Schneeeee...

So, finally after like 2 weeks or so temperatures once again great  hehe... great meaning no longer in minus...for these two days, so i know... so for now... minus temp is horrible...  and so today we went to make my first man-size snowman ;)

littke did i know thst its not so easy to make a big one.... i realise snowballs ARE heavy.
yea. when they are half a metre in diameter they are. duh. ok. welcome to reality.  so it takes twoo to heave up that big ball to form the body on the other ball..n last a smaller one for the head... phew... much work...

cos orson's still too small, we didn't too much others.... M pulled us a bit on the wooden sledge for fun...lying down on the soft snow was also pleasant... the softest mattress i laid on ;p

its really a reaally cold year this year as min in zuerich hits low of -10C... and the temps must dip so low just whn we came home from summer malaysia....such a shock... well... at least now anything above 0 feels good...

M is gonna make my birthday cake weeee... at least he promised. and he already starting to buy the needed ingreduents hehe... nevermind the results... he has not made any major celebration cakes before so this is quite a challenge... well...the recipe looks simple at least.... major caloric cake... with a total of 350gm of chocs, 250gm of honey, 250 gm butter, 5 yolks... no wonder its called the dreamland aka fantasyland torte....

and shopping update... i now add Fogal to my list of Likes...  really fine stuff... well...Wolford and Falken are fine as well really  really... Europe is the perfect place to get em socks... tho i've seen a Wolford store in Marina Bay Mall, Singapore and HK listed in Fogals website...

well  gotta prep dinner now... looking forward to the moms meeting in Baden tmr ;) just joined this group online to meet moms... more bout the group next time ;)

Welcoming 2012 !!

Year ended with me baking... like how i wanted it to be haha...

Last night i put my last decoration on the Black Forest Roll, i call it the Schwarzwälder Kirshrouladen :p
adapted with minor changes from Aunty Yochana's recipe 

Like cos i don't have certain things la.. like corn oil i mana ada punya... we have all other oils but none of that... even rarer items like pumpkin seed oil, walnut oil also got but don't have corn oil.. so that got replaced with melted butter..

and cake flour? er... none.. only some all-purpose thingy called white flour here... weizenmehl or something.. or was it weiss mehl? hm.. forgotten.. nevermind... so replaced a small portion with corn flour cos i think i read somewhere some people do that... i have forgotten the science behind it though.. will have to read it again some other time..

my mother never baked or never did bake a successful roll.. which we all call swiss roll.. but they only call it rouladen here to mean a roll... and US call it jelly roll or something...


Aunty Yochana's roll came out looking great, duh obviously.. cos she has so much experience and good skills...her recipe worked fine.. i only hoped that there were more tips on rolling that damn thing...

well u see... whipped cream, even fortified with some gelatine is creamy and soft... so imagine rolling like a sushi... u are effectively applying pressure to the poor cream, causing it to like come out in all the wrong place, squeezing it and all... oh gosh such a mess i must say...

and then i didn't check the size of the tray used to bake it.. well... mine's bigger...so i have a longer roll...n the cream amount wasn't enough..forced to go out to search at 7evening, a time when the closer stores are already closed..sigh..shal skip the talk on my struggle but finally found an open Coop, just opposite the Hauptbahnhof alive and swarming with fellow humans.. phew..

quite a number of tourists there also.. its obvious when they buy those Lindt chocs made for tourists...mostly small pieces of squares, individually wrapped with pic of switzerland.. mountains mostly..  why people buying those ordinary milk choc i dunno la... ther's so much more than that..but well if u have many friends what can one do????

 

And my 2012 resolutions??

1. Master German

2. Be more patient... esp at that lil baby who only comprehends baby language...

3. Be more responsible, not leave things lying around our small lil flat.. not create a mess at home..

4. Be better at cleaning.... like not leave some smudges uncleaned at the bottom of the plate...

5. Take less time to make up my mind so that i waste less precious moments pondering the time away...

Now i should motivate myself to clean our table before our Sunday brunch... :p 

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