Add another run to the scoreboard!
Tonight, Di and I cooked ‘oven baked risotto’ from my favourite cookbook. It was very tasty. We fried bacon, onion and a bit of butter. Then we poured in the cherry tomatoes, white wine, and chicken stock and stuck it in the oven. Our oven is slow so it took 40 minutes instead of 20. But it got done, and we mixed in the parmesan.
I think I am a little tipsy from finishing the rest of the wine bottle.
Including the chilli I cooked earlier this week, this brings me up to 14 out of 101 recipes in the cookbook.
For lunch, I went to Matt and Rachel’s house for Matt’s birthday BBQ. I ate an ostrich burger. I’ve always wanted to eat an ostrich burger, ever since I saw it being sold at the Cambridge market. I also ate a giant slice of cake.
Nearly everyone at the party was Australian. There are a lot of Australians in the UK. I feel kind of like a sheep, especially now that I’m going to work in London. I feel like saying, ‘I’m not a sheep! I came here by accident! I’m here because I mean it, not because it’s the done thing!’
Hey Joan I’m going to be doing the ‘done thing’ next year! See you then! Mine is purely for monetary/selfish reasons though. I want adventure while I can still have it! (and my aunt still has a house in Birmingham I can freeload from!)
Birmingham is a nice city, nicer each year, I’m told. It has more canals than Venice. You’re welcome to come visit me and the rest of the flock in London.
Actually it’s less of a “done thing” than it used to be. The UK is now actively trying to encourage more Australians to work and travel there.
Apparently it’s just not as cool as it used to be. Apparently young Australians who are traveling are more likely to travel to South America or South East Asia because they think the UK is boring…
I’m sure the food and climate are better in those parts of the world!
Ah yes Beldar, but I have an aunty there, and the money is better, plus I can get by on English!
I just came back from Japan and HK from a holiday and I couldn’t stand the pollution or not knowing what was going on due to lack of language skills. I’m pretty bad at that sort of stuff… many years of Chinese school resulted in not knowing any Mandarin whatsoever 😎
Joan, sounds scary but sure, if I make it there I’ll love to pay you a visit! You can tell me if you need any Aussie products that I can bring over, and you can show me your favourite hidden places! 😎 (Psst I’m going to find you on Facebook now…)
I can believe that KH is polluted, what about Japan?
Japan wasn’t that bad actually. There are heaps of green spaces even right in Tokyo, and people love their pot plants! So it helps clear the air. Plus the trains are so good, there’s not a constant unmoving jam of cars all the time, just of people 😎