Failure

I came on to this topic because I failed to make brownies as I forgot to add the flour. I know, it was stupid and I have had many remarks already. However, it got me thinking. I know, this is a depressing subject but I do feel it is an important topic to discuss as a society and generation.

No one really accepts failure, meaning that it never comes into their life plan. They want to earn their millions by 25 without doing any work at all, get married and live together forever, have children who will automatically do what they say (have no opinions of their own), live in a really big house with walk in wardrobes, gym and a swimming pool. I would now, as I have come to terms with a version of this dream, call these people naive as they think the world will just do as they say.

If you just look at the news, there are wars, murders, shootings, a financial crisis, arguments in Parliament, poverty, cancer, illness and death. Do you think these people planned that part of their life?

I'm not saying that we all just fail in life, but we need to learn to deal with it, or come to terms with it. We need to learn to look on the bright side of life, and perhaps change that dream for something more achieveable and to something that still puts a smile on your face, which is still the most important thing.

This is why Oxbridge interviewers ask these sort of questions: Have you ever failed in something? The answer I will always give is that yes, there have been failures in my life but they have opened up new doors as well. Without them, I wouldn't be the girl that I am today.

So what I learnt from the brownie incident is that I can now make chocolate soil and it still tasted delicious.

Much Love
Harriet
xxx

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A little cheerful image for anyone feeling down.

PIZZA !!

So today, I made pizza for lunch and it was amazing. I know, I’m bias but who cares. So here is how I did it:

1) I used fresh yeast, which looks really weird and grey and smells disgusting. I mixed it with water and sugar until it looked like this:

2) Next, I put some flour, salt, warm water and olive oil into the bowl and added the fresh yeast. It looked a little gooey at first but I added more and more and then more flour until it was no longer sticky and looked like goo from Dr Who.

3) I put the dough in a warm place so the yeast could do some sciencey stuff that I’m sure was explained to me in year 9 biology something about the yeast expanding as that is it's optimum tempurature so the rate of reaction would increase, but I'm not sure, so we will call it sciencey stuff. (And yes, this is just the top oven because it warms up when the bottom oven is on)

4) This is when the fun stuff happens, the making of the pizza. I rolled it out quite flat so it could fit the circular pizza tin, added lots of tomato pizzary sauce that my sister made, mozzarella and peppers.

5) The finish masterpiece.

Recipe: A taste of Venice by Jeanette Nance Nordio.

It was so good and I will definitely be cooking this again, maybe for the next IB dinner? Oh, yes we have dinners! (another reason why you should do the IB)

I will write soon. Much love!

Harriet xxx