Cookies & smoothies...

In a baking mood? Try these!

It's cookies with chocolate peaces & hazelnuts.

This recipe should have been on my blog weeks ago, but I never had the time so here it comes:

Ca. 15 peaces:

100 gram (1 3/4 dl)  brown sugar

100 gram sugar

125 gram soft butter (1/2 pack)

1/2 vanilla pod

1 egg

1 tsp baking powder

150 gram flour

1/2 tsp rough salt

ca. 60 gram hazelnuts (1dl)

175 gram dark chocolate

How to do:

1. Turn on your owen at 175 ͦ C
2. Mix brown sugar, sugar and soft butter into a bowl.
3. Split the vanilla pod and scrape the corn out with the tip of a small knife. (just a hint) mix it in the bowl with the sugar and butter.

Here i used vanilla powder instead, but if you want to do it old fashion, be my guest.

   

     4.  Crack the egg and mix it in the bowl.

     5.  Mix baking powder, flour and salt in a new blown and then mix it with the dough.

     6.  Chop the hazelnuts. Grate the chocolate, or chop it thorough with a knife. And mix it in the dough

          gentle. 

If you chop it with a bread knife (or a knife with serration) it will be a lot easier and it wont spread all over your kitchen. 

     7.  Put baking paper on two baking trays. Roll small balls of the dough and put them with a good distance

          on the baking paper. - The ball will flow out to a round shaped cookie in the hot owen.

     8.  Bake one tray at the time. Put the baking tray in the middle of the owen. Bake 10-12 min. to the cakes are brown in the brim. Let them cool of on the tray in 5-10 min. to they are firm. 

I can assure you this is the best cookies I've ever tasted!

Try them out a cold day where it's raining or you have an excuse for staying inside.

Smoothie:

The smoothie is more an improvisation. There is many ways of making smoothies. And it's all about your taste. I like this recipe. Actually, it isn't much of a recipe more an outline.

Blend yogurt and one banana and add some frozen raspberries (you can take whatever you like. I like raspberries) Blend it and add now some milk, if the smoothie is too thick. Add some sugar and blend again.

Very easy and quick to make.

Jump in a jumpsuit...

Have you ever felt like jumping into one of these...?

And then felt like jumping into this...?

With this....?

Sometimes there is nothing else to do than just let go of whatever you might be holding in your hand and then surrender to the TV. To do nothing can be the best medicine for stress, broken hearted, bustle and whatever the case is that you're running around in a hamster wheel. 

A hamster needs to use its energy somehow. But a hamster needs a break too. 

But you ain't a hamster, and stress is very hard to get rid of when you've already gotten it. 

Exercise helps avoiding stress too (because you releases endorphins when you a physic active), some people even say that they get it worse by sitting inside all day long.

(In Denmark this summer is nothing but average weather, not hot enough to swim and not cold enough to stay indoor the entire day. But what is there to do outside?) 

If you don't know what to spend your vacation on, then stay inside watch old movies with a peace of cake
and  the next day go out and do some exercise to burn the cake of you hips.

There's a time and place for everything.

What do U do when you are bored ?

Vacation with girls...

Girl-trip to Bornholm (Denmark's sunny island)...

Names from the left:

Cecilie, me (Katrine), Ida, Sara, Nanna, Anne.

Have you ever been on an island before? I've been on one. But then again... I've been on the island five times, I think. And every single one of them was with my friend Anne, - the girl to the right - She's one of my very best friends, and even though the island is in Denmark (where I live), it feels like we are on a total different continent. Maybe it's just because we are from a bigger town, and it all seems so... ancient.
But what can you expect of a small island in a small country like this.
Even though the ancient style, I couldn't think of a better vacation. - Well... I could, but let me tell you about it tomorrow.

What is your favorite vacation?

A small picture of me, the second day on Bornholm.