Muuh Mooo Milk Issue
Nov 15, 2010 ~ filed under: A-life & Delicious & English ~ 0 comments »
I thought my lactose intolerance had vanished. After a long strict diet and 18 months later I could eat milk products without having a bloated belly, without skin rashes and all that. I never touched fresh (raw) milk again, because I was now used to soy milk and didn’t really like cow’s milk any longer, but I enjoy eating cheese and cakes, ice cream and (milk-)chocolates again.
Until yesterday! 
It was a beautiful Sunday. We went for a walk at the beach and felt like ice-cream! It is weird, but we’re living the Australian dream, at the Indian Ocean coast or let’s say in a coastal city where the life happens outdoors, but there are so few ice-cream shops! Hardly any! When I think of my small town back home…I immediately know of at least three ice-cream shops.
Well…we found a beach kiosk and bought a Cornetto and a Magnum (better than nothing). Having a proper fresh ice-cream shop by the beach seems to be luxury down here. I really miss it.
Well…we went for a long stroll along the beach, sat down by the water and watched the kids play in the water. Then we went to a park nearby to continue our walk there.
All of a sudden I got lower belly cramps. They were so strong I had to hold my breath and stop walking; stop moving at all. My belly was totally bloated. The mister felt it and thought it was so hard and felt like I was a few months pregnant. I was in pain! We left the park and stopped at a supermarket, but I could not walk any further, so we had to drive home. I spare you with more details, but it seemed that it was the ice-cream that my stomach could not take. So weird, because I had a coffee with thickened cream and cow’s milk at my friend’s house just a few days ago….and my insides didn’t ache.
Maybe I had too many lactose-products lately….maybe Magnum’s are evil. 
[image by Petra Kress/pixelio.de]
Allerlei Gedanken und Bilder zum Sonntag
Oct 31, 2010 ~ filed under: Delicious & Deutsch & Visuelles ~ 10 comments »Ich gucke immer auf die Uhr, wenn es 1:23pm ist.
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Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund.
Wie wahr! Heute morgen Wecker gestellt und runter zum Strand um eine Runde Beachvolleyball zu spielen. War das schoen! Erst zwei gegen zwei gespielt (weiblich: maennlich, 3:1). Dann kamen noch drei Maenner hinzu und es hat dann richtig Spass gemacht. Wir waren auch gar nicht so schlecht. Wir haben zwei Stunden bis 11Uhr gespielt. Dann wurde es schon richtig heiss. Dann Fruehstueck im Cafe neben dem Spielfeld. (Muss beim naechsten Mal Fotos machen.)
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Ostwind. Bring Fliegen mit sich. Macht die Wellen platt und das Meer schoen ruhig; perfekt zum Schwimmen. Dumm nur, dass ich die Erkaeltung noch ein bisl in mir habe und lieber nicht baden gehen sollte. Das Meer ist so selten so schoen ruhig. Ich habe mich geaergert, dass ich nicht reinspringen konnte, bzw. dass mein Verstand diesmal gewonnen hat.
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Happy Halloween!!
(heute auf g00gle Australia zu sehen)
Hier im heissen Perth sieht Halloween (am Strand!) dann so aus:
Man achte auf die Fussbekleidung!
[Danke an die (unbekannte) Familie, die sich fuer ein Foto zur Verfuegung stellte.]
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PiCola quiz (Bilderraetsel):
Bitte MITMACHEN!
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Mein erster selbstgemachter BigMac (naja, vom Maenne gezaubert, aber halt homemade):
Sieht doch sehr authentisch aus, oder
Ich seh etwas daemlich aus, aber nur mal so zum Groessenvergleich.
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Unser “grass tree” im Garten in voller Steife Bluete:
Wenn “das Ding” auf einen drauffaellt, ist man (bestimmt) tot oder mindestens angebrochen, so steif ist das. Dieser Riesenstempel ist nur im Fruehling da, ansonsten ist da nix, was oben aus dem Grass Tree rauskommt. Der scheint also zu verbluehen und abzubrechen. Aua.
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So sah das Meer (am Volleyballfeld) heute morgen aus:
Und einer, der schon fuer “Baywatch” trainiert:
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So, ich bin richtig stolz mein Blog mal wieder haeufiger zu fuettern, aber warum haben denn erst zwei Leute (danke euch schon mal!) bei meiner Umfrage mitgemacht?
Bitte mal rechts in der Seitenleiste auf meinem Blog schauen und kurz mit abstimmen. Ist doch nicht so schwer…daaaaanke! 
Und auch nicht vergessen beim PiCola quiz Bilderraetsel mitzuraten. 
Wuensche noch einen schoenen Sonntag!
What’s ill Cola doing?
Oct 28, 2010 ~ filed under: Delicious & English & Visuelles ~ 3 comments »She’s resting and resting…and resting. Also drinking much green tea with honey. Eating fresh fruit. Went for a short walk today (the mister said I needed some Vitamin D 
). Very windy today, but felt nice.
Came back and had a craving for some baby food and ate a jar of organic pasta bolognese suggested for “month year one to month year five”. 
