So, Beau and I are now ensconced in our new Apt. We have a lovely Polish flatmate who's name we are still getting wrong. AH well. I shall refer to him as Voltron, it's pretty close ;)
Recently we have been focused on the moving in. Our place, like the majority of rental properties in Ireland, came furnished. This is awesome, it meant we didn't have to buy a bed! Also, the people who just moved out (Voltron's Bro and SiL) left us a bedside 3-drawer jobby, a lamp and a duvet and pillows! Awesome! We still did have to buy some stuff. Like sheets and towels.
Also been buying food stuff and doing cooking in a kitchen that is not a hostel kitchen. Yay! Yesterday I cooked Shepherd'sCottage pie (I made too much for the container and had to make some mini-pies, awesome), Peach, Bread and Butter pudding (like regular bread and butter pudding, but in stead of putting raisins, sugar and lemon zest in between every layer you add some tinned peaches. Was sooo good. Beau liked it quite a lot and he doesn't even like bread and butter pudding!).
Today I made Tamagoyaki (japanese omelet, I used 3eggs, 3t sugar, 1t salt, a dash of dark soy sauche) and teriyaki chicken (marinade was 1Tmirin, 1Tsoy sauce, 1/2T rice wine, 1/2 T sugar with some freshly grated pepper), sushi rice then I cut up nori sheets, smoked salmon, surimi, avocado, red capsicum and cucumber and Beau, Voltron, Mytholder and I had roll-your-own-sushi. Ended up with not enough nori (was using a partly used pack) and too much rice, which was still fine. Everyone was happy and full.
Asian food isn't big here. There is only 1 Japanese restaurant (possibly closed) and one stall in the market will make sushi on request. There are not many chinese restaurants and there is no Yum-cha. The only Irish person I've met who knew what it was had eaten it in Canada, and lamented that it did not exist here. There are a few indian/curry places, many kebab shops and at least 3 thai restaurants in town though. I didn't realise how awesome NZ was with the asian food, but it makes sense as we have much higher asian population and are much closer to Asia.
Basically this meant that my roll-your-own-sushi was the best sushi they'd had. Or so they told me (well Voltron said it was very nice and Mytholder said it was best ever after prompting). I will *so* organise it again. I will also sort out doing some thai cooking. Must ask Dad to ask Mum for recipes for me. Plus, I can't exactly go to Mum's shop and get it free here. Ahh, well. Is good for me to learn more cooking.
Mytholder also came over and had leftovers for lunch with us. It's nice having a friend. We are willing to bargain for friendship with food. Mytholder said one of his flatmates will be susceptible to offers of home cooked food. I may be able to get to go to Fota for free!
Also went shopping with a girl I met at Hostel. However, she is not used to shopping with others and I wanted to go underwear shopping. You need a certain type of friend to go underwear shopping with. Mainly, someone who gets as excited about cute underwear as you do. She said she liked the stuff, but none of it was in her size and so she didn't really get into it. It made me miss my girly friends so much! I even told Mytholder (he was a prearranged friend, thanks morgue!) and he said he will see what he can do.
Anyhoo, I've made a silly girly album on facebook. It has cute food, sylvanians and my underwear purchases on it. I just *know* you're dying to see it, well, some of you anyway ;)
Point of Fashion: Stripy Pjs
Current Obsession: desire for comments and I have a job interview tomorrow!!!