Easy baking #1: delicious vanilla waffles

I know the table doesn't look very clean, but it's the best picture I've got.

So I'm going to give you my family recipe for vanilla waffles for 8 people.

Ingrediënts

- 300g butter
- 325g sugar
- a little bit of salt
- 5 eggs
-5 packs of vanilla sugar

- 1 cup of water

- 500g of  baking flower

1. Melt the butter
2. add salt
3. add sugar
4. mix everything
5. seperate the eggs and add the yolk along with the vanilla sugar
6. mix it well
7. stir in a cup of water
8. sieve the flower above the bowl and stir it through the dough
9. whisk the egg white and stir it through the dough
10. bake it in a waffle-iron
11. enjoy your self-made waffles

I hope I passed

Hey guys. I'm a little stressed right now. I have to wait until FRIDAY till I find out if I failed my grade or not. Yes I have doubts. I've probably failed on chemistry and also for some other classes I'm not so sure. I hope I will pass, and I'll let you guys know more next Friday. Till then I have to try to enjoy the good weather which is bearly here since I live in Belgium. Not that I mind, I can enjoy it more than someone who lives in place where the weather is always the same. I can enjoy rain too. I love the smell of it. It smells fresh as something new. As if the earth is getting a shower. How have I come to the subject of the smell of rain?
Anyway I know what to do now.... Just try to relax and enjoy the sun.

Easy baking

As you might know I love making cake, cupcakes,... So I decided to start a baking series that I will start to post from now on. In this series there will not only be like in cake, but also other desserts like apples baked in honey, pudding,.. Don't expect a post every week. I don't have enough time for that, and I don't know how many parts it will have. I guess it will just go on till the end of this blog.

I'm planning to start in the beginning of July, and I will make a picture of how it turned out to look like with me followed by what ingredients you need and what kitchen equipment. I will try to keep it cheap.  If you have a good recipe that you think I should make you can email it to me at contessor.blogspot@hotmail.com and maybe your reciepe will appear on my blog (And if you want me to I will mention your name and blog in that post). I hope that this series will have succes.
If I got the recipe from a website, that website will be mentioned, if it isn't it's a recipe from my family so I can't mention a source for that.

My decision

I decided to restart with blogging the day after my last exam. so the 23 of this month. You can expect a post every tuesday, thursday and saturday.

I took a break because I didn't have much motivation left. I think I had a lack of motivation because of the lack of comments I get. Please people comment about my posts so I get some feedback and I can write more about what you want to read about

My apologies

I'm sorry for not posting that much recently. As you may have seen I have stopped with my quote of the weeks posts. Maybe someday they'll return. I'm really busy right now and I'm going to try to write a post as much as I can, but with the exams coming I don't know if I'll be able to do my 3 posts a week.

Warm Bodies

Has anyone seen Warm bodies? I think that for a movie meant for teens it's a very good movie. It's got more depth in it than most popular teen movies (like twilight and beautiful creatures). It's a comedy that's actually funny and not shallow. There are voice-overs the entire movie. You hear the thoughts of the main character "R" at least he thinks that his name started with that letter. But these voice overs are great and not annoying at all. In fact they're funny. They're the funniest part of the movie (not concluding my best friends comments. When the girl ran away she said "she went to get some coffee" hilarious) I really liked Nicholas Hoult (who played R. You can see him in the picture below) This guy used to be in a relationship with Jennifer Lawrence (who plays Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games). And he also plays in Jack the Giant Slayer, which I'm very exited to see.
Anyway this is a good movie and you should go watch it right away! Leave a comment to tell me what YOU think!

The Teaser/trailer for Cathing fire is out!

The trailer of the second part of the Hunger games trilogy is finally out! what do you guys think of it?

Quote of the week #19

Disneyland

I don't know if I've told you guys yet, tomorrow I'm going to Disneyland Paris. And I'm way to exited to write a decent blog post. I'm going with my mother, my sister, my best friend and my boyfriend. I've got some money to buy some stuff there. I'll probably buy slippers there. And with slippers I mean the kind you see below. My mom needs me in the kitchen now. Bye

Just think about it

The Host

When I was like 13 I read this book, and I loved it. And I still love what I remember of it. I always wanted it to be a movie and next week it'll be time.
The movie will be in cinema's the 18th. I'm so exited, and I just can't hide it! I'm really exited to see the movie, and I'm planning on reading the book again. If you haven't read the book yet run to the store and but it right now. I know it's based on a book by Stephenie Meyer, and that she wrote twilight, but this isn't twilight at all. It's like comparing apples to pears. It's so much better, it's way less shallow, and she's made an entirely different world for the "aliens" or whatever they're called. Anyways you should read the book and go see the movie because it's totally worth it!
It's about a girl named Melanie who is "possesed" by another soul called Wanderer, and Melanie convinces Wanderer to escape civilization and go in the desert to find Jared (the man she loves) and her brother Jamie. (at least that's how I remember it) After they get there they're not welcomed very nicely. I'm not going to spoil the rest of the story to you guys. Go discover it yourselves!

