aero bird

Birds are eating of our window bird feeder! its so fantastic! i get so happy when a little bird is sitting right next to me. Today two birds sat on each side just looking me and pecked at the glass! maybe they find me as funny is i find them! This is a two subject post! Birds and Aero press! I recently borrowed one from this fine blogger to test it out and decided to buy one to get a bit more coffee variety. What i like about it so far: many brew options + fast + cleaner milder taste. (what i don't like: ugly, not as nice a brewing experience, no crema)

▶ Thank you for all the sweet comments! thoses photos might be of her fourth and fifth steps but you can see how proud she is :)

another reason

I have come one step closer to never leaving my apartment: real cappuccino cups bought at the best coffee place in town, The Coffee Collective -when they pick something out - you know its the best you can come by.

▶ Everyone -and i mean e v e r y o n e: thank you for being the best people in the world.

strawberry - blueberry - strawberry

We call Elinor little strawberry - lille jordbær. This weekend we also had strawberries for breakfast -with blueberry-white chocolate pancakes.. wow.

▶ Everyone: it was so funny being at the bowling tournament -a totally different environment from my usual life -i miss being apart of a community like that! i last had that when i was into horses.. The Vikings didn't win, but they did do quite well while we were there (bowling tournaments are reallly long affairs)

weekend (de)lights

raspberry smoothies and blueberry pancakes makes for a gooood weekend. i love weekends that are all about long breakfasts! more of those please! I would love for E to think of her childhood as one of many weekend pancakes. And we got our cosmos lamp! seconds after reading Famapas post about the lamp i pressed the "buy it now" button on ebay. Love it!

▶ Mieke + Veronik + Kate + Brit + Epe + Kenn: When E gets older and self-concious and is mad at me for blogging about her when she was a baby, i will just show her your comments and she will know that she was adored all over the world :) (which probably won't help when she is a teenager....)
▶ Emma: How cool! I love that when you go to school, you some times learn things that makes you smarter than your parents!
▶ Withney: oh your baby is soo sweet -they look a little like each other, don't you think?
▶ Siri: Thank you! it is so cool to see the progress! and it happens in so many different places!
▶ B: uhh jeg er bange for at vi misser hinanden! håber dig og D får en god påskeferie alligevel!
▶ Sister brandt: tak -gooood weekend! (hey solen kom lige frem da jeg skrev det! skønt!)

accidental heart

I made an accidental heart in my coffee. Must be the new roast. I have got such a sweet tooth. Coffee with some sort of cake or cookie is like heaven to me.

▶ Meyer-Lavigne: Skål!
▶ Lilla a: oh i must look that up
▶ Indie Mom and the Reluctant Banker: The oven. Seems weird to roast on a pan even though i know you can do it.
▶ Sidsel: Tak!!
▶ Lina: Oh horray hoorraaaayy!
▶ Stuffedmice: You can definitely taste that it is fresher than most coffee you buy but the biggest difference from standard coffee, i think, is in grinding the coffee right before you make it.
▶ Sarah: I know. I have all ready got the promise of a clients at school but my favourite coffee company also uses triangles.... (coffee collective)
▶ Brit: Thank you!
▶ Louise Therese: Nej, du har!

green beans

I have taken my coffee obsession to a whole new level: home roasting! This weekend my sister brought me three kg of green Kenya AA+ beans from Emofabrik and i am now on my second round of roasting! Its fun and surprisingly easy. Even as a total beginner you can get a really good cup of freshly roasted coffee!

▶ girlheartfood: No its from Anne Clair Petit!
▶ Sopchan: dry-swimming!
▶ Brit: Mine very very moist -i had the same thought the first time i baked them, but they really do stay very moist. Im baking more today :) Elinor is pretty moody about the stool -sometimes she loves it and other times she is NOT in the mood. This girl knows what she wants!
▶ Lisen: Rufus has the coldest and wettest nose that comes and wakes you up in the morning!
▶ A+K: Svampekrukken er fra Bolagret i malmø og den lille gule var en gave :)

family history

i have been assembling photo albums. I finally got around to printing some of my photos -some are going on the wall and others ended up in these albums. I hope i will get some kodak moments worthy of this site.

