Things I Learned in Baking so Far…

Follow the recipe. Don’t be stingy.
Especially not with fat, it doesn’t work.
Don’t believe what the recipe says, believe what your eyes say in amount of flour.
Halving the recipe never works (see point 3). Learn to live with ending up with 25 buns that need to be eaten :)
Call it a success if you can at [...]

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Bento #106

I know I know, I’m lazy with updating. Here’s a bento from Tuesday, when the bloodbus finally came. I swear, our vampires are the laziest around…
Wholemeal tortellini with pesto and a huge basil leaf, carrot sticks and hummus to dip, pieces of a mooncake, a frozen strawberry and blueberries, banana chunks with chocolate sauce. [...]

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Help?

I’m getting really weird pingbacks on my latest post. They look like spamblogs, or really random link collections. Anybody know what they are and if they are a danger? (If so, how do I get rid of them?)

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Saturday shopping in Stockholm

After a long week of hard work I do what every geek girl likes to do: relaxing with a shopping tour through the nearest big town!
Well, first I start by having a looong, nice sleep-in. Then I go on tour. And since by “then”, I mean “well into lunch time”, the first stop is defined [...]

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Oct 4 – Kanelbullens dag!

October 4th is Kanelbullens (Cinnamon rolls) day in Sweden!
Have you had yours yet?
I didn’t bake any though because my company and a consultant company both invited me to one already. Mmm, freshly-baked, aromatic cinnamon rolls…
I’d have taken a picture of the tray but they were gone faster than you could say “plague of locusts”. But [...]

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Also quite ultimate stuffed zucchini

The other two zucchini were halved and made into 4 lovely cups, then stuffed with balls of couscous mixed with a fried mixture of leek, zucchini meat, feta, spinach, mint and raisins, then covered in feta crumbles and again baked in the oven.

Lovely!
As sides there is chinese cabbage and carrot salad with thyme and sundried [...]

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Bentos # 104 and 105 – breakfast boxes

Now that’s more like it. Same ingredients as this box, but much more bento-like!
One big box for me and one small for the bf, who isn’t a big breakfaster either.

Breakfast for today. The theme was “red” since I was planning to give blood. And they moved the bloodbus date under my nose again! Hrmph. Oh [...]

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