nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Neon cupcake)
So it turns out that sometimes I can make chocolatey things that are too rich for eating in one go. I made a chocolate fudgy mousse from Stephanie's Cook's Companion for dessert last night (it a) not having cream, b) not needing cooling then icing, and me not having all the ingreidents for [livejournal.com profile] exiledinpn's flourless chocolate brownies). It doesn't have very many ingredients - chocolate, 4 eggs, unsalted butter and a tiny bit of sugar.

I served it in [livejournal.com profile] maudlinrose's big wine glasses—the ones that hold about half a bottle of wine each. The mousse would have been maybe a quarter of the glass; none of us finished it. Done again, I would serve it in something much smaller to more people, possibly with a tiny amount of vanilla ice cream.

The mousse followed a delicious mushroom risotto. I got a half-full supermarket bag of mushrooms from one of my workmates, so I still have some to play with. Guess what we're having for dinner tomorrow night?

And boosting the signal: LiveJournal's DDoS and Russian Politics. This is why I'm not as enraged about livejournal's outages as I would be otherwise.

If you're thinking about shifting over to dreamwidth, I have a couple of codes to give away—let me know if you're interested.
nishatalitha: image: girl doing a cartwheel on a bench.  ferns in foreground that look like koru (Cartwheel)
Home!

I have a fair number of photos to sort through and post at some point (flickr account upgrade here I come); none from today because I couldn't find the spare batteries for my camera and decided it wasn't important enough to replace them. I both missed the camera and was glad I didn't have it when I stood out on the viewing platform. Not having it made me actually look at what I was seeing, rather than in photos. And I saw a hawk against the tussok grass gliding on an updraft, and I don't think I'd have seen it if I was taking photos, so I feel good about that.

Train trip back was good, although running a fairly consistent half hour late. Northern side of the moutains were all hidden under cloud, but after we left National Park, heading south, Mt Ruapehu was clear and glorious. There were these Australian tourists from Cairns exclaiming over how much snow was on it and I kept thinking that that was nothing compared to winter.

New World Metro at the Railway Station was closing as I got there 7.45pm ish, so I took my suitcase on wheels and rolled it up Molesworth St against the wind to Thorndon to buy bread and cheese and pesto and chicken for dinner. Got home about 8.30pmish.

Came home, saw [livejournal.com profile] tamarillow and Tobias, cuddled Jemima, took my dinner and went to catch up on five days worth of lj and emails. Jemima followed me into my room, but she still hasn't forgiven me for going away in the first place and is doing her usual stay relatively close but not actually be in contact thing that she does.

I have five rows of tabs to work my way through. At least I don't go back to work for another week.

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