butter for frying

jam, jelly, marmelade, syrup, sugar, sweetening OR savory filling of choice (mine: strawberry-rhubarb jam)

a pink candle
matches

Wake up to a headache after three hours of sleep. Prepare a pot of espresso with a pink moka pot, burn your lip while drinking it and taking first handful of medication. Allow sugarbeet flakes and flaxseed steep in coconut milk-water mixture for minimum 15 mins. Waste an hour IRCing, working and watching youtube, since you’ve in your senility and headache forgotten you were cooking breakfast. Add eggs, whip in flour. Let steep more. Go to the liquer store to buy pink sparkling wine. Fry. Fill with filling of choice. Poke the candle on the pancakes, light with a match.

Served with handful of painkillers and espresso, the-cure-for-all. Music of choice: Beatles – When I’m Twenty-Eight. Grunt, if you don’t know the lyrics.

Instead of floral condolences/commiserations, please donate a blank CD-R disk to your local LUG or Ubuntu LoCo for burning an Ubuntu Installation Disc to those in need, or donate to OLPC.

On Tuesday I made the most wonderful casserole with green lentils and celery. I’ll post the recipe later.

On Wednesday we attended a free concert at the Old library park. It lasted only for an hour, but I got two balloons and bunny ears. After we went to play Trivial Pursuit in Kustaa III and our clothes smelled like tobacco afterwards. I won, btw.

On Thursday I went to Helsinki to attend the HP Linux Forum. I didn’t go see any of the presentations but stayed at our booth to continue my work on my final paper. I got some stickers, those almond cookies again, and a most excellent laptop mouse. Jukka had left for home. I hope he’ll get to attend the school he is applying for.

Friday was quite uneventful, so was Saturday.

On Sunday I started the day with a walk and a phone call from mom, we went to Verkkokauppa.com at Pirkkala to exchange the third pair of pink Skullcandy Earbuds to Koss Plugs, and then I went cycling to Lielahti and back. In case anyone is intrested, the aroma of cotton candy does carry over the Mustalahti bay.

I also registered to kalorilaskuri.fi, which is great.

approx. 500 g unmarinated chicken fillet sliced
salt
½ veggie stock cube
½ dl water

sauce:
½ dl cream
½ dl water
1 ½ teaspoons curry powder
1 ½ – 2 tablespoons of wheat flour
juice of ½ lemon
fresh parsley

Lay out the chicken pieces into a bowl, sprinkle salt on both sides. Crumble the stock cube on the top and at the water. Cover and heat in the microwave at full power for 10 minutes.

Mix in a bowl cream, water, curry and flour. Pour over precooked chicken and mix. Continue heating covered in full power for 5 minutes. Make sure the chicken is done and spice up with lemon juice. Chop parsley on top just before serving.

Quiche without the crust

1 small zucchini
1 big shallot
~100g fresh mushrooms
6 eggs
½ dl wheat flour
2 dl grated cheese
4 dl milk
½ dl minced parsley
1 – 1½ table spoons fresh or 1 table spoon dried tarragon, thyme or oregano
4 tomatoes
(black pitless olives)

Rinse zucchinis and split them longwise. Cut the halves to half crecent shaped slices. Rinse and chop shallot into peaces sized 2cm’s and mushrooms into fourths.

Parboil the zucchini and shallot in lightly salted water for 2 minutes, rinse with cold water and drain well.

Butter a baking pan and put the vegetables into it. Prepare a mixture of milk, eggs and flour and spice it up with grated cheese and minced herbs. Pour the mixture into the pan, add thick tomato slices on top and decorate with few olives.

Bake in 200-225 C oven for approximately 40 minutes depending on the height and size of the pan.

Cheese sticks

150g grated strong cheese
1½ dl wheat flour
few pinches of salt
100g of butter or vegetable shortening
2 table spoons of ice cold water
whipped egg for brushing before baking

Prepare by hand:
Measure flour, diced butter and the salt into two thirds of the grated cheese.

Pinch the mixture with fingertips and add water. Mix rapidly into a batter and refrigerate for at least an hour for the batter to become easily mandible.

Prepare with food processor:
Grate the cheese and put aside 1/3. Add into the cheese grate in the processor flour, salt and fridge cold butter in big dices.

Let the processor run for a few seconds until mixture is grainy. Add water while processor runs. The batter is ready when it starts to form a ball. Let it rest in a fridge for at least an hour.

Bake as so:
Roll out the batter into approximately 10 cm wide and ½ cm thick. Brush it with lightly whisked egg and sprinkle the rest of the grated cheese on the top.

Cut with a knife or pastry wheel into sticks 1 cm wide. Put them on baking paper or greased baking pan.

Bake in the middle of 225 C oven for about 10 to 12 minutes. Let them cool down on the pan and keep in a tightly closed jar.