Kite runner

I finally finished the kite runner it's a bookcrossing bookray I've been reading since October. I'm unsure about it. I found the discriptions very vivid and at times very uncomfortable. there were a few points when I had to put the book down and do nice things as it was making me feel quite depressed. But on the other hand it sucked me in and made me have these emotions for the characters, which has got to be good writing.
Today I have started The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling which my sister sent me for Christmas. I'm guessing it'll be a bit lighter!

Christmas in Adelaide

Merry Christmas

I spent Christmas with Liam's family and up in the Adelaide hills, we opened a few bigger presents at home and then took the car up the hill to have more present opening and a scrumptious lunch. We had Turkey AND roast pork with roasted stuffed pumpkin, beer bread, roast vegies, purple cabage and the most important cauliflower cheese. after all that food we went for a cooling dip in the pool and I tried out my new rashie (top so stop you getting sunburt when swimming). we chilled out in the evening with the corpse bride dvd, I do love that film.

On boxing day we headed back up to the hills but this time we took our bikes on the train, it's great bikes travel free if there is space. We had lunch with Liams family, amazing chick pea patties but I didn't get the recipe, followed by a bit of wine blending. Liams' sister and her husband were flying out today so we waved them off and set off on our bikes, soon we were going down Shepards hill road past Marion and on to Brighton beach, the beach was really busy and I felt free wheeling was cheating so we followed the coast around to glenelg and took a wiggly bike path back to Richmond rd in the city. All up we rode more than 20km and I am thinking of investing in bike shorts with some padding!!

Lamb Rogan Josh

Ok as I'm atempting to keep track of recipes that work,
I cooked this today and it came out tasty!
It's from Bowl Food I cycled down to the Indian Spice Centre on Goodwood Rd. They have really cheep bulk spices and so many amazing things it was hard to stick to the shopping list.

Rogan Josh
1kg bonned leg of lamb
1 tbs ghee or oil
2 onions chopped
1/2 cup plain yoghurt
1tsp chilli powder
1tbs ground corriander
2tsp ground cumin
1tsp ground cardamom
1/2tsp ground cloves
1tsp ground turmeric
3 cloves garlic crushed
1tbs grated fresh ginger
400g crushed tomato
30g Slivered almonds

1. Chop Lamb into 1 in cubes trim off excess fat.

2.Heat oil in large pan, Cook onion for 5 min until soft.
Add yoghurt, spices, garlic, ginger, tin of tomato and 1 tsp salt, simmer for 5 min

3 Add lamb, stir well till all coated. cook over low heat for 1-1.5 hours until meat is tender (my meat was quite fatty so seemed to take a while to become tender, I cooked for 3.5 hours) Remove lid and simmer until liquid thickens.

4.Toast some almonds to sprinkle over the top.


This was a nice spicy-ness for me,
the recipe also said to add 1 tsp garm masala once cooking finished mixing well and serve with almonds and fresh corriander, but I abandoned the recipe and just served it with the almonds.