.
Orange juice … an apple and a great coffee…. I love breakfast!!!!
.
In an Italian restaurant in Helsinki
.A couple of Helsinki guides you may find useful if you are visiting the city.. We are Helsinki and Helsinki this Week, both with info about Helsinki …restaurants, shops, happenings, museums and so ..
Have a very nice weekend!!!
.
As promised … a recipe to prepare 12 delicious muffins… (just click on the illustration to enlarge).
.
.
Wooden cutlery, serving trays.. I took the pic in a small beautiful shop in Ruotsinpyhtää
And here something I love …. the wooden spoons made by the artisan / artist Nic Webb…. Just wonderful…
.
.
A warm coffee and a couple of toasts with butter and marmalade… and a nice blog… Simply breakfast, written by the photographer Jennifer Causey.
It is snowing again…
.
.
Muffins
.
I´m posting soon the recipe…. In the meantime… a link to a nice blog I was just visiting … Cannelle et Vanille, written by Aran Goyoaga , a freelance food writer, stylist and photographer…
.
As promised.. another Moomin mug. At Sara´s beautiful apartment in Copenhagen here you will find a wonderful set of them. Pics are from the Swedish photographer Jenny Brandt for Dos Family.
Moomin mug, from Arabia Finland.
.
Another great blog to visit…. konfettiform decoration, design and inspiration…
Have a nice weekend!!
,

When I go Porvoo I like to visit the “Small Chocolate factory”, Pieni Suklaa Tehdas (Lilla Chokladfabriken, in Swedish) and … Anton & Anton a nice store selling delicious, fresh, organic and local food.
And I love to have a coffe at Café Helmi or Café Cabriolé that is also one of the best confectionery places in the area.
I finish my post today with a couple of recipes Chocolate Biscotti from David Lebovitz blog and Banana,hazelnut and cocoa muffins from a really inspiring blog: La Tartine Gourmande … here my muffins…Ummm!!
.
A few weeks ago I received and e-mail from Zoe, who blogs at Playing by the book, all about books and play for children, inviting me to collaborate in a post for the new section on her blog “Reading Around Europe” country Finland. She was looking for a couple of fun and truly Finnish craft/art/cookery projects she could try with her kids. She also asked me a photo from my blog.
I like Zoe´s blog, she is very nice, I like reading, cooking , crafting,,.. so I accepted with pleasure and sent to her a photo of a necklace for girls, a traditional recipe of the Finnish Oven Pancake ( in the pic below), and a couple of photos of crafts to make with kids… And the result was a great post you can visit here or clicking on the photo.
Traditional Finnish oven pancake “Pannukakku”.And I thank Zoe again for her nice post…
.
.