How to make delicious cinnamon buns

Just a little picture guide on how I make my delicious cinnamon buns, with apple! They are very yummy!

I made 41 buns, but I assure you they didn't last for long ;) (well, it's 38 left. At the moment...)

You can find the recipe in Swedish here and in english here:

Cinnamon Spins with apples
Portions: 36 pc

100 g margarine or butter
5 dl milk
50 g fresh yeast
1 dl sugar
1 tsp cardamom
1 / 2 tsp salt
13-14 dl wheat flour

Filling
150 g margarine or butter
1 dl sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2-3 apples

Garnish
1 egg
Nib or granulated sugar


Do like this
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add milk and heat to 37 ° C. Bit down the yeast in a bowl and stir down the butter and milk. Add sugar, cardamom and salt. Work in almost all flour to a smooth dough. Let it ferment covered with baking towel about 30 minutes.
2. Stir the ingredients for the filling except apples. Peel, stone and cut the apples into small cubes.
3. Remove the dough of flour and knead the bench. Divide dough into 2-3 parts. Roll out each piece into a flat about 30x50 cm, wide on the fill. Sprinkle over apple dice in half the dough and fold it double. Cut the strips about 3 cm wide, divide them in half but let them stay together in the upper edge. Twist them together into a "knot".
4. Put the buns on plates. Ferment them covered with a towel, about 25 minutes. Turn on the oven to 250 ° C.
5. Whip up the egg and brush the buns. Sprinkle over the sugar.
6. Bake the buns in the oven 6-8 minutes. Let them cool on the screen, under a towel.

Comida deliciosa!!

35 buns left now... ;)

A day with Virginia (25/7)

Virginia picked me up at 11 a clock in a Audi TT =)
Then we hit the road and went to Varberg (as planned...). It was a bit crowded, so it took some time and patience to find a parking spot. But just when we was about to give up, three parking spots became available! Just in time.

Then we started walking around Varbergs fortress and the town center. We ate a good pasta just next to the market space in town. Here are some pictures from the trip:


Later that day we also went to Liseberg to look at Carl-Einar Häckners Varité (he's magician). I remember seeing him on TV when I was younger. Quite funny show, even though it was a bit short....

Visiting some friends and the wolfs at Kolmårdens Djurpark (zoo) (19-24/7)

During last week I've been visiting some good old friends that I haven't seen for a long long time. I spent the first two days (Sunday-Tuesday) at Richards place in Linköping, then two and a half day with Nathalie in Norrköping. I had also pre-booked a adventure at Kolmårdens Djurpark (zoo): Visit and pet the wolfs! (I received this adventure as a gift card last Christmas)

The wolf's greeting ceremony is to jump up and put it's front pawns on your shoulders and then lick you in the corner of the mouth, and then the whole face =) Very nice...

And they can get a bit jealous as well, so you might end up with 3 or 4 wolf's licking your face. Otherwise they just love when you scratch them on their belly!

Here are some pictures from the wolf encounter:


I can assure you that it was an incredible and unforgettable experience! Wow, the wolfs are soooo amazing. I, together with 14 other people and the keeper, went into the enclosure of four 9 year old male wolfs. We all freezed when the wolfs ran towards us. They are quite big you know ;) Then the wolf at the top of the hierarchy started snarling at the other wolfs (not us), just to maintain the hierarchy/order in the group and let the others know what they are allowed to do and not. Some of you maybe recognise this behaviour from a group of tame dogs. The keeper told us that a tame, unknown wolf is more reliable than a unknown dogs, because the wolfs body language is easier to read and they'll rather back away that bite. So we felt pretty safe.


If you're thinking about what to buy for a birthday/Christmas present or just wanna do something different and exiting, I encourage you to do something like this! It's a great and unforgettable experience!

And here are pictures of the other animals that you can see in the park, incl me and Nathalie:


Now I'm back in Göteborg where I'll prepare myself for the 2+2 week long education at SIDA's headquarters in Härnösand (starting on the 10th of Aug). I have a lot of things to do during this 2 weeks:

-Complete my vaccination
-Buy some things for the trip (sleeping bag, medical kit etc)
-Clean out my apartment
-Spend time with my friends
-Throw a "birthday-/far well party" on the 1st of August

Over and out for today

Metallica - Sonisphere Festival in Hultsfred

Yesterday the Sonisphere festival was arranged in Hultsfred and I think that it was almost 40 000 people there! That's a lot for a little community as Hultsfred, with only 5300 inhabitants. I was there with some friends to see Metallica (and some of the other band that played). Here's the schedule for the night:



I'm not a big fan of all of the bands, mainly Metallica. But it's always nice to listen to live music, although I have to say that I don't fancy the screaming kind of music that was preformed here... ;)

And off course it had to raaaaaaiiiiin!! But only for a few hours in the afternoon, so it was quite okay. Here are some pics from the evening:

2009-07-18 Metallica concert in Hultsfred

My favorite is off course Metallica's 2 hours long performance. But I was a bit disappointed actually. I was expected more of them. Listening to them live was just like listening to the album from top to bottom. Nothing special really... They should be able to do a better performance live!

