Cardamom coffee bread with almond,

For a while ago, I made a little bit different coffee bread, what I had never done before. I have eaten little bit similar one and have wanted to try as well, but I have not had courage to do it, because I do not believe much to my competence to succeed in some baking things. Since we had a Lions board meeting in our home, when I wanted to do something good for coffee and I thought, that I can try. If I do not fix it, I can go and buy something from bakery. For my surprise, I made it and it tasted very good. Only negative part in my opinion was, that I had bit too much Bourbon vanilla. It took taste over, since I was but bit more, than recipe had. Here is recipe for the coffee bread.

Ingredients:

Wheat dough:

30 gr yeast
250 gr milk
110 gr butte, room temperature
570 gr wheat flour
3 gr salt
5 gr ground cardamom
1 egg
110 gr caster sugar

Filling:

120 gr sugar
200 gr almond flour
150 gr butter, room temperature
10 gr vanilla sugar
Cardamom

Baking:

2 egg for brushing
Sugar
Cardamom 

Syrup:

1 dl water
1 dl sugar

First step is to do wheat dough. Crumb yeast into a bowl what you have with your kitchen assistant. Warm up milk until it is lukewarm and mix it with yeast. But other ingredients into a bowl and let assistant work in a slow tempo. When all is mixed together, you take a speed up a little  and let it work 10 minutes until it has build a gluten and gets a shiny and nice surface.
Take dough out from the bowl and put it to baking board what you have covered with a bit flour. Let dough rest there 15 minutes under the cloth . Roll dough out until it is 3-4 mm thick.
Make a filling. Mix almond flour, caster sugar, vanilla sugar and little by little a butter until you have smooth filling. Wide a even layer filling over the rolled dough. Sprinkle on sugar and cardamom, roll together to lengths. Take a scissors and cut a ankle, ca 1,5 - 2 cm big bites. Cut almost all the way, but not all through. Fold the pieces what is left and right alternately, but let them sit together as one wheat length. Divide the long length to 4 even lengths.
Concoct sugar and water to syrup and let it cool down.
Put the oven to 180 degrees. Let the wheat length rise under the cloth ca 1 -1,5 hours. Brush with whipped eggs the lengths and  cover with sugar and cardamom. Bake 2 lengths on the time, about 20 - 25 minutes or until it has got a nice color. When you take them out in the oven, brush every length with syrup.

I can say, that I liked the end result. It was perfect for the cup of coffee and it lasted for a while but not for a very long time since all liked it. I will not be last time I will bake it. There will come other times as well, when we get the guests. 

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Happy girl in a good day,

Today I am a happy girl. I have got a visit from my home. Today morning I got a phone call from my family member. That call made me very happy, so I changed a little bit my plans and could do everything, what I had planned for today.
Since in outside the weather is as it is, when I had made a plan to fix a bit spring to my home. I had started it with the beautiful tulips on the table together with candles and a friendship stone I got from a very good and close person to me. So when I got my medicines from pharmacy, I also went through the shop and bought a new tablecloth to my coffee table. When I had put it out, it felt like spring has arrived to my home. In the same time the weather outside made me bit sad. I love winter and January is a winter month. It means, that I would prefer to see snow and some minus degrees nor plus and rain. But it is not much to do. Since I can't change weather and weather conditions, when I just have to accept it.

I also got my package today :) I can say only one thing - Me, very happy.  I got my new jacket for spring together with some other clothes from Peak Performance. I have never had opportunity to buy a good quality clothes for me, since I was too big and usual size is up to 44 or in some brands up to 46 for beautiful clothes. Now I have so big opportunity to do it. I can go whatever shop I want and buy whatever I want. It feels good, it feels strange but it makes me happy. I am happy that I have got help with my overweight and that I have got a support from my home, from my other family members and from my close friends as well the new ones who has came into my life. Alone that road would have been long, lonely and very hard and I think I would never could manage it. And to choose a bright and light colors, was never on my list either. Before it was dark colors, now it is totally different. I choose bit lighter colors and in some reason my favorite color has became a pink. Me and pink before was something I never could even dream of. Now, I just like to wear it and other colors like orange, blue, light red and other colors.
On the end I feel my day has been fantastic. To have a possibility to talk in Estonian, to spend time with my family has been very good. I did not let the negative part to take over the positive feelings. It is not fun to start to take a strong morphine based painkillers again after I have been clean bit over a 2 months. Life is like that. Nothing to do. Just accept it.
Now, I hope you all have a wonderful evening and good dreams.
Sleep well!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Wonderful weekend,

Another weekend is soon becomes to it's end and new week arrives. This weekend has been quiet but in the same time very good one. It has been a weekend for our selves.
In Saturday we took a long powerwalk together with our dog outside in this wonderful weather. I love winter and not only me. Even our small silly dog loves winter. So much snow, what can be eaten :) We had good time out in nature. With winter it looks so pure and so clean. Specially can that be seen the places there salt and sand is not set. Just so wonderful. So many people does hate winter and snow, but me, I would love to live out in the forest and to enjoy a winter wonderland.

