17 Thursday May 2012
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Idag är det Eriks födelsedag och jag gjorde en tårta som en liten present :). Klassisk tårta med sockerkaksbotten, fylld med vaniljkräm och blåbär. På toppen är det physalis och nektarin. Väldigt gott och lagom med grädde på :)
Gör så här: Sätt ugnen på 175 grader.
06 Sunday May 2012
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I’m giving it a try this month too, but I’ll cheat. I took some pictures today and yesterday that I thought matched some of the challenges, so I think I’ll take 31 pictures and make 3 or 4 posts instead of posting i.e. one picture a day (I understand this is the thought behind the photo challenge..) .. but.. ha ha! I can’t come up with a good excuse. #11 is the kitchen/bedroom/living room in my apartment, the kitchent is to the left ;).
#2 Some kind of skyline
#7 some(thing) that inspires you – books
#9 Something you do every day – drinking coffee, checking my phone
#11 Kitchen
#15 Love
#16 What you’re reading
#21 Where you stand
#28 The weather today
04 Friday May 2012
Posted in Okategoriserade, Recipes, Baking
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home, recipe, pictures, baking, cookies, food, bilder, chocolate, swedish, alexandra, allmänt, recept, cinnamon, raspberry, shortbread, småkakor
I made cookies today, yah! Aaaannd they turned out delicious! I only made half the batch because I almost got a heart attack when I realized how much butter a shortbread cookie contains ha ha! I also got the latest issue of Elle Interior today, and this day became a really good Friday :)
Here comes the recipe:
150g butter (or margarine)
1 cup sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
1 Tbsp cold water
1 tsp vanilla
With and electric mixer, mix the sugar, butter and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift in the flour. Use a spoon, or the dough hooks and mix until the dough starts to come together, add the water and make a ball of the dough with your hands. I made some with raspberry jam, roll the dough into balls and make small indentations with your thumb, spoon the raspberry jam into the holes; Some with chocolate, substitute some of the flour with unsweetened cocoa powder, roll the dough into small balls and flatten them out on a plate with “pärlsocker” on. I don’t know if you can find this type of sugar outside the nordic countries?; And some with cinnamon and sugar on them. Roll the dough into balls and flatten them out in sugar and cinnamon (see the picture above).
Preheat the oven to 350F or 180C, bake for 8-10 minutes depending on size. Let them cold on a tray.
04 Friday May 2012
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.~Albert Schweitzer
02 Wednesday May 2012
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Is it summer soon? The walls in my apartment are full of reflections from (of?) the sun. It’s like having 10 000 tiny pieces of the sun in here, lovely. The only downside is my neighbour plays really, really loud music, like usually. Why? The funny things is that she always plays the same songs over and over again. And these songs are the 10 first songs on the top list on Spotify + some Whitney Houston songs. I sound like a really boring person ha ha! but it’s the same thing every day (as far as I know), the music is on from 19:00-23:00. Oh well..you shouldn’t focus on the downsides, it’s better to focus on the upsides ;)
I think it’s kind of funny that almost everything has an opposite. What is even funnier is that (often) it’s not until we’ve seen the opposite of whatever it is that we appreciate the other side, or vice versa. I’d better stop writing, time for a cup of tea :)
17 Tuesday Apr 2012
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I just watched the movie, Jesus Henry Christ. It was so good! It’s embarrassing to laugh when you’re alone, or at least a little embarrassing, but this movie really made me laugh. A weird freaky movie.
The main character is Henry who calls his mother Patricia instead of mom. One day he gets to know that he is a test tube baby, but also that he is a genius. His grandpa helps him find his half-sister who hates everyone. Henry and his half-sister Audry have the same father, or at least they think so until..
I think you can say this movie has something in common with Amelie from Montmartre (people who adore that movie would not agree, but I think it has something to do with how the characters are described). Anyways, on a rainy day, or maybe on a really hot day depending on where you live – watch it :)
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
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baking, banan, banana, cake roll, chocolate, choklad, food, hazelnut, home, life, månadens sötsak, pictures, recept, recipe, rulltårta, swiss roll
Coffee syrup
Doesn't look very good, but tastes very good :)
..filled with raspberry jam
I didn’t think I liked swiss roll..but I was wrong :)
I don’t know if Swiss roll/cake roll is the correct translation of rulltårta, but I think so.
Yesterday I came up with the idea to make two kinds of rulltårta at the same time. I made “boxes” out of baking paper, and poured the batter in them.
One of the swiss rolls is filled with raspberry jam, and the other one is a banana cake with chocolate and hazelnut filling.
Honestly, I have never really liked swiss roll. I don’t like the sugar that you “coat” it with, but on the other hand it helps the cake from sticking to the paper/plate :). I have to say that this recipe was really good, and after a second thought – I think I like it.
