08 Jan

Banana and Nutella Topping

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It is good to know that I have passed some of my good tast in food to my sons…

One example of that is one of the Pires Family’s most well kept traditional dishes: The Banana and Chocolate Pizza. Okay… so maybe it’s not such an old tradition… but it is still delicious!!! And there is this pizzeria in Sao Paulo that put it in the menu after we went there every week and asked them to make it specially for us… so yayyyy for chocolate and banana pizza!!

Hey… don’t knock it til you tried it!!!!

And if you want to give it a go… here goes the recipe:

For the dough:

Ingredients:

Self Raising Flour (
Water
MAple Sirup

Toppings:

Bananas
Melted Chocolate (or nutella or chocolate spread)
If you feel adventurous and like to mix savoury with sweet like I do sometimes, add some strong cheese, like catupiry or Cheddar

How to do it:

Mix the Water and the Flour in a bowl (I’m not giving you exact amounts because seriously… I don’t know… I jst mix them til it feels right) and then add a splash of Maple sirup and let it rest for 5 minutes and open the dough in a pizza pan and put it in a pre-heated oven at 200C for 10 minutes or until the base feels like it has baked through.

Now comes the fun bit!!!

Spread the Chocolate spread and add the bananas on top. If you are going to be adventurous, add the cheese on top as well and put it in the oven again for 5 minutes or until the cheese has melted.

Voila!! Instant deliciousness in pizza form!!!

Go on!!! give it a try and let me know what you think of it!!!! I guarantee the kiddos will love it!

So… there it goes… there’s my secret…. how about you???? what is your favorite invented recipe???

17 Nov

Can You Hear Me? Can you See me? Do you Really?

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We live in an age where communication has made so being in touch with those we love so much easier. We can see and hear and communicate with the ones we love no matter if they are just downstairs or on the other side of the world… and we do it

How many of you have Twitted your OH whilst sitting in the same room? I know I have… and I know that it is common place in some households.

But is that really communicating?

Don’t take me wrong… I find it great that my dad who lives in Brazil can see my 10 month old son form the other side of a screen and comment on how much he has grown… And see his face when he smiles and when my eldest shows him his latest trick with a computer or a pencil or his latest gameplay thing.

But is that really communicating?

I had a bit of a breakdown this morning… That’s when I realised that to be able to communicate TO those who love at any time doesn’t necessarily mean that you are communicating WITH those you love.

We are human beings… and the need to commune. It is written in our genetic code. And by commune I don’t mean Skypeing, Texting, Twitting… I mean old fashion time face to face contact.

Technology has brought closer… but it has also taken us apart in ways that we can only imagine.

We broadcast our thoughts and whatever happens to us as things happen in so many ways that when we are finally face to face we have nothing to say… So we rely in even more technology to ensure we spend time together and sit over dinner to watch TV.

And we get stuck in this cycle as we fail to communicate and because we don’t really communicate we fail to really commune.

Communication is the key to everything… I should know that…

Want to do an experiment with me?

Spend a whole day without broadcasting everything you do… The when you get home… when you are with those you love actually spend time telling each other what you did during the day. Put your phone, computer, laptop whatever, away… turn the TV off… Spend time together… REALLY together… (you are excused if you live alone… but you can always make this ONE phone call at the end of the day).

Do it for a week… You will see that you are not as close as you imagine. There is ALWAYS room for improvement.

Is Technology bringing us together? Or taking us Apart?

16 Nov

And The Winners Are!!!

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Life is finally getting back into track so I am Finally getting Blog posts, reviews and competitions back into play again…

Things were sort of left in the air for the past month or so, but the UrbanVox HQ is back in business

YAYYYY!!!!

So… It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the longest running giveaway EVER to run in this blog (and hopefully the last one tho run this long as well… and last one to stay in the air like that… I promise).

So… for the much expected prizes… the winners are…

EVERYONE!

I mean, everyone that left a comment on the blog post until today… so congratulations Katie Bennett, Sian – MummyTips , Becky, liveotherwise you have all won 1 Month Memberships to Moshi Monsters.

Email me your addresses to yuri@urbanvox.net and I’ll make sure you get them before Christmas…

There will be a few new comps running at the UrbanVox HQ pretty soon… so keep your eyes peeled.

zya!

08 Oct

Tell me what to blog…

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… and I will just as easily tell you what to do with what you told me what to blog.

Photo from Current.com's article "freedom's Requien" By David P Shirk

You see… I started blogging a little over 8 years ago at a time where the definition of a blog wasn’t what it is today… we had personal websites and you NEEDED to know at least some basics of HTML to be able to post your thoughts and latest news into cyberspace.

Being a blogger for me is not a hobby or something I do because of some trend or anything like that. It is an extension of me… it has become part of who I am. Everything I do write comes from the heart or rushing my mind when I am trying to make sense of something or being logical… doesn’t happen much but still an occasion.

I am not a daddy blogger… I started blogging way before I even thought about having children. I blog about my children because they are part of my life, the most important part of my life but I still do that the same way I do it about a car, or a gadget, or sex (yeah yeah… I used the S word… so what???), or about applying moose mud into my face (hehehe… yeah… one of my next posts… a review for Men are Useless… so far loving it… just wait and see… ).

Moshi’s up Again!!

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Yeah me and Hayley have released our Moshi Monsters Membership give-away the same week… ummm that didn’t work very well (for me… yeah she is a a lot prettier and more popular then me etc etc etc… and I didn’t advertise mine enough etc etc etc so…

MOSHI Give-away at the UrbanVox HQ is back and following up on singlemummy.net I’ll be giving away other TWO six months memberships, and FIVE one month memberships.

To win all you need to do is leave a comment saying something like “yayyy… I want a Moshi Monster!”.

I have also got 2 FAB Moshi Monsters T-Shirts to give away… and they will go to the coolest Moshi Monster Slogan to be posted either in my comments of on twitter with the hashtag #moshirocks .

Entries will be open until the end of The MAD awards on Monday the 13th of September and I’ll pick someone at random during the ceremony to pick the winners.

So… without any more delays… leave your comments and good luck!!!!

zya!