We also took bit time to us selves in the evening. Had a good food, good wine and candlelight music. I had not had wine or any alcohol over 17 months. I did not want to mix alcohol and morphine and wanted to be morphine free before I take a glass or two. Good red wine for venison meat was a perfect combination.

 

 Today we spent a cozy day at home after the visit to city. They have opened a new game shop in Jönköping and we decided to go look it. It will not be last time, we will visit it :) Both my interest of games was there and also my husbands interest of games. It will be good to see, what kind of games they will take more in. After I invited my husband to a Espresso House. I got in the morning a good news, what made really my day. I thought it was a good chance to celebrate it. After 11,5 months this news was well needed.  And in my opinion, if I want a good coffee in this town, I need to go to Espresso House. Bit same as in Estonia I get a good coffee in Coffee In. Me, I will never say no to a good Coffee Latte :D Especially today. After I visited Kappahl. I found a perfect sweater to me. It fits with my red dress as well with other clothes. It feels once good to go and make some shopping where I can really try everything and not to feel very bad, that the shops does not have clothes in my size or that the choice is so narrow.
Now, it will be a lazy time for the evening. Tomorrow is a new day and new week. Many things to do and fix. In the same time to have some meetings and other things on the agenda. Hopefully I also can start to do some handwork, since now the new computer is installed with needed software and only thing what I need to do is, to connect my sewing machine with computer. After that everything is done and ready.  Now, I hope that you all will enjoy good evening and spend a wonderful time with your family!
Have a nice evening!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Weekend,

 

Again Sunday has arrived and that also means, weekend is soon over and Monday is here again. For me, it has been 4 wonderful days off from everything. My own time among with family. Thursday I had a small trip with a friend to Skåne and most of the weekend we have spend in countryside. Have cleaned Christmas away and visited Skara. I bought on Friday one book by Nora Roberts and it was so good, that on Saturday I needed to go and find a part 2 of the trilogy :D I must say, that I got very happy when I found it. It felt in the morning on the other hand, when I was need to wake up.
Time on countryside just flies. At least it feels like that. It is good time usually. Time, when I can have my own thoughts and just to relax and let everything else to go. Only thing I miss is, my family in Estonia, but soon I will see them.

As Minion says, one more day between Saturday and Sunday in a good weekend, would be something I would really need.
Weekend for me, I have decided, that I have to do it more often. It feels good to have my own time and still I am with others. At least I have fix some more things after a 9 months absence, in my office/hobby room. It felt really good, since I have got my interest to do handwork, back again. Now I just have to fix the new computer I got for my embroidery program and after that I can start to make my things again. My own patterns and other fun stuff.
Now, it is time to just enjoy the evening. Tomorrow starts new subject at school. Last one finished on Wednesday and I managed even my oral exam with good grade. Hopefully the next one will be same. Now I just want the ice to smelt so that I can also start to run. My first competition is not very far away, since time just flies, when you are happy or have good time and I need to prepare bit for it. I have not run that kind of competitions for a very long time.

Have a nice evening!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

A Happy Girl,

Today I finally got my long waited package. Just after the New Year I ordered a training clothes to me and today they finally arrived. After my weight-loss so far, I can have small size clothes and therefore I decided that if I need to buy some clothes, what I will use often, when I buy quality clothes. And again I bought my clothes from Peak Performance.
This time it was a long tights for running. I decided that since it is something I can do together with my dog or by myself, when I will start to run. When I run last year, it felt so good, so I will start to do often this year. Last year I also promised to myself that I will try to take part at least of 2 races. Of course I will not run for win, I just want to feel good and do something for me. I promised this years promise to myself, that this year will be my year and to take part of those 2 races is something what I will do to myself just for at feel good. Also because, I never have had opportunity to run longer distances since I have been very big and weight a lot.
Together with tights I also bought a sweater. On the other words, whole kit a person needs to take time to herself. That should help me to take off the last kilos I want to get rid off. Just around 20 kilos and I am happy. Ok, might be, that I am happy also if it is just 15 I will loose, but my own personal goal is 20 :)
On the same time, I do not care how much it goes down, since I already have won by getting so far. I miss just my training companion and she is in Malta :D She was a good motivator and that is needed once in a while, but she is just a chat away and that is also enough. For now :) Now, it is time to go and take a long walk with Sally.

Have a nice evening!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit