Messing in the kitchen

29. January 2011 · Write a comment · Categories: Health, Life & Style · Tags: , , ,
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Wholewheat pancakes

It’s one of those weekends when you feel like messing in the kitchen and experiment a little bit. The following recipe was proven to be a complete success.

Wholewheat pancakes with ice cream and jam

Ingredients:

(serve 5-6 pancakes)

- 1 egg
- 2/3 cup wholewheat flour
- semi-skimmed milk “till the mix is liquid enough”
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 pinches of baking soda

Mix everything and fry the pancakes in very little butter. Actually, if your non-stick pan is really non-stick, you shouldn’t even need the butter.

Then add a little scoop of ice cream to each pancake. I used ‘clotted cream with fudge’ ice cream, so I really didn’t put too much. It will slowly melt and the icy cold / hot mixture will be sublime. The other nice topping is jam. I had some delicious home-made Daivison plum jam. It matched perfectly with the rest.

Other weekend experiments:

- Dala horse banana bread

- Quick & easy pasta

Dubbla bottnar

29. January 2011 · 3 comments · Categories: Life & Style · Tags: , ,

“Man lever sitt liv med dubbla bottnar, förmodligen för att man inte ska sjunka om det går hål i den ena av dem.“ -The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell (chapter 17)

In English it could be translated with “We live our lives with double/false bottoms, so that we don’t sink if there is a hole in one of them.”
Do you agree? I don’t know if this is true. It is probably true for some people.

Porlock

Gravels to the sea

Do I have a double bottomed life? I have back up plans. Most people have a plan B and I’m sure some even go as far as to have a plan C and D and so on. But is it really necessary? It’s probably wise to have at least a back up plan. However, thinking of alternatives shouldn’t take us away from our main plan, the main idea, the one we want to achieve no matter what. Things might change along the way, but if we keep in mind the big picture, we’ll seldom fail. If we do, we can still get up, leave the bottom we reached and get back on track.

This post has no particular reference to anything that happened to me recently. I just remembered the sentence I read a while ago. Then… can you tell I’m in a great mood today? I think it might be the pancakes I had for breakfast/lunch, say brunch. Really yummy. I shall post the recipe.

It’s almost Friday!

20. January 2011 · Write a comment · Categories: Life & Style · Tags: , , ,
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The joys of office life...

Luckily, the office memo on the left is not in my office.

Yet!

I am having the most interesting, hectic, rewarding, crazy, unbelievable week at work and I’m looking forward to the weekend. I have to say, PhD life has been really great so far. Probably because I’m still in the “research” phase. I might change my mind when I’ll get into the “write down the thesis for good” phase. ;-)

Anyway… A dear friend of mine is in the UK for a short vacation now so I’m spending the weekend in London with her and another friend I haven’t seen in a while. What a better way to have some fun after a good week of work?

Bad timing and other lovely things

16. January 2011 · Write a comment · Categories: Life & Style · Tags: , , ,
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Nerd is good

Why kitchen appliances always, I mean always have to die on Sundays or on days when every shop is closed?
Why you didn’t feel like going out on Saturday but then on Sunday you suddenly feel the urge to go for shopping, when most stores are closed?
Why do you feel like jogging when it rains, but you feel like a “couch potato” when the sun shines?

Nerdity can be useful here. Maybe.
You could use your nerd skills to convince yourself that the glass is always full. It’s still all good, even if your timing sucks.

Haiti – 12 January 2010

12. January 2011 · Write a comment · Categories: History, News · Tags: , ,
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That's what Google Maps shows today of Port-au-Prince. The white/blue spots are tents. It would be interesting to know ow long ago exactly this satellite photo was taken

It’s been 1 year since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti. I’m sure we all remember the images on TV and the news cover.
I will not talk about the money that was supposed to be invested in helping Haiti or about the hundred, thousands of words of hope and encouragement said, the help promised and never delivered. I will just post a few links to remind ourselves how lucky we are and how much good we could do, we can do.

Some images on this page are not for the light hearted: Médecins Sans Frontières

This is a very informative blog from Michael Deibert, a British journalist.

Some news from UNICEF on the current situation in Haiti and some striking pictures that show how much has not been done in 1 year.

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