Virvon varvon tuoreeks terveeks, tulevaks vuodeks. Vitsa sulle, palkka mulle.

En täällä jotenki havahdu näihi juhlipyhii olleskaa ku ei oo samoja perinteitä ku kotona, jouluki oli ja meni hups vaa. No nyt on pääsiäinen ovella ja halusin tehdä H:n kaa jotain mulle perinteikästä, au pairina olohan on isoks osaks kulttuureihin tutustumista!

Tehtiin siis hyvällä lopputuloksella muutamat vitsat ja nyt puuttuis vaa mämmi pöydästä! En oo ikinä ees yrittäny tehä ite ku kaupan 10mämmi on vaa nii hyvää, mut nyt vähä harmittaa ku sitä olis kiva täällä saada. No suklaamunia nassuun sit vaan, ei voi mitään!

Nii tarkat huomaa et meidän vitsoissa ei pajunkissoja oo... Ei ihan kasva noi pajut täällä joka kulmassa niinku kotona, nii kaupasta piti lähtee ostamaan. Niinpä! Siis en oo ikinä eläissäni ostanu pajunvitsoja! Enkä tuukkaan ostaa, sillä edes kaupassa ei vitsoja ollu. Tai oli joo pari tosi rumaa feikki pajunkissavitsaa mut hei en todellakaa mistää rumista maksa. No aattelin sit et iha sama nappaan tost tollaset kympin feikki risut, ihan hyvähä se on jos host äiti onki allergine aidoille. No kotiin ku päästii nii tajusin et ei jumaliste ne risut oli iha oikeita. Meikä tyttö maksoi siis risuista oikeeta rahaa! Olisimmä sil kympil jotai fiksumpaaki tietty voinu hankkii... 

No mut vitsoista tuli hienot joka tapauksessa, ja nyt on mulki vähä pääsiäisfiilis jo! Mut on kutsuttu Justinin perheen mukana pääsiäisaterialle sunnuntaina, jännittäääää. Hänen perhe on tosi ihana, mut nyt sit tapaan isovanhemmatki ja ateria on perhetuttujen luona, eli uusia ihmisä tapaan paljon! Onneks on vapaa viikonloppu nii ehin rentoutua ennen tätä sosiaalisointi-sunnuntaita haha Oikeesti siis oon tosi onnelline et mut otetaa mukaan, mut kyl nyt kaikki tietää kui jännää on tavata poika/tyttöystävän ISOVANHEMMAT! 

Näihin jännitystunnelmiin siis jätän tämän, ja loppuun muutama ylitaiteellinen kuvake meidän vitsoista! 

- Sanni

Blueberry pie in Finnish style

Here we go again! I'm not really so much into cooking or baking, but like I told auntie-N today, you are not a woman in Finland, if you can't make a good blueberry pie, probably won't even get married. So here's a simple, fast and DELICIOUS recipe for a traditional Finnish blueberry pie!

Here's what you need: 

1. Melt the butter in a microwave.
2. Mix it in a big bowl with sugar.
3. Add flour little at the time, mixing smoothly. TAKE ASIDE A CUP OF THIS MIXTURE, you'll need it later.
4. Add the egg, milk, baking powder and little tiny bit of vanilla extract. Mix. The dough is suppose to be loose at this point.
5. Pour the dough in a pie dish. Add the blueberries on top and press them slightly in the dough. 
6. Now sprinkle the cup of the dough, you left aside earlier, on the blueberries. 
7. Bake in the 395F/200C oven for 30min. 
8. Serve warm with cold vanilla ice cream!



Super easy and so yummy! 

Today I had a really happy day. I've been smiling the whole day and just can't stop. He is the reason why. 



I hope you all had as a lovely day as I did, if not, make some blueberry pie! 

xoxo

- Sanni

Elf's Treats

Since this post is for my non-Finnish speaking friends, I'm just going to write straight in English, so you guys don't have to use the crappy translator. I'm dyslexic, so writing in English is really not my strength, forgive me that. For my friends and family at home, I'm alive and well and will be posting more soon!

So, this post is a recipe for Finnish Christmas Tarts (=joulutorttu). H's cousin E wanted to have Elf's Treats today, and we had no idea what those were, so since I was making these, we started calling these as Elf's Treats. Actually it kinda makes sense, since Santa is from Finland you know (you know?!). So these delicious treats are traditional Finnish dessert in the Christmas table, and my absolute favorite. These are super easy to make, and I'm not lying when I tell you, that last year I ate 8 in a row... 

You need:

- puff pastry (one pack gives you 18 tarts)

- plum marmalade

- one egg

- powdered sugar
- oven with 400F degrees

About the marmalade, you can also use jelly, but it doesn't stick together as marmalade when baked in the oven. And feel free using other flavors. At home we use apple too. Also, I wouldn't use raspberry or other sweet one, since the pastry is pretty sweet itself. But it's up to you, plum is the traditional one! Gives the tart perfect combination of sweet and bitter!

Let's do this step by step! 

1. Warm up the pastry in a microwave for 15 seconds, so that it becomes easy to cut and bendy. If it's too hard, it brakes and you end up having random pastry pieces you do nothing with. Then cut the pastry board in three equal squares (depends on pastry size, bigger ones gives you two large ones). 

2. Cut the corners. We are making stars! Of course you can do others shapes too, but this is the traditional one. I've used that word a lot today...



3. Bend in every second corner and pinch them to the pastry so that they won't pop up in the oven! 



4. Scoop in the marmalade! With a tea spoon, as much as you like, in the middle of the star. After this, grease the tarts with the egg. This isn't necessary, but gives the tart a nice shiny surface!



5. Make sure you've placed the tarts with a little space between each others, we don't want them to stick together in the oven! Put them in the oven for 12-14 minutes. My first ones were in for 14min and came out a little too dark, second round was in for 12,5min and came out perfect! Depends on the oven also. But they should have a nice gold color.




6. Let the tarts cool down a little after taking them out of the oven. Place them on a server and sprinkle the powdered sugar on them to give the nice Chirstmassy look! Serve the Elf's Treats warm with milk or glogg! 



I used H and E as my guinea pigs and I'm happy to tell you guys, that we are having more of these on Christmas! Please give these a shot, and tell me if you liked them! 

Merry Christmas everybody! 

- Sanni