That’s right! It’s another challenge from I Heart Faces. This time they want to see pictures of hands. I’ve been really sick this week with tonsilitis, so I’ve had plenty of time to look through all the entries. They are amazing! You should definitely check them out here:
This is my entry for this week. I L-O-V-E this picture of our friends’ son. I’ve been holding onto it for awhile now, just waiting for the right challenge. I think it finally works.
A couple weeks ago, our Student Union organized a benefit concert to help the victims of the September flooding in the Philippines. It was an entirely student organized and run event. They did an amazing job. We got to enjoy music, dance performances, and yummy Filipino food – and the students were able to raise 470 Euro.
There are more pictures here: Benefit Concert
It’s true. I do heart kisses. I mean have you seen this guy? Swoon.
However, this post isn’t about us, it’s about this week’s contest over at I Heart Faces. Lucky for me, last weekend I got to take some fun pictures of two very beautiful people who are getting married soon. We went to Schönbrunn for an afternoon, so the scenery is beautiful, too.
You can check out all the other entries here:
Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day!
The Bread of the Month for January was tortillas. Delicious, delicious tortillas. What happened to November and December you may ask. (Although, probably not 🙂 ) Well, in November I learned how to make pie crust from scratch. Who knew that would be so easy? In December I was pretty focused on cookies. I learned how to make some chocolate biscotti that were pretty yummy. I decided that since those are kind of baked in a loaf, they’d count as bread. It’s cheating a little, but I’m OK with that. Given the holiday craziness in both of those months, I did not do a great job of documenting the process. Not so with tortillas!
My friend Melissa is the resident tortilla expert, so she kindly agreed to come share her knowledge with me. We decided to make both corn and flour tortillas. It was a tortilla making extravaganza!
We’ve both been dreaming of corn tortillas. I thought I’d found masa, but I think maybe it’s just corn flour. It was really fine and the tortillas were decidedly unsuccessful. We did learn a few things along the way, though.
We’re not giving up on corn tortillas, but for now, they are out of our reach. Sigh.
The flour tortillas, however, were a huge success. A huge delicious success! We went for the straight white flour tortilla this time, but I’ll be trying for wheat very soon. There really is no excuse for me to buy tortillas ever again. Not only are they ridiculously easy to make, they taste a million times better than store bought. Yes, a million. At least.
Here’s the recipe:
3 cups white flour (2 cups white, 1 cup wheat for wheat tortillas)
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil or shortening (we used oil & it was perfect)
1 cup warm water
Combine flour, salt & oil or shortening. Mix until crumbly. Add warm water. Mix until a ball forms. Knead for 5 minutes. Cover and rest for 30 minutes up to 2 hours. Roll out on a floured surface. Be sure to roll them fairly thin. Cook in a nonstick pan.
Note: We tried to cook them in my cast iron pan. This didn’t work very well, but that is most likely because my pan is pretty trashed.
A few more pictures here: Bread of the Month
For the second year in a row, our class put on the Mr. VCS Pageant. This year the students decided to create characters to participate in the pageant rather than having someone from each grade compete. It was absolutely hilarious. The guys did a fantastic job of staying in character and ad-libbing throughout the show. Phlato, the Filipino Philosopher, played by Paul, was named Mr. VCS 2010. The class was able to raise about 500 Euro toward their senior trip. It was a really fun night!
There are a ridiculous number of pictures here: Mr. VCS 2010