Sleeping! I love weekends 'cos I can get so much sleeping done. I reckon I must have been a cat in a previous life as they also like to sleep. I've been told on numerous occassions "you could sleep for Wales!" and now it seems I can also sleep for Australia too.
If only there was sleeping in the Olympics, I could win two countries a gold medal. Hmmm, they probably wouldn't let me represent two countries. Sorry Australia, you win enough gold medals on your own, so sleeping for Wales it is!
Strange! It's Monday morning and I'm feeling quite happy, must due to all the sleep I had. By mid week I'll no doubt be back to my grumpy self. But maybe not, it is nearly Christmas after all and that means plenty of alcohol in many different forms, plus food and presents and alcohol followed by sleep. Please note that the last sentence was not written in order of my activites for Christmas day. I know I like to indulge in a glass of wine or five but never before midday!
We went shopping on Saturday. Hey, this is exciting, honest. We bought a food processor!
So maybe it's not exciting to you but it is to us, but even the food processor isn't as good as the saute pan we bought. Is it wrong to fall in love with a saute pan? It's just so lovely! It's an Anolon Advanced by Meyer and was a little on the pricey side but we had a gift voucher to use in Myers so what the heck! It is the best pan I've ever used and I'm now after the complete saucepan set to replace our old Tefal ones - sorry guys, you've been relegated!
And even better than a food processor and the saute pan (though the saute pan was used Saturday night) was the Chicken Korma we cooked from scratch. Big thanks to www.curryfrenzy.com for the best Korma I've had since coming to Sydney. And it tastes so authentic to the true British curry - Yum! We had a few problems with the coconut but we will rectify that for next Saturday nights curry fest. And best of all, it's actually pretty easy to make. Check out the link and click on recipes to have a go yourself, there's plenty of recipes there. The only ingredient we left out of our Korma was the Cayenne Chilli because we couldn't find one in the supermarket. Instead we used Cayenne Chilli powder and it did the trick just fine.
Also on Saturday we watched some of the Cricket. Yes, I know I shouldn't mention the Cricket as England aren't doing too well but there was a piece of sporting history that was made. My fav Aussie Cricketer scored the second fastest 100 in test history! Go Gilly! For those who have no idea as to who I'm referring to, it is none other than Adam Gilchrist. What a star!
See told you I was getting into Cricket!
I was talking to Mr Milko about the famous Almanac that comes out every year and I couldn't remember the title. I was racking my brains until I finally remembered that it was Wisden, only to be greeted by a look of "still don't know what you're talking about". He hadn't heard of the Wisden Almanac! I though everyone knew of that book even if they didn't know much about Cricket. I don't know much about Cricket, I'm just starting out but I knew of Wisden.
Well you learn something new every day!
Saturday was also good as Boony & Beefy made a strange sound. Sure enough, they are now saying new things. Yay! In fact the boys were jabbering away quite well during the Cricket this weekend. Okay, so some of you are reading this thinking "what they hell is she talking about?"
VB (the great Aussie beer even though Boags premium is more tasty) have a promotion happening called Boonanza. No, this has nothing to do with the 80's TV show but has everything to do with Aussie Cricket legend David Boon. The man with the Mo' has been immortalised in a cute little talking doll and has been joined by the English fave, Ian "beefy" Botham. These two little guys come out with some great phrases for the cricket and about VB.
You should know that it doesn't take a lot to entertain me! But if you want to take a look, got to www.boonanza.com.au 'on yer Knackers!
Keeping with the theme of Cricket, Mr Milko was watching an excellent programme last night while I was busy finishing off the Crimbo cards. I came down in time to watch the last half of the programme. It was called Bodyline and was about a test cricket match between Australia and England back in 1932-3. I guess you could say it was the scandal of cricket, much worse than the pictures of Warnie in his undies! Hmmm, no, I think the pictures of Warnie in his undies are much worse, at least for causing me nightmares. Warnie, you're a great cricketer but you have terrible taste in underwear.
The last part of the programme is on tonight, and I enjoyed last nights so much that I'm prepared to miss CSI Miami just to watch it! It's only a repeat of Miami anyway, so chances are I've already seen that episode. Sorry Horatio, but you've been relegated too! Just for tonight anyway.
