Housekeeping
News in Brief:
1. We finally got some new chairs. After being unable to find any that we both liked (for over a year) we found some at last! Check these babies out, there are six of them gracing our home. Now, all we need to do is strip the table and stain it to match:
2. My husband recently went to Vancouver and the Island for a business thing, and look what he brought back for me. Ooh! Some lovely Garam Masala! What a guy. That was certainly the way to my heart, I'd much rather receive cooking stuff than, say, chocolates.
3. Check out this outrageous salad. I can't stop eating these things, although I keep gobbling up all the candied pecans. (Note the plain ones below.) Yum, yum, yum. Go here to view the candied pecan recipe.
4. Have a gander at these divine napkin rings my Mom sent me a couple weeks ago. Aren't they just the bee's knees? My porcelain (which I purchased DIRT CHEAP in the Czech Republic and lugged onto busses, trains and planes, through the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and Germany) has little blue bugs around the edges of it.... sounds awful but it is actually so beautiful. So these little whimsical dragonfly napkin rings were just perfect, ideal. Here they are, for your delectation:
10 Fellow Bletherers:
May I come over sit in one of your new chairs, eat some of that salad and Indian cuisine, and use one of those rockin' napkin rings?
dido..
Gwen i love all that you have.
i have a nice recipe for Garam Masala...i will find it for you. Not that it competes with the one your husband brought back..tin and all..very nice. good job Mr.Gwen!!
Amy - yes! We'll discuss hotties and babes of the OT.
Joni - great, I have an okay recipe for G.M. but I would like an even better one. Do you actually roast the whole spice properly, then grind it together? I know I'm supposed to, but the thought of grinding heaps of cumin and coriander seeds is too daunting, so I just sort of roast all the pre-ground spices together. Lazy bones!
Beautiful chairs!! I love the fact that you use the term "bee's knees" and I say "cat's ass".
I love your napkin rings, very pretty! The only thing I lugged out of Prague was 2 mugs(one the handle has broken and I can't part with) and a little decanter bottle with a cubic zirconia on the lid(it's the cat's ass)...it only sits little over an inch high.
Someday I will return to get some finer things.
Have a great day!!
the ebony stained we just used for our bannisters would match(I'm pretty certain) to your chair.
Its Minwax Ebony #2718
Perfect! Thanks for the tip Jenny!
I purchased the porcelain in a little village in the Czech Rep., and the saleslady was totally giving me the brush off. (I was 18, after all.) When I said I'd like to buy it -- a setting for six, with complete serving dishes, soup tureen, S&P, the works -- she wouldn't wrap it up until I actually paid for it.
Actually I feel a bit bad now, since it cost the equivalent of about $200 CDN, and it's worth many times that. I was a spoiled, "rich" westerner!
Excuse me for my atrocious grammer! Ughh....
Oh another thing....I can't believe you lugged your porcelain around with you!
We had a beautiful ceramic fish platter that we bought in Spain for Scott's brother's girlfriend at the time that we carried with us, carefully wrapped in socks and underwear. I loved it, and should have listened to my gut when I wanted to keep it,because the brother and girlfriend broke up and I've never seen the wonderful spanish fish plate anymore...
Yeah, no kidding, I should have mailed it back to Canada, but typically I had no money.
I was on a bus from Brno to Vienna, and they stopped me at the border. They took my Cdn passport into their little station and kept it there for the longest time; the bus driver got out and they were all talking for ages. Then one of the border guards came into the bus and demanded something; obviously I didn't understand a word so I just sat there. Then (after a lot of getting on and off the bus, and a lot more questions) the border guard finally came up to me on the bus and gestured for me to come outside.
Very scary.
Of course it turned out to be okay, I didn't have to pay anybody, but it was a bit freaky. Plus I did not make any friends on the bus, I think they were all still pretty intimidated by border guards from the Communist era.
Anyway, to make a long story short (TOO LATE!) I eventually made it all the way through the above mentioned countries, and back to Canada, without one single piece breaking. One day I will go back and see if I can get more matching pieces for a 10-place setting. (I'll probably pay a billion Euros nowadays, times have sure changed in the C.R.!)
Shame about the fish plate. Perhaps you should google her, find out where she is and go after it.
I know where she is! We still see her when we go back to Jaffray.
That's one of my regrets is not buying any more of the beautiful Spanish pottery. I love their plates, bowls...
I guess that means I should be planning a trip to Spain sometime soon!!LOL
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