Ja siden det var en rolig dag på jobben min idag så tok jeg meg bryet med å planlegge litt reklame! For verden må jo få vite hva jeg selger:D Vi har ganske mye yummyumm!

Fesk:Deilige vafler!! Disse smaker bedre en morra di sine!  Vaffel på pinne dyppes i sjokolade som vist på et tidligare innlegg i dag.

MUFFINS!! Ja de er faktisk hjemmelaget.. i Bakersmauet sin ovn, med Baker Brun sin røre.. Og tonto har pyntet!

De belgiske kan det! Søt og god! Du kan tilogmed få is på!! NAM!

Sist men ikke minst: KAFFEE!!

ESPRESSO!! KAFFE! LATTE; CAPPUCHINO!! MOCCA!! you name it! Og jeg er flink til å lage kaffe! Så bare kom innom folkens! Kjøp deg en vaffel eller to! Sammen med en Take Away Kaffe! Og vi selger SEFF Friele og Illy kaffe

Sirup lurer du? JAA SEFF!Jajajjaajajamennsann! No har du ingen unnskyldning å ikke komme;) Monin har masse bra sirup!

Der har dere en liten del av tonto sin jobb! Yummy in my tummy!

Jeg har en mappe på macen min som heter “100 polske damer”. Den inneholder bilder av 1 polsk dame. Du må skjønne arkiveringssystemet min for å forstå hvorfor det er slik. Du må skjønne meg for å forstå hvorfor jeg synes det er morsomt.

Vi har begynt på skolen. Skipper og jeg sitter på altanen og drikker cappuchino og redigerer bilder. En rød bil starter motororen. Rød bil ikke lengre i sikte. Blå bil ankommer. Jeg skulle ønske den var like morsom som den røde. Rart hvordan alt blir mer interessant når en tvinger seg selv til å gjøre noe kjedelig. Jeg går på do.

Kanskje jeg skulle montere web-kamera på altanen. Ved siden av senga mi.

Nå skriver jeg bare tull. Den sofistikerte siden av meg spares til senere, når jeg skal sitte på Nationatheatret og myse i kikkert og nikke forsiktig opp og ned med hodet når jeg tar poenget. Jeg er på kaffekopp nr. 4 så jeg lover og ikke sovne.

Good, beautiful Sunday morning to you! It is a tad bit nippy outside and I’m sitting here in my hoodie – which is very Fall-like and is making my very happy When you’ve been at one temp for so long (hot all summer) it’s nice to switch it up every now and again!

Yesterday I was off here and there doing a bunch of different things, which included attending a beautiful baby shower for my sister-in-law. The Mommy-to-be looked gorgeous and we had a great time!

Before I went to the shower, I made what I’ve been hinting at for a couple days…a Battista’s Cappuccino! When we were served these cappuccino’s after our incredible meal in Veags – time stopped. That’s how delicious they are! AND lucky me, they actually print the recipe on their business cards so I was able to recreate them at home!!

First the ingredients:

• 2 cups prepared coffee
• 2 cups powdered milk (I used instant)
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1 Tablespoon cocoa powder

Then all you do is combine everything in a sauce pan and stir constantly until it’s boiling. Be sure to stir the whole time, so the milk doesn’t burn on the bottom of the pan.

Once the mixture is boiling, ladle it into some mugs,

Add an optional splash of Brandy or…

A big dallop of whip cream!

The whip cream is what MAKES this cappi. The fluffy whip mingled with the hint of chocolate is so smooth.

For the real thing – head to Battista’s in Vegas – but for a close replica, make this sinfully delicious drink at home!

After the shower where I feasted on fruit kabobs drizzled with chocolate, homemade cupcakes and dried fruit and nuts, I came home for some more fruit and nuts I had an Apple Cinnamon PURE bar to tide me over ‘til dinner.

Which was…Kung PAO Chicken! Emphasis on the PAO because this baby was screamin’ hot!

Normally I’m just not a fan of greasy take-out Asian food – but we get ours at a fabulous place, Wok In Motion, where everything is just as fresh as can be, isn’t greasy at all and leaves you feeling completely satisfied.

Kung Pao is usually my favorite meal here (unless I’m getting sushi), because it’s not too hot. Last night though, they turned the heat WAY up! I didn’t mind too much because I could still taste the flavors of the dish. That’s usually why I don’t like to eat hot foods – because they take away the taste of the meal…which is why I’m eating it in the first place!

Now this morning I woke up naturally around 8:00, headed into the kitchen and sliced me up a big, crispy apple and a creamy, strawberry yogurt with granola on top.

