Monday, January 14, 2008

Weekend Specials

This weekend we went to Kosta...it wasnt as crowded as the previous time we visited the place...
Before our winter break, we went to Kosta for the first time... the drive was an hour long but it was good as it was foggy and i didnt have to worry about the sun! i think it is a good place to shop. :) at least the stuff they carry cant be found in centrum all over sweden lol.Cuz all the centrums in the different towns carry the same ol things ;P
It was a good time to go, they had decorated the place for christmas and what a sight it was.. really the lights made it all look so beautiful!
Check out the pix...










My christmas Pressie!



It must have snowed heavily there cuz there were bits and pieces of land covered in really thick snow.
Anyway i was surprised to find a shelf of English books at the bookstore and obviously i had to get myself something worthwhile to read
I bought "THE GAME" it is a true story about pickup artists and i was already on chapter 4 by later that night...

We needed to get some rice...our supply from singapore has ended
Afterall all we brought were 3 packs of 10kg and we've been here for 6 months now.

Recently we bought a pack of Jasmine rice from Maxi. A 2kg pack. It is definitely more costly and it doesnt appeal to me. Very sticky after cooking
The grains of basmati rice are much longer than they are wide, and they grow even longer as they cook. They stay firm and separate, not sticky, after cooking.
The are also much lighter. So we decided to go to Frukt huset to check if they had any basmati rice..
Thankfully they had and it was a brand i had had before in Singapore. So we grabbed one of the two packs available and since there was no price tag on it and we desprately needed it we took it without much thought
It cost us 225KR which when converted to SGD is 52.32!!!! its like 25 bucks more than what u can get back home!

I was happy to have found some spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper,dried curry leaves,dried chillies, mustard seeds and such there.. at least they came with a reasonable pricing
So i know where to turn to when i run out of my spices!

We wanted chinese food for dinner but when we reached peking, it was overflowing with people went to lotus instead and glad we did cuz their food in my opinion was better :)
Had nasi goreng with fried cuttlefish. :)something local after a long while ;)