The Susanne

My camera and I were in a ter­rible acci­dent on the tram to uni last Friday morn­ing when my water bottle became unscrewed in my hand­bag. I tried open­ing up the camera and drying it but to no avail — my baby is dead!

So now I must save for a new one. I love the new IXUS 990is (kind of my camrea’s grand­child I guess) but as it’s really quite expens­ive I’m also toying with the idea of finally get­ting a dslr. I’ve been want­ing one for years, ever since the digital cam­eras took over the world. I used to borrow mum’s slr all the time back in 2002-2003 and I loved taking photos and devel­op­ing them. But times have changed and I’m going to need a digital camera. The EOS 450D is only 2000kr more than the IXUS 990is — maybe I should just get it.

When one door closes another opens, and maybe this is my door open­ing to a dslr. I’ll have to wait a long time before I can afford a new camera any­ways, as I’m not exactly making a lot of money from my part time jobs and I have to ‘save’ for rent during the two summer months when there is no stu­dent loan coming in.

But maybe, just maybe, I could use my tax refund and my hol­i­day money for a camera! I’m not get­ting much as I didn’t make much money last year or pay much income tax(obviously) but it’ll be something… and pos­sibly enough to buy the camera I want!

On another note, I finally got around to making pierogi! I found a recipe for Ruskie Pierogi and only used the instruc­tions for the dough; I wanted to try and re-​create the first pierogi I had in Kraków. They were simply called ‘Pierogi with meat’ on the menu but I’ll bet any­thing that’s down to the not too per­fect Eng­lish of who­ever trans­lated the menu. I was able to pin­point a few things whilst eating them though: they were made with very finely ground pork, onion and loads of paprika.

As I’m having some weird feel­ings about pork lately (just seem to find it kind of…disgusting!) I made mine with minced beef which I browned with a diced onion, salt, pepper, paprika and some Knorr Beef & Wine bouillon.  Then i got my immer­sion blender out and just whizzed through the whole thing, turn­ing it into a fine mass. After making the dough and assem­bling the pierogi (which was sur­pris­ingly simple!) — and boil­ing up a large pot of water, I star­ted cook­ing the pierogi and as the first four floated to the top my impa­tience grew too great and I just had to fish them out and eat! I didn’t even bother sort­ing out the onion and bacon butter that’s sup­posed to go with, or the petit pois I’d been plan­ning to have on the side. I just sat down and ate the four most amaz­ing pierogi I’ve ever had! I can hon­estly say they even beat the ones I had in Kraków(sorry, K). Yum! I packed the rest in freezer bags and put in the freezer for quick and easy din­ners later on. Not to men­tion delicious…

Here’s a photo of the pierogi cool­ing down, note that it’s taken with my camera phone. Sad.

And here are a few of the last photos I got to take with my old camera. I miss it.

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