may angels lead you in

grandma decided to leave this world so that she could be with grandpa.
i treasure all our memories together and i will never stop missing them.
i love you grandma and grandpa.

happy birthday-weekend to meee :)

henrik and i decided that it would be way more fun celebrating my birthday all weekend than on MONDAY... we are both working on monday so it was way cooler opening and enjoying all my gifts already. a huge THANK YOU for all the gifts !!! i love all of them and i feel very fortunate to have so many people thinking about me. not a lot of people can say that they get birthday gifts from as far away as australia, thanks for making me feel special :)

MAXANDER

at the beginning of september alex came to visit. he loves sweden and we love when he comes over. i took a couple of days off work so that we could spend as much time together as possible and we came up with a million things to do. 2 of the highlights were the trip to älvsborgs fästning and the fiskhamnsfestival. maxander, when are you coming back ??

my first swedish wedding

henrik and i were invited to niklas and catrines wedding the other week. the ceremony took place on a boat, out on open water. the bride and groom looked amazing and the ceremony held by the captain was way cooler than the ordinary boring church stuff. all the best to the newly weds !!!

BÄRLAUCH !!!

thanks to the KULTURKALAS there are market stands from all over the world selling delicious things in town right now. yesterdays coolest purchase was without a doubt the dried bärlauch that i bought from a nice, old german man.
he gave me a recipe book with lots of bärlauch recipes, I LOVE IT !! i made my very first bottle of bärlauch-oil and half a pound of bärlauch butter so far.
in english bärlauch is called bear´s garlic and in swedish you say ramslök. try to get your hands on some - it´s healthy and delicious !!

THE REEF

for our 2 year anniversary i gave henrik a trip to denmark to stay and swim at the THE REEF hotel and resort.
his favorite part was the waterslide that we got to go down in a double-tube, i loved drinking a good pina colada on the sun deck. the pool area was fantastic !! we just wished the service and the dinner options in fredrikshavn were better.
the trip was such a nice break from work though. and now its only one and a half months left until we go on our real vacation to spain :)

the sweet taste of homegrown veggies :)

last week we picked quite a few ripe tomatoes for a spinach-bacon-egg-cheese-onion-tomato-mustard dressing SALAD. the salad is inspired by janice, she got me hooked on it while i lived in jersey. now we´ll have to wait for another week or two until the rest of our tomatoes turn red. a huge THANKS to my friend anna, who gave me the plant when it was still a baby :)

PINK CONCERT

on friday night henrik and i went to one of my all-time favorite concerts. PINK!
GOOD CHARLOTTE and TAKIDA were the opening acts and at 9.15pm PINK dropped out of the sky singing GET THE PARTY STARTED and FUNHOUSE. she sang all our favorite songs and the show was packed with stunts and special effects. henrik deserves a thumbs-up and a double-yay for getting us the tickets at the beginning of the year :)

WALL ART

TÅRTA

sunday afternoons call for cake :)
3 layers of sugar cake, one layer of raspberry-mousse, one layer of sugared blue-berries and raspberries and whipped cream, topped with strawberries and whipped cream. cake,done. henrik and anna, happy.

LUNCH

serve this with kebab-sauce !! yum-o !!!

ingredients:
10 frozen puff-pastry squares
350 gr minced meat
1 onion, chopped
2 dl creme fraiche, garlic flavor
100 gr feta cheese with herbs, crumbled
fresh parsley, chopped
salt,peppar,paprika powder

brown the meat and add onion to the hot pan. season with salt,peppar and paprika powder. take off heat and add garlic creme fraiche, corn, crumbled feta cheese and parsley. place 8 puff pastry squares on a baking sheet and put a pile of the meat mixture in the middle of each square. leave an edge to rise. decorate the squares with left over puff pastry.
bake at 200 degrees celsius for about 15 min or until brown. DONT FORGET TO SERVE KEBAB SAUCE WITH THE SQUARES :)

I´m in love with my plant

i can´t wait until i get to eat my first self grown veggies. the paprika plant isn´t showing any baby parikas yet, but soon it will be time to harvest the tomatoes :)

GREEN DAY

AWESOME CONCERT !!! 25.000 people at ULLEVI and green day played all our favorite songs. the fireworks were sweet,too !!

DÄÄÄNEMARK

our trip to denmark the other weekend was sweet. we got to spend a couple of hours shopping and we went to an irish pub and random restaurant for dinner. we seemed to be the only people from sweden that weren´t totally wasted :) lots of people started drinking on the ferryboat in the morning and didn´t stop until we were back in göteborg.
the ferry trip is super fun and affordable, this wasn´t our last trip to denmark, thats for sure !!

SWEDENS NATIONALDAY

yesterday was henriks nameday (gustav) and swedens nationalday. i got us the new almondy KALASTÅRTA. yum. the only thing yummier than that was the salmon we had for dinner, sadly there is no picture of it :(