New week, new news. Saturday night saw the first instance of la cuisine nouvelle in the form of Crepes a la biere. Yep, that's right, I put away that weakening, fatty white stuff (milk) and brought out the manly yellowy bubbly stuff (beer). A bit dubious at first, I mixed a little up as a test phase. After 2 mins I realised it was working beautifully, so made the whole lot with it. Mmm. And here comes the recipe:

Ingredients: Flour (white is best), Beer (pils/lager is best and also cheapest), and eggs. Butter for frying.

Preparation: Put about 250g of flour into a big bowl. Mix in about half a can of beer (if still very dry, add more). Using a fork or a whisk beat up the mixture until it is smooth and runny. Add a couple of eggs and beat it up again. The mixture should start getting a bit thicker now. Add some more flour (mixing in well) and then beer and again an egg. Keep on repeating until you have enough mixture for the amount of people that are coming. Put a frying pan on the highest heat and when hot put in a knob of butter, whilst it is turning to liquid, pour in enough of the mixture so that it covers the base of the pan. Let it fry for a bit, occassionally shaking the pan so the pancake doesn't stick. Using a spatula turn over the pancake to cook on the other side (or if you are feeling adventurous flip it into the air). Allow it to fry for about a minute longer (ie before it starts to smoke) and then serve on a plate with icing sugar, lemon, sugar, chocolate, or whatever you have available (tip: beer pancakes are best served savoury, ie with fish, meat, salad...). Put some more butter in the pan and repeat. Bon appetite.

After the crepes a large percentage of the spanish and italian population went off to a pub to play table-football, darts (albeit electronic), and billiards. Note: for any of you who get challenged to play 2 germans at any of the games for the price of a drink, say no unless you are REALLY good. They have the upper hand, which you won't know unless you stay there til closing time: they work there !!!

The majority of these people then went off to Caveaux and had a good time (so I heard).

Sunday was spent cleaning our bathroom (mmmm) before a friend came over from Würzburg to be shown around Mainz. Well the tour took about 40 mins but then there was a very good choral concert in the Dom. This was sung by about 300 singers and attended by about 1200 people. Needless to say the rest of Mainz was devoid of people during this time.

Learnt some new words to the song "Mana mana..." :)

The evening was spent by "la familia" with a delicious meal, plenty of wine and port, and a lot of discussion. Needless to say, some of the female aquaintences were not best pleased about the "lads night in" but hey it comes with the turf.

Will have to see if anything happens in the bar tonight, seeing as many people have tests on Tuesday.

Over and out.