Beautiful quote

"I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."

Winterland

Winds came in at 30 ft per second during Saturday. (The snowpacked cars bear witness to the wind force.) Today after two days of snowing, the Stockholm region had received between one and two feet of snow. So we decided to just go out and enjoy the winterland in the national reserve just around the area where we live.

Frosty the Snowman

X-mas gift from Mommommom and Poppoppop!

Weekend recipe

Finally, we had time to sit down to a nice meal this last weekend (since our son was nice enough to go to bed early).

We enjoyed... boiled artichoke for starters, for main course; sirloin steak and oven-baked potatoes together with Kim's veal sauce (made of veal broth, plenty of cabernet sauvignon, soya, olive oil, cream, ... and last but not least... white Italian truffle!). For dessert we had Kim's Chocolate/Vanilla "I scream for Ice cream"!

Kim's Chocolate/Vanilla "I scream for Ice cream" ingredients
(2 servings)

1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of rich (more than 35% cacao) milk chocolate drops/chips
1 egg
3 cups of cream (yes!)