Wesolych Swiat

Another year another Polish christmas gone. After spending the last week elbow deep in chopped onions and cabbage the dishes turned out a treat and i once again ate myself into a coma. Here a few pics of some of the food for your jealous eyes to glare at.

Check out mum's baby jesus in the manger on the Greek Fish in the next shot. The star is lemon peel and baby Jesus is an egg and a cucumber. The dish beside it is sweet herring salad with lemon. My crappy decoration was meant to be a tree but mum just dumped a whole lot of capsicum on it n killed it.

The roulladen you can see in the bottom left hand corner are pancakes with mushoom filling which were served with borsch. Mum's nifty polish hands also managed to create a lobster out of the avocados for the smoked salad plate in the top left corner..it even had the spring onion antennae! And the greatest dish of all is top centre...Russian salad. For those unaware this is a potato salad with beans, apples, cooked carrots, dill cucumber and peas. I had to sneak some of this out the door in order to get some home after the festivities.

This next shot is a close up of the egg and tomato toadstool that always sits atop the russian salad. And to ensure the christmas feel there is mistletoe of salad and frozen berries. genius.

This one is only a fraction of the desserts. I was a fraction too slow and some of the poppyseed cake had already been devoured. I made gingerbread cake but it was a wee bit burnt..no one seemed to notice though.

This is the last of the dessert photos however it excludes the pannetone, choc chip cookies and plates and plates of gingerbread biscuits.

As one can see i was far too busy eating to take many photos so just make do with my promise that the food was amazing... czescz

Backyard Blitz

After months of innocuous renovation noise from next door the line has been drawn. I realised just how bad it really is when i caught myself listening to the builder's radio while making my lunch. it was coming through so clear i was actually listening intently to the lastest on manly australian sporting heroes. i snapped out of it realsing just how close they were to the inside of our kitchen.

Here is some visual documentation of the state of our backyard and the dust plume that was recently washed onto everything within 1km radius of the demolition, i mean renovation...

OHMIGOD

I know i should be like raving about that Halloween thing we did but i have better news.

My old pal Grant Bowler....according to IMDB...is going to show up in Ugly Betty.... YEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD

So i may be the only one climbing up the walls in excitment...stuff yas

Coming Down

This morning...well i uhhmm felt...odd...ok..hungover...so made these

First things first

For all you fuckers who decided you were too cool for octoberfest...stuff ya..it was just as hilarious as normal...only this time my folks showed up (while i was going for refil #3)...rreeeeeaaallly awkward....'Hi..MUM'....'Carol, stop drinking....'..'yes mum'..continue on my merry way up to the bar. Danced with anyone who would dance and i realised they played the EXACT same songs as last year...in the SAME ORDER...i distinctly remember hearing Bad Moon...then Teddy Bear. Here is some photographic evidence of a night of mild chaos...

Stole some guy's hat for a photo...hoping we got it before he found out

Made me feel better that Raf's parents showed up too....i wasn't alone in the awkward!

Check out my glass on the right compared to the one's they were selling this year..AND mine was real glass....loyalty pays man

This was the best bratwurst i have had in so long and not only coz i was too far goone to really tell the difference...the sauerkraut..the mustard..the crusty roll....i want one now

Nadine n Bart inspecting a Bratwurst they found on the ground...

Me EATING said bratwurst...floor or not...it was still amazing

My favourite shot of the night

October + Beer= OCTOBERFEST

In honour of the one event i look forward to more than my birthday...i pay hamge to Octoberfest....which is on this sat and sun (starting at 11 am!!!) so if you have any cool bone in your body you WILL be there and you WILL be drinking copious amounts of beer from a glass of >0.5 L volume and you WILL be downing bratwurst and pretzels as fast as the man can pass them to you......i have goosepimples of excitement in anticiption....

Time to Turn over a new Leaf

So it has been a million yrs since my last post and i am STILL beginning with the word So....mental

For those of you still having a peek at my blog...i thank you...if you're not ...then stuff ya

I recently threw a surprise birthday for my brother who insisted we not pfaff arounf for his birthday...but me, being the AMAZING sister that i am got onto his old school mates and convinced them to come. My double chocolate mud cake with ganache was probably the real reason they came.....sorry Korn...anyway..here are the photos and the only footage i could get of the cake before it was devoured.

Way Overdue

Finally pulled photos off my camera from about two months ago when ma n i spent the weekend together..WILLINGLY.....we went to Williamstown on the saturday:

i tried my first south melbourne market dim sim

we strolled along the beach, through the gardens, past my family's old house.....it is the strangest suburb...almost every house has a tyre swing on their nature strip!

the next day found the quaintest little russian place on carlisle st....it was amazingly euro n the food was just like home

check out the wafer with this. Some may remember when my dad used to make these. it has chocolate on top, caramel in middle layered between thin wafer pastry....brilliant

Sir

Sitting at bar...beefcake of a guy approaches from behind..

excuse me mate....
oohh..hahahah sorry i thought you were a bloke from behind...
its the short hair...


GET FUCKED ASSHOLE^%&*(^&(*&^(*%^&*1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For Iza

In honour of my favourite sister who has recently moved to the land of the Germs i have here a collection of our most current and most Euro shots...enjoy

These are the next big thing we are trying to launch over there...who are we kidding...they brought it here. God bless.

