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.