New Year's Eve

Hey!

How was your holidays with your family? For me, it was very nice, warm and cosy. Ah, there's no place like home! When it comes to my grandparents, I was not wrong. We asked them to bake a miodownik - another interesting delicacy (honey cake). My grandmother is brilliant in cooking and baking. The order was adopted, but ... Miodownik didn’t reach the destination . It stayed at my grandparents’s home because they forgot to take it out of the kitchen :).

Beloved, today, New Year's Eve. Crazy night in front of us, full of dancing and great music. Have a great time and wake up without a hangover!

 I wish you all the best in the New Year!

Skiing

Hello all!

Few days ago, just after the Christmas I went with my family to the famous Polish ski resort – Zieleniec. After this short trip, when I was on my road back home I breathed a sigh of relief.  I guess right now you are thinking that I hate skiing – and you got it wrong. Actually It’s exactly opposite: I love it! So what’s the matter?

As I said before, I love skiing – same as my father. Since I was a child we travelled to many Polish and European ski resorts and I have a lot of fun while doing it. But 4 years ago, I had an accident on ski slope – I had a collision with other person(on a side note: this was his faul…) and I injured my knee pretty badly. It took me 4 years to try again – Zieleniec was my first ski experience since then.  Just before I tried I was really, really stressed . The biggest doubt on my mind was whether my knee is ok, but I was also worried that I forgot how to ski! Luckily, it is like riding a bike – once you learned it, you can do it even after longer break. Of course, getting back to your best can take a little longer…

But I made it, I overcome my fear and I can move ahead – in the middle of January I will do the skiing in Val di Sole!

One last thing about Zieleniec. It is a great place to ski and I totally recommend it…and I claim it despite the fact that the snow was missing. It was rather a mud or an ice skiing but…still a lot of fun! J

Merry Christmas everyone!

Finally, come the long-awaited Christmas. This year, I prepare Christmas Eve with my mother in our house. Usually, we celebrate Christmas at my grandparents home, but let's be honest ... They are getting older, and thus, sometimes pull stunts - forget something, don't season some dish or - how awful! -  season something too much! Certainly, it is safer to celebrate Christmas Eve at our home :).

As every year, according to Polish tradition, at our Christmas table will be served 12 dishes, e.g. fried carp, sauerkraut, mushroom sauce, herrings and makiełki. Interestingly, in  Poland are served various dishes depending on which part of country we come from. In the east are popular pierogies. In Great Poland, where we lived in, we rather serve potatoes. In my part of Poland we eat makiełki which aren’t known so well in the east. They are prepared in different ways. The main ingredient is black poppy seed which is added to fried, golden brown, cut into small cubes roll or to cooked pasta. In both versions, we combine the ingredients with honey. If you decide to the version with pasta, it great fits with almonds, raisins, walnuts and dates. If you have never had the opportunity to try this delicacy, you absolutely should do it next year. It’s yummy, I swear! For many years, it is said that the more makiełki you eat, the more money you will have. Convinced I ;)?

All Christmas dishes are unique. So much, that hardly I go away from the table, and after Christmas I look like a large ball :). I admit that I have made myself a big appetite! Therefore, I'm going to help my mother in the kitchen and tomorrow we get down to decorate the Christmas tree.

And how are you? Everything is already prepared and you have a rest or perhaps you still season the soups and other delicacies?

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

"Everest"

Hi!

This time I will write about a movie that saw lately – “Everest”. If you plan to watch this movie better skip this short review because you will find spoilers here and I don’t want to take away your fun!

The movie tells us about tragic expedition on Mount Everest in 1996 that have taken life of eight brave climbers. I used to avoid those type of survival movies because I get nervous pretty easily J But this particular one made a huge impression on me. The screenplay is written by life – it makes it even more dramatic. The actors selected to this movie are not the top Hollywood stars(maybe except Jake Gyllenhaal) but they are “familiar faces” seen in many family or TV series. They use many accents of English(Australian, South African) which make their play even more natural.

But, beside the tragic true-based story, this movie for me is also about a beautiful views of a majestic Mount Everest, Himalayas and Nepal(before earthquake). I know the movie is deeper than that and is more about the nature of a climbers, but the views in this film are really breathtaking. I watched it in cinema with full 3D technology and I was truly amazed. Probably I will never try to climb Mt. Everest, so it was the best opportunity for me to see “The Roof of the World” J .

How do I rate this film? In my scale I would say 7 out of 10. I really dislike those type of movies, but not this one – for me it’s totally worth a two hours of life!