Midsummer drink,

In the midsummer evening we had midsummers party and celebrated longest day and shortest night. During that small gathering with friends and family, many of us had something to do. One of the tasks was to make a midsummer drink.

Here it is:
3cl Vodka
3cl Cranberry juice
1cl Cointreau
1cl Lime juice
Mix and Shake. Pour it to cocktail glass and fill rest of the glass with Red Bull and bit apple cider.




I can say, that we all liked it. It was not very sweet and had nice summer fresh taste.

Just don´t forget, if you drink alcohol, don't sit behind car wheel and start to drive. Nothing good comes out of that!!!

Happy Midsummer's Day!!

Today we celebrate Midsummer's Day in Sweden and tomorrow it will be celebrated in Estonia. Since this year I can't be in Estonia, we will make nice gathering here with friends and family.
Today we will have typical lunch after Swedish traditions and in the evening make a small fire and grilling Estonian traditional way made meat and our traditional potato salad. Having just good time and tomorrow, we celebrate it bit Estonian way.
It is nice to have a small vacation and just hopefully have also nice weather.

Have a happy Midsummer's day my dear readers.

Curtains,

 
Today I took time for myself again. I don't do it very often, but I felt, that today I have earned that time for me.

Result for my time was, that I could finish my new curtains for bedroom. Pattern for them comes from Husqvarnas pattern card 178  Mega Decór.

I tried to make something different and result is here. Must admit, that I liked the result when it was in front of the window :) Left side could have been bit higher up, but I think it is nice anyway :)

Rhubarb - Strawberry crumble pie,

For some weeks ago, I made rhubarb - strawberry crumble pie. I promised to put up my recipe, but I had forgot, until today, when I started to write into my blog again. So, here comes my promised recipe for the cake :)

Bottom:
9 dl flour
2 dl sugar
2 tablespoon vanilla sugar
2 tablespoon baking powder
300 gr table warm butter
3 egg

Filling:
0,5 kg rhubarb
250 gr strawberries
2 tablespoon potato flour
1 tablespoon sugar

Crumble:
150 gr butter
4,5 dl oat cereals
3 dl sugar

•  Before you start to do everything else, clean and chop rhubarb. Place them to bowl together with strawberries  and add sugar and let it stay until it is time to use them.
• Make ready bottom - Mix all dry ingredients and mix them with butter. Add eggs and when it is ready, spread it to buttered  cake form.
• Make ready topping - mix all butter and sugar with oat cereals until it looks as crumble.
• Take the cake form what is filled with bottom and make it ready. Add potato flour to rhubarb and strawberries and mix it well through. Take off syrup what has gathered when they stood with sugar. put the filling to bottom and spread crumble mix all over it. For me, the amount crumbles was that much that I could used it on two cakes. So I freeze down one portion for later use.
• Bake in oven 35-45 minutes in 200 degrees. 

 Pie is good to serve together with vanilla sauce or with cold vanilla ice-cream.

My sewing room / office

Yesterday I was after a while again in my sewing room / office. I tried to organize it and place my embroidery thread on place. Now I have placed 180 thread spools on the place and I can admit, approx same amount of thread is still in box for embroidery plus all sewing thread and overlock thread :D

When I showed all that for my husband, he started to laugh :D First question was - do you know how much money is in that room - New sewing/embroidery machine, all thread, fabric. I answered, yes, I know :D Should we count things in your room as well ;)
Second question he had was - are you done with the room now. I just looked around and answered nicely - no :D I think my room is like Rome :) Never be ready :D Always something to do or change. I think I will be first done with my room, if I have bigger room ;) but no promises on that question.

Later in the evening I installed my newest program into computers. Cool :D Child with the lego ;) Now I can make also patterns with cross stitches and it will be interesting. I can make my own and the ones from books. Even make traditional Estonian patterns for at embroider them to clothes. Just I have to learn to use the program before, I can use it all in full :) Will see, what will happen :D At least I know, what I will do in summer on my first week on vacation ;)

Rhubarb pie,

Yesterday I decided to bake again after a while. In menu was rhubarb pie, since I decided to try it. Couple of times before I have baked now berry cake and decided to try bit different this time.

Bottom:
4,5 dl flour
1 dl sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
150 gr table warm butter
2 egg

Filling:
0,5 kg rhubarb
1 tablespoon potato flour
2 tablespoon sugar

Top:
4 egg
4 tablespoon sugar
4 tablespoon flour

•  Before you start to do everything else, clean and chop rhubarb. Place them to bowl and add sugar and let it stay until it is time to use them.
• Make ready bottom - Mix all dry ingredients and mix them with butter. Add eggs and when it is ready, spread it to buttered  cake form.
• Make ready topping - whip eggs strong foam. If you have hand mixer, when whip first egg whites hard and after that in separate bowl egg yellows and sugar. If both are hard, when mix them together and add flour one spoon at time. 
• Take the cake form what is filled with bottom and make it ready. Add potato flour to rhubarb and mix it well through. Take off syrup what has gathered when they stood with sugar. put the filling to bottom and spread egg and flour mix all over it.
• Bake in oven 35-45 minutes in 200 degrees. 

 

 When it is done, let it cool down bit. Serve it together with vanilla souse or vanilla ice-cream.