Today I'm coming home!!! Well, technically tomorrow. My flight leaves at 1am Melbourne time (almost 10pm now, yay!) and I'll be back in Toronto by noon on the 22nd. It's been such a fantastic three months and I'm sad to leave some good friends behind (I'm afraid I have more friends in Melbourne now than I do in Toronto) but I can't wait to get home and see everyone for the holidays.
I'm sure you didn't see this one coming, but KM and KM2 had me over last Sunday for Mexican night and Christmas Cookie Making. These two don't do anything halfway. They made their own tortillas. Yes, they own a tortilla press thingy. It was a feast. Cerviche, shrimp tacos, guacamole, margaritas (my contribution was squeezing the limes), and a great mango salsa. So good.
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| This is Kunoh (I know I spelled that wrong) - KM and KM2's cat and a very important family member |
Then came the Christmas Cookie Making Spectacular. KM pulls the dough she's already made out of the fridge (apparently you have to chill dough so you can roll it better) and finds the special pastry rolling sheet and rolling pin (what don't these two have?) and then pulls out the cookie cutters. I was shocked. Their "Christmas Cookie Cutters" consist of bats, pumpkins, horses, a goose, a cactus, a palm tree, a lobster, a couple other barnyard animals, and - wait for it - one little Christmas tree. Well. There's nothing you can't turn into Christmas with a little Kris Kringle Spirit, and turn those animals and bats and dessert plants into Christmas we did! My personal favourite was turning the horse into a carousel horse. Somehow that seemed more festive. We brought the cookies to work and they were devoured in minutes.
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| This was how I felt about the lobster cookie cutter before I got in the Kris Kringle Spirit |
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