my first attempt at baking kanelbulle turned out pretty well. the gang came over for a largely swedish meal. we played blackjacks with some horrible dares. stinky great fun still!

taize and fika

on every first and third tuesday evenings of the month, there'll be a taize gathering at our weekday mass chapel. i like the familiarity of this prayer.(:

fika- a social institution in sweden. WARNING: AN ADDICTIVE HABIT! it's the practice of a coffeebreak. anytime and anywhere. swedes drink LOADS of coffee. there' ALWAYS a fika after church meets. and it lasted til ten plus tonight cos 12 pple sat around and talked christianity. met new friends! polish, bolivia and a dominican sister...

and while shoping at willy's today, i bought punshrulle. a swedish pastry. green marzipan with the ends dipped in chocolate, and inside a mix of crushed cookies, butter, and cacao, flavoured with punsch liqueur :):):). this pastry is often called dammsugare ("vacuum cleaner"), referring not only to its appearance, but also to the supposed practice of the pastry baker collecting crumbs from the day's cookies for filling. other names are arraksrulle (as arrak is an ingredient in punsch ) and "150-ohmer" (due to the brown-green-brown coloring). -wiki












somewhat like the Prinsesstårta..


but trying them once is enough, its uber sweet for me.

but we ate scones on Kanelbulle Day

and this is sunday's lunch after mass. we made potato leek soup! and scones. its KANELBULLE DAY on the 4th October. makes me wanna bake cinnamons now too.