after lunch we went around walking more.
found some pygmy horses
failed experiment trying to roast some sausages
more pigs
rich man's christmas spread years ago
poor man's christmas meal years ago
there were alot of cool shops selling weird stuff. this one is nice, you have a candle that burns and generates hot air that will turn the mobile thing on the top, so it spins round.
beware of cat
deco to be hung on christmas tree, never seen before
cold
reindeer
elk, that was for lunch
3 year old bread hanging up out of the reach of mice. supposedly stil can be eaten
more warmth
skansen was cool, must go back in summer to enjoy the longer opening hours and see the bears come out of hibernation
went to skansen, an open air park with a mini zoo, lots of old houses and other interesting shops that sell olden day food and things.
it was a 0C day so we were all freezing.
lots of dancing
the enterance
cute
trying to be cute
at the glass blowers
whats he making?
christmas trees
what we bought, for the wedding ceremony
pig
bakery, very fresh soft bread
the soft fluffy bread is now hard and thin
all the staff dress up in olden day costumes
peeping
old print press
single colour pass
old hardware store, the stuff in the drawers are displayed on the outside
antique toilet paper
christmas market
some berry thing thats made into jams, chilis and juice.
lunch
elk and mashed potato
potato pancake thing
Nasi lemak night at pet sister's place.
some people just come for the food
black pepper or white pepper
special dessert for ME
purple veg with special powers to turn eggs green
gluttons
photographing the photographer
groupie
everybody trying to make the best arrangement
posing
after
green tea to wash it all down
to celebrate me getting teh phd scholarship.
cheese choco fruit cream cake
lets do that one more time
gingerbread house making at boss' place.
glogg to fuel
boss
the building material
making templates
cutting and baking
sideline cookie making
caramel to glue the pieces together
some pieces failed
marzipan modeling
rice puff with choc
baking puffs them up
landscaping
first tower up
the bridge
the traditionalist
most successful house
the final touches
muahaha
with the mini deco
hansel and gretel
with some deco
stonhege
new place opened in town so went to try it out. supposedly served quite ok dishes according to the ambassador of malaysia. so me and some brave souls went to venture there on one cold sunday night.
the first thing that srikes you is they have very limited choice of veg in the kitchen. the on the right is supposed to be kangkung in belacan. but turns out they ran out of kangkung and replaced it with long beans but when it came out, its french beans, and the same french beans were in the same dishes on the other two plates. sad. and the belacan is more soy sauce than spicy.
the prawns were supposd to be masak kuning, or with coconut milk, that one was ok. the other dish is ayam masak merah, the ayam I see but not the merah, tasted almost the same as the french bean sambal thing.
so its quite dissapointing overall.
dessert was sago and they put it with jackfruit, abit strange.
the whole place we had to ourselves, it was totally empty. I predict it will crash in a month or two.
I wont be back, though i'm patriotic.
international food night at my church. this is the hall we used. came early to help in the physical arrangement
the girls did the deco.
all the food keeping warm
someones meat balls in the oven
one please.
oat cookies
sweet potato covered with crispy cornflakes
meatballs
going round describing what your dish is
very white brownies
something liek chicken teriyaki
soem czech dish. oily pankakes
my chicken
with apples going at 5sek per kg, it was a sin not to buy a dozen of them. What to do with so many apples? apple pie of course
First try in a squre tray, for personal consumption and testing of the oven. so so results. crust abit too thick, and oven abit too cold.
day 2, after knowing the optimized protocol for manufacturing pies, the game begins.
blind baking
this is a special one for my gf who disdains rasins. Notice the mockery I make of it with the crown on the rasinless apple pie.
this one is a disaster. I tried to use gluten free flour as one labmate has alergies. the flour is totally different from normal ones, so my optimized protocol did not work. wasted a few hundred grams of the flour and finally decided to make a crumble. Very valuable lesson.
