My days now are filled with lots of cooking, baking and looking for new recipes. Ocasionally I venture to actually delve into my online Swedish language tutorials and learn something new. A good thing about Swedish TV is that for all English programs they broadcast, there will always be Swedish subtitles. So the fact that I LURVE to watch TV helps me to learn a lot of Swedish.
The only problem is that now I know how to SPELL the words...still can\t SPEAK Swedish.
ARGH!! This is so frustrating.
But I do know that learning anything new takes time. A good thing about learning Swedish is that I can at least read the letters. That's a step in the right direction.
I really miss the jemput-jemput pisang my mum used to make for me cos it's my favourite snack. So the other day, I pulled out some bananas that we had bought a few days before just cos it was cheap (we tend to do that a lot..hee!), and decided to make jemput-jemput. It was sooooo good!! Mmm... I missed them so much. Well, at least now I know that I can have them almost anytime I want.
If only bananas weren't so expensive here. Hai...
At least my mother in law is not allergic to them. She just doesn't like them. I didn't realise that she doesn't like bananas so I made some of those jemput-jemput when we went to their house on Saturday and she tried one to be nice but I knew she didn't like the bananas. Oh well.
She is allergic to nuts though. So what did I do but give her something with nuts right?
Cos on sunday when we went to the Christmas market, we decided to sit down and eat some snacks just before heading home. We ate delicious saffron buns and juice and I whipped out some chocolates that I always keep in my bag. Passed Mathias some caramel chocolate bar and handed my mum in law the bigger, better chocolate bar that tastes really good.
You know, I thought I'd be nice to her and try to get into the good mother in law books just to keep the peace. Just something I've learnt from living with my mum and seeing my sis in laws and the many trials and tribulations of being married into a family like mine.
Anyway, I handed her the chocolates which she happily took (the lady likes her chocs and candies) and I took a square from the bar too.
The moment I popped it into my mouth and looked down at the wrapping, I realised that it contained hazelnuts! DAMN!!
My eyes grew wide and I turned to Mathias and almost screamed 'Your mum is allergic!! There're nuts in there!'
UGH! First I made her eat the fruit she hates and then I try and poison her with some geat tasting nutty chocolates.
WHY?? WHY?? Hai...
Note to self: Try not to kill your husband's own mother. Especially when she's innocent. It helps one to keep the peace.