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My Top Music ReviewsAndy Jackson (515)   Andy Jackson    Wisdom_Mcr 10 Quick & Easy Ways To Make Ice Cream InterestingPosted Monday, August 11, 2008 (1 year 106 days ago.) Viewed 138 times. Everybody loves to eat ice cream in the hot weather, but have you ever wondered how you could make plain old ice cream more interesting? I am going to share with you 10 quick and easy ways to do just that. Providing you have the ingredients at hand, none of these ideas should take more than a few minutes to prepare. 01. Nuts About Ice Cream - One of the easiest ways to spice up your ice cream is to buy a bag of your favourite nuts or a bag of mixed nuts if you prefer. Put a little hole in the bag (but not big enough for the nuts to come out) and compress until all the air is removed, then take something hard and smash the nuts up in the bag. Simply sprinkle the broken nuts onto your ice cream and mix them in. 02. Strawberry, Coconut Ice Cream - Something I like to make which is really easy and the kids love, chop up some fresh strawberries and place in a mixer with some vanilla ice cream and then add a bag of coconut flakes. Mix for a few seconds but don't overdo it. This ice cream is really good inside chocolate eclairs. 03. Oooh, Saucy Ice Cream - Most people would use some sauces to liven up their ice cream, but the usual chocolate or strawberry sauce can become a bit tedious. I like to use some sauces which are a bit different: apple sauce, lemon sauce, honey or syrup, mocha chocolate sauce, caramel sauce or rhubarb sauce. 04. Marshmallow, Chocolate & Honey Ice Cream - Take a bag of mini marshmallows and slowly mix them into some vanilla ice cream along with a crushed up bar of chocolate and a few drizzles of honey. Garnish with a sprig of mint. This idea is perfect if you are trying to impress party guests or even your partner. 05. Banana Splits - This is probably one of the easiest things to make but some people never do. Slice a peeled banana in half (lengthways) and place in a dish. Add a few scoops of your favourite ice cream (vanilla is probably my favourite). Squirt a little squirty cream around the banana and ice cream then sprinkle a few broken nuts and drizzle a little strawberry sauce or honey over the top to finish it off. 06. Peanut Butter Jelly Ice Cream - One of Kathy's favourite things is peanut butter so I made this ice cream for her and she absolutely loved it. Take some vanilla ice cream and add a few spoonfulls of peanut butter and also a few spoonfulls of your favourite jelly, mix gently to combine, but not too much. Serve in a bowl with wafers and sprinkle a few chopped nuts over the top. 07. Apricot Ice Cream - If you are partial to apricots then this one is for you. Take a few dried apricots and chop into tiny pieces and mix into your favourite vanilla ice cream along with some apricot sauce. This is really good when your sat outside on hot, sunny days. 08. Cookies & Ice Cream - Cookies are a really good snack, but cookie dough ice cream is much better. Either make your own chocolate chip cookie dough or use Nestle's Toll House ready made cookie dough and break it up into pieces and mix with some vanilla ice cream, delicious. You may also want to drizzle a little caramel sauce over the top too. 09. Fresh Mint Ice Cream - This is one of my personal favourites because I love the taste of fresh mint. Take about 6 or 7 sprigs of mint and chop very finely or use a blender (saves time) then mix into your vanilla ice cream. I like to place this back into the freezer for 30 minutes or so to allow the mint flavour to penetrate the ice cream. 10. Rum & Raisin Ice Cream - This is for adults only. Soak a couple of handfulls of raisins in some rum overnight then add the raisins and the remaining rum into your vanilla ice cream and mix until the ice cream turns a light brown colour (add a little more rum if needed). We recommend not driving after this one. -----Resource Box----- Andy Jackson runs a free unique recipe service, delivering 3 recipes (starter, main course & dessert) directly to your email inbox for 365 days. Save yourself the time and effort of having to look online for recipes by subscribing to the service at: http://www.knarecipes.com 
Permalink Comments (3) Coldplay Biography And Top 10 SongsPosted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (1 year 231 days ago.) Viewed 119 times. I have liked Coldplay since the release of their first single Shiver. I think it was the guitar play and Chris Martin's voice which made me stop and listen initially and I was kinda a fan of Travis at the time who have a similar style. When Parachutes was released I was 100% won over, the album was one of my favourite and most played albums for a good few months until one of my mates threw it out of my car window on the M60 motorway because she said I played it too much. I did buy a new copy, but kept it at home where I could keep an eye on it. Coldplay are an English band and formed in London in 1997. They consist of Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and Johnny Buckland. They were originally called Starfish until Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane) allowed them to use the name Coldplay which he used for his own band before being with Keane. Between 2000 and 2005 they have been nominated three times for the Murcury Prize and have won several Grammy Awards and BRIT Awards. Coldplay are also well known for the work they do for charities, like performing at Live 8, Band Aid 20 and working with Oxfam, Amnesty International and the Teenage Cancer Trust. Parachutes, the debut album was released in 2000 and was an instant success, which is partly due to the singles Shiver, Trouble and Yellow. Estimated sales of the album were 40,000 but by the end of the year the actual sales were over 1.6 million in the UK alone and over 2 million in the US. The album went to #1 in the