Love and miss you sis

The Modern Do Gooder

In safeway buying eggs. trying really hard to find free range eggs...thinking about those shoe box cages and conveyor belt feed troughs......siiicckkk

hippie looking girl next to us also buying eggs. (she must have been some sort of moral type as she was wearing an amnesty international canvas bag....enivironment AND charity....feeling for the world

we watch her grab a carton and carefully inspect each egg.
as she clicks the the lid back on i gasp and freak out.
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SHE BOUGHT CAGED EGGS!!!

i don't even know what to say to that

Wesole Czasy

Happy times.

Before i launch into holiday recap, witnessed THE best thing...old woman. blood curdling scream. little white fluffy dog barely 1 m away from her. old woman: " Pepi...come here. come here you BITCH!" old woman sees me..."sorry, i don't normally swear lady"....oh thank you making me smile....lady???

Day 1: meal 1 (lunch) approx 1 pm. rye breads, horseradish, hams, sausages, pumpkin soup. followed by a nap
meal 2 (dinner) approx 3 30. meat balls with cucumber salad and soft mushy potatoes. accompanied by a vintage Shiraz and followed by another nap.
meal 3 (supper) approx 6 thirty Halka (sweet polish yeast cake) and warm milk
Snacks were permitted between meals and normally consisted of black coffee, nuts and kisiel (polish blackcurrant jelly)
This process continued for each day of the holiday and the evening cake was occasionally substituted with whichever cake was made that day. i.e cheesecake, gingerbread, halka, birthday sponge with chocolate cream The main meal of the day was different each day. Comprised of a combination of chicken schnitzel, goulash, fish, sausages, barley, buckwheat, rice and soft cooked potatoes.

the main meal was, however, replaced when on the property for skewers of sausage, capsicum and onion, accompanied by fire toasted rye and potatoes, followed by toasted marshmallows.

now...indulge in my eating/cooking holiday snaps

First ever XXXX decided that it tastes a bit sick

Here, drinking true beer at the German Club

Sizzler. Why?

Note: this place was one of the 'hot spots'...sticky carpets, flouro t shirts, thongs, board shorts and pokie machines...HOT!

Southbank....tried to eliminate possibility of MySpace arm...sacrificed shot of Brisbane in background

Its so close you can taste it!

As it stands.....13 hours 12 minutes away from freedom.

Been trying to remember the chracteristic features of crustaceans and nemerteans...but i am really scared that all these bits of information are teetering in my brain...if i move too quickly it might all topple over and i will be left with an indecipherable mess of useless long words......slowly backing away from computer and books....trying not to run around in excitement at her upcoming holiday and not having to go to work.......oooohhhh too hard.....dum ya's ALL

Post Denied

I was going to post about the plight of Tree-Man but looking at him is just too sad. Never have born witness to such a discomforting documentary. The most startling thing was not the man himself but the two guys who rounded him and several others with dermatological abnormalities up and forced them to perform at shopping centres. What is wrong with the world?? Why do we care so much if Tom Cruise's freak child has a $1 million birthday party or if Angelina's Lips are getting any bigger (which i don't think is possible without them becoming a state) Why can't we put some of that spotlight onto REAL people with REAL troubles??

BAH.....

Half Way There

I would have blogged, you see, but i just went on living my life. Really. Uni classes have finished today and this coming week "off" i need to relearn all the hours of lectures i slept through or the stuff that was just too hard for 9 am on a mon morning. So if anyone is looking for me..i will be procrastinating somewhere. washing dishes. scrubbing the toilet. watching dr phil. you know how it goes. but don't dare interrupt me as then i will feel genuinely guilty and may take it out on you with a knife. nah...just messing with you..you're alright.

Now, seriously, get the fuck out of here pindick.

Just a note: this picture is from post secret...THE best thing EVER. seriously.

Mr Moore...your next project awaits

Ah The Awkwardness of it All

9:15 am: It must have just been one of those days. Three buses never turned up this morning to take me to uni...could deal with that..better late than never right? had to run up the back steps to the late entry ...seemed like some seedy post war hospital fire escape...stumble in..dive into the closest seat...flustered but ok. pen rolls slowly off the table down the row in front of me...it starts

10:30 am: Tilly and i grabbing $2.20 coffee..YAH!! and then me grabbing the newspaper intending to do the crossword but freaking out as i am thinking i can't do the crossword in a paper thats not mine...but it IS communal....just leave it. go to sit down. change mind. keep walking.

1:00 pm Lincraft. me seeking guidance to the felt....can i take what i have in my hands and am planning to buy from this level upstairs??? standing excitedly clutching felt squares and neon shoelaces, turn to the woman beside me, not noticing her cold business eyes and say, "funny, when my mom used to shop here when i was little i hated it, now look at me! **hahaahha**". she raised her eyesbrows and went 'HUH'.. i smiled it off..face boiling but still super excited about my craft stuff so i head out the door.

1:15 pm crux. the strap on my bag manages to snag a chair in the Centreway arcade, and not a weak ass chair either, i'm talking wrought iron bitches, and, to top it off, i drag it a metre before realising and have to fight with this thing to get it back to where it came from IN THE LUNCH TIME CROWD.....bear in mind this spot is hella busy courtesy of thos wicked $4 baguettes down degraves.

the indignity of it all...i am going to go to bed now where the world can see me no more