06 Monday Feb 2012
Last week Erik and I made hazelnut muffins. Erik got a bottle of coffee syrup for Christmas (a present from his brother), but we decided to something more fun than just add the syrup to coffee. Use your favorite basic muffin recipe, mix 1 dl (about 1/3 cup) almonds until they are finely chopped. Substitute the almonds for 1/3 cup of the flour. Add 1 tablespoon of coffee syrup (I guess vanilla, chocolate syryp etc. works just as fine).
09 Monday Jan 2012
I had marzipan at home and came up with the idea to make cookies. I’ll share the recipes:
Almond cookies
150 g marzipan
50 ml powder sugar
1 egg white
1/4 tablespoon lemon juice
extra powder sugar
Use an electric mixer, mix the marzipan until soft, whisk the egg white lightly, add it together with the lemon juice. Mix the batter until smooth. Put the batter in a forcing bag. Make small cookies – use baking paper, sift powder sugar on the cookies. Put them in the oven (150 degrees celsius) for about 12-15 minutes or until the edges are light brown.
I added the rest of the marzipan (50 g) to a muffin batter and added finely chopped figs (3). They were not so sweet so I made a simple icing and drizzled it on top of them.
(I used what we I Sweden call mandelmassa, 50% sugar 50% almonds. That’s the thing to use. It might be called marzipan somewhere else :). Marzipan in Sweden is made of 30% almonds and 60% sugar. Just a note).
09 Friday Dec 2011
Should I tell you something strange? I’m in a very good mood! There’s hope :) it might be so that I have to hand in the thesis in March instead of January.. First I thought it was my fault only, but now I think I have realized that might not be the case.. Because something can’t just be one persons fault. I’ll now focus on finishing some stuff for work and today is the final in Swedish Idol.. I haven’t seen any of the other episodes so why not watch the last one :)
I made some muffins earlier, and added less sugar than the recipe said. It worked pretty well..
15 Saturday Oct 2011
26 Saturday Mar 2011
Yesterday I bought some new make up, that was not too soon, I have also thrown away a lot of cloths this week – my gosh you save so much you never wear. The good thing with that is you can buy new things :) and that’s what I’ve planned to do next week. I bought a dress yesterday too, but after I had tried it on a second time, I didn’t think it looked very good on.
Then I was cropping some pictures in Photoshop, and found a button called turn into black and white – I though the result was kind of funny, ha ha! I also made some muffins today – a healthier version with cranberries and barely no sugar. Then I put on some cream cheese and honey, yummy!
05 Saturday Feb 2011
Ok, so someone asked me to upload some more videos. I still think my singing sucks, big time. But here are some videos from my old Youtube account. Currently it sounds like I’ve been drinking too much whiskey, haha! This cold, or maybe influenza has reached my vocal chords, and I can barely speak, LOL! Singing is fun, but I don’t know.. my neighbor has a band, and I would love to listen to them playing.
Or no I regret it, I’ll post one video. It’s scary, I found videos I had recorded BEFORE I had my nose fixed, and before life got so much easier. It doesn’t sound worse, but it doesn’t sound happy. You can also hear that my nose is blocked. I shouldn’t complain now, it must have been worse back then. Aww.. ha ha! Today is Saturday, and I have to clean. isn’t that great!? NO! But I also think I’ll bake bread and some muffin. I have found a spiced raisin muffin recipe that I have to try :).
30 Sunday Jan 2011
Posted in Blah blah, Okategoriserade, Recipes, Thoughts
This morning I could DIE for anything tasting like chocolate. My thought: I have to go to that bakery and see if they have some delicious buns, or cookies or just something. Most of all I wanted a brownie. So I walked there. It’s Sunday, but it was open. Yah! I go in, I have a look around, but I see nothing that consists chocolate! WHY! So I ask the lady there if they have brownies, she asked me: what is that? Ok, well it’s Sunday so never mind. I say: I take a muffin, is it apple muffins? She says no, it’s blueberry. Damn! I paid 17kr for the muffin, went home and thought, it must be good.
I come home, open the pretty dull paper bag, and when I hold that stupid muffin in my hand it felt like it could have been an orange – it was VERY compact. I put it on a small plate, and tried to remove the paper, it was difficult, I thought I needed a tea spoon - that was not true. It was very crumby, I would have needed a deep plate bowl and a table spoon. I take the first bite: OH MY GOD! It tasted like someone had mixed cheap low quality flour and shortening. Like something you can buy in the shop at a gas station, like something you just mix with water and put in the oven. Something you eat if you HAVE to. There was like 3 blueberries on the bottom. That was it. Do I want to go there again? I don’t think so! Ok, I’m hard, BUT I’m fair. Ha ha ha ha! This is so rude!
Just to be extra clear, and to explain my dissatisfaction: I have lost 1 kg the last week - when my nose is blocked, nothing tastes good, and I just don’t think about eating, and when I eat, I stop, because it’s not fun, and this also makes me nauseous 24/7. So the last three days I have pretty much forced myself to eat stuff I usually eat, because I get really tired if I lose weight too fast, which I hate. And this morning I felt like I was worth something that tasted good. The good thing is that the day is not over yet. :) Now I started to think about that I have to go to the grocery store because I have no food at home. There are no word for how boring I think that is, ha ha! I don’t like huge grocery stores, because it takes sooo long time to walk through the place. But I have written a list :).. tra la la! :)