▶ Hannah: its snowing right this moment...
▶ Anna Emilia: please send more applepie!
▶ Sara: Well something about the swedes winning a war and denmark loosing skåne (wiki)
▶ E: its not working! we have to dream harder!
▶ Vigdis: Thank you for stopping by!
▶ Marie: oh i read about the storm! its sounds crazy. Here we are back to rain/snow..
▶ Lisen: stripes are essential!
▶ Linn, Maja B, Ashley: happy happy weekend and happy happy monday!
▶ Katrine: Vi har købt det på den blå avis, men det er et brio
▶ Louise: Men louise, du har jo en iphone til samme formål!
▶ Anonymous: i won't recommend taking the trip now...

snow. again.

its snowing. again. im sick of it. the weather can really affect your mood! im sure its causing my headache right now! On the upside: blueberry muffins, coffee and new, furry slippers! and the sweetest blogreaders in the world, of course!

disco

i made these disco-balls for some Christmas-present-necklaces this year and i stole the idea directly from a very cool jewellery maker i met this December. Stealing like that is not cool, but the idea was just too appealing. i promise i won't try to make money off them -instead you should all check out rottenstang.com where Lene Rottenstang shows some of her curious, complicated and beautiful neck pieces - and if rumours are true you will be able to buy them from this site any day now.
Im sorry for the holiday silence here on the blog but i will return soon full speed.

night out

D and I had our first night out without our little red panda. D's sister looked after Rufus and E while D and I went to the restaurant on the corner of our street and had a delicious dinner with coffee and dessert. It was nice to be out of the house and it was nice to miss little E. I didn't bring my camera but snapped a photo with my phone of the butter looking dirty and the coffee looking good.

▶ Everyone: Glad you like all my new stuff. Just like the shoes the other day, i think im gonna live in that Stine Goya dress! and to all of you lacking in christmas mood i say a quiet moment in a dark living room with only candle light and snow falling outside is enough calm and spirit to make up for all of december. I highly recommend it (and i think it will work without the snow as well)

the better things

some of the better things in life are good coffee, good books and sweet dogs at your feet. I try to find room for some of these better things when the best thing in life takes a nap.

▶ Máni: Thank you -and yes i think she looks huge in the first pic too -or at least much older than she is!
▶ Maria: Im pretty sure that the santa-people across the street don't have children so i really don't get it. And my parents are about the proudest grandparents in the world! when they are here, they take turn holding her and can't leave her alone :)
▶ Lulubeth: Ha ha you are so right!! i had not thought of that, but santa looks like he is about to jump!! "goodbye cruel world" ...
▶ Fenke: The second one is all over Copenhagen too! i do not get it!
▶ Anonymous: Nej, men jeg tror virkelig de er over hele byen -måske hele landet!! en hær af små indbrudsjulemænd!
▶ Emma: I will let you know when i get around to the christmas spirit! still haven't gone to the attic for the decorations...
▶ a.: Thank you :)
▶ §§: Hun har utrolig god hovedkontrol, men kan ikke helt selv endnu -her er hun vidst hjulpet godt på vej af sine skuldre. Min mor leger her gymnastiktime med hende. Bag efter havde hun en dansktime. Kom hjem!
▶ mado: :)
▶ Lisen: yes im still stuck in october too! I didn't even notice november, the longest month of the year, so how can it be december??
▶ Katrine: Selvmords-santa var seriøst ved at springe i går da det blæste!! Mini-D -ha ha -jeg satser stadig på at hun får brune øjne så hun også ligner sin mor en smule...
▶ Ditte: Det er virkelig en sport i december -jeg leder altid efter de mest syrede dekorationer når jeg går tur med hunden -og så ryster jeg lidt på hovedet...

