It's all been too busy, too fast. I had a horrible hissing fit in the Fazer cafe when it all got too noisy and chaotic on friday. Last week was the work week from hell where I did too many hours, didn't get enough sleep, drank too much and got up the next day and tried to do it all again.
That's not to say it didn't have highlights: Visiting Kallio church for the first time, getting a great bargain when buying mushrooms at Helsinki Kauppatori, wandering around the woods on Sunday, a nice glass of wine and some lovely egg fried noodles.
Tonight has been another chance to relax in the kitchen and the chance came around to cook a risotto. Tonights version was
Chanterelle and Pea risotto
This is one advantage of living in Finland: fresh peas and fresh chanterelles in the market. No one in England is going to be able to make this dish so improvise.
I cooked the mushrooms slowly in a little olive oil and garlic and added the fresh peas to cook them lightly. Once done I set aside. Then I made the risotto in the usual way except I added sme chilli to the sofrito which it must be said should only be used in an extremely limited way as it can easily overwhelm everything else. Then I added a good dollop of creme fraiche towards the end and a small handfull of fresh mint from the garden. This could have been a lot bigger especially I was borderline generous with the chilli. The result was very pleasan and very easy.
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There's a list of movies building up to be seen - one disadvantage of being so busy is you just don't go often enough.
*The Dark Night. I still can't stop laughing everytime I think that the Finnish title translates as The Night Knight.
*Once
*Wall E - I wasn't interested but the reviews have been good so maybe I could do with a bucket of schmaltz?
*X Files - yes a trip down memory lane and a guilty pleasure. Anyway David Duchovny was always nice to look at.
*The Clone Wars. I'm of that generation. Full Stop.
However with movie nights back on a Thursday I'm not sure when I'll get to see any of these. Hmm. A puzzle.
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Am off to France at the weekend and hope to be able to drink some nice French wine and maybe bring a few bottles home....
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I'll put up Wall-E in Movie Nights, and I'll lend you Once on DVD if you don't have time to see it in the movies :) As far as The X-Files and The Clone Wars are concerned, however, you're on your own :D We saw a trailer for the latter before The Night Knight (*giggle*), and it looks like a poorly made computer game.
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