Friday, April 11, 2008

More Hats


My daughter gave me some beautiful knitting wool from Scotland and I made one of these hats from that wool. The sort of rust one with the salmon colored trim and the salmon colored one (I used a bamboo stitch pattern on the lower portion of the hat). I love the yarn! Thank you Julie!!!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Vietnamese Spring Rolls


After searching around the internet I found many recipes for these rolls that I love. I improvised on everything but they turned out great and so did the sauce!!! Have to work on the rolling of the spring rolls though. Didn't do too badly for my first time! I take a lettuce leaf and put some fresh mint leaves on it and then lay the spring roll on this, roll up the lettuce leaf and spoon on a bit of sauce and take a big chomp out of that sucker!!! Yum yum!!! I used shrimp, some chopped peanuts, chopped green onions, grated garlic and ginger, fresh bean sprouts, chopped carrot, chopped cilantro and a bit of chopped basil, and that was about it. They taste so delicious and fresh!

My Birthday Pie!




My husband is such a sweetheart. I don't much care for cake so he made me a very nice lemon meringue pie and it was delicious!!! No candles though. It would only spoil the meringue. He gave me tickets so we can go out and watch the tennis when it is in Rome, the Italian Open starts sometime during the first part of May. Plus he got us ballet tickets. I always love to watch the ballet when they are in Rome. My birthday turned out so well! I can almost forget I am 61!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!




Today being my birthday (I know April Fool's Day!) I decided to take myself out to China Town in Rome. Forgot my camera again though! Darn! Anyway I was able to find the shop to buy the steamed Chinese pork buns which I love and I bought a batch of those plus some other necessities to make Vietnamese spring rolls (the uncooked type). It will be my first time to try these and I am looking forward to it. I am posting pictures here of my purchases! Funny to sort of have a China Town in Rome, Italy. Also posted is a picture of some of the loot I got for my birthday from my daughters. The last season of the Sopranos, the new Stephen King book, and some yarn from Scotland!! I love all of this stuff! Plus a few framed photos from my middle daughter.