Post-Christmas wrapup.
Had a lazy morning, having opened the larger presents my parents left the previous evening over Skype.
(Taken with Photobooth.)
It has a little flap you can flip down to cover your ears! Oh, cold climates, how practical you are.
We then stressed out a little trying to construct a pavlova for tomorrow (didn't beat the eggs enough before adding the sugar, then I didn't add the sugar slowly enough and it didn't dissolve properly) and appetisers for the Christmas dinner we were going to that night.
Mini-recipe: Mushroom melba toast with swiss cheese
Finely chop mushrooms, fry with some margarine, Italian herb mix, salt and pepper until cooked. Add a splash of water and cornflour to thicken. Slice swiss cheese into squares, put one square each on a piece of melba toast and add a spoonful of mushroom mix to the top. Bake in oven until cheese melts.
We also made melba toast bruschetta and baked-tortilla triangles with cream-cheese&chive spread, roasted capsicum and cucumber. Everyone was very complimentary.
A reconstruction of several scenes from the Christmas dinner:
Person: So how do you fit into this?
Me: *pause* I'm [hostess]'s brother's wife's sister's son's wife.
Nobody responded with the appropriate Spaceballs leading lines, though. ("So what does that make us?" / "Absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become.")
People should wear badges that declare their knowledge sets so that when they ask me what I do I can pitch my answers appropriately. (When they ask for more details on what I do, do they want me to say "ASP.NET and I'm trying to branch into Ruby and Python"? Or do they just want details on a specific website?)
Edit: Whoops, used the wrong tag to cut initially!
(Taken with Photobooth.)
It has a little flap you can flip down to cover your ears! Oh, cold climates, how practical you are.
We then stressed out a little trying to construct a pavlova for tomorrow (didn't beat the eggs enough before adding the sugar, then I didn't add the sugar slowly enough and it didn't dissolve properly) and appetisers for the Christmas dinner we were going to that night.
Mini-recipe: Mushroom melba toast with swiss cheese
Finely chop mushrooms, fry with some margarine, Italian herb mix, salt and pepper until cooked. Add a splash of water and cornflour to thicken. Slice swiss cheese into squares, put one square each on a piece of melba toast and add a spoonful of mushroom mix to the top. Bake in oven until cheese melts.
We also made melba toast bruschetta and baked-tortilla triangles with cream-cheese&chive spread, roasted capsicum and cucumber. Everyone was very complimentary.
A reconstruction of several scenes from the Christmas dinner:
Person: So how do you fit into this?
Me: *pause* I'm [hostess]'s brother's wife's sister's son's wife.
Nobody responded with the appropriate Spaceballs leading lines, though. ("So what does that make us?" / "Absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become.")
People should wear badges that declare their knowledge sets so that when they ask me what I do I can pitch my answers appropriately. (When they ask for more details on what I do, do they want me to say "ASP.NET and I'm trying to branch into Ruby and Python"? Or do they just want details on a specific website?)
Edit: Whoops, used the wrong tag to cut initially!