Inspiration source 2

Another kreative person I got to know in South Korea is  Sarah, she makes a patchwork type of fiber art. I love how she mixes fabric and paper, old and new and the way she stiches everything together. Click on her name and see the wonderfull things she does.

Inspiration source

A few years back we lived in South Korea for a little while and got to know many wonderfull and creative people one of the ladies that I got to know is Sally Shim, she makes simple, yet wonderfull things. Click on her name and you will be directed to her blog. I made cookies yeaterday and so I wanted to try to make simple sweet nothings, just to brighten ones day.

 Clock wise from top left, enjoyyy me..., I am yours, eat me and in the middle, I am delicious

I also put a few in small plastick cookie bags for friends to enjoy

Family consuming the pie

Pie

I did not put on enough whipped cream

It vent down fast

French macarones

I just had to try to make Macarons
You can use any kind of recepie, but this is how you go about it.

add sugar

continiue beating

sift in the powdered sugar

add ground almonds

Fold the ingredients together

Get the tools kit out

Oops, where are all the piping tips?

Pipe dots

some turned out ok

Some not.

Home made chocolate spread

add filling

Enjoy

They are back:D

They are finally back:D.
I have been by myself for 9 days, This is the first time I have been away from my husband and children. They went along the Côte d'Azur

Do I really want to do this?
Nice

This is much better:D
Cap d'ail.

We always visit the local zoo on our trips, this time was no exception.

 The youngest ones favorite.

turtles

elephants

and the tiger

I spent the greater part of yesterday making goodies for the family, they thought about mee too.

They brought me differen kinds of paté, merguez, chipolata, pistachio pudding +++, I'm going to enjoy this, yummy.

Key Lime pie

I made lime pie today. We love lime pie, when we are in the US we try almost all the lime pies we come across. We have even turned down good restaurants beccause they did not serve lime pie and eaten at shabby ones just beacuse they had. We would walk in, ask for a table, ask if they had lime pie for dessert, gotten no for an aswer, turned around and left. This is us at the most extreme and it also depends on where we are, we are not always rude;)

Last summer we went to Florida, spent some time in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Key West and we happend to come across a pie place called Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory in Key West. They had a nice pie and we bought a bottle of Blond Giraffe Key lime juice with a recepie on the bottle for us to take home with us. Even though we love the lime pies in the US, we find them a little to sweet. My family is used to a recepie that I have been using for the past 15 years or so that I found in a Norwegian news paper, but the consistency is not like the american pies, but the tartness and sweetness is perfect for us. So what I have done is mix the two recepies and now the consistency, sweetness and tartness is right for us. It is very simple really, you take an ordinary lime pie recepie and ad some creme fraiche.

 Pie crust

300 g digestive or graham cracker

100 g butter

1 tps ground cinnamon

1tps vanilla extract or as I used vanilla flavoured sugar

OR do as I sometimes do, get the ready made ones (family likes the one made from scratch)

Mix everything together in a food prosesser

Then put the mixture in a pie dish

press and even out the dough

Bake it for 5 minutes in a preheated oven, 200 degrees celsius

Filling

4 egg yolks

1 can of condenced milk

150 g creme fraiche or sour cream

1,5 dl of lime juice

Put the egg yolks in a bowl and beat lightly

add condenced milk and creme fraiche

continue beating and add lime juice

continiue beating

and the mixture will thicken.

Pour filling in to the pie crust

I like to bake mine for 10 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.

And voila, keep it cold over night and serve.

My husband and family are coming home tomorrow, thought I would surprise them with their favorite pie.

They like whipped cream on their pie not merengue, so I have to wait untill tomorrow to garnish.

Happy Easter!!!

Me

I just started blogging six days ago, this is my Norwegian blog http://lizasverden.blogspot.com/ 

Being a wife and a working mother of 4 I do not get much time to myself, but this week i have been home alone. I work for a small company and almost all of my colleagues went away for easter, I had to stay behind and manage the fort so to say. My husband travels a lot for work and we can never plan a long time ahead because his schedule is so tight and he seldom knows more than a few day befor hand when he can take time off. This easter he was able to take a week off, so now the whole family has gone to the south of France and I get precious alone time.
What have I done this week? I have started blogging and done that for most of the time and been on Face book, pouring out about myself and the little things that I have been doing lately.

I have bragged about my new kitchen. I do not have a befor picture of the kitchen, only from when we demolished it, not a pretty sight.

Done some gardening

Showed off my 16 year old daughters decorating skills

And told everybody what nice friends I have, they gave me this Mulberry tote bage for my 40th birthday

This summarizes what I have posted on my norwegian blog, and yet if you take a look at http://lizasverden.blogspot.com/ 

I have tonns more postings.

If anyone reads this

Happy Easter to you!!!