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Mandy, Jonas, Hasse and Sofie Tired after dinner? Hasse and Sofie Yes, today we had "linner" (like I told you yesterday = lunch/dinner) with Jonas, his girlfriend Mandy and her Mom Sofie. Always so nice to meet them but it's far too seldom. Today I made a smoke-cured loin of pork/chicken fillet gratin that also included paprikas, mushroms, leek, sambal oelek, chili, cream and more. Very yummie if I may say so myself :-) I served potatoes and a green salad with it. For starters a favourite once again - asparagus soup with broschetta. And for dessert chocolatemousse with whipped cream. Very good all of it but the sad thing is that you get so tired after eating. We did eat for about 3 hours though so we took it slow and easy. I really like this photo of me and Inger on New Year's Eve. Thanks Tracy Now I'm preparing for tomorrow, it's back to work. I'm very curious to see if there are any more applications for the course that starts January 25 which is kind of...

Aren't the scarves the same? Today is the second day of this new year 2010 and it's actually my namesday, Svea. I was named after my maternal grandmother who I never met since she died when my Mom was only 7 years old. My grandmother had a heartcondition which in those days couldn't be operated so at only 32 years she died. If it had been today she would have lived a full and long life. Anyway when I was little I was so ashamed of that name because it wasn't "in" or "hip" so I never told anyone my full name. It was bad enough to be christened Marie-Christine. I mean noone ever could remember that name. I was called Ann-Kristin, Marie-Louise, Loppan, Kristina and lots more. So eventually I started calling myself Mia and so did all my friends. When it was possible I took the name Mia officially so today my complete name is Mia Svea Marie-Christine. Something I'm very proud of today. It's not many people that has these names. And I'm proud t...

We had a very quiet and traditional New Year celebration with our good friends and their kids (our adopted grandchildren). They arrived at 6PM and we had a welcome drink, of course Champagne which was good. Then we had asparagus soup with broschetta and main course was fillet of beef gratin with mushrooms, whinesauce, västerbottencheese and mashed potatoes (everything homemade of course) Til that I served mixed sallat. For dessert I had made my famous cheesecake which tastes like vanilla icecream. After coffee time was almost 11.40 and we had to prepare for the stroke of 12. Glasses had to be carrid upstairs, champagne had to be opened and everyone had to dress warm. It was around -8C and we always stands on our balcony where we have the most gorgeous view over Upplands Väsby and all the way in to Stockholm. This year it was a bit snowy so not that good view but quite enough. We never have any fireworks ourselves. There are plenty to see since we have 180 degree vision. I don't kno...

I just want to wish everyone of you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 and hope that the year will be good and that your resulotions will be true ;-) See you in 2010. Hugs :-)

I had the most wonderful Christmas card or rather gift today from my niece Lizzie in San Diego and her family Jeff and Dakota. She asked us earlier this year about favourite recipes we had and I sent over one of my. Turns out she did a little book called "Family flavors" the cuisine of our kin volume 1. A wonderful little book with recipes from family members and also underneeth every recipy was a description of the person that had sent it and relation. So nice, so personal and so yummie!! Some of the recipies I really must try. Also included was a CD with storytelling by Lizzie and Dakota, songs by Jeff and Dakota and poetry read by Lizzie. Such a wonderful gift and one that I can listen to all year long. Also a photo of Dakota and although Lizzie isn't her mother she looks a lot like her. She's very pretty and has grown so much since I last saw her. file:///C:/My%20Music/Untitled%20-%2009-12-29/02%20-%20Track%202.mp3 This evening I read some sad news though that Je...

Anna playing our piano. Christmas coffee today with Anna (Birgit Bidder she's called now but to us she's Anna) an old friend of Jonas from Rytmus. She and Jonas were very good friends and she spent a summer with us at Gotland. She tried to come here last Christmas because she had bought Hasse and me a Christmas gift (so nice of her) but it never happened but now we got it all together. It was so nice to see her again. It was like 4 or 5 years since we saw her and a lot has happened since. She's very talanted, like everyone from Rytmus it seems, and has recorded a CD on her own record company (!). She also plays with Erik Hassle, keyboard. I'm very proud of her. She's like an extra daughter since she spent a lot of time here when they went to Rytmus. Weatherwise it has been a very strange day here. After having had temp. well below zero it suddenly started to rain (!) today and the temp. was up to +3. Now they are saying it will be freezing cold like down to -16C sta...

Christmas Eve at home Jonas is making the fudge. Oscar our grandchild Closing in on no 10 000 now. Who will it be? And do you think I shall give something as a prize to that number? Tell me and I will think of something very nice!! Malin our grandchild (Gunilla's daughter ) I won't tell you what but it could have something to do with H.E.A.T ;-) We are back home from Gävle, just arrived after a very long, slow drive home due to snowstorm (more or less) and that we saw a big accident just outside of Gavle, north direction. Take care and drive safely if you are out on the road. Better to come home a bit late than not come home at all. Klara (Gunilla's daughter) our grandchild and Per, Gunilla's boyfriend