Just another week in sunless DK. I really have reached my threshold of gloominess. I think the whole family has, and we are each expressing it in our own way. The boy is whining and demanding, the husband is silent and withdrawn, and I'm cranky yet anxious, but for some reason low on energy at the same time (but I can't sleep). So it seems the only thing to look forward to is thinking about food, and then sharing that food, and listing to the greater world out there on my MP3 player, and knitting.

A super highlight of yesterday though - we learned that our son will be starting the immersion program at a public school within our school district this fall. Couldn't get any better than that. One BIG GIANT THING (that I had no control over) now off my mind.

These are a simple shortbread cookie with chai flavors - cardamon, cinnamon, clove, and black pepper - Cooking Light magazine, Christmas 2007. (Next time I want to try to put some tea in the coffee grinder, grind it up, and add that to the dough as well.) I've started to keep a log of frozen dough in the freezer to have on hand when someone pops over for a visit. Its easier than trying to find some sort of decent cookie at the grocery, plus they are egg free.


I found some very pretty øko brown (almost pink) lentils at the market a week or so ago. Even their name was pretty - Pearle de Campo.




Earlier this week I made a small batch of baba ghanoush to share with a friend's awesomely moist sunflower bread. I tried to make that same bread a while back and it was a small dense lump. I'd love to have a bread maker here, but once again, I hate spending $$$ on things that I can't bring back with me.


On the knitting front I've finished up another hot water bottle cozy.


I've also started and taken apart a two tone scarf maybe 3 times. Not willing to give up on this salvaged wool yarn (I un-kinked an old hat, soaked the yarn in a warm bath with fabric softer, dried, and re-balled this stuff)...I've started in on it once again, but with a new pattern - and this time around it just feels right. So I think it (fingers crossed) will be *the one*. This is actually the first scarf I hope to complete. I've started lots of scarves it the past, I have yet to actually finish one.

Spouts Day 4

Well, the sprouts sprouted.


Now we need to eat the rest up, and soon. I don't think that they stay good for very long. A bread with sprouts in it sounds good to me right now. Other than that, I think the husband put some on his sandwich this morning.

Sprouts?

Bean sprouts sold at regular groceries in the US generally consist of only the stem and leaf parts. But here in DK, you can get them with the soft bean hanging off the end. I know they are healthy-good-for-you, but I've never bought them. What can I say, I'm cheap. I'd rather not spend $5 (or 25 Kr) on a little pack of fresh garbanzo beans.

But now that I've seen this video, what the heck - I think I'll try my own. Plus they shouldn't need sunlight (totally void in DK) since a seed would normally germinate in the soil.