"Don't let anyone break your spirit"

- my mum.

One day Ernie
embarked on a journey. With her life- jacket and paddles
she crossed over the seas.
She went to love
the little Rudolphs and
pray for the barren soils
to sprout new life.



Praying for you.

Happy Chef

I've been a happy chef for the past few months even opening up my Pentecost Cafe where I broke a plate trying to be swift Jamie Oliver. The menu tonight: Aromatic Prawn Curry. I've adjusted the menu, where they say use 375 ml of evaporated milk I've decided to use 175 ml of it and the rest coconut milk. Where they say use Aromatic (some Indian) rice hence the name of the dish, I've opted for Jasmine Rice.
Soon I'm going to try the fennel, leek and scallop risotto which looks so good! Fennel is almost like garlic/pepper it leaves that strrroonnngg aftertaste.
While stocking up lately on Vogue entertainment + travel magazine, I've been wondering... where do you find those weird ingredients that you've never heard of before?
and Quail? I'm game enough to try chicken, I can do duck... but quail.... sounds like some bird from the stone age.
note: I was eating chicken soup this morning. The chicken was cooked whole so bones etc. were kept in the pot. Half-way through what I saw was the chicken brain sitting on my spoon, first my stomach turned... and shortly after I realised that the chicken brain (that is, I only saw the cerebral hemispheres) is actually tiny it was the size of a thumb nail. So I came to the belief that chickens musn't be very smart. note to cooking-self: take out the brain before boiling to prevent indigestion.

Deir el Medina

When I told my parents that I actually wanted to study Anthropology or Archaeology at uni it didn't go down too well. I can see why... but I've been thinking what if I had studied that. There's no doubt about it, I absolutely love the study of societies of the past and the present and I love studying human behaviour/human experience and way of life. When I think about it I get so excited.. I could have been one of those historians digging around the tombs of one of the Ramses in those funky hats and little brushes. But... I think there's greater purpose somehow in where I'm going now.

Maybe I could do a post grad in Anthropology and study how communication disorders impacted ancient greek societies? Demosthenes was reported to have stuttered.

enough dreaming. now... back to my cooking.. time to take the guts outta my prawns =)