I did a short bicycle run around us and found blooming poppy fields. So gorgeous ! Poppy is used in Austria for baking,cooking and oil. Here are some pictures I took this morning.
Category: Everyday life & Travel
Palmbuchl and Easter in Austria
Easter is coming up and I am lucky to have so many different cultural influences around me. I have planned our Easter Sunday lunch together with my best friend who comes from Romania. As always it will be lots to eat and very good food,but that aside, I am not a religious person at all…
My beautiful hometown Tampere, Finland .
How I miss the streets and the lakes of my home city. Not long anymore and I will be there for two weeks again.. Enjoy the video.It is long but beautiful.. https://vimeo.com/135039812
Lovely marmalade jars and fool proof recipe for making the marmelade
It is canning season! Marmalades,chutney,pickles,ketchup etc. Till now, I have only made apricot jam. Our family loves it. It is pretty simple thing to do. Chop your apricots,add sugar and boil.You can spice your jam or mix it with other fruits. Here is a very good blog, about how to make marmalade, from High Heel…
Breakfast date with Kiddo and Bilberry Buchteln
I am still on bilberry trip since we have them. What follows is again diary from the market and bilberry recipe..Sorry, I promise I will change the theme soon 😉 Thursday is market day as you know,so today I had a date.Kiddo’s school is out and he wanted to go with me. I thought this…
Soccer,sun and Mostini..
Two times a year, Kiddo’s soccer club has a party.Christmas party has always been sweaty,overcrowded and not so fun occasion, because it has been held in very small restaurant space, and there has always been close 100 people present.Kids and their parents plus the trainers. Too much noise,too hot and not really fun..But the summer…
Summer vegetable soup, and towelling poncho for Kiddo
Summer days..Long,hot and sunny. We have been spending lots of time outside in the garden. Kiddo water sliding ,playing in the sandbox and building all kind of things. Me digging,cutting,listening music,drinking wine and reading books.. Occasionally screaming to Tweedle Dee & Dum while they’ve gotten into their normal enterprising routines of getting in trouble. It…
Potatoes,potatoes and child labour.Kiddo working his way out of being grounded..!
Sometimes life is hard even for little Kiddo.Trials of getting grounded and working his way out of it.
Peonies and such..Garden diary
Summer is my favourite time of all..Everything seems to be so much alive.Birds are going nuts, our neighbours delirious rooster cannot shut up and Zorro the cat is  spending more time outside than inside. And of course bringing his gifts to “Mommy”. And “Mommy” is chasing the poor cat out from the house. I am…
Short weekend getaway to Salzburg and Berchtesgaden..
Do you ever get that feeling when you simply just have to get and go somewhere? Well I did,last weekend. Our friends were talking about possibility to go together, with bigger group of friends,without the kids, for short trip towards beautiful Salzburgerland and Berchtesgandenland.. Sometimes, I can be quite impulsive this trip came more than…
Easter.. At home..
Easter came and went.. We had quiet easter at home,for change. Weather was not at all nice this year.Snow,sleet,rain…And everything in between..On Saturday we went to Schärding for farmers market.And it rained.. I managed to get some nice shots from the city.I felt so sorry for all those market sellers. Lots of people on the move…
From my garden into my kitchen 