My first baked pasta and garlic baguette

Today is my first time doing cooking in Scotland. With our Design Engineer cum Chef going off for 1 week course starting today, it’s time to be more independent to fulfill the eating desire.

Since Samson also not around today for skiing trip, only myself was available to do something about the food for tonight and lunch tomorrow. It wasn’t an easy way to get all the ingredients. Instead of 5 minutes drive to the familiar grocery store, I took the opportunity to walk while enjoying the fine sunny day and the nice sea breeze. Guess what, it took me 35 minutes for one way to reach the destination, shopped for all the necessities for tonight’s meal for 10 minutes and walked back again for another 35 minutes. It was a good sweaty walk although my legs sore a bit.

With our kind Rudy leaving his legacy to us before he left to the airport, I tried my best to follow the recipe in preparing my first meal here, the garlic baguette and the baked pasta. The following pictures showed the result of my delicacy after all the sweaty walk mixed with some sneezing, smelly stains and heat coming from the oven.

Looking at the following pictures. I guess not too bad for a start, don’t you think so?

Baked pasta (L) and garlic baguette (R)

Close-up on baked pasta

Close-up on the garlic baguette before been slicing

Unusual snow in Troon

Samson posing for next top model audition

Coming to Scotland during winter time is totally a new experience for me. I am expecting snow covered ground but that's totally out of the reality. Due to its location near the sea, temperature in Troon is normally higher and is not expected to be imparted with snow.

Is this how silent night looks like in UK?

Due to global warming, unexpected snow caught everyone in excitement last week. Kids built snowman with their parents, dogs were seen chasing the snow while me and Samson were building snowman's shit and swallowing the snow. Last Sunday's snow was the heaviest and might be the last one for this winter as the temperature is expected to rise in following weeks to welcome the rise of spring.

Rudy and his awesome winter fashion

Playing snow in front of the house for awhile was fun but to stay for a long time in the open space makes my stomach shivering from inside. My lips started to get dry and peel off slowly. The blood veins under the skin seem to appear obviously red.

The dawn of following day

Holding the snow and taking some snapshots reminded me of various Christmas songs that describe the mood of winter. This might be the only chance of a lifetime. Thus, I really enjoy myself.

My version of winter sonata