In the last week the family has been stretching itself beyond its usual culinary comfort zone. This week alone we had beef lasagne (prepared under the 1hr mark), beef and spinach cannelloni, and yesterday a Mexican tortilla wrap dinner. Just reading this paragraph almost makes me want to hide away from the scales.

I cooked my fair share of tortilla wraps when I was still living in the dot, but I always found it a bit tricky getting them served all warm in time. What mommy S and aunty S did yesterday was a nice do-it-yourself idea. They prepared a couple of bowls with different tortilla fillings like minced beef, home made guacamole, tomatoes, sweetcorn, onions, sour cream and green peppers, and everybody prepared his own tortilla. It was also interesting seeing a pizza-tortilla mashup by our resident Italian. Poor J had some stones roaming around his body, we're not entirely sure whether they were in his kidneys as he claimed or in his mind.

In November the housies promised to try and push for a Slovak home made dinner, cooked by a Slovak. Whether they'll manage to get that has yet to be seen though.