about white horses, golden santas, red fingers and black puddings
*listening to Mary Poppins whilst flattening clothes, napkins and table mats felt somewhat comforting - making chimneysweeps skip with every thud of the iron
*listening to the smiths we must have hung quite a few dj’s during our 4hour long car journey to the isle of white - or the izzle of whistle respectively. Sleep deprivation made me hallucinate about white horses that, at a second glance, turned out to be mere motorway crash barriers - for a few minutes i found myself musing over unicornish apparations while hysterically giggling at Elvis’ teddy bear song.
spotted naughtiness on my bedside cabinet a la pogue ma'hon:
Latest kitchen outcomes as follows :
black gnocchi with pumpkin & lemon-rosemary butter
malaysian pineapple-prawn curry with pomegranate
surimi-mango-salad
basil-tagliatelle with creamy pea&bacon sauce
spaghetti carbonara
Each day my slightly obsessive nature makes me try out at least one untested recipe, which had been carefully extracted from one of my countless cookery books.
Cookery books have conditioned my sense of combining flavours - hopefully without destroying room for adventurous improvisation and spontaneous innovation. ha!
So i know about brocolis nutty romance when it comes to saucy pasta - pasta sauces respectively. Not to forget the poppy, pear and blue cheese threesome. Ah, fragments!
to all those, who i havent been in any handwritten correspondence as of yet:
who would like to receive a christmas card from me & my golden santa friend ???
email me your address: thesprout at btinternet dot com
i love my new pre birthday-ish knife set - although my busy fiddly fingers have been wounded twice so far. From now on I shall beware of sharp blades lurking in soapy dishwater and i also need to treat peppers with a little less tenacious fierceness.
But today I am baking Austrian 3grain bread, listening to the, these days - oh so familiar, sound of wind and rain outside & making up an imaginary Christmas shopping list in my head
good morning!