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Baking Recipes

I love to bake, but I don’t do it very often. Either I haven’t time, nor energy or both at the same time. Usually we also agree that it is not good for us, since we always have to drop a few kilos, sigh. But although I decorated for Halloween last Sunday, I already look so much forward to Christmas. In December it is legal to decorate all over the house, eat lovely dinners and surround you with family and good friends – but it is also BAKING TIME! And I have just invested approx. 3 dollars in this great recipe book (unfortunately only in Danish):
Yes, only 3 dollars, for a nice hardback book, filled with lovely photos and classic as well as new recipes. And what can you get for 3 dollars – almost nothing. Here are some references:
I have the complete series of baking books, it was a colleague who recommended them to me and gave me my first. What I especially like is the concept “one dough – 7 cookies” or “one dough – 3 breads, buns and Danish”, you get the picture. Genius!

I know it’s not fair recommending a Danish baking book, and I do hope you have something like it abroad.

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Squirrel Restaurant

I love recycling! I love finding a treasure in the second-hand shops, at the flea markets ... and in the bi-weekly refuse heaps. A couple of weeks ago I walked my five kilometres and looked at the heaps and what did I see? A squirrel restaurant:
I have wanted one for long, because I have many squirrels in my garden, and they are so cosy. But a squirrel restaurant is quite expensive, so having walked my tour I had to go back and get it. And it is perfect, I just have to fill it with goodies and hang it up in a tree. It is incredible what people discards!

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The Lunch Pack That Grew!

Son has got an apprenticeship – life is wonderful! He is not the academic type, but he doesn’t have technical flair like his father either. He has now got an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener and he LOVES it! At the beginning he didn’t bring any lunch with him, like when he went to school. He has always hated making a lunch pack. Well, being a landscape gardener is hard physical work, so not before long son realized it was a good idea to bring some lunch with him. And the lunch pack grew and grew and grew:

A happy mouse and his lunch pack

What’s in the bag, you ask:

• 5-6 sandwiches made of coarse bread
• approx. a pound of carrots
• two bananas
• a handful of snack peppers
• 1 can of tuna
• 1 corn-bar (healthy candy for desert)
• 2 mini juice cartons (those that comes with a straw)

And he eats it all – plus breakfast and a tremendous plateful of dinner. Perhaps it is time to make him pay for his keep!? :)

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