WHISPERS IN BETWEEN

by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

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If the truth were known, 

I would be saying how deeply I miss you. 

If the truth were known, 

I would be saying how sad I am. 

If the truth were known,

I wish you were that special one. 

Foraging around the dark and wet city 

to seek solace, to pray for comfort, and to encounter kindness. 

The darkness gives way to the glow of neon lights and the smell of tobacco 

until emotions intertwine with distant music and nearby laughter. 

Why do the famous faces on the silver screen portray it so much better? 

Casablanca is not sweet when transferred to the raw and mean streets of London

in 1989. 

Standing by the underground whilst I watch your lower walks away. 

Then, another quiet sigh amidst the bustling crowd. 

The full yellow moon whispers, 

“Yes, isolation is here all the time where it is often unseen but surrounds you -

much like me”. 

The ache lingers, so does the moon and the rain. 

The next day, the sun appears where its warmth embraces me once more 

like a mother's love provides soothing – 

I remain unchanged. 

If the truth were known,

I would learn to love myself. 

If the truth were known, 

I would embrace my feelings as they grow. 

If the truth were known, 

I would be at one with myself. 

But, I am not!

The poem above is not entirely and originally my creation. However, I have made some modifications whilst ensuring that the original thoughts articulated by its rightful owner are preserved. 

QUEEN VICTORIA'S SAUSAGE BAKED SUPREME

by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

I have cooked this recipe before but this time, its tastier and much more colourful.

I usually cooked this recipe at night as the process of making it warms the kitchen in the cold evenings here in England.

I like eating sausages and the protein content is not enough to perk me up, carbohydrate from a bread is highly needed. That is when, I decided to prepare this recipe that contains the main ingredient (sausages) and the batter mixture. The batter is a flour mixture that will substitute my need for carbohydrate.

In the United Kingdom, this is traditionally called Toad In A Hole but as I modified it and claiming it mine, I called it 'Queen Victoria's Sausage Baked Supreme'.

 

I am hoping that you will like this recipe of your Quidnunc Queen Victoria!

Main and Other Ingredients:

• 8  sausages
• 2 ½ tbsps. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 2 medium onion; finely chopped
• half part of a medium-sized bell pepper; finely chopped
• a tsp. of finely chopped ginger
• 3 gloves of garlic; crushed

Batter Ingredients:

• 5 tbsps. of self raising flour
• 1 tbsp. basic muesli
• 2 medium-sized eggs
• 1 cup of whole milk
• 2 tsps. of tomato and chili chutney
• 1/2 cup of matured grated cheese (optional)
• 2 whole leaf frozen spinach; defrosted & cooked at medium temperature for 5  minutes in the microwave
• a dazzle of mixed herbs
• salt, ground pepper, chili pepper and vegetable stock granules to taste

Batter Procedure:

1. Sift the flour in a mixing bowl, and then add the basic muesli.
2. Add the egg, milk, chutney, grated cheese, spinach and mixed herbs. Mix and beat all well.
3. Add the salt, pepper and vegetable stock granules. Mix and beat all well until no more lumps of flour. Rest for awhile until needed (usually an hour before baking).

Baking Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 120ºC (electric).
2. Prepare the onion, bell pepper, ginger and garlic. Grease the cooking dish (Pyrex- glass cooking dish is good) with Virgin Oil and then place the chopped ingredients (don't forget to combine all using a fork). After that, arrange your sausages over the chopped ingredients.
3. Place the cooking dish in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. However, 3 minutes before the time you have to take out the sausages from the cooking dish and set it aside. Place the cooking dish back in the oven and wait for another 3 minutes.
4. On a low flame burner, place the cooking dish to hold its temperature. Gradually, pour the batter mixture. Disturb and make sure it is distributed evenly.
5. Arrange your pre-cooked sausages in the cooking dish with softly sizzling batter.
6. Place it back in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until puff and golden.
7. Leave to stand for 5 minutes before serving.

The importance of being an open minded is the ability to grasp information in which I have learnt how to combine and add a few ingredients making it, more or less, genuinely mine.

THE MAN WITH THE CHILD IN HIS EYES

by: MisS VictoriA DaviD

I don't sing nor following/buying records of artists. But the video song below that I first heard on the radio when I was in the park touched my heart. It stayed in my mind like nursery rhymes that I memorised when I was a little girl. The song played like as if there wasno tomorrow.

Perhaps, you already heard and loved the song sang by Kate Bush entitled, The Man with the Child in His Eyes. It is the fifth track on her début album, The Kick Inside,and was released as her second single in 1978.

Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.

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