Thing #52: Learn to swim

I share at least one common characteristic (our passion to excel) with Michael Phelps and that's not our swimming abilities. Nevertheless I can definitely float, I sort of swim and if needed I can go from A to B. That's enough for me. After all my favourite quote when it comes to the swimming is that: "I prefer seafood to the sea". If you don't believe me, then look at Thing #62!

Thing #41: Learn to like these foods

This Thing is about trying eating new things and see if you like them or not. I am not 10 anymore and eating broccoli isn't a torture anymore (don't think it ever was) so this is a relatively easy Thing to complete. In fact most of the 'awful' things I actually like - lettuce, carrots, peas etc. So growing older has some good aspects too after all!

Thing #31: Host a party

I am hosting a party and you are all invited!

Thing #33: Bake a cake - Done!

If I am going to exercise at a later date, I may as well bake the cake now and lose all the calories later. So for Thing #33 I present a Tiramisu.




I can hear you begging for the recipe, but that's a secret. Well not that much of a secret, googling tiramisu returns more than 5million pages and even if a fraction of them are recipes you get the picture.

One of my favourite cooking sites is Cooking for Engineers! Step by step instructions accompanied by photos make sure you can't get a recipe wrong! Oh, and don't forget to check out the experiments section! For the tirumisu click here.

Thing #62: Cook a meal & Thing #99: Be vegetarian for a week

East meets west! Cooking for friends is always nice, especially when they help you cook (and they wash the dishes too). After careful consideration and long deliberation we decided to try for starter a more European style menu and for main course a more Asian style menu.

The "European" menu:

• Salted fish in oil
• Houmous bruchetta meze
• Tuna with sweetcorn
• French fries
• Ouzo

The "Asian" menu:

• Prawn crackers
• Spring rolls
• Rice noodles with seafood
• Scallops in a soya sauce
• Crab claws on a bed of prawns
• Vegetable dumpling with crab sauce
• Sea weed star

All the above are suitable for vegetarian who eat fish, so I also claim Thing #99 done. I know it's not for a week but the shear complexity of the above menu is a good enough reason to make such a claim.

Oh, and for desert go to a friend and have coffee.