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Few weeks ago I decided to do some tasty little loafs of bread, using the simplest recipe in the world. Flour, yeast, little spoon salt and another one sugar, some warm water and mix everything together. This is also wonderful mix for making pizza dough. I used full-corn flour sesame, poppy-seed, sunflower seed, some white cheese and sliced olives and finally, it came like this:

We’ve tried them together in the good company of some friends, and all we decided that this is actually very tasty. It also goes very well with beer…

Besides, recently during our stay in Bourgas I wanted to repeat the recipe, only with some slight modifications:

This time we didn’t have full-corn flour, so I used white one, and inside I put again white cheese, but also yellow one and two sorts of olives, black and green with almonds.

Well, I am not sure how they are making today the bread that you can buy in the store, but it becomes mouldy on the second day yet.
But anyway, the last two of our bread loafs we ate three days later and they were still soft and fresh.

Always, when you put heart in your work, you take the risk to have it broken.

Konstantin Bronzit is a director, which animations you cannot forget easily.
Here is one short movie from 2006, in which a very ordinary love story happens on the most not ordinary place for that.

With kind regards to all the people still looking for their partner.

I like them, very very much. Again Iceland. I feel so atracted.

More.

Here you are, my Christmas cookies.
Sorry, only this picture left, we ate the models.

I spent two unforgettable days in the kitchen of my own home with my parents, magically turned on to be kids again.
Hours and hours we spent with sugar-coated hands and I was watching my parents, funny quarrelling who is supposed to decorate this or those cookie and why it’s made like this and not otherwise. It was…fairytale. Homey and Christmas-like. The way it always should be.
This Christmas I miss my grandma again. I often miss her, but on holidays I feel her absence in particular.
I am sure she would love these cookies.

I wanted to send this picture as a Christmas card to all my friends, but anyway, I didn’t, so I am showing it here.

Feel satisfied this way, or if you are not, better wait for remake till next Christmas.

I am obviously culinary addicted lately Indeed, I had a particular reason to make these cookies last Sunday, but then the reason was canceled and only the cookies left.

Maybe I have to admit that these ones were not so tasty as the previous, but they were good, too. In their own way.
I wondered if I have to decorate them and with what, but then I found some fluid chocolate in the refrigerator and I used it.
(It wasn’t very delicious and that’s why it was still there)

It looks fine and makes better taste, only next time I will use some really good chocolate, a kind that stays hard when cooled.

Well, they were beautiful at least, that’s why I am showing them.

2008is the year of the rat and is the first sign from the Chinese zodiac.
The rat is a creative problem-solver, imaginative, hyperactive worker respected for its resourcefulness.
It is intuitive, with ability in acquiring and holding on to things it values.

“Rats” are people born in 1900, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996.

Personally, I like the mice. So much that I made one from plush as a gift for Michel:

Here again, in full size

I do hope that 2008 will be one lucky year.
An year in which things will go right and well and won’t fail despite of all the efforts.
Eight is my favorite number – it’s well-balanced and promises eternal harmony.

I wish “happiness for everyone for nothing and nobody to be neglected”*.

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* Arkad and Boris Strugatzki, “Roadside picnic”).

Christmas is wonderful to me this year.
I can take a good rest (without being in hurry for anywhere) and i can notice all my relatives.
I still didn’t greet anybody from my friends – not even on the phone or with text message or however – and we were two days without internet at home, so it was peace and quiet here.

But now we have internet again, so, for those of you, friends, who are occasionally passing by – greetings with this performance of one of the best and brightest people that i have the joy and honor to know — Enrico Trevisan:

Happy holidays, and don’t eat too much. (it could be worse than the hangover…)

It was about a month ago when I found and bought a wonderful poncho in amazing colors.
I fell in love immediately and got inspired for this *self-portrait*.

You just cannot imagine my pleasure when shopping fruits and vegetables in Saturday morning from the little local store and when all the people around start to smile at me unintentionally…

KOOP. Three weeks ago I didn’t know a word about them, but these two eccentric guys from Sweden deserve your attention even if you are not a fan of such music.
Tonight is their concert, promise to tell you how it was.

I dedicate these pieces of sun, warmth and nostalgia to all of my past and current loves:

I travel…back in the memories, back to the nostalgia – what we cannot keep seems most dearest for us…