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Kurtosh: Better Food, Better Mood

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Even in lockdown, breakfast is still the most important meal of the day.

I can’t imagine it without caffeine and they’re sign is right: We all still do need cake and great coffee!

On your Hungarian spit cake / chimney cake aka Kurtosh, that’s made to order,  you can choose from coconut, almonds, pistacchio, both and more.

Break a piece and munch on it in between sips of caffeine or pull it…

[horsyunicorn]

That kurtösh looks extremely like what is called trdelník (TR-del-nji:k) in Czech Republic. Never knew they ate them elsewhere :D

the stall proudly declares them “vegan, traditional Hungarian recipe - 500 years old”

it wasn’t very busy last night overall as it was freezing cold and very windy here, but this guy had a constant audience & queue of customers, some of whom had clearly never seen it before, others were obviously american exchange students. 

(description more for everyone else and not just you anon since you obviously are familiar with it) he had a gas-fired oven which has space for four kurtosh on each side stacked vertically, for a total of eight (and we kept saying he should get an assistant so he can ensure he’s always got eight on the go) and he makes his own dough which looks like pizza dough but more wet/tacky - out of the box, it’s rolled flat, then cut into a long winding spiral, and rolled onto the holders which look like heat-treated wood? and dipped in raw sugar before going in the oven

he has toppings that the kurtosh is rolled in straight out of the oven after baking - walnut, hazelnut, sprinkles, chocolate, cinnamon - and it’s VERY good to eat on a cold night (though personally I’d eaten a delicious burger just before so I was full after eating half the kurtosh). it’s baked crispy on the outside like a bread crust, but the inside is soft and tears and is just cooked.

related: I love saying “kurtosh” cos it sounds like “Kitezh” which is the fabled lost city in Rise of the Tomb Raider

[theleftoverurl]

Unexpected

Back into termtime and the adjustment is hard mentally, really difficult to fight the cold and holiday brain and gear back into work.

So I was up till 3 giving the old Tinder another whirl with not a lot of success tbh. Matched with Kev and we had a good chat which was nice.

Kate paid me $15 to borrow my car which was fine aha but idk things have been warming up recently so hopefully we are on our way to being closer again because I do miss that friendship but also it kind of made me sad how businessy the whole deal was - there was a time where I'd go along for the lols. Anyway she took my tutees Chem book with her because I'm dumb so I just watched standups on Netflix all day and napped.

And because I didn't have heaps in the house and I'm too lazy without the car to buy food and I didn't want to UberEats I stole a can of salmon from her shelf in the pantry for lunch oops but it was like black garlic flavoured and tasted gross so I had to steal two slices of bread from the freezer that were randomly frozen and Marmite and peanut butter. I still have to sneaky sneaky dispose of the evidence oops.

Then in the evening Daniel picked me and Nicole up and we went to Doughboy pizza in Randwick which was clearly not set up for people to eat in lol. They didn't even have plates and it was just two small tables but the owner was really nice and full on gave us an extra loaf of garlic and cheese bread and some dippable garlic breadstick things too in return for rating him on Google lol. It was good to catch up with them because I haven't seen them since before Melbourne and maybe even Perth.

Afterwards we popped into Kurtosh for Nutella kurtoshes and a hot chocolate to take into the movies and went to see John Wick 3. It was not my cup of tea, a little bit unnecessarily violent and a bit too long but it was still like a good movie and I can see why people would like the franchise. From the outside the whole reconsecrated-deconsecrated thing and the symbols and markers was a bit wanky but I'm sure that with the missing extra emotional tone in the first movie it would have made more sense.

Nicole recruited me and I recruited Tom for her wearable posture device for her ILP project. I think how it works is we wear it every day for three months and it will track our posture on an app and buzz if we have poor posture to try remind us not to slouch which is kind of cool. It's really for patients with spinal stenosis and stuff so it's a bit of a gimmick novelty for us as the control group I feel.

Then declan messaged that he and his friend Ryan were randomly going to come over and so I went back home and let them in but they couldn't stay long cos Ryan had to be back in Hornsby by 1230 and by then it was already 1130pm lol. He was super nice though and then we had loud music with lots of singing and speeding on the way to drop Ryan off and low-key we wanted to climb to the roof or bridge of Westfield in Hornsby but Ryan convinced Declan it was too dangerous by accident and we couldn't even get into the carpark when we went once we dropped Ryan off. But I got my first look at the Hornsby Westfield shopping area which looks very typical, a bit like Claremont in Perth. There was no way to get in, so we headed to Declan's house.

We had to be quiet because his parents would be mad that a girl is sleeping over but Declan thought it was worth it which is weird because like it was a completely unnecessary part of my night but it was okay. We had slightly deeper friend chats about our love lives and friends and things which was nice and Declan did some work and I scrolled social media aimlessly. Then he went to bed on the couch outside and I took his bed oops for the night.

Tomorrow will be a challenge because I have to be social and woo his mum who will be mad that I'm here oops. But it will be okay and then I will get a drop at uni to hopefully actually get some work done - or maybe just find people to annoy, depends on how the day goes. And then I have tutoring and either vivid or seeing Su. A lot of bravery necessary tomorrow.

Su dom and Ryan were actually at John wick they sat a bit in front of us but they didn't see us cos they came in late when it was dark and typically the Malaysians didn't wave and I didn't cos I was scared of the awkwardness lol. Also at Hornsby i stole a second traffic cone which is in Declan's back seat to be my parking placeholder again back in coog AND because I'm here I've forgotten my pill for the night so unless I fix my life I am about to bleed.

I also have to pay Sweta for accommodation before she gets mad at me lol and book skiing ahhh I'm such a flake when it comes to this NZ trip like what is wrong with me? And i have to look up elective placements in case they need to be organised early and remember to do the online module tomorrow night. Also I really want my book to come in the mail for bookclub so I can keep hyping it I am really really worried that a lot of people won't have secured copies so I am going to have to try and like sort people out in terms of that as well. Also I'm sort of hoping if the vivid thing happens tomorrow - Declan is organising maybe Kate will wanna come and like this could be an opportunity to bond but also it is difficult because she's so like anti my friends but it's so hard to not like assume or get annoyed that it's so difficult like I get along with most people's friends idk. Oh and I also need Mirettes notes if I'm gonna survive management because I haven't attended a single lecture and I have no idea what the fuck is happening and the lectures aren't recorded so that's important too oops.

Apart from that, the social calendar, like the weather is looking up this week, on Wednesday I see my supervisor for the first time in ages and after Courteney and I are going to the pav to share a bottle of wine and then chat thai on a mini double date, I have hockey and tutoring as usual on Thursday, Friday is mgmt with Andy which means hot choccy and Whitehouse Friyays hopefully with whoever wants to come then I promised kuheli I'd sleepover at hers and I owe her big energy cos I was tired last time which was last year omg and then Sunday I have hockey in sutho all morning and then will take Catherine to the markets somewhere like Glebe or something maybe to hang out and look around which should be fun. So yeah, busier week social wise and still not a lot of uni work to ramp up to because next thing due for med is my final report in October. halfway through ILP how unbelievable.

Right it's 330 again and time for some good old sleep but that's the downlow for now, more tea next week to come. Hopefully I can fkin get up tomorrow ugh sleep levels will be so low. Nighty night!