Cooking .... under pressure.

Pressure cookers rock! Everybody who knows me knows I love cooking. There is something almost spiritual about taking a shiny 20cm long cooks knifes and chopping onions. Anyway Nan bought me a pressure cooker for my 32nd birthday and I have never looked back. It is the perfect geek ( who loves to cook toy ). It's got buttons and locks and switches and makes lots of hissing noises and almost seems dangerous. But the killer is that you can make a super good tagine or curry in about 10 minutes. And there is nothing better to keep a pregnant woman happy than a steaming hot bowl of cooked potatoes and onions done in a creme sauce.



Recipe:

• Some potatoes
• Some onions
• Lots of garlic. Go all out with 5 cubes
• A couple of carrots
• Maybe some mushrooms.
• Parsley.
• Desert spoon of vegetable stock powder ( No glutamate please! )
• Heaped teaspoon of paprika
• Half teaspoon of ginger
• 1/3 cup of creme
• 2/3 cup of water

Cuts the vegies CHUNKY! Onions and Potatoes at the bottom. Carrots and mushies on top. Chop parsley and put on top of vegies.

Mix stock powder, paprika, ginger, creme, water in a glass. Should come to a bit over 1/4 litre. Mix it well then pour over the vegies.

Then let the pressure cooker do it's thing for 5-10 minutes or so. Then watch everyone appear magically in the kitchen wanting some :)

Oh and I just went and saw Narnia : TLTWATW. I liked it but it seemed a bit weak in places as if it needed to be filled out a bit. Peter Jackson did the right thing in making LOTR into a three part movie. Perhaps that would have helped a bit. Still it was nice to revisit one of my childhood books made semi-real. Oh and I can't believe I never got the religious connection before. Its the whole Passion of Christ thing done in a slightly more entertaining way than Mad May ever could have achieved.

Cia B

Mum has gone back to Australia

A sad and happy day here in Vienna. My very great Mum has left after a great three week visit. We had loads of fun playing in the snow, climbing mountains and visiting all the family. Perhapps some more pics and info later. 

Ultrasound photos

As I promised here are the ultrasound photo's of my baby daughter to be. She seems to be sleeping at the moment but generally is pretty active :) 

It's a girl!

Had the final ultrasound on Monday and even though we had decided not to ask the sex of the baby when we finally got there and saw the amazing pictures on the screen we could not help but ask the doctor to tell us. It was really the best thing to know as now I feel just that little bit closer to her. She has some form and personality. Evelyn has the pleasure of feeling her kick almost everyday, mostly just as a meal starts and today she got all excited when she heard some dogs barking. I have just once been lucky enough to have by hand on Evelyn's belly when little baby kicked and it was so cool.

If I can I'll post the ultrasound pics here somehow.