End of May

well this month is almost over and June is around the corner.
I need more sun so im ready for summer thank you bring it on
i can get lost in pretty things i see in the blog world ,oh my so many pretty things out there
love these peoner.

they are so big and pink and smell so good

that pretty bowl i got in søstrene grene 

have a good one

Chocolate buns

This is last blog in this month.We had lots of guest´s yesterday so to have something tasty for them i made these chocolate buns and boy are they good and just the best buns ever i think.

very soft and fluffy buns are the best ,the recipe is very big but in a big house you need BIG

• 900-1000 gram hveteml ,flour
• 5 dl melk (ca 30 grader) ,milk warm
• 25-50 gram gjær ,yeast depends on how long you leave the dough to rest ,i used 40 gr and left it for almost an hour
• 150 gram sukker ,sugar
• 1 ts kardemomme,cardimon
• 1/4 ts salt
• 1 egg
• 150 gram smør, i terninger ,butter in bits

• kokesjokolade, finhakket ,chocolate chopped small
• brunt sukker ,brown sugar
• smør ,butter
• kanel,cinamon

but everything (not the butter) in the mixer and mix very well  then add the butter in small pices at a time and mix good ,then let the dough rest for an hour or so with a plastinc film over it (in a warm spot) i put in top of the stove while im heating the oven

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here you can see how to make these beautiful buns ,rolling the dough is fun and makes pretty buns as well .
http://trinesmatblogg.no/2011/03/sjokolade-og-kanelsnurrer-2/

these are great for the kids with cold milk :) and for mums since mums like chocolate

bake and enjoy .

Nice sunday

Its a cozy sunday here ,the hubby working on some things for me and we had some guest´s and yeh i baked some chocolate buns .

zink house from Kid and pink flowers from the garden

well i need to get some painting done so

har det bra

Made these as desert for the family ,easy and tasted wonderful.

here is the meringue recipe

FOR THE MERINGUE NESTS

• 3 egg whites
• ½ tsp lemon juice
• 150g caster sugar 
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• Heat oven to 110C/fan 90C/gas ¼. Tip the egg whites and lemon juice into the clean bowl of a food mixer. Whisk until the whites double in volume and hold a peak when the whisk is drawn through them. Keep the whisk running and add the sugar a tbsp at a time, incorporating completely before adding the next. Whisk until all the sugar has been added and the whites are glossy.
• Place a square of baking parchment on a large baking sheet. Pencil nine circles, about 7cm each, onto the parchment. Spoon the meringue into a large piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle and pipe concentric rounds to fit each drawn circle, piping two or more rings around the edge to form a nest. Bake for 2 hrs until they are crisp and lift off the paper easily. Leave to cool completely.
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the filling

• 250g Original Philadelphia
• 50g icing sugar
• ½tsp vanilla extract
• 400g fresh strawberries
• 8 meringue nests, either homemade or shop bought.
• Approx 80g strawberry dessert sauce

Method

1. Whisk together the Philadelphia, icing sugar and vanilla extract.
2. Roughly chop the strawberries into small bite size pieces and stir into the Philadelphia mixture. Divide this evenly between the meringue nests.
3. Drizzle the dessert sauce over the nests and if you like dust with a little icing sugar. Best served straight away.                                                                                                                                                     

Chocolate cake

On sunday we had so much to do around the house and we got guest as well so i made a cake and it was delicious everyone loved the cream on top and the cake was very moist and i will for sure make that one again .

Its poring rain today so im not really sure what im gona do ,maby some thing around the house ,more laundry boring i know but someone has to do it .

 I wish i had some cake left ,then i would snuggle under a blanket with my son and watch some tv and eat a litle cake .No im trying to watch my diet and ive lost 1 kg in a week so its going great .

I cant wait to paint my new table /bench white ,it will look so good i think .
I wish some of the rain here would go to Iceland ,that would help alot with the ash,
some peoble in Kirkjubæjarklaustur have left there homes :/ and are staying with friends and family ,they say that it could turn into lava soon ,so then there wont be as much ash but it could stay like that for one or two months !!
stay safe everyone

Grímsvötn

The volcano in Grímsvötn is not slowing down far from that and the ash is already in Reykjavík the capital of Iceland

,my family and everyone else is staying in as much as they can with closed windows so the ash wont go in as much ,i feel so bad for the peoble that live near the volcano its just horrible there now ,im sure that alot of them will leave there homes soon if they have not already .

there is just no way for them to stay there ,and farmers are loosing some animals :( and this is the 3rd eruption in a very short time .
This is just not what the peoble of Iceland need as this point
its having an impact on airtraffic and not just in Iceland ,the Uk as well

I just talked to my sister and she lives close to the capital and they are seeing ash there ,im not sure i feel good about not beeing there or not

This is the begining of the eruption

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You have to see this amazing video

Sunday

Yesterday was really busy in a way ,we dint go anywhere just staying home and doing things around the house ,hubby was building me a table with seats on ,its so cool and since he was working all day and the day before i made him a healthy salat and we had a cozy time in the green house.

its bankabygg wich is grown i Iceland with schrimps ,mynt ,tomatos salt and pepper ,really jummy and so healthy

you can see the table he made for me ,i just need to paint it white .

