LOVING LIQUORICE

My friend Linda stopped by yesterday and since weather has been warm and sunny in Sweden we sat down on my terrace and had a fika.. Fika is simply coffee or tea and maybe a little something to eat, like a cinnamon bun or cookies.. (or slice of pie or cheesecake or or...). In New York there's actually a restaurant named Fika.

The indulgence of the day was the Swedish Singoalla brand of cookies that have just hit the market with their new liquorice flavor.. Not too sweet, just simply yummy and very dipable :)

CHOCOLATE

The other day someone offered me to pick the first piece in a box of Paradis chocolates.

Paradis is the milk chocolate version of the very popular chocolate box Aladdin which contains both dark and milk chocolates. Aladdin has been around since 1939 and is usually sold in all Swedish supermarkets, they are seen all over the place at Christmas time when it's extremely common to purchase these as Christmas gifts or as a bring-along-present to Christmas parties/dinners. There are 2 layers (of the same chocolates) in these boxes and the rule is NOT to start the second layer before finishing the top one. One can choose from many different chocolates in these boxes; coconut-caramel, cream nougat, cherry, liqueur truffle, rum-raisin, triple-nut, orange truffle, egg liqueur and my favorite "the pearl nougat" which is nougat covered in white chocolate, it's placed in the middle of both of the boxes, but someone always grabs it before me.. But now I had the chance to indulge!

Last night the famous Swedish TV hosts Filip & Fredrik aired the very first episode of "Söndagsparty" (Sunday party) which is sent live from Chelsea Studios in Manhattan. It was alright, but they had 2 interesting guests where Marilyn Manson was one of them, he was sipping on absinthe, but was then offered a piece of chocolate from a Paradis box and picked...*drum whirl* .. the Pearl Nougat!

I'm SO Marilyn Manson..

TOURNEDOS ROSSINI

I took the quiz "What (food) dish are you?" on Facebook today and the result was: Tournedos Rossini, which is served every Sunday at the Carlyle Hotel on Upper East Side in New York. I once took my (then) boyfriend there for his birthday for a great dinner; while Woody Allen played his clarinet.. Pretty fancy indeed.

CAKE

My beautiful niece Millie turned ONE today and my sister made a cute princess cake for her little doll :) The crown is made of yellow sprinkles.

CUPCAKES

My Swedish friend Linda stopped by last night with a taste of her very first cupcake batch! So sweet; both her and the cupcakes! ;-)