Sep 15 2008
The Susanne Eats, vol 6: Shepherd’s Pie
After a long day at uni filled with frustrations and with no opportunity for eating (from 10 am till 4 pm) I got home craving something filling and autumny. A quick stop at the supermarket gave me the answer: Shepherd’s Pie! Mmmm! I used Gordon Ramsay’s recipe with a few alterations: I used twice the amount of both onion and carrot, as well as loads of green beans, as I wanted more vegetables. I also didn’t grate the onion and carrot, but rather chopped them quite finely so that I had small pieces which still had some ‘bite’ to them. Lastly I changed the butter for non-dairy margarine. It turned out great! This is one meal I won’t mind eating night after night (as there’s so much it’ll probably take me all week to finish)– no problem at all with something as good as this!
My oral exam for the phonetics course went really well. It was basically just a pronunciation test and I do have pretty good pronunciation. My lecturer opened by saying it was really a little unfair to those of us who had to do the test this early in the semester as we haven’t covered the things we’re being tested in, but that she didn’t think I’d have any trouble as I’d probably just get it right instinctively. Which I took as a compliment! And I did get it all right. She said she noticed a hint of my Australian accent as I pronounced the name ‘Carl’, and my Scottish accent as I said ‘Scotland’. I was intrigued by the fact that she was able to point it out so accurately and explain to me how and why she noticed it. I really like her, she and Juan (my lecturer in Shakespeare) are my definite favourites this semester. I really love having lecturers that inspire me to do well. I notice it more and more, but especially this semester as it’s the last semester of my BA — that extra little incentive to do well really does make a difference in the amount of effort I put down! Now let’s just hope my inspiration stays up until the end of the semester and throughout the exam period, and I’ll be looking at some pretty spectacular exam results. Yey! (Yea please bear with me and let me toot my own horn a little. I’ve no one else doing it for me at the moment ;) )
The pie was scrumptious.