28 Monday Nov 2011
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Oh boy, this week is a bit of a tough one for me. I don’t know what to choose!! I’m going to choose the first concert I ever went to. It was a triple bill of the Sugarcubes, Public Image Limited and New Order in July 1989.
I’ve chosen this song from New Order because I still remember them playing it as clear as day.
Check out others gig memories over at Boo And Me
08 Tuesday Nov 2011
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As I was whiling away my time the other day on twitter, I noticed that Mum on the Brink tweeted a post which spoke about food and memories.
This got me thinking to when I was little and we used to visit my Babcia (polish for grandmother) and the aroma of all the foods that would be coming from her kitchen. In fact I can still smell it now. She used to make pierogies, gorgeous pillows of doughiness filled with cheese and potatoes and drenched with fried butter, cabbage rolls overflowing with rice and meat with lashings of sour cream. And how could I forget the paczki’s(I pronounce them as punchkies) fried doughnuts filled with plum jam and another fried favourite called chrusciki(crinkles is the best way I can describe these). All this lovely food took pride of place on the table every Christmas
After seeing my Babcia last week, she is now 92 and sadly forgotten a lot of things and I now regret the times when she offered to show me how to make these favourites of mine.
Inspired by my brother’s trip to Poland last year, I bought The Art of Polish Cooking so I could teach myself these recipes.
This is a picture of my Babcia and my son on our visit to Canada last year
Here is the recipe for Chrusciki which I will be making this Christmas for my family
2 medium eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 cups plain flour
1/4 cup vodka
1/4 c soft butter
1lb shortening
2/3 cup icing sugar
Beat the eggs and egg yolks with salt until creamy. Add the 1/2 cup sugar and beat some more. Add the flour, vodka and butter. Knead the dough for 10 minutes.
Roll out small portion on a lightly floured board, paper thin. Cut out 1 1/2 x 6 inch strips. Cut a 2 inch hole in the middle of each strip, then pass one end of the strip through it.
Heat the shortening in a large frying pan. Fry strips on high heat on both sides until golden. Place on tissue paper to cool. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
This is a traditional Polish treat for winter parties.
Makes 3 dozen.
12 Wednesday Oct 2011
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Yet again Brit Mums has come up with some more brilliant blog prompts and I have chosen ‘The best day I have ever spent with my family’
Now that I’m a proper grown up and have my own family, I hope there will be many best days with my little family, but I’m going to go back to when I was younger for my day.
I didn’t know at the time it would be the best day, but I know now it was.
It was my 21st birthday, and my Daddy took me out for a lovely lunch and we went to the Avondale Dairy Bar for ice cream just on the outskirts of my hometown of St. Catharines, Ontario.
He told me to enjoy everyday, as we were only given one life. He also told me it didn’t matter if I wasn’t the most popular person ever, but as long as I had a couple close friends that’s what mattered the most.
At the time I didn’t give it much thought, but he died 2 months after that lunch and it’s the best day and memory I have with him and I’ll cherish that forever.
17 Sunday Jul 2011
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