Sherlock's here. Actually he arrived on monday, but they made me wait the whole day and a half to watch it. A day and a half more guessing how the situation in the end of the season will solve itself. All sorts of heroic and clever scenarios crossed my mind... But not this, not even close. And I can bet that non of the fans thought of the right answer. Pure genius this one, so absurd, so ironic, so unexpected. "Sorry, wrong day to die". Just so.

In my opinion, Sherlock is not your typical TV series. Firstly of course the length of the episodes but more importantly the quality, attention to the details. Sherlock was full of delightful sarcasm, twists and tiny but oh-so-inspiring details. You have to watch it several times to get them all. And it never gets boring. On the contrary. And also beautiful spot-on soundtrack. That reminds me, must order it from Amazon.

The first one - Scandal in Belgravia - was the funniest of episodes so far. Many laugh-out-loud moments. 
More mrs. Hudson. In series one she was just a pleasant landlady but this time she was sort of surrogate mother for Sherlock and Dr. Watson. It was so cute how Sherlock and John bellowed at Mycroft when he told Mrs. Hudson to shut up.
And also more Mycroft. He is one of the three great theatrical speakers here, together with Sherlock and Moriarty. Loving it.
Lara Pulver as Irene Adler was astonishing. The One He Could Not Read. The Woman who beat Sherlock, with one stupid weakness... I keep wondering, that if she hadn't told Sherlock about her connection with Moriarty... maybe he wouldn't have had this final mental outburst that solved the mystery of the camera phone.

Compared to the first series, Sherlock has become more human, he even seems to have some soft emotions. The situation where the CIA thugs hurt Mrs. Hudson - oh the rage and the joy of revenge 
And with Molly - apologizing after hurting her feelings over the Christmas present -  it was something completely new. Also, there was a second apology for the history of SH "I don't have friends ...."

As with the first series, also here the second episode was the weakest of all. And I so loved the original Hound of Baskerville... 

Laters!

Viva Cuba!

As you probably already guessed, today's dinner-theme was Cuba. As none of us knew much about cuban cuisine (rum? cigars?) we had to turn to internet for help. 3 guys from Miami came to our aid as well as tasteofcuba.com
Three guys teached us how to make empanadas - filled pastries. We chose two different fillings - cheese-chicken and shrimp. It was easy to make them and they tasted ok, but nothing special to write home about. But even Tristan and Enric ate their share without any complaints. And that's really something.
For main course we chose Pollo Rancho Luna - you can guess why that particular meal ;) . This I really liked. The sauce was sour and a the meat was soft and delicious. Nice dish with a nice name.
For dessert I baked a cake - Cuban Banana Rum Custard Tart - superb. I especially liked the crust - with tiny pieces of nut. That's a cake I will definitely bake again sometime soon.

The special thing about todays dinner was the fact that Luna sat at the dinner table on her own chair with the rest of us. And had dinner too. A special dish though...

For the next time we have very exiting arraingement. Namely the whole dinner - english - will be cooked by the gentlemen. The try to prove that they are at least as good cooks as the next man... or us. Good luck!

Waiting for Sherlock

Got an e-mail from Amazon that my pre-ordered second season DVD is dispatched. Hurry, postman!

Luna's big birthday

My baby is half year old now. How time flies!

6 months ago

Happy birthday to meeee!

Interesting...

If there's a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. 

~ Toni Morrison

Sunday Gourmet news

Last sunday we had japanese dinner - sushi of course and a salad. As you can see we skipped the dessert this time - beach season is not far away.... The salad was quite usual but sushi was inspiring. I didn't imagine it's so easy to prepare. But it was.
And so we had sushi again this saturday at home.

Japanese girls - Luna and our Head Chef

Today it was italian evening. I must say, once again, that italian kitchen is by far the best. Althoug we didn't have either of my two favourites - pasta and pizza (that would have been too "everyday") it was still one of the best dinners ever. In my opinion the appetizers are always most interesting and tasty part of the evening. Today we had three of them - crissini with parma ham and melon, bruschetta, and cheese souffle. Divine! Main course was pork chops in blueberry sauce with green salad.
And dessert was Triin-made ice-cream. It had some fancy italian name that I don't remember. But it was so good, mmmm... I didn't even think about the beach season.

Luna doesn't particularly like italian...

And I will not tell what Tristan did later that night...

Blondes have more fun!

Holiday season 2011

This Christmas I happened upon a really big bunch of santas helpers, one of them very special, flying one. 

I guessed it's a good sign and I was right. I got soo good presents, a lot of them. Kindle among the others - I'm a bit more modern person now. No more waiting for the books for several weeks to arrive per post. Although it seems that lately I have less and less time for reading. It has to do with the one special elf, apparently.

                                                                    
The lookalike  babies - 11 years apart. I made some christmas presents for my mother and MIL, using the new and old baby pictures. Isn't Luna a copy of Tristan, huh?
















We had russian dinner at the boxing day. Blinis with sour cream and caviar, mushroom soup and honey cake. Quite good and I'm proud to say quite authentic. The latter cannot be said about our New Year's dinner what was supposed to be french. We had some french dishes but also many others. So I guess we have to repeat this one sometime.



But anyhoo,  have a good 2012!