Holidays baking

And that's our baking season again!

Quark stollen

Shortbread cookies with nuts and raisins 

cold butter - 100 gr
sugar - 50-80 gr
egg - 1
flour - 200 gr
chopped nuts - 50 gr
some raisins (soaked)

Oatmeal-nut cookies

soft butter 160 gr
brown sugar - 100 gr
egg - 1
oatmeal flour - 250 gr
wheat flour - 100 gr
ground walnuts - 50 gr

Sunbread!

Spicy winter cookies

flour - 230 gr
soft butter - 70 gr
powdered sugar - 100 gr
honey - 1 tbsp
egg - 1
cocoa - 1 tbsp
spices - 2-2,5 tsp

November summary

Warm November and pigs :-)

I had a workshop for wool fairies - that's my son's fairy

Creating earrings and rings with my room-mate for the winter fair

Son's birthday at school

Knitting a flute case at Waldorf seminar

Preparing enough food for the family, when I'm absent :-)

Fairies for the school fair

Halloween peg doll

Finished Toothless

Making a fairy cave for the school fair

And more fairies for the fair!

October summary

I'm teaching handwork my room-mate at Waldorf seminars. That's our first project - needle+wet felted beads.

A simple musical instrument for rhythmical pedagogics

Walks

Felted anemones

Finally I've arranged a nature table

Wool fairy

Painting with finger at Waldorf seminar

The first thing I did with wool - these beads (10 years ago in Germany). Ta-daaaam! Finished :)

Peg dolls

September summary

Birthday of our local Arboretum

School lunches again and again

Cooking lots of Asian dishes

...and lots of baking

The kids planted beans

Finished Michaelmas set

Crocheted pumpkin

Mud kitchen from scratch!

Crocheted Toothless

I've started my Waldorf education (it's the classroom, where I sleep on the floor)

School lunch box, week 3

Banana-apple muffin, sweet buttermilk waffle, dried apples for brunch

Onion-cheese wholewheat waffles, sweet buttermilk waffle, veggies for lunch

Seed bread, cheese, veggies, sweet waffle

Banana muffin, apple strudel, cookies for brunch

Egg in a bun, veggies, cookies

Vegetarian pie, veggies, cookies

Oatmeal pancakes with homemade apricot jam

Onion-cheese wholewheat waffles

1 egg

200 ml milk

60 ml oil or melted butter

1 1\2 tsp sugar

1\2 tsp salt

1 c wholewheat flour + 1\4 tsp baking soda

100+ gr grated cheese (I used 250 gr mozzarella)

spices (fried onion, onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, black cumin, smoked soy flakes, pizza mix, dries chives - whatever you like)

Sweet buttermilk waffles

1 c buttermilk or yogurt
1 yolk
50 gr melted butter
vanilla extract
1\4-1\2 c sugar
1 c flour
1\4 c starch
1\2 tsp baking soda
1 egg white, well whipped (incorporate carefully into the dough)

Banana-apple muffins

125 gr butter
1 c sugar (cream with butter)
3 eggs
3 large very ripe (brown) bananas (I had 2 small bananas and 2 grated apples)
2 c flour (all-purpose or wholewheat) + 1\2 tsp baking soda + 1 tsp baking powder

Oatmeal pancakes

500 ml yogurt/ buttermilk
3 eggs
50 gr sugar
80 gr butter
2 c oatmeal flour + 2 tsp baking powder

School lunch box, week 2

I haven't had much time for cooking this week, but the kid still had some homemade food.

Fishburger, veggies, homemade oatmeal cookies for lunch and fruit cake for brunch (pic and recipe below)

Egg in a bun, veggies

Cheese&olive swirl (bought frozen), veggies

Egg in a bun, halloumi cheese, veggies, fruit cake for brunch

Sandwich (multigrain bread and cheese), veggies, apple strudel (bought frozen)

Oatmeal cookies 

1 egg
100 gr sugar
50 gr butter (melted)
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sour cream, thick yogurt or quark
220 gr oatmeal flour (I grind flakes)
70 gr wheat flour
1\2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
nut, dried fruit, seeds, chocolate (I had peanuts and raisins)

Fruit cake

(for 24 cm spring form)
75 gr butter (melted)
300 gr quark or ricotta
3 eggs
225 gr sugar (whip eggs with it)
280 gr flour
3\4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
fruit and\or berries (small berries can be left frozen)

School lunch box, week 1

The school year has started (finally!!!) and we decided the kid'd take his brunch and lunch from home. We don't have a good lunch box and insulated box (both will be from Ikea), so for now his lunches are cold.

A bottle (250 ml) of yogurt, veggies, egg and cheese baked in a bun.

Greek swirl with cheese and olive filling (bought frozen), veggies, a wholewheat crepe with sweet ricotta+raising filling, jam

A roll made of a buckwheat-wheat crepe and omelette, veggies, fried cheese, a wholewheat crepe with sweet ricotta+raising filling, jam

Fishburger (store-bought fish sticks, lettuce, pita), a wholewheat crepe with sweet ricotta+raising filling, jam

A buckwheat pancake with cheese + creamcheese, a corn pancake (gluten-free) with jam, veggies

Wholewheat pancakes

1 c milk

1 egg

1 c wholewheat flour + 1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp sugar

30 gr butter (melted)

some salt

Buckwheat-wheat pancakes

1 1\2 c flour (buckwheat + wholewheat)

3\4 tsp baking soda

4 tbsp butter (melted)

1 egg

300 ml milk

2 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar

some salt and sugar

Corn pancakes

1 1\2 c corn flour (not starch!)
2 tsp baking powder
some salt
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs
1 c milk
4 tbsp butter (melted)