This lovely sight met me when I entered the kitchen this morning. The roe deer family was walking around just beside the terrace. The small ones nibbled on the zucchini plant (luckily for me they didn’t like it) and smelled the tomatoes that are standing on the terrace (didn’t like either). Both me and the cats were just standing still watching the beautiful animals. I can’t possibly be angry despite the fact that they ate all the leaves on my newly planted plum bushes (yes bushes, not trees) during the past week. Now all bushes are protected, I just didn’t think that the deers would find them that quickly after me and my mother planted them. But they know the garden better than me :-)

Autumn is here; the end of vacation and start of work. End of sunny days and start of rainy ones. I’ve had my first week at my new job and I’m totally exhausted. Next week I’ll do my best to blog about all those great things that I’ve cooked and baked lately. But until then just a picture of my new cute tea cup that I bought at Koffert, to have at work now when I have my own desk again (with a fabulous view!). Oh, and among all great things at Koffert they have Jelly Belly jelly beans by weight!

Mini chocolate cupcakes with strawberry marshmallow topping and
pink teddy bears.

Valentine’s Day is not very big in Sweden, but I’ve promised F a special and delicious dinner. For dessert we won’t be having the mini cupcakes on the photo, but something else. I made the mini chocolate cupcakes when we congratulated a colleague after the arrival of his baby girl. The topping is super easy to do; combine one part Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff with one part cream cheese.

For those of you with no culinary skills or lack of time I can reveal a male colleague’s cute idea for a Valentine’s dinner. Buy ready made hamburgers and hamburger buns that you cut out with a heart shaped cookie cutter.
What ever you do today, have a wonderful day!

Homemade rhubarb jam with cinnamon, orange and ginger

“I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.”

Yesterday I read about it on Anne’s blog and then I made a comment for a similar post on For the body and soul and thereby obliged to make the same promise on my blog. I think that it’s a great idea!

So come on, the first three people requesting to join will receive a homemade culinary gift in exchange that they make the same promise on their own blog. If you don’t have any blog and want to participate, then comment anyway. And is doesn’t matter in which country you live in, I’ll post the gift to where ever you live. The gift will be a surprise, so I won’t send the jam on the photo above.