donn on the mountain

Heading home in a couple weeks. I have my reasons to head back home and I just think that it’ll be better for me in the long run. So.. I’m looking real forward to seeing everyone, especially my kids! I miss Charles and Sophie so much.

So today for lunch I made a tomato cream soup which was REALLY good. I normally don’t like to congratulate myself on my cooking but it was great. Also, I don’t usually eat my own food after cooking, but I tore that shit up lol. Entree’s included spaeztle with vegetables and beef and onions in oyster cream sauce over pasta.

I finished writing my menu.. actually almost finished. I sent it out to a couple of my friends to see if I should change anything. Trying to get a tasting going when I get back to promote my stuff. Menu will be posted up for everyone to see soon. Then everyone can tell me what they think yeah? =]

Tomato Cream Soup

6 tomates roughly chopped, 2 onions roughly chopped, 2 carrots roughly chopped, 1 bunch basil, 5 cloves garlic, chicken stock, cream, salt, pepper, sugar to taste, olive oil.

start with the olive oil in the pot. throw in the onions and carrots and garlic, salt and pepper. sweat it out then toss in the tomatos and basil. cook for 5mins. throw in chicken stock and bring to a boil, then let it simmer. toss in cream and blend. adjust flavor with sugar salt and pepper. you can pass it through a chinois for a finer soup.

Today I made a bolognese with penne pasta. Rosti with vegetables and demi. Soup was potato and leek cream soup. Soup was pretty darn good. The bolognese was also. Speaking of bolognese, I want to get a bichon bolognese as my next dog. Then get a english bulldog. Charlie and Sophie would have so much fun =].

I’m about to make a CD for the restaurant. SO tired of listening to Elvis, Tracy Chapman, West Life and Anastacia. Nothing against them, just having to hear them every single day since I’ve been here is starting to wear me thin.

Carnival is coming up soon. Three weeks of partying. Hopefully I will get to do some partying here. Having noone here as a friend cept for the likes of Claus will make it hard. Being that he has a kid and all I’m sure he wouldn’t be able to go out lik that yeah?

Finally got a bulb that’ll actually fit my table lamp I purchased at the second hand store here. I think I bought around 30 Swiss Francs worth of bulbs to get one to fit haha. Anyways today is my day off from work and I’ve done nothing, feels good. I bought Terminator Salvation to watch along with a two movies in one, The Rock and Con Air. Terminator was okay.. they need to do a reboot with a  whole new storyline for it. John Conner meeting his teenage dad reminded me of Don’t be a Menace. Totally took me out of the movie.

I think the things I miss the most about home beside friends and family of course is the food. I miss having A1 Bold n Spicy and of course fried chicken. The beer situation also. I’ve grown accustomed to mixing a citrus soda with my beer. From what I’m told it’s very normal for people to do that. My buddy at work Claus first suggested it to me. It’s not bad. I do miss having a Miller Light though, or Blue Moon, Yuengling, Dog Fish, Beaver. All this beer talk’s making me thirty.

I had an interesting conversation with a friend last night. She’s awesome =] Little onion you.

Why is it on my days off it usually rains or snows here. I’m supposed to go to St. Gallen to go watch Green Hornet in 3D today but it’s not looking promising. Been having a rough couple of weeks here and I just need to I don’t know.. I need a stress reliever. Listening to Mum’s We Have a Map of the Piano helps. If you’ve never heard please do it’s a great song. I’ll even post a link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDb8hduT584 there.

The bartenders that worked at the club where I was at for new years was in the restaurant the other day and told me to stop by this saturday night for drinks. I think I will be doing that. I am gonna take every possible chance to get shit faced to make my days be a little bit better or go by faster.

I can’t wait to go home. I will be deleting some people out my life that’s for sure. I think life is like a wooden block. You keep carving away at it and eventually you’ll have something nice to look back on. My wooden block still needs some carving done. sigh.

I’ve been getting 4-7hr sleeps since I’ve been here. Fucking beat man. I have no idea why I keep doing this shit. And it’s not like I sleep for a full seven hours either, I’ll wake up every so often and it’ll take me about 30mins to go back to bed. Gotta find a resolution to this bullshit.

I’m going to the zoo today with Claus, our waiter, and his family. Totally excited to see monkeys. Plus I’m actually doing something on a sunday. Been down and out lately so this’ll be a good break from all that thinking.

I sketched out a plan for the patio area I wanted to do at home while I was at work today. It was that slow. Nothing new going on with work. Same shit different toilet. I haven’t really been going out since there’s not much to do except ski here. There will be a “carnivale” type thing going on here in a couple weeks which I’m looking forward to. I heard it lasts for 5-8weeks. Everyone will be coming out from the woodworks. That’ll be cool. Alrighty.. off to find the mythical clitoris.

I walked to the train station here and bought me a ticket to St. Gallen today. Much busier city than Alstaetten. It I had a Georgetown vibe, but not as busy and its a lot bigger. I walked around town. Stopped in H&M, Esprit, and some italian clothes store. I bought some movies to watch while at home to pass the time. GI Joe, Be Cool, Half Baked, Irobot, Something About Mary, Halloween. Fun stuff. Also got me some red Adidas sandals John would be jealous of. I had plans to watch an american movie in europe but that didn’t happen. They only had one movie and I didn’t want to watch it, The Tourist. Next time I’m gonna check out the nightlife there. I heard it was fun.

jamesnord:

I might have organized my bookcase by color, but Ralph Lauren one-ups everyone by doing the same to his his car collection. See them all here

 OMG I’m in love!

Had me a pitcher of sangria at work =] It was leftover from NYE. Hot shit! I tried ostrich for the first time tonight. It tastes like beef. Quick seared it rare, scared it was gonna be too lean to cook to medium rare. Really good though.

I made an awesome sandwich in my head. I gotta try it when I get back home. Unless someone else wants to try it and tell me how it goes. Here’s the recipe:

White fish in flour then batter. batter consists of 1/2 flour, 1/2 cornstarch, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, soda water or beer, fry til golden brown. I’m thinking a nice piece of cod will do. Skin off of course.

Old Bay Aioli - mayo, lemon juice, minced garlic and onion, salt, pepper, chopped chives or parsley, old bay. mix in a bowl and set aside.

Toasted french baguette, mixed greens inside along with the aioli and battered fish.

Ahhhh I want it so bad. Shit just sounds good yeah? Yeaaaaah…

I made cream of broccoli soup today. Sweated onions, add broccoli and chicken stock. cream. salt, papper.. puree. We had gorgonzola raviolis, sirloin with fries and herb butter, pork loin with fries and jus. Pretty good lunch, house was packed.

Also went to Swisscom to add minutes to my phone and internet. Sucks that I’m still prepaying for internet man. I should be up and running with the house wireless soon. Bought me Ocean’s 12 to watch. I love this damn movie. I can watch it for hours on end.

I’ll be making the trip down to Monte Carlo in May for the Monaco Formula 1 race. It’ll be nice. Taking the train down to Milan and spend a day there. Then continue onto Monte Carlo. F1, beach, casino all in one place. I think I might just stay there forever hehe. Hoping I’ll win enough for it to be a free trip.

I will be doing ravioli w/ steamed veggies for the vegetarian dish. Will be doing pork w/ onions, bell peppers and a apple-demi, wild rice. Vegetable soup because I’m lazy. Prepped the gumbo and jambalaya stuff so I can start doing it tomorrow. Fun shit!