Skywriting

November 3, 2009

Halloween

On Halloween, my family went to a party at one of my Taekwando teacher's houses. It was a lot of fun. We went trick or treating and didn't get to eat any candy. We were all characters from my favorite book series. Annabel was Percy Jackson, I was Annabeth and Shawn was Grover, the satyr. I even made Shawn horns! Annabel and I were Half-Bloods. That means our parents were gods. Percy's dad is Poseidon so he has water powers and Annabeth's mom is Athena so she's really smart.

We saw some friends from Taekwando and had a great time!!!!

P.S. Since we didn't eat any candy, we got some healthier candy that's more awesome!!!!!!

Preparing

Us acting like our characters

(tough)

Us acting like ourselves

October 28, 2009

corner view "water"

When you live on an island, you are surrounded by water. There are so many types:

Water on the window

Water that's friends with the moon

Trickling water

Rainy water

Stormy water

Ocean water

Flowing water

And water so beautiful, it just makes you feel so happy to be alive

October 21, 2009

corner view "my dream"

I guess for a 13-year-old, I have a lot of dreams. But my biggest ones right now are:

To become a grandmaster black belt in Taekwondo

To become a professional musician

To be the best sister, daughter and friend I can be

And for everyone in the world to be happy and at peace.

Apple Pie

I made apple pie on Saturday. I made three mini ones. One for my brother and sister, and one for me. My parents went out to dinner so I made them a tiny one for them to share with the leftover ingredients. I made up what to put in the pie but I didn't make up the crust. All of the recipes I could find had sugar so I made up my own!

Sugarless Apple Pie Recipe: (Makes 2 single 9 inch pie or three 6 inch pies or 1 two-crust 9 inch).

For the crust:

2 cups sifted flower
3/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening (if you don't have shortening use half butter, half sunflower oil)
4 to 6 tablespoons of cold water.

Sift flower and salt and cut in shortening with 2 knives or pastry blender. Add water using only a small portion at a time, until mixture will hold together. Roll out dough as thin as possible and put into pan.

For the apples: Mix 7-8 apples, peeled in a large bowl. Add cinnamon (it depends on how cinnamony you like it) then add a dash of nut meg, agave nectar and a bit of maple syrup. Mix well. Add about 1/3 cup apple juice. Before baking, oil pan with sunflower oil and add 2 cups of apple juice mixed with 1 1/2 cup of cornstarch. This will give it a jelly-like filling! Yum!