I spent New Year’s Eve with Natalia and Alice, cooking food, drinking sparkling wine and baking a watermelon cake. That meant we spent the entire evening in aprons, constantly eating, laughing and building a mountain of dishes in the sink.
This is the third year in a row that I spend New Year’s Eve with Natalia. I’ve known her for more than eleven. She might be the best person I know. And Alice isn’t bad either.
When we went outside to look at the fireworks at midnight, we found this random guy. He wanted to join us for some watermelon cake. (OK, maybe not that random. It was Jakob, the son of a friend of my mom’s. I’ve known him since he was born. He’s turned into a really funny guy.)
So there we were, having our first meal of the new year. The watermelon cake didn’t turn out very tasty. Not bad, just a bit dry. Natalia and I will have to keep on experimenting a bit, with the cake recipe and the filling. Being half-way a professional prop-maker already, Natalia of course made sure that the cake at least looked beautiful.
And now Mr. P and I will start the year in constant sugar comas – there’s so much cake left!
Katja Malmborg 