The book is being read...
It's been hectic lately. My mum is back home and I miss her and my dad. I can't even think about that ...hopefully they will come here early next year...or maybe we will visit.
I'm figuring out the menu for Christmas. It's not easy. Shall I make the turkey? I'm afraid cause I hate to deal with uncooked poultry. Nik promised to help but will I have the courage to bring the bird home....don't know.
This week I baked bread made with yeast. Jamie Oliver's recipe. Turned out perfect. Nik loved it... If only it was healthier. I will bake that today too cause we ate the last loaf too quickly and didn't have the chance to take picture. Ok, we had the chance but lately we are so tired that taking pictures is beyond us. Nataniel decided that now he will only eat what he can take in his hand...part of the learning process I guess...but we are exhausted as after every meal house looks like a total mess. Food is everywhere. Hopefully Nataniel will learn soon.
I started cleaning up the house, planning, wrapping up the presents (thankfully we bought the presents last month). White Christmas? No way. The grass is green, sun shines and there is 10 degrees outside.
As part of the recovering process we watched Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" yesterday. Lovely movie. It reminded me of my previous experiences with woodstocky stuff. It all happened when I met Nik. We had long nights with music, beer, fire. Well, it's never really gone, well maybe we changed...Nik has short hair for few years now, it turned that it's not good for your health to drink so much beer...so we cut down...a little bit, the music has changed. We never really rebelled against anything so that's not different now...and we have a new companion...the adorable Nataniel with his shiny blond hair. It's better...we have our own place, we have ourselves.We are a family.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Book Nine: Elsie Burch Donald: "A model American"
Pages:298
Hello, hello!
I just got a spare moment as mum took Nataniel for a walk. I love those moments when I can just drink coffee and that's it.
It's the 3rd of December and we are officially on Christmas time.Here is a picture of my Christmas tree:
My reading now...I'm probably screwed. It's already December and I just started book nine. Eleven books left. Yep, good luck with that. Or maybe...
New book looks promising. It's about people who had a plane crush in the Cambodian jungle . At first it's a bliss... a Buddhists world with it's culture and new experiences not only though...the Vietnam war has just started and Khmer Rouge has just risen. I have this book for three weeks now. Hopefully it won't take me longer than 2 more days to read. I didn't really have time for the past days to read ...well I had but I chose to spend time going to the movies or theater...we don't have many opportunities like that ... I'm forgiven.
As for movies we've seen "The first day of the rest of your life".Very good French comedy about family relations with great music in the background. I was a bit afraid of French cinema as I saw a few really boring comedies in the past but these one...see for yourself, you won't regret.
Next movie we saw 2 days ago was Cesar awarded "Seraphine". This is a French-Belgium production about a woman, an artist that created in the first half of 20th century. The scenery was amazing but life during this time was awful:full of hard work with war always on the horizon. Seraphine was like a child trapped in a grown up body. Amazingly creative but not really ready for social life - that's why she ended up in a mental hospital.
And at last a play by Sam Shepard in Abbey Theater: Ages of the moon. It was about two guys in some tiny village in Minnesota or some other part of States. They are drinking bourbon on the porch and talk the night through. Not bad not very exciting either.It was good to see the Abbey Theater which is the National Theater.
My cooking...or rather baking: I finally made Sticky Gingerbread. It was amazing. Full of spices, aromatic, moist...like a Christmas on a plate:). My mum and Nik loved it and I loved it. Here is a picture of this little miracle:
And the biggest thing: I baked my own bread. I saw one being made on the afternoon show and it seemed so easy. And it was easy. Just mix the ingredients and put to the tin for 45 minutes. It's quicker than going to the bakery and tastes very good. Here is my brown soda bread:
Now I'm looking for a bread recipe I used to eat at home in Wroclaw. This was still brown bread and tasted divine. If you happen to know this recipe please let me know.
That's all for now. Nataniel and mum are back.
Hello, hello!
I just got a spare moment as mum took Nataniel for a walk. I love those moments when I can just drink coffee and that's it.
It's the 3rd of December and we are officially on Christmas time.Here is a picture of my Christmas tree:
My reading now...I'm probably screwed. It's already December and I just started book nine. Eleven books left. Yep, good luck with that. Or maybe...
New book looks promising. It's about people who had a plane crush in the Cambodian jungle . At first it's a bliss... a Buddhists world with it's culture and new experiences not only though...the Vietnam war has just started and Khmer Rouge has just risen. I have this book for three weeks now. Hopefully it won't take me longer than 2 more days to read. I didn't really have time for the past days to read ...well I had but I chose to spend time going to the movies or theater...we don't have many opportunities like that ... I'm forgiven.
As for movies we've seen "The first day of the rest of your life".Very good French comedy about family relations with great music in the background. I was a bit afraid of French cinema as I saw a few really boring comedies in the past but these one...see for yourself, you won't regret.
Next movie we saw 2 days ago was Cesar awarded "Seraphine". This is a French-Belgium production about a woman, an artist that created in the first half of 20th century. The scenery was amazing but life during this time was awful:full of hard work with war always on the horizon. Seraphine was like a child trapped in a grown up body. Amazingly creative but not really ready for social life - that's why she ended up in a mental hospital.
And at last a play by Sam Shepard in Abbey Theater: Ages of the moon. It was about two guys in some tiny village in Minnesota or some other part of States. They are drinking bourbon on the porch and talk the night through. Not bad not very exciting either.It was good to see the Abbey Theater which is the National Theater.
My cooking...or rather baking: I finally made Sticky Gingerbread. It was amazing. Full of spices, aromatic, moist...like a Christmas on a plate:). My mum and Nik loved it and I loved it. Here is a picture of this little miracle:
And the biggest thing: I baked my own bread. I saw one being made on the afternoon show and it seemed so easy. And it was easy. Just mix the ingredients and put to the tin for 45 minutes. It's quicker than going to the bakery and tastes very good. Here is my brown soda bread:
Now I'm looking for a bread recipe I used to eat at home in Wroclaw. This was still brown bread and tasted divine. If you happen to know this recipe please let me know.
That's all for now. Nataniel and mum are back.
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