Tim Child

Kristin continues to feed the baby and I feed her, so I have been doing a lot of cooking recently such as:

• Goat Cheese and Leek Tart, for today.
• Brownies – These are more of a desert brownie, great with icing sugar and a little cream.
• Roasted White fish with leek – A classic kind of Jamie Oliver dish, I used cod.
• Potato supper, a simple dish of Bacon, Potatoes, Onions to which I added a good quality Italian sausage. The idea came from Nigel Slater’s book Appetite
• Spinach and Blue cheese tart. Next time I will use the recipe from here I think.
• Chicken chow mein – not up to the standard of a really good chinese, or the rest of the food here but still perfectly nice.

Next up is chicken cacciatore and a sausage dish that I saw being cooked on one of Nigel Slater’s programmes – with roasted onions and bell peppers. Awesome.

On Saturday at 17:40 our beautiful baby girl was born. The delivery was really quick and both Mother and baby did a sterling job.

We haven’t decided upon a name yet, trying to work out something that works in English and Swedish is not that easy but we hope to have something soon.

Here are some photos taken just after the birth:

Been quite busy over the last week, getting things ready for the baby and it was Kristin’s Birthday.

We went out for a meal at Sjögräsin Södermalm ( south Stockholm ) and it was really good. I had a nice Reindeer steak with Hazelnuts and Cranberries, and then a Run tasting for desert. Next time I will go for a starter as the portions are quite small in this dish, though I saw a couple of tables over a huge portion of what looked like a salad being served. Anyway I would recommend it.

This weekend we went to Paladar de Cuba again, this time for a friends leaving party. Love the food there too.

At home last night I cooked a lovely Roast Lamb which I think was almost as good as anything I have eaten out recently though it did serve to show me that I really need a meat thermometer. Getting lamb the right temperature in the middle is rather tricky when its not on the bone.

In the past week I have also been playing around with my hackintosh, a seriously easy build and a great way to get a fast and inexpensive OS X solution.

I have posted about NetNewsWire many times on here before. Its been my favourite news reading application for a couple of years now (if not more) but recent development has severally hampered the usability of the software.

It seemed to be when they changed it to support sync to Google Reader – not a bad idea by any means, but releasing the software before it was full tested and working was a huge mistake. Trying to push it to people before it was ready was an even bigger mistake.

Now twitter & fb are full of messages about problems with the Mac OSX and iPhone version, and it really needs to be sorted out. I know its free now, but as I have said before I paid for it a long time ago and it worked, if its a question of money then release it as a paid version. Not too expensive ( VersionsApp – take note ) but working.

Do not recommend it at the moment, which is such a pity as it used to be one of my favourite applications.

Its been a while since I have posted an update here other some technical posts.

So the big news is that we are expecting a baby, and this has really consumed most of the thoughts over the summer and changed our behaviour somewhat! Everything seems to be about getting ready for the big day (In November) and the huge changes that will come with it.

But we managed to go on some picnics and tried to make the most of the short summer here in Sweden.

I have been working on the bedroom which I can say is finally just about ready. The door way is filled in, decorated and the plasma screen put up on the wall. I wallpapered the other couple of walls and painted everything else. We both think it looks good. I have also been sorting out a desk to work from at home, and the network and geeky computer stuff – probably will post about that at some other time.

That took up some of the holidays, then we went to Bulgaria for some sun and relaxation – it was nice but I don’t think that we will be going again as the Bulgarians seem to have ruined their own countryside in the name of tourism.

For the last part of the holiday Mum came to visit us in Sweden and we took her in to the countryside and a good time was had by all.

So now its the big run up to the baby being born!