Quote of the week #18

Public transport and I not a very good combination

I wanted to go to the cinema with my boyfriend, and my mom didn't have time to take us there, so decided to go by train and metro. Well... I have to admit that it didn't exactly go this way. It couldn't have been worse.

So we had to take the train at 17:45 and 10 minutes later we had to be in Brussels. We missed the train and we had to take another train that took 25 minutes to get there. That made us miss our metro, so we had to wait like 15 minutes for the next one.
Then it turned out that we had been waiting for a tram line instead of a metro one. I told my boyfriend not to get in, that we had to take a metro, but he got him anyway, and I had no choice so I had to follow him. I don't have to tell you that we arrived 1 hour later at the cinema and missed our movie.
Don't worry it'll get worse.

So we picked another one which was very boring and longer, so we had no chance of getting a train home. We were stuck there. We had no money left for a taxi, so I had to call my mom. It was so cold outside. It was after midnight when we got home, and we left at 17:30.

I'm never getting to a late movie again.

How to display your computer display on your TV.

Note: this is with windows 7 and a VGA cable like you see in the picture above. A cable like this costs about €25 (Sound doesn't work with me, so I still have to figure it out, when it's fixed I'll let you know)

Step 1: plug your VGA cable into your laptop/PC to your TV
Step 2: Click on start/control panel
Write in the 'search' box "connect to an external dislay" click on the link with the same name.
Step 3: Click on detect and choose the connected display you want to use.
Step 4: Now click "ok" and the problem is fixed

Hello April and happy easter

Happy easter everyone! Or hower you are supposed to say it.

Quote of the week #17

This is me

First: people, would you like to comment on my posts from now on, maybe you can propose a certain subject. And if you also have a blog leave your link. Stop being quiet viewers.

I noticed that some more people are visiting this page lately, so I decided to make a post to introduce myself to them.
I'm Tess a not always very normal teenager (I'm 15). I love blogging and I'm hoping to be a writer someday. I'm extremely shy, and insane (it's weird, but it's the truth), but don't worry I can also be serious. I love sarcasm, it's just my thing, and so is cooking. Man I love cooking, I've already gotten many compliments for my cooking talents, oh and baking, I love baking too. In case you don't know the difference between cooking and baking: cooking is about meals, baking is coockies, cakes, cupcakes an that kinda stuff. If I make cupcakes (I usually have like 40 cupcakes) they're all eaten in 2 days. My family is addicted. Introducing yourself is pretty hard.
I have a boyfriend, and we're together since September 2011 so that over a year and a half. And We're still crazy about each other. We're different than other people of our age. I have ADHD and he has the syndrome of asperger (some kind of autism) but it's not like he doesn't say anything at all. He's even more talkative than I am if he feels comfortable around you.

The pros and cons of summer jobs

Would you do a summerjob or not? Here are some pros and cons to help you decide

Pro

• You make money, so you can save or spend it. This way you also learn to deal with money
• it looks good on your CV
• you will probably make friends
• the days that you don't have to work seem to get more meaning than 2 full months of doing nothing
• you have to walk around so you can lose weight
• your parents will find you more responsible and with that you get more responsibility
• you will actually have something to tell the friends you already have about
• it will teach you work skills you will need for the rest of your life, like filling in a job application, and how to get along with co-workers and superiors

Con

• You can't hang out with your friends ever day
• you can't sleep in every day
• you will miss some parties or family occasions

way more pro's than cons! So I say get a job and make something out of your life!

Quote of the week #16

Summer Jobs

This year I'm turning 16, so I'm allowed the work for a month during the summer break. Most people in my year are not going to work because they're too lazy, and they don't realize that a summer job might give your potential future boss a good impression so he'll hire you. And you get some money where you can go shopping with or in my case buy a laptop and spend the rest of the money on my trip to london.
I've already filled in lots of job applications and I hope that at least someone will hire me. 'cause I really need the money.
Next monday there's a post coming up about the pros and cons of summer jobs.