Recipe:
3 eggs
150 ml sugar
150 ml flour
50 ml corn starch (Potatismjöl är bättre om du har det)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla (vaniljsocker)
2 Tbsp milk
(1 ripe banana, mashed)
..
It’ll take no time to make the batter, so set the oven temperature at 250 degrees celsius.
(if you want to make two swiss rolls: make two “boxes” out of baking paper. otherwise just one. I like to do it this way because I don’t have to clean the baking sheet afterwards :))
With an electric mixer, beat the eggs and the sugar until light and fluffy. Combine flour, cornstarch and baking powder.
Fold in the flour mix into the egg mixture. Add the milk.
(Divide the batter into two bowls. Add the mashed banana to one of the batters.)
Put in the middle of the oven, they’re done after maximum 5 minutes.
When they’re done (check with a tooth pick) – sprinkle with sugar, turn them upside down, and remove the paper. Let them cold when you make the filling.
Filling:
1 Tbsp butter (softened)
2 Tbsp cream cheese
2 Tbsp coccoa powder (not sweetened)
4 Tbsp of powder sugar (you might need more, add more until you think it’s thick enough)
(1 Tbsp coffee syrup, see the picture above)
Mix all the ingredients with an electric mixer.
Spread jam or chocolate filling, and gently roll the cakes. It’s hard to explain, but it’s easier to roll them if you us the baking paper to do so. It seems like the cake doesn’t crack then.
Store them cold.
I think the idea with the cream cheese filling was pretty good, it’s not healthy, BUT it’s better than butter cream :)
17 Saturday Mar 2012
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We are trying to eat less meat, which today resulted in a vegetarian pasta bolognese. Instead of ground beef we used Quorn.
We fried onion, quorn and grated carrots. Added freshly chopped tomatoes, fresh thymes, canned tomatoes, 1 Tbsp tomato paste, 1/2 cube vegetarian stock, dried basil, salt pepper, water and red wine. Then we let it simmer for about 20 minutes. The difficult part was to get the sauce thick since the quorn is quite different from meat after all. But with some parmesan on top of it it was tasty. :) Bon apetit!
09 Friday Mar 2012
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Have you seen the new look of the statistics on wordpress? I think it’s cool to see where the readers are from..:)
05 Monday Mar 2012
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Lately I’ve been posting about coffee. As you can see in the post below, we make our coffee the very old fashioned way, but it tastes good.
Today when I was at the hair saloon having my hair cut, I glanced through a magazine and saw an add about this company – KeepCup. I WANT ONE. You order on-line, and you can choose which colors you want on it. Like pink :) It’s Eco friendly, not black (like all the other take away cups), it comes in 4 different sizes (good for me who only want a small cup, and it fits in your bag), it doesn’t leak, and it’s kind of cute. (http://www.keepcup.com/)
If I had a Mocca Master on top of this, life would be just a little little bit better..
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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20 Monday Feb 2012
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17 Friday Feb 2012
Posted in Blah blah, Music, Okategoriserade, Pictures
I subscribe on the magazine Elle interior, my favorite magazine :) when you bought 6 issues you got this candle holder from Ittala. I really like their products, check out their website :)
Do you know what happened today? When i was in Malmö, on my way home from a meeting I walked by Nina the singer in The Cardigans. It was so cool, I love her voice and their music :)
31 Tuesday Jan 2012
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When I was little I was afraid of the dentist. I don’t know if afraid is strong enough to describe my fear :) I remember how the dentist pulled me in my legs while I was grabbing the edge of a table, I was basically hanging in the air, haha! But that was 20 years ago
When I was eleven or twelve some teeth popped up in my mouth, why? And I had to have them pulled out. It was a nightmare for me, and the dentist. Four teeth! Ouch!
I have an appointment on Friday. Believe me this is POSITIVE THINKING! A couple od hours ago I caught myself thinking:
-What am I afraid of? Of the pain? maybe..
-I shouldn’t be thinking about this..
-I have to think positive.. it’s just thoughts. And my thoughts makes me feel this way (Ok, I know that’s not 100% correct, but anyway..)
-What have I been afraid of.. ahh to talk in front of a lot of people.. but I love that now, I could do that 7 days a week.. strange!
-Ahh and I know what advice I would give a friend.. you have to trick your body, let it know you’re relaxed.. remember the brain doesn’t understand the word NOT. I have to breathe, hahaha!
-OMG! how can I be thinking about this, it’s silly!! Compose yourself.
-haha! if they told me now I had to pull out a tooth, I don’t think I would be too afraid. I think I can do it..hahaha!
Thank god, I know I’ll survive!
22 Sunday Jan 2012
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Photo courtesy of Anne Ditmeyer
This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Anne Ditmeyer of Pret a Voyager (Ready to Travel). Read on for more about this week’s theme, Simple, and her photography tips!
When I got my iPhone I never imagined how much I’d use it, especially to take pictures. I think there’s something about always having it on me, and at my finger tips that encourages photography of “the mundane.” Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make the best pictures.
