In my cupboards pt 2

It's time for part two in this little serie of mine called In my cupboards. Some things we just have at home, and we forget to enjoy them. This is why I do this, I have so much stuff which almost never see the daylight. This is for all that stuff. A 15 minutes of fame. Or just daylight...

In one of my most likely to be forgotten cupboards I store all my pots and pottery, I had a brief idea I would only buy white pots, that was just an idea and now when I find something I like, I buy it, wether white or not.

These are my best pots, one day, we can say tomorrow, I'll by flowers and plants for all of these. So they'll be watched and enjoyed. 

They are all from old Swedish potteries, from the top: Steninge, Uppsala Ekeby x5, Rörstrands x2.

Semlor, or buns as Google translate wants to call it

Today, my sister had some friends visiting her from Halmstad, a city on the west coast. I wanted to make them something special, so I decided to make semlor, the greatest pastry in the world. A simple bun, filled with almond and cream.
I took a classic recipie,
75 g butter
25 g yeast
2,5 dl milk or soy milk
7,5 dl flour
0,5 dl sugar
cardamon
salt

Stuffing:
2,5 dl cream or a non dairy cream product
300 g Almond icing
1 dl Milk or soy milk

Melt the butter, poor in the milk, it has to be 37 degrees Celcius, then tad in the yeast, blend it with almost all the flour, and all the other ingredients. Then let it yeast for 40 minutes or more. Make small buns, let them rise on a baking tray for 30 minutes and then in the oven (225 degrees Celcius) for 10-15 minutes.

During the ferment you'll have to prepare the almond stuffing. Blend the milk with the almond icing, you can put it on the stove id you want, but it hase to nicely blended. Then whip the cream.

Take out the buns, let them cool, then cut the top of, but keep it! Dig a small hole in the bun and stuff it with the almond stuffing. Then put on the cream, put on the lid, and it's done!!! Now eat!!!!//E

Almost free

C have already told you about DOX, a series of documentarys which you can watch on SVT, our public broacasting company, funded by all (or those who admit they've got one, everyone should, it's almost free, around 380 USD a year) TV owners.
We don't own a TV, L and I, but we got a radio, and it's turned on from almost all the time. We love our public funded radio (it's not only TV that is funded by the public, the radio is too).
So, instead of wathing millions of hour of bad TV shows, mainly just watched because we're lazy, (when we had a TV we watched all kinds of shitty shows leaving nothing but emptyness...) we listen to the radio. Sometimes we pop popcorn, and listen to some documentary, 'cause even if you know the ending. It get's so exiting.
Last weeks a huge debate raged in the media here, about a girl called Nora, who was raped (by a highly respected police man) and then denied a female psychologist.
If you understand Swedish, which some of you do, I suppose, you can listen to it here, the documentary is in two parts. It's made by Daniel Velasco.
//E

Pewter Bracelet

My friend J makes these Lappland Sami bracelets in many colors.

Real leather and handmade in Sweden. I have worn mine every day for 2 years now.

And it gets more beautiful the more you use it.

If you want one, send her a email.

//C