Autumn Ninja Book Swap

Wednesday

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Simple Pumpkin Pie Recipe

If you're anything like me and can't resist a good bargain, then you too will probably have been tempted by the post-Halloween reduced pumpkins. Now I am not the best cook in the world, but I will have a good go at baking most things so when I saw this giant pumpkin for 10p in Lidl I figured that now would be the perfect opportunity to try my hand at baking a Pumpkin Pie.

If you have never had Pumpkin Pie then you are seriously missing out. It isn't really a traditional thing to bake in the U.K; in fact, the only time I have ever had it is when I went to a Thanksgiving celebration at my universities International Society and have loved it ever since.

One thing that has put me off of making Pumpkin Pie in the past is the fact that I thought it would be too time-consuming, but it was actually really simple once I got into a bit of a rhythm, and I think I am going to make it a yearly tradition.

If you fancy having a go at making a Pumpkin Pie, you can find my recipe and method below.


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My Trip to Washington D.C

Monday

Way back in February I took my mum to The Big Apple for her birthday, New York is one of her favourite places in the entire world - she loves the bright lights, towering buildings and yellow taxi's that just seem to appear out of nowhere; I am the complete opposite, I love quiet spaces, culture and being surrounded by history. Honestly, I am such a huge dork, and after going all that way on a plane (I  hate planes) I decided to reward myself by dragging my mum down to Penn Station at ridiculous o'clock in the morning, fuel'ing her up with coffee and bagels from Dunkin' Doughnuts, and then jumping on a train to Washington D.C

I have always wanted to visit Washington D.C. It is a place that we see so frequently on the news with reporters outside the Capitol building or the White House, but D.C is so much more than that. Aside from the popular tourist attractions, there are a number of restaurants, museums, nature walks and historic things to do and visit. Unfortunately, as we went in the middle of winter and it was below freezing we didn't get to do everything on our list, but we did get to see a lot of the city under the moonlight! We missed the last bus back to the train station, so we had to walk a good few miles whilst barely being able to feel our toes, the upside of this was that apart from the odd homeless person or tourist, there was absolutely no one else on the streets, it was almost as if we had the entire city to ourselves!


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