21 Saturday Jan 2012
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My sister got married a couple of weeks ago, the wedding took place in Varberg, but then we had the dinner in a house 30 minutes from the city. My parents had rented a house for three days, it was huuuge! The bed was huge, the chairs was huge.. It was a really fantastic wedding, we had made all the food ourselves, and I was “toastmaster”. They got sooo many presents! I can’t wait for the wedding pictures :)
21 Saturday Jan 2012
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17 Tuesday Jan 2012
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I heard this song on the radio today. Some songs really like to stay in your head, spining round, round.. I don’t feel dizzy :)
I never listen to the lyrics, I wonder if that’s good or bad.. Anyways, Tonight- Lykke LI
01 Sunday Jan 2012
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12 Monday Dec 2011
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These spiced cocoa snowflakes cookies are my first Christmas cookie this year!
My assigned blog this month for the secret recipe club was Secrets from the Cookie Princess where Colleen has baked and blogged about a zillion different cookies! I was lured to this recipe right away and didn’t change much aside from adding a bit of cinnamon and ginger as I love a bit of a spicy chocolate cookie.
11 Sunday Dec 2011
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10 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Blah blah, Okategoriserade, Pictures
I think I have come to a conclusion!
But first.. Isn’t this just clever? I’m writing on this thesis, and honesltly I’m writing pretty much every day, BUT sometimes is the motivation quite low.. so what do I do? I open my closet and I pull out all the cloths and make a pile of clothes in the middle of the room. Then I sort out everything I don’t “need” and I come to the colclusion that I don’t need like half of the clothes I own. Then I think.. oh I NEED (note that I write need, not want) to buy new clothes NOW! Then I think, but I need to write on the thesis..This is what I call a dilemma!
Anyway! I’m so glad we don’t have so many lectures now because it’s tiring. I think I’m that kind of person who needs some space and extra time for thinking because it’s good for me. If I don’t get that time I get in a quite bad mood. This bad mood is something I have had time for thinking about today.
I often say that I’m angry, but after all I”m not. I’m not an angry person, or the angry aggressive type.. I think you understand what I mean. Maybe I’m annoyed when I say I’m angry, but most of all I just think I’m impatient! When I say I’m angry it feels like nothing is happening, and I want something to happen NOW! Then I get kind of p*ssed off! But only because of myself, because I can’t take it easy, relax and just let things happen. Maybe because I’m a control freak sometimes. Not that I want everything under control, but I want like “a this is what might happen in the future plan”, like a first sketch of how things will turn out (everything is included in that plan, school, work..ha ha! everything).
This is my last semester at the university, and I need to find a job soon. I know I have to, and I will. Its just that right now, I’m tired. Not emotionally tired, but I have headache pretty often, my stomach make strange EXTREMELY EMBARRASING noises like nine hours/day. WHY? Coffee makes me feels sick, but I just had a cup anyway because I hadn’t had one for (I think) one week.
This is pretty much what is going on. I can fill my closet with new things, and I saved the clothes I like. I know it didn’t have to do with the fact that I’m 25 now, which I wasn’t yesterday, but sometimes you have to give yourself a kick in a new direction. Sometimes things need to happen, and you have to do something about it. So now I’ve started to move.. forward ;) and I’m happy about that. Only good things can come from this, and I’m just happy that things are so good right now.
Look at the flowers I got from Erik yesterday! I got a necklace too, and I liked it! Then we had cake, and I decided what to have for dinner LOL and since I’m kind of stupid or something I chose bagles and “Pucko” (that’s a kind chocolate milk, we had never tried it before so we had to). We filled the bagles with guacamole and some other things like tomatoes and cucumber..
I think I have been thinking too much for a couple of days, lol! Yesterday I was acting like a zombie, and today I forgot if I had used shampoo or not when I washed my hair so I had to wash it twice haha!
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09 Wednesday Nov 2011
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I got this cute little book from my mom and dad today :). It’s a book with quotes about dogs :). I also got a ring, but it was too big for my finger..
06 Sunday Nov 2011
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My sister is getting married two weeks after Christmas. I’ll be bridesmaid and I have to find a dress that suits the wedding. The only problem is that my sister is a perfectionist and I’m not ;). Yesterday I gave up, she can buy a dress and I’ll wear it, because I won’t go to another of these wedding shops haha!
Next week is my birthday :) I’ll turn 25 which in some way is extremely scary lol! because time is running pretty fast :) I’ll throw myself a party on Saturday, but since my sister had her 20th birthday in August, it’s her party too. It’s just for family – our grandma, cousins and some more people. BUT this is the funny part – I went to Party Land and bought pink paper plates and a paper table cloth, and today I’ll look for napkins and some more stuff :) pink cake and coffee and pink soda. I’m deciding this time and they’ll probably kill me haha! I’ll take pictures of the cake :)
09 Sunday Oct 2011
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