Showing posts with label christmas tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas tree. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

My apartment smells like Christmas

I have been cooking.  All day.  Remind me not to bake gingerbread next year - it's so time-consuming!


I've packed some for tonight's KK dinner and another smaller jar for my friend who I'm visiting tomorrow.


I also finished setting up the Christmas tree and wrapping the pressies!


(Can you tell I've got a blue and white/silver theme going this year??  Pressies and gingerbread!  Snowflakes to come :)

Bought a 5kg ham from Coles and looked like a fool attempting to carry it to the car.  Got home and googled "do you cook a smoked leg of ham?".  You do.  Into the oven.  Here it is:


I'm not a huge pork/pig fan so I'm pretty blase about this piece of meat.  Off to dinner!

Monday, 26 November 2012

A busy weekend

I constantly seem to find myself exhausted on Monday morning from a very full-on weekend.  Today was no exception.  When my alarm went off at 7.15am I thought it was my boyfriend's alarm for 6am and yelled at him to turn it off.  Oops.

Last Friday, I caught the train into the city and walked through Martin Place which puts up my favourite Christmas Tree in Sydney.  I also love the GPO building.



Tom and I had dinner at Sushi Tei - we love this place but I was actually disappointed for the first time.  We ordered the red bean drink we've previously had and the glasses were about half the size as they used to be but they're the same price.  I also found the sashimi to be less fresh/tasty than it usually is.




Saturday morning we were up early to visit Tom's Pop in his nursing home.  On our way home we dropped by Chatswood Westfield to pick up a Christmas present I bought my sister on JB Hifi online, had some lunch, got some groceries.  I went home and had a power nap, only to wake up at 4.30pm when my train came at 4.49pm.  I chucked on some jeans and a top and flats and managed to make the train and got into the city to start the Pub Crawl/Scavenger Hunt.  Scavenger Hunt was loads of fun and we won!!!


Sunday morning I made spanish eggs which were a hit with the boyfriend:


I can post the recipe if anyone's interested?

After breakfast I tried out my new deck chair on the balcony (no pics as the balcony is filthy!) then spent the arvo at a mate's pool.  Come on Vitamin D!


Raced home for a shower before heading to my parents' for dinner.  My Dad's curry dinner was an absolute hit, topped with salad + yoghurt dressing, and fruit salad with cream.  Zomg cream.


That's my hand there, just to give you an indication of how freaking big this fruit salad was!
Played a few games after dinner with my sisters and finally home by 10.30pm.

And now it's Monday again.  What did everyone else get up to this past weekend?