UK with positions of #2 in Australia and #4 in New Zealand and has won the BRIT Award and Q Magazine Award for Best British Album and the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. When A Rush Of Blood To The Head was released in 2002 its expectations were high, but actually far exceeded what was thought. The album went to #1 in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Argentina, Switzerland and Australia and was in the top 10 in Finland, Netherlands, France, New Zealand, Portugal, US and Sweden. The album has also earned them many awards, 3x Grammy Awards, a BRIT Award and another Q Magazine Award. Some of the hit singles from the album were In My Place, Clocks, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face and The Scientist. X&Y was released in 2005 and showed that Coldplay just keep on improving all the time when the album went to #1 in over 10 countries (UK, US, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark, Portugal, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and Australia). Before the end of 2005 the album had already sold over 8.3 million copies and was the worldwide best selling album of that year. The final track on the album which is a hidden bonus track, Til Kingdom Come was supposed to be recorded by Johnny Cash but unfortunately he died before this could come to fruition. Coldplay have been influenced by many bands throughout the years, including the likes of, George Harrison, Echo And The Bunnymen, Johnny Cash, Kraftwerk, Travis, Radiohead and The Verve. They have refused several companies the rights to use their songs in TV adverts such as Gatorade, Gap and Diet coke. They also have a new album, titled Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends which is set to be released in June 2008 and is produced by Brian Eno. The name for the album is derived from a painting by the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. My Top 10 Coldplay Songs are: 01. A Rush Of Blood To The Head 02. The Scientist 03. Amsterdam 04. Sparks 05. Brothers And Sisters 06. One I Love 07. Such A Rush 08. Yellow 09. Everything's Not Lost 10. A Whisper
Permalink Comments (0) Jamiroquai Biography And Top 10 SongsPosted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (1 year 231 days ago.) Viewed 140 times. I stated listening to Jamiroquai pretty soon after the release of their first album because one of my mates had it and she bought it when it had just come out. She used to play the album over and over and it just kinda grew on me. We used to skip college and get drunk, listen to music while she sang to me and had some good times listening to the album. Jamiroquai are an English Acid Jazz/Electronica group and the name is a mix of Jam (Jam sessions) and iroquai (named after the Native American tribe Iroquois). The lineup has changed a lot over the years but the founder was Jason "Jay" Kay and he decided to form his own group after he failed the audition for singer with the Brand New Heavies. Jay Kay is also well known for his scuffles with paparazzi and also his flamboyant hats. Emergency On Planet Earth, their debut album was released in 1993 and was a massive UK and Us hit. The success of the album is partly due to the singles Blow Your Mind and Too Young To Die. The album smashed the chart and went to #1. The album is based around self consciousness and world issues. When The Return Of The Space Cowboy was released in 1994 it was another massive hit in the charts, attaining a position of #2 in the UK. The single Space Cowboy is also believed to be a praise song to cannabis with the lyrics, At The Speed Of Cheeba...You And I Go Deeper...Maybe I'm Gonna Gave To Get High Just To Get By...(Cheeba meaning cannabis) and the term Space Cowboy is also a name for someone who smokes cannabis. Their first major success in the US came with their third studio album, Travelling Without Moving which was released in 1996 and reached #24 and #2 in the UK. The album is reported to have sold over 11.5 million copies worldwide. Virtual Insanity was the most popular single from the album and has been used in many TV adverts. Jay Kay is also famous for his love of sports cars and this is reflected in the Ferrari style logo on the album cover. Synkronized was released in 1999 and again was a huge success in the UK, reaching #1 and also reached #24 in the US. The single Canned Heat is a classic song and was also a #1 hit. The lyrics on the song King For A Day are about Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's bass player on their earlier albums but who left the band during the making of the album. The bonus track Deeper Underground was also used on the remake of the classic movie Godzilla. In 2001 A Funk Odyssey was released and the songs are a combination of funk, disco and electronica. The album reached #1 in the UK and also in the US and is the first of their albums not to feature the Buffalo Man logo. Their popularity peaked at this point and a massive world tour followed to support the album. Dynamite, released in 2005 is the latest offering from Jamiroquai and reached #3 in the UK and went one place higher a #2 in the US. The album features a wide range of styles, from electronic to disco, house and acoustic. The video fro the single (Don't) Give Hate A Chance features an animated Buffalo Man, wearing sunglasses, horned hat and a tracksuit. Jamiroquai's music has been used on many TV adverts, movies and computer games. They also played at the Khodynka Arena in Moscow, Russia at the launch of the new Audi A4 car in February 2008 and they are currently recording a new album which is yet to have a release date. My Top 10 Jamiroquai Songs are: 01. Stillness In Time 02. Space Cowboy 03. Music Of The Mind 04. Light Years 05. High Times 06. Little L 07. Blow Your Mind 08. Do You Know Where You're Coming From 09. Cosmic Girl 10. Destitute Illusions
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