For Maja

Torej, gospodična Maja se je pritožila, da že celo večnost nisem poslala nobenega novega posta. Zanjo, in mogoče še koga, ki kdaj pokuka na tale blog, pripenjam tole fotko:



Tagliatelle z brokolijem, brijem in indijskimi oreščki so zmagovalni J!jev recept, ki pa ga žal ne morem razkriti. Neko soboto v januarju bi to bilo za večerjo, če Maja in Marko ne bi imela odpovedanega leta iz Benetk. Iz taistega brokolija je takrat nastala brokolijeva pita, ravno tako slastna in tudi eden izmed J!jevih zmagovalnih receptov, ki jih ne smem takole javno objaviti.

Da pa bo volk cel in koza sita, recept za tale špinačni narastek:



ŠPINAČNI NARASTEK Z ZDROBOM IN GORGONZOLNO OMAKO
Sestavine:
Za nadev:

• 1/2 zavitka zmrznjene špinače
• 2 stroka česna
• ščepec soli
• muškatni orešček

Za "testo":

• 2 jajci
• 20 g masla
• 1 dl mleka (kolikor zdroba, toliko mleka, meriš volumen)
• 1/2 pecilnega praška
• 120 gramov instant pšeničnega zdroba (1/2 zavitka Droginega zdroba)
• 100 g mladega sira (feta)

Za omako:

• 1/2 dl belega vina
• 1/2 dl sladke smetane ali smetane za kuhanje
• 50 g gorgonzole

Špinačo odtalimo (v mikrovalovki).
Medtem stepemo jajci skupaj s stopljenim maslom. Primešamo toplo mleko, v katerega smo zamešali pecilni prašek. Počasi med stepanjem dodajamo pšenični zdrob. Mešamo okoli deset minut, da se pšenični zdrob ne posede, ampak enakomerno vpije okolico. Masa bo še vedno precej tekoča. Na koncu dodamo sir, ki smo ga zdrobili na majhne koščke in vse skupaj premešamo.
Odtajani špinači primešamo strt česen (ali zelo na drobno narezan), sol in muškatni orešček.

V pomaščen pekač vlijemo najprej plast testa, nato plast špinače in nato spet preostalo testo. Pečemo v pečici na srednji temperaturi 40 minut.

5 minut pred koncem pečenja zavremo v kozici vino in pustimo, da alkohol malo izhlapi. Dodamo smetano, premešamo in počakamo, da spet zavre. Takrat zmanjšamo ogenj in dodamo koščke gorgonzole. Mešamo, dokler se ne stopi, potem malo pokuhamo, da dobimo lepo gosto omako.

Narastek narežemo, serviramo in prelijemo z gorgonzolno omako.

Namesto enega pekača lahko uporabimo več manjših. Na slikah sem uporabila dva manjša modela dimenzij 10 x 10. Zgleda malo, a je zelo nasitno. Če smo pekli v manjših modelih, serviramo skupaj z modelom in gorgonzolo prelijemo po vrhu.
Zadostuje za dva zelo lačna, tri srednje lačne volkove, ali pa štiri na dieti.

Objavljam pa še slike z mednarodnega filmskega festivala z Rotterdamu, jih je malo preveč, da bi vsako posebej pripenjala, zato si jih oglejte tukaj:
http://picasaweb.google.com/polonakuzman/IFFR2008

Happy new year!

A bit more than a week a go, precisely on 21. 12. I had presentation of my thesis titled Analysis of print quality of digital duplicators, which was the final project of my studies and I finally graduated. Now this is ticked done and I can do whatever I want, yeah!


After the presentation I stayed in Ljubljana for two more days to meet friends. I slept in Celica hostel, a former prison of Yugoslavian army. Premier Janez Janša was once imprisoned there. But it's renovated now and changed into a hip hostel. The designers decided to keep a little bit of prison spirit so there's a choice of 20 unique prison cells where you can sleep behind the prison bars. I wanted to stay there since the hostel opened but never really took the chance. Untill now. This is the cell where I slept. It was fun!

The Christmas I spent with my family in Kavče. It's getting really big, this family of mine, a lot of nephews running around and a lot of big people too, so it was a real full house. There's a bit of snow in Kavče and the temperatures are very low, brrrrr, not to walk around too much...

