How's your Portuguese?

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10 reasons why I want to be sponsored today

1.)   To have hot showers

2.)   To eat out at fish restaurants

3.)   To be taken seriously

4.)   To take myself seriously

5.)   To buy chicken peri peri for lunch

6.)   To have a bathroom that doesn’t smell like a faulty sewer system

7.)   To buy eat as much cheese as I want

8.)   To pay the coaches that help me

9.)   To surf in the Mentawais

10.) To say ‘I’ve got this’ at the end of a lunch out with mates

April in Ereceira

Man I'm sooo stoked with my new apartment in Ereceira! even has a little garden. I have a primal urge to grow something in it. maybe I'll get a goat to eat the weeds. hopefully a nice little table for summer to sit and watch the birds dance while I cut my nails.

Cold and Classic in Cape Town

That first wave pushed me deep, I got wedged between two rocks under the thick Sea weed. I was panicking for about 3 seconds, thinking of pipe line underwater cave stories. But I it was all good.

Ginger Cake - Quick and easy

 

yield: Makes 8 to 10 servings

active time: 15 minutes

total time: 2 hours

This dark, moist cake gets its deep flavor from blackstrap molasses, which may not sound appealing on its own but is wonderful in this cake.

Ingredients 

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 cup blackstrap molasses*
• 1 cup boiling-hot water
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten

• Accompaniment: lightly sweetened whipped cream

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180ºC with oven rack in middle position. Butter a pan of around 22cm.

Whisk together flour, ginger, and cinnamon in a medium bowl until blended.

Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

Whisk together molasses and boiling water in another large bowl, then whisk in baking soda (mixture will bubble up and expand).

Add flour and molasses mixtures alternately to butter mixture in 3 batches, mixing at medium speed until incorporated. Beat in eggs until smooth. (Batter will be thin.)

Pour batter into springform pan and bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes, then remove side of pan and continue to cool cake on rack at least 30 minutes more. Serve warm.

Recipe found at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Ginger-Cake-109041#ixzz1BRwiVPNp

 

"Ginger is a fiery root with rough beige skin and hard, juicy, pale yellow flesh"

A quote I found in the BBC archives

Portugal/Spain mit vater

November/December 2010 -  my re-introduction to surfing after 4 and half months on the couch in Zürich. Caught up with the Lipke brothers in Lagos, hung with Barron Von Rupp in Lisbon, then me and dad checked out a few galleries through Spain, and discussed the finer points of distraction on the long drive north.

Music - Laka-Koffe by Detektivbyran