coffee ritual

So if you follow this blog you know, that i enjoy a my coffee. Actually im pretty serious about the whole thing -even more so since becoming pregnant and drinking only one cup of coffee a day -it has to be good! So i thought i would let you in on my coffee ritual. Its going to be a loooong post.. I have an espresso machine, but these days i mostly use a bialetti espresso maker. Let me take you through this step by step ▶ first i grind beans on my krups coffee-grinder. I have had this grinder for a few months and im actually really pleased with it as it grinds evenly and fine. I use espresso beans or a good Kenya AA coffee. My favourite coffee is probably Illys dark roast espresso. Using an espresso-maker is actually almost an art form, as you can end up with some burned bitter water-coffee if you don't watch out. Im in no way a barista, but these are the tips i have ▶ you need to get to know your espresso-maker, so you can use as fine a grind as possible without clogging the pot ▶ Fill the lower part of the espresso-maker with cold water up to the mark and put the coffee in the little pot loosely! No stamping! (EDIT: okay, so i have started to stamp just a little! if you do it too much, it will clog, but if you do it just right the coffee will perfect and dark) Screw the espresso-maker together and put it on the heat -i use gas. Now you need to know your espresso-maker again ▶ You need to keep the heat LOW and be patient, leaving the top open so you can watch the coffee. The coffee needs to slowly fill the pot -never ever making that evil hissy sound! just slowly pouring in the top part ▶ And then you have to know when to stop. You can't get greedy - the less coffee you make the better it will taste! Its much better to have a small, strong espresso (I know this is more a moca, not an espresso) than a weak, bitter but bigger cup. So you will find out just how much coffee you can make and you take it off the heat in time letting it finish ▶ Now its time for the milk! i like a strong cappuccino-like drink with lots of foam. I use the bialetti foamer and its the best in the world! you really need to look for that little man with his finger in the air! thats a sign of good coffee equipment in my mind. Pour the milk in the bialetti foamer and put it on the heat with a thermometer! ▶ You need the milk at the right temperature: if its too cold it won't foam and if its too hot it will totally change texture and be undrinkable! I heat my milk to 70 degrees celsius. you need to take it of the heat somewhere between 65-72 degrees ▶ Then you just use the double layered pump - not too long - and get the smoothest milk-foam in the world! the goal is for all the milk to be foamy -not for a stiff layer of foam on the top, so that when you pour it in your coffee it all mixes nicely ▶ If you don't get the foaming just right you can bang the milkfoamer a couple of times to the table to eliminate the biggest air-holes. And there you have. My coffee as i like it and the longest, most boring post in the history of blogs! A big thanks to my brother in law Emil for helping me get to know my espresso-maker!

▶ Brit: you should. As i have said before; triangles are easy!
▶ Lea: Jep -Mahmoud er en håndklædekamel, hvilket gør ham en lille smule nusset fra start!
▶ Sandra: We definitely need to fika when we stop by your city! i have been longing for all the amazing looking cappuccinos you drink for ever and ever! i will let you know!
▶ Famapa: I mean it when i say that my belly is much bigger than it look in the picture! i don't know what happend there, but really its HUGE. Does your belly get the hiccups too? Ponyboy does several times a day and my whole belly makes these rhythmic jumps :)
▶ Emma: We still don't know if it is a ponyboy, but you have to call the little creature something :)
▶ Alice: you are so right! how cool! I always knew there was nothing new about my aesthetics
▶ Celine: Thank you so much. It is a huge huge huge pillow -the sofa is made from a mattress and two huge pillows -really i have never seen this big a pillow before !
▶ Lisen: How funny!! i knew that there was a ladies and a mans side to but the opening, but i just put in the buttons - i of course should have thought of the fact that men always sits to my right :)
▶.girl ferment. : Thank you so much!
▶ Tilda: Thank you! actually the camel is a pattern i got from a librarybook years and years ago, so no its now my own pattern.
▶ Lina: Very cuddly -he used to be a handtowel!
▶ Maria: Lovely little Mahmoud and lovely little Rufus can't play though. Its gonna be though to keep the babys things seperate from rufus'!
▶ Provins: TAK