I will spend New Year's eve in Nijmegen. I'll see for if Dutch fireworks are different than the Slovene ones. :)) Here below is a greeting card for you, but you have to click it in order to see it played. Somehow this blogger can't really digest animated giffs.

Busy december

It's been quite a week. I was in Slovenia. I had to bind and deliver my thesis (picture above) and I also helped at Animateka festival in Kinodvor, together with a nice crew of projectionists: Maja, Marko, Jakob, Aulne and Anja. It was also nice to see people I haven't seen a long time.
The festival is one of the best film festivals in Slovenia. It has a nice atmosphere and also takes good care of the crew (that is very important if you are a crew member or if you are served by one of the happy crew members).
Here is a link to the official site, maybe you can find me on some pictures (hardly possible): www.animatekafestival.org. Maja took a lot of pictures of the background, like this one, where Aulne (new French projectionist colleague) and me are doing the competition program action. You can find the whole collection of Maja's pictures here (you really should take a look, they are very nice!).

IDFA

These days I am working in the film/video controle of the festival IDFA in Amsterdam. There is about 400 film titles, mostly video (Beta SP, Digibeta, HDCAM), but also 35 and 16mm prints, and all these have to be checked and verified before they are played. I'm sitting here in front of a video monitor for the 5th day now, and my eyes are SQUARE.



The good and interesting thing is, that we are situated in the Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam (the upper two pictures). It's a very impressive old building where you can easily get lost. Kinodvor cinema in Ljubljana looks a little bit like that, but then in a very simple basic version (the down picture).

We are back from Geneva!!!

Yes, we are back! And we survived! And they let us out from Swiss!

It was a real trip. We departed from Geneva on Friday at 11. I was nervous and pissed because I thought it's already 12 and that we are very late. But only the clock in the van was still showing the summer time! Sorry, Joyce and Jan Dirk, I was awful.

Next thing was, the phone with Tomtom dropped dead out of battery just when we got out of Geneva. Despite being on the charger all night! Shitty, but we got in a better mood after stopping at a Coop market by the high-way and spent all of the swiss francs we had left on croissants and candies!

It was going OK till the border, the weather forecast - the rain and snow - didn't really come true, we only saw a few snowflakes dancing in front of the window, just to say hi.
We were passing the border in Basel. There are two LKW border passes, one is with the France and the other one, which we took last time, is with Germany. We decided to try with the French, since last time the Germans didn't want to give us a stamp, we thought the French are nicer ...

Swiss didn't make much problems at the customs, they gave us the import money back, but then at the barrier the officer sent us to weight the car. It was a disaster: 4500kg! That is 1 ton more than what I am allowed to drive with my license and what the car can be loaded. The officer called the police and while waiting for them we tried to get a stamp from the French. They didn't want to give it. You should go to the same place where you got in - at the German boarder!

Then the police came, Joyce and Jan Dirk explained that we don't know where all that weight is from. Some machines and some small stuff, it can't be soooooo much. The police was calculating and talking, took a look inside the car. See, it's almost empty!
When they heard we are artists, going back from an exhibition, they let us go, even without a ticket. They said, we saved 700 francs and that we should use it for the art. I can't believe, they really let us go.

Since the French didn't want to give us the stamp, we thought we could try at the other border pass, but the officers at the barrier didn't allow us back to Swiss because we were too heavy. So we were trapped between France and Swiss with an overloaded truck and it was getting late.

Joyce and Jan Dirk tried again with the French customs person. First it was a solid no, but then he heard their discussion in Dutch, which he happened to understand. He could hear that we are not trying to fool him around, and then gave the stamp on that thin piece of paper.

I couldn't believe when they got back with the paper and we drove away. We really got away with it. Amazing. It could be a lot lot worse, Joop was almost organizing a saving squad from Holland.

We bought a car charger for the phone on the way to Mainz where we stayed for the night and had some very heavy food in one of the filled pubs. Next morning we left and I was still afraid that the German police might stop us and send us for being weighted, but luckily that didn't happen. Only some rain.

The last problem was parking in Nijmegen on a Saturday afternoon. Well, not parking, that I know quite good by now, but more finding the parking space :)).

But even that we found and I got very happily home, had a nice loooooong shower and Joop cooked a fabulous Spinach risotto.

Here you can find the whole collection of photos from Geneva.