Saturday night was Clare’s uncle’s 40th. It was commemerated by a major bash at his place, complete with ridiculous amounts of alcohol, service staff, very little food and a karaoke setup. Needless to say, this is an explosive combination. No-one knows how to throw a party quite like Alex.

I managed (as far as I know) to avoid completely disgracing myself in a drunken mess, which is always a plus. However at some point we decided that karaoke was a fine invention. I forget what songs I ended up belting out, but I’m sure they were forgettable.

Sunday was spent in recovery mode. Did general house crap, pruned the garden, washed the vehicles etc. I also got a bunch of my tax crap done (finally). There’s still a bit more information I need to collate before I can put it to bed, but I’m getting there.

I tried out a new dish on Sunday night. It’s something my mother used to make a lot (she may still) and that Luke’s been telling me I should do because it’s awesomely cheap. Mussels with a tomato and white wine sauce. It didn’t actually end up being all that cheap for us. Not overly expensive, but not incredibly cheap either. The mussels cost us about $10 to serve 2 people. I think they must be out of season or something. Anyway, the recipe is nothing revolutionary but I couldn’t find anything online so it’s a David Banham Original.

Ooh, and I finished Tony Hawk’s Project 8 on Friday. Definitely an enjoyable game overall. The bail physics still annoy me but it’s not enough to completely kill it. That said, now that I’ve finished it I probably won’t be revisiting it to play back through the challenges. I’m really looking forward to playing some GRAW though. Should be good.

Thanks to the largesse of a friend dbe.cc is on new (free) hosting, and it beats the crap out of my old hosting, too. It’s a good thing.

I’m not going to bother moving anything over from the old site since a) it’s been nuked and b) there was bugger all there anyway.

In terms of news, spent the entirety of last night cooking which was kinda cool. The other day I got a craving for the sweet chilli jam that Sam had when he was living with me. Upon searching this hear innerweb I found a recipe, and also turned up one for sweet chilli sauce. I figured they both needed to be made.

The jam turned out really well, which is great since this was my first foray into jam making. The sweet chilli sauce seemed okay, but it’s not the sort of thing you can really sample on it’s own. I’ll need to make some fish cakes or something and try it then.

Peep the recipes in the pages section.