the first thing i need to catch up on is the international ingredient fest. this week the ingredient is cheese.
about a week ago i ate the most delicious food in a local restaurant. I took my husband out for a belated birthday meal. My entree was fresh figs stuffed with goats cheese and wrapped in prosciutto. It also had some other ingredients which I can't remember now...it was the gin and tonic I had before that made me forget! Anyway, I decided to give it a go. So here is my version...sans photos.
cut a fresh fig vertically down the middle, but not all the way. place a large teaspoon on goat's cheese in the middle..or a blue cheese would be nice too. Squish it together, then wrap a slice of prosciutto around the fig. Place it in the oven for about 10 minutes on about...I don't know?? maybe 180 degrees C. Just keep on checking to see if it looks ready. Don't burn the prosciutto. I then drizzled the fig with balsamic vinegar.
I never liked cheese as a child, but quite happily eat most types all the time now.
Secondly I've been tagged by Kate for another meme. This one is about how weird I am! well, 6 things at least. I don't want to sound like I'm the perfect woman, but I am having trouble finding 6 things. i am sure if I phoned my family and friends, they could each name a dozen. After reading a few of other peoples weird things, I began to recognise some similarity. Perhaps we are not so weird after all. So here are a few.
9 out of 10 times when I walk up or down stairs, I have to count them...even in my own house.
If I walk somewhere on a path regularly, I will start to count things on the way.
I like eating vegemite and honey on toast. I don't know of anyone else who eats this combination. But there is a nice sweet and savoury flavour about it.
I only like drinking super cold milk. If a glass has been poured for me and left on the table for more than a few minutes, I don't enjoy it.
I get really annoyed when lights are left on in the house for no reason. I go through stages where I try to enter a room and not use the lights. Especially if I just need to grab something and leave. i say to myself, people who lived before electricity were able to do it so why can't I? But then I will leave my computer on for several hours throughout the day and don't see it as a problem even though it is wasting electricity.
I always have to wash my hands after going grocery shopping and now make my children do the same thing. Its like I can feel the dirt on my hands from the trolley. But I can go to other shops and not feel the same.
I love colour coding my books. As you look at the spines they are mostly colour coded. So I can have a book about quilting next to a book about typography. It is really difficult to find something when I'm in a hurry but i like the look of it.
there you go..that was 6. I did it.
Thirdly, I also wanted to thank Paula again for sending my a Marie Claire idees mag and the most beautiful soap. Both of which I adore but I am having trouble getting here in Australia.
And lastly I drove 3.5 hours yesterday to pick up my kids from their grandparents house. Here are a few images from the drive. We laughed to Charlie and Lola the entire trip home.