Now I know you have all been waiting with baited breath to find out if my team won the potijkos competition? I hate to break all your hearts, but unfortunately we did not. I’m just going to blame drunk fire fighters for that one. They kept taking the mini-hose on all the chefs thereby killing the fire and causing distraction due to extreme anger and frustration. It’s good to know the city is in safe hands, hey? Anyway, our potjikos was absolutely delicious. Although I like to think that was all my doing, I can barely take any credit for cooking as all I did was hold a spoon and chop mushrooms…on separate occasions (the mushrooms were cut with a knife). We made an asian, chicken noodle type deal. I see why South Africans like potjikos though…it’s the same reason they like braais. They take so long to cook and get the fire just right that you spend most of the time drinking wine and socializing…kind of the perfect meal.
My next excitement of life is the International Food Event. I was originally going to make poutine for this because, really what’s more Canadian than cheese curds with gravy over fries…I’m inclined to say nothing, but bannock probably is…Anyway a fellow Canadian shot down this idea because to make poutine we would have to use baked, frozen fries, from powder gravy and some non-descript white cheese thereby making it not real poutine. Besides that’s really a Central Canada dish and we’re both from the West coast. So after hours of debate we settled on salmon and wild rice, unfortunately we have to settle for local salmon…it’s a little hard to get sockeye around here…mmm sockeye.
Last night, in preparation for the IFE I had an arts and crafts night with myself. I’m not going to lie, that was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I painted a flag and Doug Fir tree as well as making a little hippy beaver sidekick for us potentially named Mike from Canmore, but it’s still up for debate. I’ve never considered myself artistic, but the beaver turned out well…you can tell it’s a beaver and that’s really all I was going for. I even got together a bunch of Canadian music to showcase our country’s talent and came to the conclusion that most of what I listen to is Canadian. How patriotic am I?!? I’m just walking proof that the Canadian content law really works!
Finally, I came to the conclusion that all people should speak in their non-native languages by directly translating from their native tongue, that or without the use of verbs as both ways inflict the same level of hilarious confusion – This revelation brought to you by my new Belgian office mate.
You don't want to stop updating your blog. You gots style - lots.
ReplyDeleteGet the fries from McDonald's. They make great poutine.
If the painting has no moose, it's not Canadian, and if you haven't put one in, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I won't, it's too much fun :)
ReplyDeleteThey do make great poutine, if all you require of poutine is salt and calories...mmmm salt and calories.
I was torn between a beaver and a moose, but there was only room for one, so I picked beaver as it is our national animal. If you request a moose, however, I might be able to arrange that...