Vodka is done!

Now all it needs is to be made into a delicious martini

Ingredients

Aidan's Pomegranate Martini

• 1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
• 45 ml pomegranate infused vodka
• 30ml Cointreau
• Cup of ice
• Splash of sparkling water or lychee juice (optional)
• lychee for garnish

Shake ingredients in a shaker and put in chilled martini glasses.

iced vovo

It was Australia Day yesterday and to celebrate I made some traditional Australian biscuits. The oh so very famous iced vovo. Recipe is down the bottom.

I started off with Vanilla Snaps using Donna Hay recipe from “Modern Classics 2″

Ingredients:

• 185gms butter
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• icing sugar to dust

How to make:

• Preheat the oven to 180 c
• In a food processor mix the butter, sugar and vanilla until smooth
• Add the flour, egg and egg yolk and process until the mixture forms a soft dough
• Take the dough out the processor and knead slightly bringing it together in ball and wrap it in cling film and place in the fridge for 30 minutes
• Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface or between 2 sheets of baking paper until about ½ cm / 5mm thick
• Cut the dough into approximately 7cm rounds
• Place the dough rounds on a baking sheet that has been lined with baking paper or silicone baking sheets
• Bake for 10 – 12 minutes until golden brown

Remove the biscuits carefully from the baking tray and allow them to cool on a wire cooling rack as they have a tendency to carry over cooking and could turn too brown once removed from the oven (I generally cool all biscuits on a cooling rack).

When cooled I added the topping

• 125g unsalted butter
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1 1/2 cups white or pink marshmallows
• Pink food colouring
• 1/2 cup raspberry or strawberry jam, whisked until smooth
• 1/2 cup dessicated coconut

How to make:

• Place butter and sifted icing sugar in a large mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add pink food colouring to lightly pink
• melt marshmallows in a pan over low heat with a tiny bit of water
• using a spatula add the melted marshmallows to the mixture and mix well
• spread the mixture over the top of the biscuits leaving a strip down the middle for jam
• dollop jam down the middle of the biscuits and cover with desiccated coconut.

Black Diamond & Lomography

The black diamond is the national library of Copenhagen and is a spectacular building. Even more fun when shot with a lomo style camera.

Lomography is a great way to get into photography and they sell a whole bunch of really cute cameras. Action samplers are a blast, but there are heaps to try out for different effects.

new bike

Bikes are a must here in Copenhagen - mine was incomplete without flowers

just made some pomegranate vodka, about a week away from being ready

Coloured Paper

Just got some art supplies, mostly just some great coloured paper. Lots of possiblities

tattoos

Some of the tattoos here are beautiful. And people are more than willing to pose like LA gangsters.

this guy had a tattoo of the queen of Denmark

and girls with tattoo are cute

even Walter Sobchak allowed me to grab a photo

I tried as well but lack the key factor- the tattoos... hmmm maybe something to think about

Ice Skating

Ice Skating is amazing fun, more so when dressed as John Trevolta from Saturday Night Fever.

Posing is a key element of ice skating

as is the thumbs up

and ice dance with penguins

somebody had left golden stars in the snow. I though it was magical.

pottery village

So I have been staying at my friends apartment here in copenhagen, and decided to thank him for having me by buying a few beautiful herbs, I added a little magic by creating a mini village for his herb garden

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funnerize philosophy

Thanks to Roger Reno for drawing this up for me - it is amazing and you are a truly great artist