Just a minute in September

Reading: "Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter" by Seth grahame-Smith.
Listening: the OST of "Elizabeth: the golden age".
Watching: the animes "Hagame no renkinjutsushi", "Cowboy Bebop" and "Kyoo kara ore wa".
Buying: a new "british" wallet.

Loving: playing tetris and minecraft on my computer.
Wanting: I want let my light shine in my new job!
Feeling: excited for my new job. I will start it this thrusday. I can't wait for it!

Baking cheesecakes

Hi lovelies!
During my last weeks I have been buisy baking two different kind of cheesecakes.
For the first one I "stole" the receipe from the blog of my friend Martina. I love her cheesecakes, but she in actually in Ireland so I decided to bake one of them using her receips. I modify a bit the original because Martina used blueberry jam, but I don't like it, so I use da special lemon cream. Wanderful! My father really loved it and also my oldest sister, his houseband and my nieces. But my mother could not eat it because she has a lots of intollerances. So I tried to bake it again without dairy products and without whites, the two worst products for me mom. I replaced ricotta cheese with goat ricotta cheese and mascarpone with rice cream cheese. Finally, I replaced the whites with rice milk and corn flour. My mother loved it and now she would eat it everyday! I ate a slice of it and it was really good. Next time I will try to bake it also for my friend Martina who is allergic to dairy products, included goat milk. I have already found a possible solution and my mother has already offered herself to act for me as a guinea-pig.

I don't have a picture of my mother's cheesecake, because it was ate before I could take a picture of it, but I have a picture of a slice of classical cheesecake.

Here the ingredients of my mother's cheesecake:

For the base:

270gr of dry biscuit

130gr margarine

For the cream:

250gr rice cream cheese

250gr goat ricotta cheese

120gr sugar

3 egg yolks

3 table spoons of flour

1 cup of rice milk

2 teaspoons of corn flour

Chop up the bicuits and mix them with the molten margarine. Spread the base in a cake pan and put it in the fridge.
Mix the yolks with the sugar, add the goat ricotta cheese, the rice cheese and the flour.
Mix up the corn flour with the milk and add to the cream.
Spread the cream on the base and bake it at 180/200° for 30 minutes.
Serve cold.

P.S. I have covered this cheesecake with chocolate cream, but you can put also fruit jams or other creams. My favourite has fresh strowberries, strowberry syrup and a bit of confectioners' sugar...yummie!

Review - Lucy

Hi dears!

Some weeks ago I watched a fantastic new film I have never seen: "Lucy" by Luc Besson (2014).

The film talk about what could happen if humans could be able to use their brain at 100%. The main character, Lucy (Scarlett Johannson) accidentally became a smuggler. The drug has to reaches the Europe and she and other 3 mans have been chosen for this job, but the sack into her intestin has been broken and she suddenly acquires some incredible knowleadges. After a quick operation, she leaves Taiwan and reaches Paris for talk with one of the best researcher and share her knowleadges and for help the franch drug squad finding the other 3 smuggler.

I won't tell you the end of the film :P it's too important. I found it really interesting and magnetic. My boyfriends was also satisfaied and happy to have seen it with me. I think the actress that interprets Lucy (my favourite) has been able to instill the insensibility of who know too much things for waste time feeling any kind of moods. I loved it.

Kisses, Emily.

Just a minute in August...

Reading: "Authority" by Jeff VanderMeer and "La dame aux cameliàs" by Alexandre Dumas.
Listening: opening and ending anime's themes.
Watching: "Soul Eater" and "Full Metal Alchemist"
Buying: a new smartphone for my mother.
Loving: playing RPGs and board games with friends.
Wanting: I would like a tattoo.
Feeling: inspired for the new story I'm writing.

Review - Authority

Finally I have reached to ley my hands on the second book of the Area X's trilogy and read it! It is "Authority" by Jeff VanderMeer. It is a thriller/fantasy trilogy, but in this book there is less fantasy than the first one.

In te second chapter of the Area X we are into the Southern Reach, a structure who organises the expeditions and the science researches. This structure is leded by a new director who is substituting the old one identified as the psycologist of the previeus book. The new director has the task of interrogate the survivors of the 12th expedition (the anthropologist, the topogrpher and the biologist), to organize the structure and...discover as much informations as possible. He carries out all the works, but when he reachesto find interesting informations, the Southern Reach "desappears".

The rythm of the book is slow, but not so much, at the beguinning and fast at the ending. It is charming with a breathless ending. Now I'm waiting the third one who will arrive in Italy at the end of this year.

See you!

Emily

A walk into the wilderness

Some weeks ago, when the weather was cooler, I went walk one moarning...

Near my house there are big fields and a nice wood. I like both, but I prefear the wood, with its lovely smell of moss and wet bark. I like also the sunshine that pass through the branches, creating a wanderful puzzle on the ground.

I have been surprised seeing a half-burnt stump with some white mushrooms that seemed made of light.

Coming oout of the wood I saw also a beautiful star-like bush, made by a plant similar to the ivy.

Coming back home, I toke some pictures of flowers and fields and of our small mountains, hidden behind the trees.

Long the way I saw an old house, where I went with my grandmother to see a big fountain with big gold fishes. Now the fountain is empty, but the house still has its long path with its trees and bushes full of flowers. I liked a lot the start of the path, with two small stoned columns, one covered with a strong ivy.

Once at home I started to clean up my bedroom and so on with my homeworks. It has been a very nice and relaxing walk. Next time I will have a nice trip by bike, long one of my favourites cycling tracks near a small hill where, a lot of years ago, lived a noble man who built a park all around his villa.

Lots of hugs and kisses.

Emily

Weekend with boyfriend

Hi lovelies! How are you?

Here it is very hot! I love it, but there is too much humidity that makes us feel very bad.

During the weekend my boyfriend and I usually stay together from friday night to sunday night, and we spend all the time playing RPG, computer games and watching anime or tv series.
Two weeks ago we watched "Berserk" an anime that take place in an imaginary medieval world, with heroes, knights and warriors. 

Last weekend we started "Soul Eater". I really love it, especially the first opening music. The story could generally seem a bit taken for granted, but as a whole is very nice. It alternates moments of extreme seriousness and moments of funny scenes.

On saturday afternoon and sunday night we usually meet with 2 groups of friends playing RPGs. On saturday afternoon we play at Pathfinder, a sort of Dungeons&Dragons, and on sunday night we play at Gothika. My favourite is Gothika, because we have to be more interpretatives and there are less dice to throw. The setting is a post-nuclear-war New York, called Night City, that is always under a dense blanket of dark clouds. All around the city, coverd by a barrier, there is a radioactive desert. We are all humans, each one with a characteristic. For my character, I thought to an haker who suffered of short-term memory, so she decided to correct this lack with the strong tecnology, adding in her head a chip that carry out all her mental capacity. Now she can connect with all kind of computer. My boyfriend decided to interpretate a mutant, a human genetically modified for become a weapon. It's a very nice RPG, we really enjoy playing it and our Master, the narrartor, is great!

Hope I didn't bored you!

Love

Emmy Iyuko