To swallow a cloud, Wonton soup

Apparently Wonton means to swallow a cloud, the little dumplings look like little clouds floating around in the soup

I -2  packets of wonton wrappers

400 minced pork

250 g kminced prawns

100 g ffinly chopped water chesnuts

1 tbs soysace

1 tbs oystersauce

1 tbs sherry

1/2 ts sugar

a few drops of sesame oil

1 sping onion chopped

1 ts grated fresh ginger

mix everything well and put a teaspoon full on each wrapper

This portion gave me about 70 wontons

Heat up 2 to 2,5 liters of chicken broth and when it is boiling put the dumplings in and let it simmer

for 10-15 minutes.

garnish with prefered vegetables. In the picture above I have enoki mushrooms, cilantro, chilli and chopped spring onions in my soup.

These dumplings are nice to fry also and serve with sweet chilli sauce

Tea Christmas Calendar

What do you give a lady that has everything she needs, my mum and mother in law both have birth days in late november, so we give them home made tea calendars with sweet little words for each day.

Advent calendars is a tradition in Norway mostly among the children, for each day before christmas they get a little gift or sweet that they get to open or eat. But why can't the rest of us celebrate the anticipation of christmas, just because we have reached a certain age?

Last year I made my first tea calendar and printed out the pattern you see below

It is nicest if you print it out on paper with pattern

Then I cut out the pieces

taped on tea bags on the little tabs with double sided tape

Scored the tabs

I use double sided tape to glue together the bags

fold 

then put the tea bags in boxes or plastic bags before you give it away

Rainbow Ruffle Cake

• Week-end baking project
• I used ready made cake mix and Wilton colors for the cake and for the icing I used
• 375 g butter, room temperature
• 375 g cream cheese
• 500 g powdered sugar
• beat in a mixer untill it is soft and fluffy
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Fall lanterns

I got this Idea for these lanters from Fabelaktig, easy to make and quite decorative

 
To make these lanters you need old jars, tea candle holders or plain old glass lanterns

I used mapel leafs from my garden, hemp twine and som old glass lanterns I found in the garage.

Re decorated

My husband thinks that I spend to much money, I wanted a change so I switched furniture with the children and and the curtains from one of the bedrooms was hung up in the living room.

But then I still got the other half of he living room to work on

chaotic;)

My talented friend Sarah

 

Norsk klikk her

Foreldremanualen is a norwegan parenting and family blog(unfortunatly only in norwegian) and they posted a really nice article about my friend Sarah, press here to view the article or you can go to her own web page and read about her at
 Sarahs smiles  

I was fortunet enough to get to know the talented Sarah when I used to live in South Korea for an short ex pat term. I have watched her grow and blossom as an artist and I think that there is much more to come. in the future, she is really creative and talented.

If you ar in Oslo in the coming days, she will be part of a fall exebition at CC Vest først this coming thursday.

Neljes Birthday party:D

Neljes outfit is from the swedish brand How to Kiss a Frog

sweet outfit, but Nelje did not want to be sweet to day, she wanted to be a scary monster;)

The children had hairy monster meatballs with tomatosauce for dinner.

Suddenly the door bell rang, my youngest ran screaming with exitement to open the door and outside Cathrine the Clown  was waiting. The fun began and it was on full speed from then on.

        Neighbour            Nelje                Friend                Big sister Hanna

Cathrine the Clown painted their faces.

She organized games

Played and danced, at the end before her exit she sang the bithday song.

Then it was time for cake.

Cup cakes and a sykadelic Hello Kitty rainbow cake

If you want to know more about Cathrine the clown press here

Sunday brunch

We try to have a nice family brunch on Sundays, bucause normally no one gets up early enough for breakfast.

Today Nelje, my mother who is visiting and I made english muffins, buttermilk biscuites, scrambled eggs, sausage patties, hot cocoa and cafe lattes. My mum is an early bird so we had about three hours before the others got up and joined us for brunch.