Ever wanted to swap a window with someone else? Well now you can!
Ain't that cool.
This is the first window that popped up for me - and it's not a bad one, homely and cozy, with a view on what I'd assume was a backyard in the UK if it didn't show a different location.
But there may be some truly utopian windows out there too... why not mosey on over, and open a few?
Man this one was grueling... but what can you do? Must uphold tradition!
I've been eating these for something like fifteen years straight at this point, and I was of no mind to let this year be an exception, but it just so happened that I woke up this Tuesday feeling... not so great.
Mom was apparently down with a fever the weekend me and good buddy Bear were in Albania - the weekend before last, and I came home on Sunday after a tiring trip to an empty fridge, after midnight, with an early work day awaiting....
I set my alarm even earlier than I'd planned to fix up some lunch for the office, went on with a grueling day there, came back home, finally had a full night's sleep, and the next morning I had indeed caught that virus too.
It may have been (and still be) the flu.
Baking semlor turned out a more arduous task than I thought it'd be this year, but since mom was still incapacitated and I too sick to head out and actually buy something (which I tend to avoid doing anyway these days) I had no choice but to bake something!
I looked for a random 'gluten-free semla' recipe online, and found this.
Notice how the recipe doesn't say anything about how long said recipe takes to make? It probably took me around ~3 hours.
I whipped up fresh cream, melted the butter, thawed the yeast, ground the cardamom seeds, whisked the egg, warmed the milk, ran the almonds through the grinder, mixed 'em with honey and milk (recipe says sugar but FUCK SUGAR), added in sea salt and saffron, worked the dough like a mofo and let it thicken (10 minutes), rise (30 minutes) and rise again (30 minutes more) and then into the oven they went!
After two times the intended oven time (I think I made the buns bigger than intended + hadn't warmed the oven fully + the saffron paste I used messed up the flour/liquid ratio entirely but did end up making the dough even better than I'd expected) and voila (same semla - different angle)...
They tasted great. :) The recipe was aight after all! Possibly the best gluten-free variant I've tried so far - except maybe for the wonderful one I bought at renowned Bro cafe Mazarin before they closed down.
Anyway we got our semlor! I made one for all of us. Mom couldn't eat more than one half, so I had more, and there's more in store!
Then I got the fever for real and was totally out of it for three days.
WORTH IT. 👍✨
I'm a bit late with this post again this year thus, but know: These pictures were taken on Tuesday! And the foodstuff depicted on them was eaten then too. I haven't had an ounce of cream or sugar since, since I'm trying to get rid of this ongoing infection quick now cause this coming Friday:
Banja Luka. We're off again. Do wish I had a bit more recoup time...
Happy Fat Tuesday y'all!
Here's a random Start11 feature I've been experimenting with lately.
Showing start-menu items as a grid...
I don't recall the context of this Google, but somehow I stumbled upon a 110 year old film producer with an interesting name!
He's still alive! May he live a long time yet.
Here's to you, Gene Wang.
After Göteborg there was this! A two day trip to Halmstad.
I have no idea what Halmstad is in English - if it's called anything other than it's actual name (as Gothenburg is), so I'll just roll with that this time! Halmstad, AKA the City of Hay.
Though it's really more a town than a city.
Ever been there yourself? Ever planning to go? If so here's a bundle of restaurants we considered on the train trip there.
We ended up going to the one of those with the shortest anchor text above, and this one, and they were great!
The place? Some pictures...
Want to see some live fish, caught by some random underwater webcams around Sweden?
You'd be lucky to catch one on camera though, considering only around a hundred fishes pass their cameras every day - read that as you will in regards to the danger state of our local fish population, but if you perch yourself and wait a while, then once in a blue moon you just might see something cool, like say a school like this.
Pretty cool school.