TaniaTingel's Profile

I was nervous to take the test because I always brag about my colour discerning skills. I was hoping to do 19 or better. I was very suprised to find I got 0 considering I didn't think I had answered it correctly.

This Swedish family could throw compost on the floor and I'm sure it would look good. My clothes as art would look terrible, I'm sure.

I love the yellow.

I thought it was a new countertop. You fooled me!

For comparison's sake: Mortgage on 2 bedroom flat in Melbourne, Australia $1600 + body corporate fees and council rates totaling $2,400 per year. I live alone... yikes!

The best hot chocolate I've ever had was in Jerusalem of all places. I was whisked off to a university cafe for a quick meal. I hadn't worked out the shekel/australian dollar exchange rate and ended up paying $8 for the thing, about twenty years ago.

The cafe was in a plastic marquee with plastic tables and what seemed like plastic everything. I was not impressed. Liquid was dripping from the ceiling where it was drooping, just near where I was sitting. I was convinced that the liquid was made of the patrons condensed and evaporated sweat.

But in the most unattractive setting I had the best hot chocolate of my life. Something you'd think only Enid Blyton could conjure up in one of her stories but I was having it for reals. A hot chocolate that sat half way between a chocolate mousse and a delicious hot chocolate. It was thick and moussey, it was chocolatey, it was thick yet drinkable, it was liquid yet you could eat it with a spoon. Though good at reverse engineering food, I could not for the life of me work out what gave it this wonderful texture.

I've never ever come across a hot chocolate anywhere near that delicious concoction... I've tried millions of recipes and just cannot reproduce it.

I'll never forget you my beautiful Jerusalem university makeshift cafe hot chocolate love.

I thought I was a genius when I came up with my method: I spin my lettuce in a lettuce spinner (an expensive one with a flat lid), pour the water out, then put the whole spinner with the lettuce in it back into the fridge. Works brilliantly. The basket in the spinner keeps the lettuce away from any moisture that's sunk to the bottom - no need for towels. It takes up a lot of room in my fridge, but I eat salad everyday so it's worth it. I also keep herbs in there and any cut up but unfinished vegetables too.

To remove cherry stains from clothing, rub fresh tomato on the stain, then throw into your regular wash. Works brilliantly. I read it on a science website for kids somewhere... superb! It saved my vintage 60s polka dot dress from an early death.

This is a tip?

From glimmer to glamour!
Love it.