Birthday party in Fallhult

On the 17th of July, our old lady Mildred turned 84 years old. We are not related, but she is like my grandmother anyway. My parents both the farm from her, when her husband suddenly past away about 25 years ago. She has always been like one in the family, and always will.

Mille means a lot to me and I love spending time with here. She has a lot of story's and knowledge to tell and makes the tasties pastries in the world!!! Although she is 84 years old, there is nothing stopping here. She's a very spry old person, pretty persistent and above all, loving and caring.

She has a lovely garden which she take good care of, and a big house to maintain. I just helped here out with cleaning the fens and part of the house walls during last week, otherwise she takes care of the house almost all by her self. But off course my family helps her out when needed (and my brother lives on the second floor in her house). Here is a picture of the house and part of the lovely garden:



And my old childhood friend Malou went to visit her parents in Fallhult this day too. She brought her little lovely daughter Winnie along as well. Two very good looking girls!

Variety show and miniature golf in Falkenberg 4/7 -09

To celebrate my moms birthday, we (me, my sister Anna, brother Bo and father/husband Per) both tickets for the variety show: "Virus i Bataljonen" in Falkenberg on the 4th of July. So on that date, the whole family gathered in Falkenberg to watch the show. And since it was a very very hot and sunny day, we also took a trip to the beach.

I tested my waterproof camera in the sea, and it worked just fine. But sadly, I'm a very poor photographer, so there are no good underwater pictures to show you. You have to manage with the one bellow:


The variety show was very good. We laughed a lot (as expected, since it's a comedy show ;) ) and enjoyed the weather. About 28 degrees hot! And because of my many sunbathing hours the day before, I had to have a towel on my back to protect my sore skin :/

As you can see, we also played miniture golf! It's kind of a family tradition when the whole family is on vacation. I had to try some different golf-poses as well. Looking good, ey? =)

Best company, best food and one of the best time ever in my life!

This has been my best two weeks ever I think. I've met so nice, funny and super sweet people during this course. They are now my family!

We have been cooking dinner together every day. A taste of all the different food cultures that was living inside this B&B. The people from the other B&B's joined us (even though it wasn't appreciated by the neighbours and our host ;) ) and we have had sooooo much fun.

This amount of food is enough for 6-7 months i think. So now i might not need to eat during my whole trip in Nicaragua ;)

Here is a picture were almost everyone can be seen, and the very tasty food!

Climbing a wind turbine

This is Ana and me, 30 meters up in the air in a wind turbine tower in Falkenberg. This was a study visit we made when attending the summer course of Wind power technology. You climbed inside the tower on a ladder, with some safety equipment off course ;) And because it was a bit windy that day, the tower swung back and forth a bit. But what a magnificent view!!



This is how the other windtowers look like from 30 meter up

Wind power technology - summer course in Falkenberg

Today I arrived in Falkenberg, where I will stay for the next two weeks and attend a summer course in windpower technology. Provided by Halmstads University.

It's, beside the interesting subject, a very good course. Because the university pays for our accommodation and breakfast at a B&B and lunch during this course. They also provides us with bikes.

But the best was yet to be discovered....

I meet Davide, an Italian student that was going to attend this course, in Gothenborg earlier this day. I showed him around the harbor and opera. Then we took the train down to Falkenberg and to or B&B.

Here we meet with the other guys who was going to attend the course as well. I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that they all would be quite old...

But the majority of the students was between 25-30 years old and very easy to get along with. And I was going to share a two bedded room with a girl name Ana, from Spain. Isn't that great? now I would have a perfect opportunity to practice my Spanish!

This is the people that was living in the same B&B as me:



From left: Ingemar (swe), Davide - yellow cap (Italy), Me , Abdul (Dubai), Berkan in orange sweater (Turkey) and Ahmet (also Turkey. Ana (spain) is taking the picture