Fooled you – that yogo combo wasn’t homemade, it was a Breyers Strawberry YoCrunch cup!

I really like these because (although you can’t see it – bad photographer Kristin!) there is a little portion of granola under the lid of the yogurt that you can just sprinkle right on your yogurt. This is perfect for me because me + granola = lethal combo. I could eat granola until the cows come home – I LOVE IT!

This was the perfect mixture of creamy + crunchy + sweet. Perf!

My apple was sliced and ready for dipping too

Great light breakfast to start the day…

Which includes…nothing! I literally have nothing to do today!! Well, I have to grocery shop, but I enjoy doing that so I don’t really count it as a “chore” or “mission”. Whatever shall I do with this beautiful day? Decisions, decisions…

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!

Vill du få en riktigt god Latte, cappuchino eller vanligt kaffe tillsammans med äkta hembakat fika på “ditt” kafé så tror vi att du kommer att trivas hos oss. Vi har ambitionen att vara ett mysigt och trivsamt kafé/lunchställe där kunderna skall känna sig hemma. Vi bakar så gott som alla bakverk själva och pajerna som vi serverar som lunch är också efter eget recept. Flera lunchalternativ finns också för dig som är vegetarian såsom fetaosttortilla, feta/broccolipaj, grekisk sallad och quesidillas. Vill du gå ut och äta lunch i Jönköping så är Kaffebönan ett bra alternativ om du vill ha en nyttig och kalorisnål lunch. Detsamma kan vi dock inte säga om våra bakverk, men något måste man ju unna sig här i livet

Våra kunder är vana att få stora bitar. Ingen skall behöva gå fikasugen från “Bönan”. Allt fika bakas med omsorg av vår duktiga personal.

Vår citronpaj har redan blivit en riktig klassiker. Hur gott är det inte med den syrliga lemoncurden tillsammans med kall vaniljglass nu när våren är på gång på allvar med sol och värme? Om du kan få receptet? Nej, tyvärr det har vi inlåst i kassaskåpet

Nyttiga och goda mackor för dig som villa ha något nyttigare än ovanstående bakverk, men ändå inte känner för en komplett lunch. Alltid dagsfärskt bröd från lokalt bageri och alltid fräscha grönsaker. Fräscht och gott helt enkelt!

Chicago public school bureaucrats skirted competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked for them, according to a report by the CPS Office of Inspector General.

That was just one example of questionable CPS actions detailed in the inspector general’s 2008 annual report. Others included high school staffers changing grades to pump up transcripts of student athletes and workers at a restricted-enrollment grade school falsifying addresses to get relatives admitted.

In the case of the cappuccino machines, central office administrators split the order among 21 vocational schools to avoid competitive bidding required for purchases over $10,000. As a result CPS paid about $12,000 too much, according to Inspector General James Sullivan. “We were able to find the same machines cheaper online,” he said.

One of the perks of China hosting the Olympics and becoming a contender in the world market is that  a Yappuchino–defined as a good talk with a friend combined with a great cup of cappuccino–can now be enjoyed at Starbucks in many of her major cities.  On a recent trip I enjoyed my first yappuchino in a Starbucks in Sichuan province. Yum.

The local barista at this Starbucks was Cheng Lang…. something… something (or ‘Roy’ to his western friends). He took a liking to me and on my second visit he brought a brownie to my table to sample, asking for my opinion. This brownie is a contender as one of the specialty desserts they will offer hoping to appeal to the western customers they cater to. (It was sooo yummy and even had sprinkles on it!) When Roy came back later to see if I liked it I told him it was an excellent brownie…what Americans would call a chocolate fudge brownie.

He asked me to please explain the difference between just a brownie and a chocolate fudge brownie. I don’t want to brag, but since I have the equivalent of a PHD in chocolate I felt compelled to do my part for international relations and explained to him that if they described this brownie on their menu as a chocolate fudge brownie rather than just as a brownie, they would sell out of them to the foreigners because chocolate fudge implies rich and smooth and the ultimate in brownie cool.

He asked me to spell chocolate fudge brownie for him. (I can only modestly assume that he was so impressed with my knowledge of  brownie-ology that he wanted to put it on the menu board exactly as I wrote it.)

My time in Sichuan Province was delightful. The people were friendly, the food delicious and the large cities are a surreal mix of ancient ways and instant messaging. As I reflect on my visit I am humbled by my opportunity to bring upscale brownie lingo to this country so central on the world stage and to contribute to the civilization of a nation. What can I say….we all must do our part.