A BLAST FROM THE PAST #1

I watched "La Haine" for the first time in 1997 with my boyfriend of the time, a total arsehole with only one redeeming quality: good taste in movies. Since then I've watched it many times. Still, it gets to me everytime as if it were the first. Definitely one of my favourite films.

CHICKEN WINGS AND FRENCH TOAST

Tommy had the brilliant idea to make French toast out of a panettone Giulia brought back at Christmas. So good!!! It also works well as a base for trifle. We get so much panettone over Christmas that after a while we have to come up with alternative ideas to finish them off :)

On Friday night, after two pints at the Wheterspoons near the office, I was not only starving, but also craving chicken wings... We ended up at Yildiz on Blackstock Road. When Giulia and Tommy found out where I was, they rushed down, too. We had chicken wings, lamb ribs, liver, turkish sausage, salads, dips and scrumptious bread basted in the juices of the (real charcoal) barbecue meat. Very satisfactory and reasonably priced :)

SATURDAY

Fun (and a bit blurry) memories of Saturday night...




As usual, nothing comes up to Crouch End when it snows, so I had to walk part of the way home...

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ME HAPPY...

... get me bagels from Brick Lane!




Thanks Tommy :)

CUPCAKES NIGHT :)

Tonight I went over to my sister's for Red Velvet cupcakes. There is this myth that onceI had 10 of them, but it's not true... I had 7. I went for a blood test the following day and the results were all out of kilter. Apparently these Magnolia-style cupcakes are 400 calories each. They are like bombs... I can't believe I had 2,800 calories in one session, haha! Tonight Giulia and I were very good and had only one each. Tommy was even better than us and had none! She'll have hers tomorrow. I cannot resist them when they are just out of the oven.

SAN FRANCISCO / OCTOBER 11