pei-tien's blog: October 2006

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Dessert, Anyone?

Mmm.. gostoso!

Haha, can you guess what these were? Don't they just make you salivate?

Yesterday I made a lunch for eight (7 Brazilians plus me) and the desserts I had planned to make were coconut custards. It was a very simple recipe, and I'm sure they would have tasted decent if they had not burn into something so carcinogenic-looking. No worries though 'cuz the guys (Carla, Boto, Pedro, and Monkey) came over with ice cream. It was as if they knew... Huh. But everything else was great. Oh, except for the potato salad, which I accidently dumped a substantial amount of salt into. And also the rice was a tad bit dry. BUT, the lunch was good! Here was the lunch menu:

*Vietnamese salad rolls + my own special Asian flavoured peanut sauce, A++

*Thai red curry, this almost never fails :o)

*Special Asian-flavoured chicken thighs, was finger-licking good! Except here, people don't lick their fingers and rarely do they eat with their hands especially at main meals like lunch or dinner. They use everything with a knife and fork, even for foods like pizza, chicken drumsticks or wings, etc. I've seen people eating a banana using utensils, which I do too at work!

*Potato (soup) salad, water was added to lessen the salt concentration.. should've stuck with the Asian theme and made the Korean potatoes..

*Salad with Japanese ginger dressing, certainly made eating veggies easier!

I stayed in the city for the second consecutive weekend.. it is sooo boring when I do stay here. But then again, the trip to Florianopolis really did some serious damage to the finances.. Aypa! And now I'm more concerned about the coming up weekend, which is another holiday. Hence, another long weekend. Hence, another travelling opportunity. Beautiful isn't it? Except for the fact that I'm pretty sure I've already maxed out the plastic from my Brazilian account.. Not looking forward to those monthly bills...

Re: Holidays
In Brazil there is at least one stat holiday in each month. These holidays are mostly scheduled on a Thursday so that it is excusable to have Friday off as well. Ahh.. Brazilians.. you gotta love their way of thinking! I just feel sorry for those who actually do have to go to work on Friday.. those people's bosses are meanies!

But actually in November there are two holidays. The first one is on the 2nd, the same weekend mentioned previously. The second one falls on a Wednesday on November 15th. Was pretty psyched until I was told that there wouldn't be a 5-day weekend! Yeah, it's pretty shocking to have Wednesday off, and then head back to work on Thursday and Friday :''(

Okay, PROOF that I am not such a terrible cook (at rare moments):

It was Davi's birthday about 2 weeks ago, so Duygu and I made a cake for him. Actually we made the cake a week later, so it wasn't really his birthday and since to write 'birthday' would be a spacial problem, I put "HAPPY DAVi" instead.

Hmm.. could cooking possibly become the new hobby?

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