Bandy bandy!!!

Today we enjoyed sitting in our apartment, watching the heavy snowfall outside. It is late March and the weather is anything but springtime-like. It was a perfect setting for the world cup event in cross-country skiing from Falun (where the snowfall was rough!) and the afternoon highlight - the Swedish championship game in bandy between Hammarby and Bollnäs! For all non-Europeans, this means 90 minutes of outdoor play in coold weather, on an ice rink that is as big as a football field (and a ball that is about the size of a golf ball). The heavy snow on the ice made it almost impossible to skate, much less accomplish any passing game.
We loved to see the curse finally being broken - and for the first time ever Hammarby became Swedish bandy champions! Yeah!

Snow, snow and more snow... By the way... can you spot the ball?

Mr. Oatman

Catchy tune...

Sunday Dinner

Poached trout with basil and thyme
on a bed of peas "bonne femme"


Petit-choux cakes filled with home-made vanilla cream,
draped in Sherry-flavored chocolate sauce

Ingredients:
2 trout fillets, skin on
Small handful of basil leaves and thyme leaves
salt & ground pepper + olive oil

Peas 'bonne femme'
100g unsmoked bacon lardons
Olive oil, for cooking
100g charlotte onions
sprigs of thyme, leaves only
200g of peas

Tara's Response

I felt an urgent need to respond to my husband's decision to include a quote by Rand. So many things she says are remarkable and beautiful, but there is one quote to which I am particularly attached, as it was through reading this in Atlas Shrugged that I realized my ultimate happiness would be achieved through greater self-reliance.

'I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. '