Pepperkakekaos

On Friday we decided to have a 'kitchen evening', which means invading Lonnie's kitchen so we can use her oven to make things that would usually be impossible. She doesn't mind though. The chat's good, and we all get to eat too much.

We started out by making our own pizzas. They were well yummy. It's easier for us to make our own pizzas, because Lonnie's vegan and doesn't eat cheese, and Sara's completely obsessed with cheese. I feel kind of left out really, as I seem to be the only person living at Fantoft that doesn't have weird eating habits.

Next we started making gingerbread. Every winter Bergen hosts the world's largest gingerbread town. People from all over the city make gingerbread houses/churches/whatever to contribute to the town, and I was determined that we were going to make one.

Me rolling out gingerbread dough using a vase, because we didn't have a rolling pin (not the most flattering picture ever, I know)

The undecorated result, right before it collapsed for the 100th time, but we got it sorted in the end

While we were waiting for the gingerbread to cook, we decided to make shortbread. It's kind of become my speciality since I came here, because I kept being asked to make something Scottish. I found a really good recipe too, so you might all get shortbread for Christmas.

World's yummiest shortbread, I kid you not

Sadly, our gingerbread house didn't get delivered to the appropriate place in time, so it's not going to be part of the gingerbread town, but we're still going to have a great time over-decorating it. I have plans to visit the town at the weekend though, so I'm sure you'll see photos of it soon enough.