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Greetings from June Hill
Cinnamon rolls always make me think of Astrid Lindgren books. Maybe it’s because they appear several times, and because IKEA sells them, too. They were really good but a little less sweet than I’d...
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One Week of Breakfast
The idea occurred to me last Saturday while I was cleaning my french press and pondering about my relationship with the first meal of the day. I’m a horrible partner. Most of the time I prefer to throw...
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One Week of Breakfast II
Remember Part I? This one is more like “Six Days of Breakfast and One Coffee” as I went to the Shire last week and completely forgot to take pictures except of said coffee. Wednesday...
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There’s a first time for everything – EuroSteamCon ’12
Just yesterday the very first EuroSteamCon ended. Marburg actually had the only “official” (read: listed) German event, but we all hope there will be more next year. The concept is fairly new to Europe...
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No. 97: Bake Bread
One of my Daring Deeds was to bake bread. I might make this a habit as I do like bread, but don’t eat a whole loaf before it gets dry. When I’m baking I can choose the size myself, hence four smaller...
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Cinderella Breakfast
I’ve been quite busy lately, so please excuse this surprise hiatus. And I know that you all wanted to see my white rabbit costume first thing when I come back, but I fear you’ll have to wait another...
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My New Favourite Autumn Dish
I use this recipe by Martha Stewart but without the sage (mainly because I always forget about it). I use a very fine herbal salt as my main spice and a bit of black pepper and mix them with pumpkin...
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Blades and Sweet Chai Latte
On the third day of Christmas my best friend went with me… …ice skating. Because I love ice skating. And then we had dinner. Because we both love dinner. * *** My mother prepared chai (and mini caramel...
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Emotional Detox
*** “Emotional Detox” is the name of a tea I bought yesterday and exactly what I needed yesterday evening. There’s been a lot of ruckus lately – the move, uni, our upcoming soirée this weekend,...
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One Week of Breakfast III
The first one in 2013 and the first one from the new flat! Thursday green jasmine & ginger tea, smoked salmon with dill on white rolls *** Friday apple & lemon tea, mixed cereals with yoghurt,...
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Steamed Cakes in Green and Yellow
Yesterday I finally tried this recipe after having it linger in my bookmarks for several months. I have no oven at the new place (yet), so I’ll have to do my sweet-makery another way. Instead of...
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Goutweed Pancakes
Lately I’ve been working in the garden again, and I’ve also been thinking about useful things to do with unwanted weeds. The thing we have most (except of that horrible conifer I’m not supposed to get...
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Equinox with Cake
I made my first cake in the new oven today, and although it didn’t really turn out the way I wanted it to be it’s quite nice. I always seem to go over board with oil when there’s matcha involved… I’m...
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Autumn Cake
I’ve been experimenting with my oven lately. Just heating from both sides didn’t seem to do the job for cake, so I went on to heat from above for about five minutes, then from below for fifteen and...
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Cinnamon Rolls
I used this recipe from Have a Yummy Day (the Swedish ones), but I’ll write down what I did, just to make sure. Makes 40 small or 25 large rolls For the dough: 500 ml milk or soy/rice/hazelnut milk (I...
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If you fail, put cream on top
Sometimes when you’re a crafty person things don’t go right. Quite the contrary, they go awfully wrong. My personal top-of-the-list example is the cake in the picture above. It was supposed to be this...
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This is What You call a Wonderful Weekend
Having a best friend living more than 500km across the country is nice sometimes, but horrible at others. In the Northerner’s and my case it gets horrible as soon as we don’t visit each other for over...
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Comfort Food: Salmon Bagels
I’m stuck with my paper that is due tonight, the weather can’t decide whether to rain or not so it does both, I have a minor headache, and all in all the day seems extremely dull. Salmon with its high...
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UFO Friday
Besides finally *ahem* falling behind on NaNo (no picture of that necessary) I’ve been working on my sustainability skills. While I was visiting my mother down in the Shire I made my first steps in...
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Recipe, Illustrated: Chocolate Almonds
Today I’d like to share one of my favourite winter treat recipes with you: Chocolate Almonds. Here’s how you do it: Take 600g of almonds, scatter them over a baking tin and evenly cover them with sugar...
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