If only there was sleeping in the Olympics, I could win two countries a gold medal. Hmmm, they probably wouldn't let me represent two countries. Sorry Australia, you win enough gold medals on your own, so sleeping for Wales it is!
Strange! It's Monday morning and I'm feeling quite happy, must due to all the sleep I had. By mid week I'll no doubt be back to my grumpy self. But maybe not, it is nearly Christmas after all and that means plenty of alcohol in many different forms, plus food and presents and alcohol followed by sleep. Please note that the last sentence was not written in order of my activites for Christmas day. I know I like to indulge in a glass of wine or five but never before midday!
We went shopping on Saturday. Hey, this is exciting, honest. We bought a food processor!
So maybe it's not exciting to you but it is to us, but even the food processor isn't as good as the saute pan we bought. Is it wrong to fall in love with a saute pan? It's just so lovely! It's an Anolon Advanced by Meyer and was a little on the pricey side but we had a gift voucher to use in Myers so what the heck! It is the best pan I've ever used and I'm now after the complete saucepan set to replace our old Tefal ones - sorry guys, you've been relegated!
And even better than a food processor and the saute pan (though the saute pan was used Saturday night) was the Chicken Korma we cooked from scratch. Big thanks to www.curryfrenzy.com for the best Korma I've had since coming to Sydney. And it tastes so authentic to the true British curry - Yum! We had a few problems with the coconut but we will rectify that for next Saturday nights curry fest. And best of all, it's actually pretty easy to make. Check out the link and click on recipes to have a go yourself, there's plenty of recipes there. The only ingredient we left out of our Korma was the Cayenne Chilli because we couldn't find one in the supermarket. Instead we used Cayenne Chilli powder and it did the trick just fine.
Also on Saturday we watched some of the Cricket. Yes, I know I shouldn't mention the Cricket as England aren't doing too well but there was a piece of sporting history that was made. My fav Aussie Cricketer scored the second fastest 100 in test history! Go Gilly! For those who have no idea as to who I'm referring to, it is none other than Adam Gilchrist. What a star!
See told you I was getting into Cricket!
I was talking to Mr Milko about the famous Almanac that comes out every year and I couldn't remember the title. I was racking my brains until I finally remembered that it was Wisden, only to be greeted by a look of "still don't know what you're talking about". He hadn't heard of the Wisden Almanac! I though everyone knew of that book even if they didn't know much about Cricket. I don't know much about Cricket, I'm just starting out but I knew of Wisden.
Well you learn something new every day!
Saturday was also good as Boony & Beefy made a strange sound. Sure enough, they are now saying new things. Yay! In fact the boys were jabbering away quite well during the Cricket this weekend. Okay, so some of you are reading this thinking "what they hell is she talking about?"
VB (the great Aussie beer even though Boags premium is more tasty) have a promotion happening called Boonanza. No, this has nothing to do with the 80's TV show but has everything to do with Aussie Cricket legend David Boon. The man with the Mo' has been immortalised in a cute little talking doll and has been joined by the English fave, Ian "beefy" Botham. These two little guys come out with some great phrases for the cricket and about VB.
You should know that it doesn't take a lot to entertain me! But if you want to take a look, got to www.boonanza.com.au 'on yer Knackers!
Keeping with the theme of Cricket, Mr Milko was watching an excellent programme last night while I was busy finishing off the Crimbo cards. I came down in time to watch the last half of the programme. It was called Bodyline and was about a test cricket match between Australia and England back in 1932-3. I guess you could say it was the scandal of cricket, much worse than the pictures of Warnie in his undies! Hmmm, no, I think the pictures of Warnie in his undies are much worse, at least for causing me nightmares. Warnie, you're a great cricketer but you have terrible taste in underwear.
The last part of the programme is on tonight, and I enjoyed last nights so much that I'm prepared to miss CSI Miami just to watch it! It's only a repeat of Miami anyway, so chances are I've already seen that episode. Sorry Horatio, but you've been relegated too! Just for tonight anyway.
