And yet more printing

The last week of printing before xmas and experiments in colour! 

More Printing

Christmas Prep

Trying to be organised for Christmas now the family birthdays are over...

My annual calendar has been ordered; this year is architecture in Aberdeen and Scotland. Featuring drawings and paintings of places I know or visited in 2019.

I am also upping the ante by using my new printmaking skills to create a christmas card design. Alistair likes to keep things traditional so I am going with a linocut of a robin. Bird prints seem to be super popular in my printmaking class.

My mother in law has already made her christmas cake but I usually go for a dundee cake, which is lighter and does not require icing, or making massively in advance.

Does anyone else do any christmas making?

A week of Eastern European food

I got lots of Eastern European, mainly Polish, food in this week. Its a great cookery project because it is really different and not a cuisine I have eaten before.

First meal was chicken schnitzel with potato rosti and brined gherkins. Flatten chicken breasts brutally and then dip in egg and tgen garlicky herby breadcrumbs. Fry and finish off in hot oven. I bought the rosi. The checken was delicious, the gherkins tasted like very salty gherkins.

Second meal was mushroom and saurkraut stuffed pierogi with sour cream, bacon and onion topping. I bought all these. Must say I preferred the cheese pierogi. Pierogi are like chunkier, chewier ravioli.
For pudding pancakes stuffed with soft cheese and raisins, with tea to drink, which were great.

I picked up loads of interesting foods and ingredients for this just in my normal supermarket.

Wee shops, Old Aberdeen

I liked these quirky shops in a pair of small buildings in Old Aberdeen. Also they are not pretentious but an Indian takeaway and a barbers, the sort of useful shops people need. I saw these through the window of a very nice cafe, slightly hipster, over the road where we were having lunch.