Im not really sure how things are going back home in Iceland ,all i know it that there is so much ash but it seems as the volcano is slowing down but making much ash and the ash is already in Reykjavik ,i feel sorry for the animals ,but the farmers are trying to get them inside or those animals they can reach .
Its really strange watching this on the internet and not beeing home ,so i hope everyone is save .

Oh my

this eruption is turing out to be really big they say :( wich is not good ,all flights in Iceland have been cancelld

there is alot of ash so this is not good for the peoble that live near ,i dont think they need to move peoble away from the place .
No one is in danger .

these pics are taken from Visir.is

Bigger then

This eruption is bigger then 2004 they say and large cloud of dark smoke and it has alot of ash.
This is nothing compared to the other one last year ( Eyjafjallajokull eruption )
 you can read more about this in english http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/english/

picture Sigurlaug Linnet

Eruption in Iceland

Oh my how strange is that ,at 18.00 the earth started to erupt in Iceland
i dont think that its a big one but it will be very intresting to watch how that one goes
warnings have been sent to the Uk so that they can make changes for there fly plans (dont hate us its not really our fault that we live on land that has erupting volcanos)
http://ht.ly/4ZW7W

note,this pic is taken in 2004

Homemade bread

I love to bake (suprise) and i also love to make healthy things as well .

i bought this rose yesterday so pretty and really red

my dog really loved the smell as you can see

i bought some new forms yesterday ,cupcakes and a form to bake bread or cakes in ,really cute

ps.dont forgett to gill /like my cupcake in Miss cupcake 20011
http://www.misscupcake.se/show.php?id=278&share

have a supre great weekend
XoXo
Valeria

19 years

Today its been 19 years since me and hubby started dating and today we have 5 kids together.
We have been through alot together good and bad but we have always been as one ,without him im not a hole person.
See what he brought metoday .

its tiny cucumbers ,and i used one in the salat

here is my son doing some garden jobs
my hubby made the bigger bench and my brother made me the litle flower box

Love you dear hubby

17 Mai

Today is the Norwegian national day and we celebrate with them ,the kids had parade´s to go to and it was really fun to see how they celebrate there day ,everyone had there national costumes on ,it was amazing to see ,we had so much fun ,thanks for this great day Norway .

Gratulerer med dagen Norge
ha en riktig fin nasjonaldag.

 

I won

Yeh i won again ,this time for a pic i sent in to this log http://monaceh.blogspot.com/
this is the pic i sent in ,taken of my daugther ,we whent fishing and she got a litle tierd

here is the prise i got

thank you Mona

Plants in the greenhouse

Omg im not sure what i was thinking when i planted those tomatoseeds .
Now i have 38 tomatoplants growing like crazy !! 10 strawb plants ,oregano ,basill,and mint ,2  dahlia´s
and i really whant some grape´s as well ,not sure what hubby will say about that ,but this i got him to do yesterday.

i already painted on of them and they can be used as flower bench or seats for the kids  or me :)

Here i got this awesome idea for the bench http://janneskreativeverden.blogspot.com/
one creative girl there.

Eurovision 2011

yeh tonight is eurovision night and in Iceland everyone has a party and has a good time and watch the contest
tonight we have Sjonni´s friends from Iceland ,great song and has a special mening to many peoble cause Sjonni died a few days before the contest :( very sad .
listen to the song here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKlTu7fawzY

but my favorite song is from Finnland
listen to the text
its a song with such great message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpnbAIysv74

Many things

I love things like this and here in Norway there are so many romantic things to find .
Me and the litle man whent for a drive and found these great romantic things in Bohus.

and since im loving all flowers i thought these flowers pots where to cute to walk away from

and the best thing is the dint cost alot

i them i have Dahlia´s they are so pretty with there pink flowers

we have busy day´s ahead so i better get my act together,with a big family off 7 you need to plan everything well .

take care and have a wonderful weekend

A litle crochet

Yeh i can logg in ,some problems with the blogspot but it seems to be fine now :)
Well my hand is getting much better after the acident i had ,so i was able to crochet a litle yesterday in the sun
sat outside with my coffee and the hook and it felt good

i have a few flower made and i just need to crochet them togther ,so its not going as fast as i would have liked but im not giving up on this ,it will look so good when all is done (not sure when that will be )

i just need to focus on one spot ,ive been allover the blanket with those flowers ,so im gona try to focus one spot


later
xoxo

I won

Yeh i won and i usually never win anything so this was a great suprise ,sjarmerendechic had this fun giveaway and here is what i got from her in the post yesterday .

the heart smells wonderful and the sweet heart is just to cute and a great macthbox witch will come in handy

thank you so much for this wonderful gift.
klemm Valeria

New finds

A litle shopping trip with my son yesterday (we have a car now ) so we have been going crazy driving all over the place and having fun and to be able to go almost everywhere i whant is just amazing ,even if its no the best looking car i can go from A to B and thats good for me .
so we whent for a drive and i found this in a store i cant remember the name of

i thought is was so cool i had to get one ,there where more sayings so i may end up getting more :)
and then we whent to plantasjen and there we found these cute flowers made of stone .

the sun is out there so im gona go and enjoy the great weather ,we seem to have alot of good days here in norge