To begin with I shall explain what pulla is. You mix milk, egg, butter and flour until it forms a paste that no longer sticks to your fingers, then you leave it for an hour. Next roll the mix out and sprinkle chocolate and sugar over it before rolling it into a tube and cutting it up (at this point the desire to eat some becomes overwhelming so you eat the end bits). Finally glaze the pieces using egg and put them in the oven.I thought they had made an excessive amount (not that I was about to complain) but it turns out that when you make pulla inexplicably large numbers of people appear at your door and take some. Who knew?
I'd describe the taste as similar to a hot cross bun but with chocolate throughout it. It was delicious and I was in very real danger or eating it all. Thankfully it is just as popular with everyone else so I was saved from that particular "problem".
When Tuomo and Anni's friends turned up pizza was also made and the consumption of vast amounts of food began.(Left) a picture of Anni.
We spent some of the time playing a card game called Munchkin which was mixed with an expansion deck Munchkin Cthulhu. This game is hilarious (at least it is to those who know the material it is a parody of: D&D and Arkham Horror respectively). One of my favourite cards, and one which conveys the flavour of the game quite well, was the Cross Bow. This consisted of a bow with an angry face. As you may have guessed Munchkin is a silly game.
(Right) a picture of Tuomo who seems to instinctively strike this pose when being photographed, regardless of what he is doing at the time.
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