Brunch..

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Last Saturday I cooked for a 50th birthday/brunch.

They had:

Salmon spinach roulade with sweet mustard
Shellfish marinated in fresh herbs and limejuice
Small grilled chorizo, Provence and ordinary sausages
2 kinds of meat (pålæg?)
Rosettes of Parma ham with thyme mascarpone
Omelet with broccoli and bacon
Potato tortillas – which I unfortunately forgot at home
3 kinds of cheese
American pancakes
Greek yoghurt
Fresh exotic fruit
Vegetable snacks
Bread and butter

I cooked way too much, but I think it’s SO hard to tell in advance how much to cook. Better safe than sorry.
They were very pleased with the food and so was I.

As soon as I got home I bought a brand new coat. I have needed one all year, and last year as well, so I thought it was about time. And I just felt like spoiling my self just a bit. Disappointingly I haven’t got a picture to share. You’ll have to meet me to see it! 😉

March kalendar

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As usual I have sent a small LO for Laura’s aunt for her calendar. I’m not particularly pleased with this LO. I shouldn’t have glued on the red pearls, and the ladybird ribbon was a poor attempt to save it. The photo doesn’t do it much justice either, but it’s sooo hard to wait until daylight to take the damn picture. 😉

However the LO tells how Laura almost got a new room. We took our bedroom apart and put it together in a new way, so that Laura has got the whole width of the room and all the light from the window as well. It has turned out VERY well, and it pleases my eye every time I enter the room. 🙂 Laura loves it too and spends more time then ever in her new room.

– As always on these LO’s I only used LilyKate paper.

Challenge..

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Maybe I should try to catch up a bit on recent events. A week ago I made a LO for a scrap challenge. Scrap your newest shoes!
The shoes I chose to scrap were my working shoes.
I wanted to add a coffee stain on the LO but it destroyed both picture and text so I had to redo it – can you get coffee stain rub-ons? 🙂 Notice the headline. It is rub-ons on a picture of the bottom of my very filthy shoe.

I really like how the the LO turned out, but would have liked the coffee stain.

– The paper is all DCWV and colors I usually don’t use. All in all a great challenge.

Oh by the way; This LO made it to 1st runner up.

Phew!!

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Finally Mette’s birthday party is over. Of course I mean that in the best possible way, but as you might have read in an earlier post, I was cooking for the party, and the project has taken up a lot of space in my mind.

The menu was:

Steamed rolls of salmon and seaweed with dill and onion

Inside-out vegetarian maki with mascarpone wasabi, cucumber and iceberg salad

Napoleon tarts filled with mushroom, apple and rosemary (so cute :))

Terrine of lamb and veil with hazelnuts, capers, sun dried tomatoes and marinated garlic

Soy sauce marinated tenderloin of pork with ginger roasted mushrooms

Falafel with spicy Sambal Olek dip

Lovely Thai fishcakes with a fresh lime dressing

Satay chicken on spears
BBQ marinated drumsticks
Loads of vegetables (carrot, cucumber, sugar snaps, celery and baby corn) with dip
Sorry.. Don’t know why I never got a picture of the last two..

Nina helped me out and thank god!
I couldn’t have done it without her – Thank you Nina!

The trays were dressed up with pink and purple napkins and glittery butterflies. Perfect match for a princess!! Unfortunately we were running late, so I never got to take some decent photos. You will have to settle with these.

By the way – if you need food for at party please fell free to contact me. 🙂