When my boyfriend and I got back from London, UK, I decided that I wanted to make a photoalbum out of all the pictures and other stuff. I ordered some cardboard and various things and got started. Every page contains one specific happening. The album got tickets and some other stuff we got while we were there, but mostly it is about the pictures and stories. I have written the pages in Norwegian. But its nice to look at I hope. I am not entirely done yet, there are still some blank spaces and I have not sewn the album together, nor have I made a front page and a back page. But that will be done during the summer.
On Friday (20 th of June) my parents dropped off our family dog in the apartment of me and my boyfriend. They were going to Prague, and needed a dogsitter for almost a week. We volunteered. She has been here for about three and a half day now, everything is going fine. Except she does sleep in the sofa, but while she is here we have a blancet in it. Kira is about one and a half year now. She is of the breed Lagotto. She is small to medium sized with lovely short curls. She does not shed fur, nor does she drool. I took care of her last summer to when I was in Ålesund. She is very calm.
Lovely pictures. When she is all dark she is on.y about a couple of months, the other ones are from now in our apratment.
Lately it seems I just cant get my mind into studying for my exams, so rather than studying, I make/bake stuff. The latest thing is bread. Bread with carrot. Really yummy.
The recipe is as follows;
A package of yeast
5 decilitres of milk
3 tablespoons of oil
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of salt
2 medium carrots, raped nicely
7 decilitres of
At least 6 decilitres of white flour
An egg to make a topping to the bread
Sesame seeds to topping
Do this;
1. Mix all the dry stuff
2. Add the wet stuff
3. Knead
4. Let rest
5. Knead into two “sausages” , let rest
6. “paint” with the egg, and put sesame seeds on top of that
7. Bake at 220 Celsius degrees in 25 minutes
8. Let rest, eat :)
Underneath is the picture of the two breads. By some reason, when they rested, they didnt grow upwards, but to the sides. . . So the bread is kind of wide and low. . . But tasty indeed :)
As well as making buns on sunday, we also decided it was time to make candles. We had been saving bits and pieces from old candles for a long time and finally there were enough of them to make new candles. Already bought wicks, so nothing stopped us this time. Picture below shows all the pieces we had saved.
The second step were to find what we were going to make the candles in. We had a lot of old glasses, which had been glasses with candles. We attached a wick to a pencil, and then put it across the glass. Like the picture below.
What we did next were to put a big pot onto the stove with about 5 cm of water in it. The water is supposed to be warm, but not boiling. Then we put a clean, empty tin can in it. Then we just added pieces of wax in the can, until it melted and the tin can was about full of warm, liquid candle wax. With the occational stir with an old pencil (preferably something old plastic, but we did not have such a thing). Also, remember to pick out old wicks, do not want them in the new candles. :P
When the wax had melted, we dipped the wicks in it. Then poured the wax into the glasses. Not using all the wax, because you have to put more into the glass a bit later after they have cooled a bit because the wax sinks a bit. When the new candles have cooled for a while, and there is clearly that the wax have sunk, have some more warm, melted wax into the glasses. Then you’re about done :)
Note, the candles has to cool for about a day before you take them out of the glasses. Picture below is of our new candles. They are a bit discolored because we used old candles with wicks, and the ash from them cannot be taken away easily. Anyway, we are pretty happy with them :)
Below is a close up of the candle that I am most happy with.
On sunday I got a bit bored, so after a little while we decided to make buns.
What you need:
700 g of white flour
400 g of wholemeal rye
100 g of rolled oats
100 g of various seeds
a package of yeast
a little salt
a tablespoon of brown sugar
8 desilitres of water
3 tablespoons of oil (preferably not olive oil)
Gooey topping;
150 g of various seeds
water.
Have the seeds in a bowl, add boiling water to cover, let stand still for at least an hour.
How to:
1. Mix all the dry stuff
2. Mix in the wet stuff
3. Add white flour until a smooth dough
4. Knead the dough
5. Let stand to swell for an hour
6: Knead again
7. Let stand to swell for an hour
8. Knead again, and shape into 100 g a piece
9. Let stand to swell for an hour
10. Add gooey stuff, and put into the oven and cook for about 14 minutes at 225 Celsius.
Johnny did the dividing and we only ended up with about 15, but they were very good :)