This reminds me of being back home (in that German land), where I often ate the “HIPP” baby pasta bolognese as a snack. Warm or cold. Very delicious, don’t you think? Same with Semolina – what’s the name for Griessbrei? Semolina mash? Love it, too! Or even better: Semolina soup!
I tried to get up from bed bed to move my tired body a bit and here’s the result:
Date Scones!! 
My version: 3 cups self-raising flour, 150ml lactose free cream and 150ml soy milk, 2 tablespoons raw caster sugar, 1 egg and 1 cup chopped dates. About 12 to 15 minutes at 220ºC (or 200ºC fan-forced).
I’m much better today and decided I’ll go back to work tomorrow. Only one day and then weekend anyway (in case I get worse).
Now the man came home and I will surprise him with my scones.
Intuitive Buys
Sep 25, 2010 ~ filed under: Delicious & English & Visuelles ~ 2 comments »When people ask me if I miss my home (Germany) I usually say ‘no’.
On my way home from work I stopped at an IGA supermarket and only wanted to look if they have “Apfelmus” (apple sauce) how I know it from ‘home’. See with what I came home:
The cookies and the liquorice are a treat for the mister. Same with his beloved sweet chilli sauce…the apple sauce is for my bakings.
Noooo, I don’t miss home.
Good things in life are sweet
Jul 1, 2010 ~ filed under: Delicious & English & Natey&Cola ~ 0 comments »Tootsie roll, Reese’s cup, 100 Grand, Hershey’s kisses, Butterfinger, Reese’s (peanut butter) pieces, 3 Musketeers, Almond Joy….
Can you follow me? Does everyone know what I am talking about? 
AMERICAN CANDY and CHOCOLATE….! I didn’t know that I love it that much! I think I never had it really or I never knew what Nathan grew up on…never really knew which chocolates came from England and which from the States….but now I am hooked!!
Yes, wow, a real competitor to my beloved German chocolate sweets.
Nathan and I were (almost) fighting…no actually we have been fighting over this bag:
A little bit of everything ‘American chocolates’.
It was a little gift from my manager who recently came back from a short holiday in the USA.
You should know that I am not very good at sharing when it is chocolate. When I received the bag I had a night out and Nathan stayed at home. He asked me, if he could have a few pieces. (!!!!)
Pardon? Hello? I just got this bag, don’t even have time to look at it, because I’m going out, and he wants a piece BEFORE I even get to it? NO! Hell, no, how can he even be so brave and ask? 
Well, this caused the first little argument. Haha.
I needed the right moment to take the bag of sweets on my lap, and the right moment to be in the mood for it to eat some. If you know what I mean.
Mr Natey didn’t like this at all. He said I was mean, very mean to say he could not have something from this bag which had all of his childhood favourites in it. He said I cannot leave it lying around, not eating anything. Mean mean mean. *giggle*
How about a bit of self-control Mr CandyPopcornOholic? :P
Well, I didn’t say he could not have anything forever…just for the moment, no.
In the end (I gave in and) he had his first piece before I had my try.
BUT…HE KEPT ASKING FOR MORE AND MORE!!
We argued…a lot…other people argue about important things (like which TV channel to watch, lol), we argue about who can have which kind of chocolate and in which time frame. I mean, if I didn’t control “the USA bag” we would have eaten everything in one go. I want good things to last. My man doesn’t understand why and for what I want to save them for.
Well, maybe to keep the delicious moments for longer than just one or two days? Especially when we cannot just go to the next shop to buy more of these….they don’t sell them here.
I am so bad. I just remembered that it was ME who grew up with a sister and who (should have) learned to share things. Nathan is a single child…but so well behaved and so patient when it comes to sharing. I tell ya, for sure this earth’s chocolate has led to civil wars back then. I am sure! Evil stuff… 
I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY HE WAS SO MAD AT ME….mad for the awesome chocolates. Because – they – are – so – goooood! Australia can go home. England can go home. A lot of countries can go home. American old school chocolates are just so very delicious and special in the taste. How could I have missed trying them the last two time when I was in the States? *wondering*
The Hershey’s kisses with the white chocolate and the cookie pieces in it are just to melt-away! So tiny but so good.
The tootsie roll reminds me of “Toffee” from Germany. Reese’s pieces are so much better than M&M’s (they look the same, but the filling is peanut butter instead of chocolate).
Who would have known that I became such a peanut butter fan?
I haven’t had Nutella for over two years now. Can you believe it?
That is what happens if you live your life with an American cowboy.
Just weird how his mother said to me once that he never had such a craving for sweets? He is madly involved in the choco-sweetness business.
You might not believe it, but we have had the choc bag for a few weeks now and there are still around 12 pieces in it.
Tonight we were a lovely couple and shared an “Almond Joy” chocolate bar. What a joy! 
Yesterday we went food shopping and guess what we saw? A long bar of “Tootsie Roll”, “3 Musketeers”, “100 Grand”, and another one that I forgot the name of; all next to the check-out of an IGA store.
This is brand new. We shop there quite often and they never had those. But now, just now, after we had this American chocolates bag. Weird!!!!