Amazing Art work by Angelina Wrona

So I was walking through the mall one day and I come across these pictures, they wern't like anything I had ever seen before. The artists name is Angelina Wrong and her artwork is amazing. I now have "Water lily" hanging in my living room over my fire place. Some people who I have shown the prints to don't appreciate the kind of pictures she does but I think they are fantastic.
She blends delicate, dark subjects with surreal twists and ideas.Angelina blends Japanese anime with folk art. She names these twisted fairy tale dolls "Senta- Mental Dolls"

Here are a few of her pictures to enjoy,

www.angelinawrona.ca

My thought as a cook

Cooking for me started pretty early on. I would stand and watch my mom cook for hours, lifting all her lids just to see what was inside the pot. She hated when I did it which I later learned was because if you lift a lid and release all the steam it could screw up what you are actually trying to make.

I remember trying to make and sell cookies when I was a child but I was still very young and inexperienced so the cookies I made were usually just balls of dough. I didn't know what baking powder or baking soda was at that point. I figured cookies were made up of flour and water. Anyways back to my initial thought. In my experience anyone can follow a recipe and make a great meal but the true favorite dishes that get loved and passed on are the ones that get made fresh, from a love of food and a creative mind.

In 2004 I went to a school in Hamilton called Liaison College. It was a 16 week, $7,000 course to get papers so that I could get a decent job. I chose not to work in restaurants and instead I applied in Retirement homes. I did that for 6 yrs and although I love to cook and I am good at it I find myself at a cross roads in my professional life. I want to cook but not on an everyday level. I want to wear nice clothes to work and not smell like onions everyday so I am going to go back to school to take Legal administrative assistant.

I still cook for my family and in a way I like it better because I get to experiment with what I make and in doing so I have come up with a few good dishes. Stuff that I can say is truly my creation. So throughout my blogs I will share my recipes, and my tricks of the trade that I have picked up along the way. So to start it off I am going to post a recipe I came up with for a dish I was taking to a neighbours Christmas party last yr. I have made it a couple times since then and it is a hit, so the next time you have a bunch of people over that you want to amaze try this dish.

CHICKEN, PORTOBELLO,SPINACH CANNELLONI WITH ALFREDO/VODKA SAUCE

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  Olive oil
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  Chicken from 2 breasts, 2 thighs, 2 legs (or use a whole chicken)
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  1 large sweet onion (large chop)
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  1lb portobello mushrooms and 1/2 lb white mushroom (cut in half)
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  2 bags of spinach
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  3 cloves of garlic (rough chop)
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  2 tub ricotta
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  1 egg
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  2 jar Classico Alfredo sauce plus 2 jar Classico Vodka sauce
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  Salt and pepper
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  3 boxes of oven ready cannelloni tubes
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  Parmesan cheese
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  Fresh parsley

METHOD;

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  Drizzle oil in a skillet
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  Cut chicken from bones and cook with the garlic, and onions, season with S&P ;set aside
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  In a separate pan cook the mushroom; set aside
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  In a food processor chop spinach until small put in a large bowl, then chop up chicken until small as well as the mushrooms. Add all ingredients in the same large bowl.
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  Add the ricotta and the egg and mix well
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  Fill shells full with mixture and line in a pan
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  Mix all 4 jars of sauce together in a bowl and then ladle over top of prepared cannelloni
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  Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and fresh parsley

Baked covered @350 degrees for 1 hour then remove cover and bake an additional 20 minutes or until pasta is cooked; let sit for 10 minutes (Cooking times may vary)

ENJOY

An undecided Mind

Someone once said "Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction"

If that's the case I think I may be stuck in a tornado. At what point do you become truly happy with your life? I find myself always wanting more, needing change. Like I can always improve some aspect of my life and the things surrounding it. When do you actually say "That's it, I'm good, I have accomplished everything I set out to do"?  Does that feeling of complete even exist?

It's almost like something is missing and I have no idea what it is so I change the things I have control over, like a job or going back to school. Changing my hair colour or my style. None of it works. I still feel a small void. Some would say I have a "Perfect Life" and I may, but I feel like I have more to offer and now I am stuck like a fly on a trap. Trying to make the best of the situation.

So as my first post and even though I have no followers I leave you with this one question.

Is there really a feeling of absolute satisfaction??