Time for another celebratory cake picture. Today we eat semlas - the buns filled with whipped cream and almond paste. And we have far too many, since the grocery delivery service messed up and sent a double order. Yes, too many even for us.. Will have to give away some tomorrow. The box on the table only contains half of the buns we got! There are ( Read more... )

Crazy weather, snowing like mad and I came back from the shops just in time to watch the press-conference where Håkan Juholt, the now former leader of the major opposition party, the Social Democrats resigned after just 10 months. Very exciting and about time after all the different messes he has been in during those months. I hope they sort out ( Read more... )

Back to normal business - and Happy International Women's Day and Fettisdagen!

Dad was doing slightly better today. He's still not really contactable or lucid, but he's started to move his eyelids and even opened his eyes and almost focused them a few times. He's breathing well, but still lots of phlegm. I was there from 10:30 until 15:30 when my ( Read more... )

I always end up watching too much tv when I stay in my sister's flat. Tonight it was old episodes of House the last ep of Glee and now an old re-run of CSI. Ah how I enjoy the early seasons, when Nick and Greg have cute discussions in the lab, and Catherine still haven't done too many face-lifts. Yesterday they showed the first ep with Lady Heather ( Read more... )

Here we go again, Shrove Tuesday and eating far too many semla. I went over to sister's place tonight and celebrated the day (and our Crown Princess's engagement to her Daniel) with some extremely good semla. I think these are among the best I've ever had. Bought at the City library's café. The most amazing almond paste and a very soft and nice bun ( Read more... )

It's the obligatory yearly celebration of semla or fettisdagsbulle in Sweden today. And for once I've been a very good girl and not bought any before today. This year we felt lazy and instead of baking our own, I took an early walk to the local bakery and bought some for our lunch. I kind of miss eating home-baked semla with hot milk, since it's ( Read more... )

The Swedish traditional annual eating of the Semla  occurred today. My sister is ridiculously fond of these buns, and she has bought us several in the last weeks, but today is the 'official' day for eating them. We were too late with our shopping today, all the semlas were all ready sold at the local bakery. So instead we cheated and bought ready- ( Read more... )