards the room where your patients are waiting
to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive
at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and
you quickly open the door and help all your patients out
of that room and take them to safe grounds. After that
you warn everybody to stay calm. Then you hear another
bang, the captain shout everybody grab a gun, everybody
grabs a gun and starts to shoot the plane that was booming
the ship. Finally you get the plane down, the captain
speeds away as far as he could go before the ship had sunk.
Luckily you made it to a shallow part of the sea.The ship is
sinking and you all jump into the water and start to swim.
After a few minutes you are on land, safe. You go looking
for your patients, after a few moments of looking you have
realized  that they did not make it. You look around you
have noticed that not many people make it. Then you hear
a noise in the distance it was the nazis. You duck down but
they have spotted you, they come running but
reinforcements were there and they shot the nazis and
saved the nurses.

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Dealing with Stress

Crossing the Tasman

Art Deco

The Roaring 20’s (The 1920s)

In Flanders Fields

The Right to Vote

St Joseph’s Cathedral