Biscuits in the summer - piškoti poleti

I made these delicious walnut biscuits with marmalade filling on top as a treat for a short weekend trip with my family.

Sestavine	Ingredience
600g moke	600g plain flour
250g mletih orehov	250 g of grounded walnuts
2 jajci	2 eggs
2 rumenjaka	2 egg yolks
200g sladkorja	200g sugar
400g masla	400g butter
4 čž vanilijevega sladkorja	4ts vanilla sugar
marmelada	jam

Some suggest blackcurrant jam, but my favorite for this is mixed jam or perhaps  strawberry or plum jam. It has to be solid. I used about 4 table spoons of jam, but I made big holes to fill it in.

For this step I use my machine to whisk it together.
In a large bowl I put in the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar and I whisked it together to a "foamy" consistent or mix until it is well mixed and soft. 

Add the eggs and the egg yolks and mix well again.

Add the flour and mix lightly with a spatula then add the grounded walnuts. I didn't need the spatula for long, because the dough was starting to come together. At the end I used my hands to combine it well and make a ball from a nice soft dough. 

It had to rest for two hours in the refrigerator.

When the time passed I took out only a part of the dough. The rest was still cooling in the refrigerator.
I first rolled it out to a "snake" and cut it into - what I tried to be - even pieces.

From each piece I made a ball, put in on a tray - that was lined with baking paper and took my wooden spoon and made a small hole in the middle. Then I carefully put the marmelade in the hole. When the tray was ready I baked it at 190°C for 14min.

After 13min I took one out and because it was golden-brown on the bottom side I knew they were done.

From the owen I put them carefully on a cooling rack to cool and sprinkle it with some icing sugar.

Now I have to put them somewhere save so no one will eat them until the weekend.

And I heard from the other room "Good luck with that".

Gozd

Pa smo odšli na krajšo turo.

Pot smo začeli v kraju Golnik, kjer smo se podali po gozdni poti v Gozd. Čeprav se temu po domače reče, da gremo v "Gojzd".

Na poti nismo srečali nikogar. Mogoče je bilo krivo vreme, saj je en dan pred tem deževalo in je bilo jutro še malo turobno ali pa smo bili prezgodni, saj smo iz Golnika štartali malo pred sedmo uro zjutraj.

Seveda smo šli tudi na "Skalco", kjer smo preverili, če naš avto še čaka tam spodaj na parkirišču.
Za nami je bilo že več kot polovica poti tako, da smo bili kmalu v Gojzdu.

 Po čaju v koči in prelepem sončku smo se vrnili v oblačne nižine.

Jutro izkoriščeno maksimalno. Nedelja se lahko začne.

Golden brown

Čeprav bi raje videla Golden eye oziroma, ko iz tega:

 

nastane:

Peyote

Peyote stich.

Ker je nekdo bil tako navdušen nad mojo "Believe" zapestnico in si je želel svojo "MANC" sem malo spet nizala perlice.

Peyote stitch je po mojem mnenju eden od osnovnih  elementov pri ustvarjanju z beadsi.

Pri sodem zgoraj dodaš en bead, spodaj spustiš en bead in z iglo v naslenjega. In to se ponavlja. Ena slikica kako se dela.

Zapestnica ima nasnutih 14 beadsov in je v kombinaciji črne in zlate barve, da pride napis do izraza.

 

 

Zeleno in višje

Tokrat pa smo odšli na planino Korošica, ki se nahaja na jugozahodnih pobočjih 1968 m visoke Košutice.

Pot vodi cik-cak po pobočju in je lepo označena.

Na srpetinah se na določenih mestih odpre prelep razgled.

Zadnja četrtina poti vodi po ravnini, planini, kjer se pasejo konji in krave.

Po dobri 1h in 30 min počasne hoje smo prišli do koče, ki se nahaja na planini na višini 1544 m, kjer smo se okrepčali.

Še malo smo se nastavili sončnim žarkom in se vrnili v dolino.

Marelice

Danes sem odšla na tržnico.

Zadnje čase me večkrat zanese tja. Nekako upam, da je zelenjava tam res pridelana v Sloveniji. Upanje ostaja. In ker vsaka šola nekaj stane, se moj izbor, kjer kupujem oža.

No, pa da se vrnem k marelicami.

Pogrešam tisto marmelado, ki sem jo jedla, ko sem bila majhna. Spomnim se jadogne, marelične, slivove...  In vse so bile odlične.

In tudi vem kaj je skrivnost: "Naj bo nabrano v domačem sadovnjaku in ne šparat s cukrom!"
In ko sem delala danes marmelado nisem pazila koliko sladkorja sem dodala.



Sestavine so bile:
- 3,5 kg marelic brez koščic
- 1,5 kg sladkorja
- sok 1/2 limone

Ko sem oprala in razkoščičla marelice so romale v lonec.

Kjer sem jih utopila v sladkorju.

Malo zmečkala med prsti in dokončno jih zmlela s paličnim mešalnikom.

Na štedilniku sem jih počasi zavrela in že so se delali mehurčki.
Sedaj pa čakat in mešat, da se zgosti.
Takoj na začetku rahlega vrenja oz. ko je v stanju "simmering" najprej postane marmelada redkejša ampak čez čas začne pridobivati na gostoti.

Po 4h kuhanja na nizkem ognju sem dobila tako temno ampak živo barvo.

In kako sem vedela da je marmelada narejena?

S kuhalnico sem kapnila eno kaplico na krožnik. Počakala, da se malo ohladi in probala. Ker v prvih desetih poizkusih še ni bila dovolj gosta, sem pustila, da se še naprej kuha in jaz sem pridno mešala. Ampak, ko sem enajstič kapnila pa se je dovolj strdila.

Ko je bila marmelada v kozarčkih sem jo dala še spat. Lepo ovila in pokrila z odejo.

Every beginning is hard

But you just have to make it. After a rough start it gets easier.

I asked my self I "Why shouldn't I make it. Perhaps someone out there will find it interesting what I do. And how I do it."

And it took me some time to get started. The most difficult thing when I started was to pick out the right template.

Did anyone else have the same problem? I am not a web designer and I don't know what colors get best with what context and how the page should be devided and...

I just knew what I didn't want on my page. I am not finished but I just wanted to get started. So there will be small changes that will come with time and it will all be fresh and new and more exciting. Hope so.