Cooking with Connie

So I figured I would do my own series of post about cooking, well it will probably be more baking, but hey "Baking with Connie" doesn't have that good ring to it;)

It's not like I'm going to post this every Sunday, but whenever I try a new interesting recipe or maybe if I do one of the good old recipes, that is my go-to recipes. Today it is one of my go-to recipes, I'm going to make a banana cake... it is one of the cakes that never fails, and Jonas haven't been able to eat all the bananas that I bought, so instead of throwing them out I baked a cake.

Here you have the recipe, it's super easy, and I really doubt you can go wrong with it:)

3 eggs

170 grams of sugar

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

125 grams of flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

100 grams of melted and cooled butter

1 mashed banana (I used 2, but it's not necessary).

100 grams of dark chocolate (I only had milk chocolate, so I used that instead).

Mix the eggs, sugar and vanilla sugar together so it's light. Mix flour, baking powder and butter in little by little. Then gently mix in the mashed banana.

Pour it into a tin and bake for about 55 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius.

Let the cake cool, melt the chocolate and decorate the cake with chocolate.

Yeah in Denmark we use the metric system, but here is a link to a place that will do the calculations into cups etc.

There you have it, enjoy:)

Summer reading

Over the last month or so I have been able to fit in a bit of reading. I love to read books, though sometimes it can go ages between me finishing a book, and suddenly I get caught up in a book and I can't put it down. Within the last month and a half I have almost finished 3 books (still have a few chapters left of the 3rd one).

First I read a book which translated into English would be called something like "Dad, I'm alive" its written by a girl and her dad, and describes everything that happened in Norway on July 20th 2011 and the months after. Her dad was on his way to Oslo when the bomb went of in the center, shortly after his daughter calls him and tells him someone is shooting wildly on this little island where she is on a political summer camp. At first he doesn't believe her, and says it's probably just some fireworks... but there was no such things as fireworks, there was a maniac on the island. I had a really hard time putting down the book, I remember watching it all on the news, but hearing her story made it so much more real.

The second book was "The Help", which I'm sure a lot of you have heard about. It's a story about the black women in Mississippi during the 1960's. I can't believe how some of these women have been treated by the white ladies, and then in between there are some really nice white women, but they aren't telling their friends how they have helped maids out, because they are afraid of being judged. I found the book interesting, I don't know why, probably because Denmark hasn't had a lot of Race problems... at least nothing close to what went on in the Southern USA.

The third book I'm reading is Tori Spellings "sTORItelling". I haven't finished it yet, but I find it pretty amusing, she really has a great sense of humour. I really has seen a whole other side of her, I honestly thought she was "daddy's little rich girl", but I guess her life hasn't always been easy... well not like she starved or anything, but emotionally it can't always have been easy being Aaron Spellings daughter.

Looking at the last 3 books I've read I guess you can't say that I go for just one kind of books, but I do like to read biographies, I also enjoy chick lit books, and then if I have to name my favourite author it will be John Grisham, and well his books doesn't really fall under chick lit... It all depends of my mood when starting a book.

And can you believe that I'm actually blogging again? That makes it twice in 3 days:)

Can I get an Energy boost?

Here I thought I would get better at blogging, but it just seems like lately I have had a lack of energy so when   it comes to blogging I just didn't!

Though I'm back... but don't expect too much, because I haven't found a place to buy an energy boost yet... though 8 more days of working and I will have 2 weeks off, that might help a bit:) Frank is starting his vacation a week before me, since the daycare is closed from next week and then 2 weeks forward. So Frank and Jonas will start their vacation on Friday, and I will have to wait another week. 

We don't have any big plans for our vacation, except for maybe a trip to Legoland (I got a coupon where we get 2 tickets for the price of 1, and Jonas is free), maybe a trip to this mini-zoo, we went there with the daycare 3 weeks ago and Jonas loved it, they have a petting zoo and Jonas was actually hugging the goats when I told him to say goodbye to them:) Otherwise we will be relaxing, and hopefully have lots of sun so we can be outside.

Hope you are all doing well, if you are still reading after weeks of not posting!

Edinburgh update

So as promised a few more pictures from our vacation, though I'm not going to bore you with too many of them, since there is quite a few of Jonas, it was after all his first vacation.

 First a picture of some of the beautiful buildings around Edinburgh, I really loved just walking around Edinburgh, it is really a beautiful city.

 After we checked in to the hotel we set out to find lunch, and ended up getting a sandwich at a pub on Grassmarket. Afterwards we realised that very close to where we ate there were a great view of the castle, so we had to get pictures:)

 We also went up to see the castle up close, though not the first day. But since you have a baby on your hands you don't always get to spent time as you would before having a baby. So we didn't go in to see any of the displays since Jonas was starting to get tired, and were a bit loud. Though he thought it was fun looking at the canons.

 One of the days we drove up to (or maybe it's down to, I'm not quite sure) Roslyn Chapel, which is a must to see if you have read Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code". Though there were a lot of reconstruction going on, but it was still fun to see the chapel.

In order to do something fun for Jonas we went to Edinburgh Zoo, and we did get to see the giant pandas, which apparently are very expensive for them to have, since they have to import a lot of bamboo from overseas. Though Jonas wasn't too impressed with the Zoo, but we like it. It was really big, and had a lot of animals.

The next day we were at the park, and there were pigeons, and those Jonas loved... well at least he loved chasing them. So I guess we can conclude that the best things in life are free... or that you don't always have to make a big deal about things, I guess to Jonas it was more fun running around chasing pigeons that sitting in a stroller looking at caged animals, and putting it like that I can't say I blame him:)

Babies and bagpipes...

I'm back, and have been since last Tuesday, but my work just took up too much of my sparetime to blog, but here I am with a short post.

We had an amazing time in Edinburgh, and I got to meet up with Wendy a few times too. One of the times we were walking towards a cafe and came past a bagpipe player. Wendy's little girl had just fallen asleep and were trying to get Jonas to sleep as well, but as soon as they heard the music they both started crying... 

Our conclusion was babies and bagpipes doesn't mix!

I will post more pictures from our vacation another day, but this is all you get for now. Have a great weekend!

Vacation time...

Remember when you were a kid and during vacations you were allowed to stay up later, eat more candy etc.

Well I guess that hasn't changed... this morning Jonas got into the little kitchen in our hotel room and reached up and grabbed the crisps on the counter... and we didn't stop him:-)

After all it is vacation time...

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I think I am ready...

Our suitcases are packed, well most of it, just missing the last minute things. So I actually think I am now ready for our vacation:) 

Today is actually my birthday, and at work I had some of the most boring assignments, which I told my boss I thought should be forbidden on your birthday, to which he just laughed, and said it would be nice if it was done before I went on vacation! Anyways it turned out to be pretty rewarding in the end, but I still hope that I don't get those assignments again on my next birthday. 

I was meant to be working all day until 10.00 pm today, but a really sweet co-worker thought that since I had been working all weekend, it was my birthday and I was going on vacation, well she offered a few weeks back to work for me, which I really appreciate now:)

I guess all that is left to say is.... "Scotland here we come!"