The world's best waffles

We made waffles tonight. Actually a bit too late for dinner now that we set the time an hour ahead for daylight saving (is it on, or off now??). But we felt like waffles, so waffles it was. :-)

We've had some problems with our waffle iron, as anything we pour into it turns out soggy. But tonight we decided that since it was purchased in Norway we must give it a chance to bake some Norwegian waffles.

Out we went on the internet, to find a suitable candidate for our recipe. It wasn't difficult - I mean who can resist something which claims to be the "world's best recipe for waffles"? :-D

Recipe:

4 egg
400 g sugar
1 kg wheat flour
1 liter whole milk
1 ts natron (hjorthornssalt in Swedish, god knows what in English?)
1 ts vanilla powder
2 ts baking powder
3 dl sour cream
250 g butter/margarine

Start by mixing egg+sugar thoroughly. Then add natron, vanilla powder and baking powder to some of the flour. Now stir in flour and milk in the egg/sugar mix. Melt the butter and pour it into the mix. Let the mixture set for at least an hour.
Add the sour cream right before baking the waffles.

This recipe makes 30-35 delicious waffles.
Serve with sour creme and jam or butter and brown cheese (S prefers the latter).

In Norwegian:

Verdens beste vaffeloppskrift!!!
4 egg
400 g sukker
1 kg hvetemel
1 liter h-melk
1 ts natron
1 ts vaniljesukker
2 ts bakepulver
3 dl seterrømme
250 g smør/margarin

Fremgangsmåte:
Først blander du egg+sukker godt. Deretter blander du natron, vanlijesukker og bakepulver sammen med en del av melet. Bytt på å ha oppi mel og melk. Smelt smør/margarin og hell dette i røra. La røra stå og godgjøre seg minimum en time.
Bland ut rømmen rett før du begynner å steke.

Du får 30-35 lekre vafler med denne oppskriften. Serveres helst med rømme og syltetøy.


NOTE! We halved this mix and got plenty of waffles. Actually we got way too many, so I'll be having some for lunch tomorrow, and for dinner... :-D
We also used "minimjölk" with only 0.1% fat and it worked well.

But we can't do anything but agree with the "publisher" of this recipe. The waffles were absolutely delicious! I added finely shredded carrots to the mixture for the last waffle and that one tasted a little bit sweeter (if that's possible). If we make these waffles again I will put carrots in more of the mixture.

Fury of the Sunwell, patch 2.4

It's here, it's released - patch 2.4 of World of Warcraft. :-) Yay!
I happened to read a little about it just recently and was amazed by what Blizzard are adding in this patch. A whole new island and a lot of new quests. It made me want to continue to level up Teéhe again, rather than playing the new character I rolled on the new server. Need to get me one of those fancy flying mounts. :-)


Oh, and I should really be in bed.

Big Fish

"Big Fish" (imdb link), a film not about fishing. :-)

A sweet story, a fairy tale of a kind. According to imdb a film with the tagline "An adventure as big as life itself". I like the style, the fact that you never know if the stories it's comprised of is meant to be "true" and in the end at least I didn't care if they were. :-)

We watched it in two sittings, it deserves to be watched in one. And it deserves to be watched.

Sony Picture's website for the movie: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/bigfish/index.html

Bridget

I accidentally watched a film called "Bridget" (imdb link) this afternoon (Tobias was sleeping in my lap). It is said to be about "a desperate young woman who is struggling to get her son back from foster care". But in reality it is a desperate old man's (the director that is) attempt to make an artsy film with his favorite actress where he gets to film as much naked skin as possible without getting it resulting film labeled as porn. *sigh* I could've bought the concept hadn't it been for the fact that I was informed the story was about a 'young woman'. The leading actress was 48 when she portrayed this young woman. I didn't mind the relationship between her and the slightly retarded son of an author she was marrying to get the money needed to buy back her own child, it was in reality the only thing which kept me watching most of the movie. However there were too many scenes which didn't make sense and the story wasn't very tight.

So with the sketchy acting and the nakedness which made it a sordid affair all in all I can not recommend this movie to anyone.

Tonight we will watch the rest of "Big Fish" (imdb link) a much more pleasant acquaintance we made last night (had to break to put Tobias to bed).

Seigmenn

These must be the bestest candy to ever come out of Norway... :-D

S' mum thankfully brought a couple of bags of Norwegian candy with her when she came to see us this cold Easter weekend (if she hadn't we wouldn't have had anything to give to the two small easter witches which came knocking on our door). :-) Anyway, my all time Norwegian favorite candy must be these - Laban seigmenn and seig ladies and other varieties which make it out of that factory (that is "jellymen", "jelly ladies" and more).

Arrgh! Now that I surfed the net to find Nidar's website I realise the bestest Norwegian candy is Troika and no other... X-) (how could I forget?) Three layers - dark chocolate truffels, cherry jelly and marzipan covered in dark cocolate, yum! :-)
Perhaps I can have categories of favorites? Jelly candy being one and chocolate candy being another?

Med sine tre lag av trøffel, marsipan og gelé, er sjokoladen Troika en typisk nytelsessjokolade. Denne godbiten spises gjerne fra dypet av sofaen, på mange forskjellige måter.

That's why he's the one

It's the little things he does. Like the plate of sandwiches he prepared for my breakfast the other day (above). And the heart he had created with a red wool blanket on our bed when I had been away for a while (below).


It's the little things and the big things he does. It's because he is the man he is that I love him. :-)

Robin Thicke - and World of Warcraft

He he, just found a perfect soundtrack to play Warcraft to at this ungodly hour Robin Thicke's "The Evolution of Robin Thicke". My sister tipped me off on this young man quite some time ago and I promptly went out and got it but I never got around to actually listen to it. :-) Now I'm happy I picked it for tonight's random playlist. :-) Easy on the ear and a mood-pick-me-up. :-)

Now back to hunting Rot Hides for their Rot Hide Ichor on Fenris Isle, one more to go then it's time to hit the sack. :-)