Jake's Bacon Pancakes // Fictional Feasts

Peoples! It's been EMBARRASINGLY LONG since I've last posted. I was in a blogging slump. IT'S HARD GETTING BACK INTO BLOGGING. Hope you all are doing well!

WHAT TIME IS IT? ADVENTURE FICTIONAL FEAST TIME!

My new-found love for the show Adventure Time inspired me to try to recreate an iconic breakfast from one of the episodes - bacon pancakes.

I used a new recipe for the pancakes, which turned out to be a really good one. The pancakes were fluffy and buttery.

The little bro and I fried up some bacon pieces until they were super crispy, and then we threw that into the pancake batter.

The result: perfection. Complete deliciousness.

The only change I would make next time is to leave out the salt from the recipe. The bacon is salty enough already.

Of course, while Caleb and I were whipping these up, we were similtaneously rocking out to this Bacon Pancakes remix. It's our heart song.

Do any of you watch this show? If so let me know so we can fangirl together.

|I made this for my one of my binder covers next semester. No shame.|

So. Basically. Bacon + Pancakes = The Best Thing Ever. 

Love,
Hannah

In Which I Rebel // Tag

Guys, I legit haven't done a tag in ages. I'm excited.

Thanks so much to Olivia from The Cwtch for tagging me! Guys, Olivia is my favorite. If you don't read her blog, you really should. All the cool kids are doing it. 

This particular tag is a mashup of two tags, which is very rebellious and I like it. It's the Liebster Tag and the Text Tag all rolled into one. Let's get to the rules. (It's always good to understand the rules, so you can effectively break each one of them)

1. Thank the person who nominated you and give a link to their blog
2. Answer the original 6 text-themed questions + the liebster questions
3. Add a typography/word related question of your own for those you tagged to answer
4. Tag 6+ bloggers and let them know 
5. Include these rules in your post

My first act of rule-breaking will be that I'm just taking 5 of the text-themed questions and 6 liebster questions that our dear Susanna thought up. 

Let's get to it.

01. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LETTER OF THE ALPHABET? 

I really like the letter A. 

AaAaAaAa

02. FAVORITE WORD THAT STARTS WITH THE SAME LETTER AS YOUR NAME?

Home. (Also humble, honest, honey, hug, hoop, heart, hum...)

03. WHAT ARE THREE WORDS THAT YOU LOVE AND THREE THAT YOU HATE?

(currently)

Love: Regime*, story, lovely.

Hate: Boring, productive, decision**.

*its just really fun to say out loud. Regime, regime, regime. 

**I used to have a hard time pronouncing decision. I still have a grudge on this word.

04. IF YOU WERE TO CREATE A WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE, AND WHAT WOULD IT DESCRIBE?

So let's say you had a really good dream. Like maybe you were dreaming that you were at a mansion in England, and that you and Tom Hiddleston had solved a century-old mystery and had found buried treasure in the process (just as an example). Then you wake up and for a moment you think it was true, and you're super excited about it. But then reality hits you like a slap in the face and you're like DANG IT that was just a dream. Isn't that the worst? There should be a word for that tragic feeling. Out of respect for my roots, I think it should include the Irish word for dream, which is aisling (ash-ling). Help me out people.

05. WHAT ARE YOUR THREE FAVORITE PUNCTUATION MARKS?

.,?

06. WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK/MOVIE YOU CONSUMED THAT ABSOLUTELY KNOCKED YOU OFF YOUR SEAT WITH ITS AWESOMENESS? 

Winter by Marissa Meyer. The last book in The Lunar Chronicles. That book slayed.

07. IF YOU FOUND A WARDROBE THAT LED TO NARNIA, WOULD YOU GO THROUGH?

 OF COURSE I WOULD. Gosh. I'd close the door behind me, too.

 08. IF YOU RECEIVED TWO TICKETS TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND YOU HAD TO LEAVE TOMORROW MORNING, WHERE WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO GO?

My first thought was Iceland, but now I'm thinking New Zealand, because then I'd get to see my friend Leah. AND IT IS FREAKING MIDDLE EARTH.

 09. IF YOU COULD INSTANTLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE REALLY GOOD AT SOMETHING (ANYTHING FROM PLAYING THE VIOLIN TO BREAK DANCING) WHAT TALENT WOULD YOU CHOOSE? 

I'd love to be able to play the piano really well. Or really any instrument. 

10. WHAT IS YOUR GO-TO COFFEE SHOP DRINK? 

I like all the coffee ever. My go-to is generally an americano with a couple pumps of vanilla. On a hot day, I like ordering a cold brew. That's my new fave. 

11. IF YOU WERE ON A DESSERT ISLAND...WHAT WOULD YOU EAT (DESSERT ISLANDS ARE PLACES WHEREIN YOU CAN EAT ANY KIND OF DESSERT WITHOUT ANY HEALTH REPERCUSSIONS)?

A dessert island? That's adorable. I love this question. An image of Candyland just pops into my head.

I'd probably start with eating all the chocolate I could find. If there was a chocolate river like in Charlie and the the Chocolate Factory, I would find a straw and head right over there. 

Great, now I really need chocolate. 

THAT WAS FUN. I'm supposed to tag some lovely peoples now, but I have been so out of the loop lately that I don't really know who has or has not done these tags. So since rebellion seems to be a theme around here, I'm going to rebel and change things up a bit.

Consider yourself tagged if any of these apply to you:

1. You ate Special K for breakfast.

2. You have Youtube up in a different tab.

3. You drank more than one cup of coffee today.

4. You are wearing your pajamas as you read this.

5. You said the word "regime" out loud when you read my post. 

6. You want to do this tag.

See ya later, fam.

love,

Hannah

my fullest year

It went so fast, didn't it?
Doesn't it feel like just yesterday was your first day?

Um, no.

Not at all.

This was the fullest year of my entire life.

I couldn't recount it all if I tried.
The pictures on my phone
The photos from my first month at school
They are from a lifetime ago.

I see myself in them
But who was I then?
I can't remember.

It's funny how
people that you didn't even know existed
a year ago
have become so embedded in your life
that you can't remember what it was like
to exist without them.

It was over before I knew it,

But that doesn't mean it went by quickly.

Biscuits are not Scones.

Me at my college cafeteria: "Ooo! Look! They have scones today!"

Friend: "Uh, hun? Those are biscuits. Not scones."

Me: "Oh okay please excuse me while I go back to my room and cry for a week bye."

These "biscuit" things are lies.THEY LOOK LIKE SCONES, BUT THEY DEFINITELY ARE NOT SCONES. THEY AREN'T BISCUITS EITHER. "Biscuits" are things you dip in your tea, not pour lumpy gravy on??

The things you learn at college!

There are a lot of great things about Southern California, but the lack of scones is definitely one of the place's downfalls. When I came home one of the first things I baked was a nice batch of proper scones. Since I'm classy, the recipe I used was one I found on snapchat. (I dunno it just happened)

It was a lot of fun, and the recipe was a really good one. (Here's the Recipe)

HOW TO MAKE SCONES IN FOURTEEN EASY, ENJOYABLE STEPS

1. Make sure you have all the ingredients. It's not fun to get all pumped up to make scones and then realize that you don't have any buttermilk to self-rising flour.*

2. Put on a colorful apron that clashes with your outfit (my outfit was my pajamas, so bonus points for me), some fun dancy music, and make yourself a cup of tea to sip on when the baking gets stressful.

3. Wash your hands.

*yes of course that is exactly what happened to me, but I just made my own like a boss. #thanksgoogle

4. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Do not get any flour in your tea.

5. Stir in the sugar, and then (with your fingers! Best part!) rub in the butter.

6. Stop rubbing when the mixture looks like nice, slightly clumpy sand. Don't overdo it unless you have a thing for scones that have the texture of rocks.

7. Pour in most of the "buttermilk" (A.K.A skim milk with lemon juice in it. It works). Save some for brushing over the top later.

8. Stir it up until it looks like this.

9. Gently pat it on a floured surface like this.

10. Find a cookie cutter like this.*

*Or not. Do your own thing. Be creative. You do you, man. 

11. After putting the scones on a floured baking sheet, brush each with some "buttermilk".

12. SPRINKLE WITH SUGAR.

13. Put em in the oven for like 10-15 minutes.

14. Once they cool a bit on a cooling rack, pick the prettiest one, slather it with butter and jam, and enjoy the glorious fact that it is not a gravy-smothered biscuit but is in fact a proper scone.

love,

Hannah

PS Thank you for all the sweet comments on my last post! I loved hearing from some of you lovely people again!

Not Dead.

So you know in BBC's Sherlock (spoiler alert if you haven't seen the show yet), Sherlock fakes his own death and completely disappears for two years. Not even his best friend, John, knows that he's not actually dead. Then, with absolutely no warning, Sherlock Holmes shows up again.

I figure Sherlock was expecting John to cry tears of utter happiness or something when he finally made his dramatic return after two years. I don't think he was expecting a death glare and a punch in the face.

John was MAAAAD.

Guys, I totally pulled a Sherlock on you. I just - disappeared. Without warning. Even though I deserve it, please don't pull a John and brutally attack me.

Surprise!!! Not. Dead.

I thought I was going to be able to blog in college. I really did. I just couldn't.

Writing a blog post takes a lot of time for me. I can't force myself to write a post, and I need to feel energized in order to be in the mood for writing. I realized that in college, time and energy gets spent up really quickly. Not much left over for blogging. Not much at all.

In college, free time isn't free.

Last week, I came home to Ireland for the summer. It's so good to be back here for a whole three and a half months. 

Being home reminded me of blogging. There's the desk in my room where I've spend hours writing blog posts at. There are my bookcases of books that I used to fly through and then rave about. There's my camera that I used every single day, and the kitchen where I created all of my fictional feasts. 

I'm currently writing this post whilst sitting crossed legged in my spinny chair (my feet are falling asleep now tbh) with an empty cup of tea beside me, and it feels so right. Something was missing about being home, and this was it. 

Being at college is so different. Blogging seemed like something I did in the past. It just didn't fit into my life, somehow.

I am still a blogger. It's one of my favorite things in the world. I love the blogging community. I miss you guys a lot. I miss writing for the sheer fun of it (as opposed to pumping out papers on a weekly basis). I miss reading big stacks of books each month and using my camera. 

Maybe blogging doesn't fit into my life at college. But for now, I'm back. And I'm super happy about it. 

If you're still out there, old friends, pretty pretty please leave me a comment and tell me about what I've missed and about the things you've been up to. Let's have a nice catch-up chat. Sound good?

Love,

Your Long Lost Hannah

Currently:                                                                                           

Listening to: Cleopatra by the Lumineers (so yummmm)                

Reading: Winter by Marissa Meyer                                                       

Wishing for: a chocolate chip banana muffin.