I have found some photos from last year. I also could not restrain myself from taking pictures of the pansies you can see in the last two pictures. My mum has planted them on my balcony. She is very enthusiastic about plants so expect more pictures of flowers she is going to plant soon:)
Easter is coming and so are traditional Polish cakes baked only for Easter. Such a cake is called ‘Mazurek’ and is filled with delicious filling made of dried fruit, nuts, almonds, chocolate, caramel or home made jelly. I have baked various kinds of those cakes so far, but the most popular at my home is the one I attach below. This is my brother’s favourite one, so every year he forces me to bake it J
Cake ‘Mazurek’ with walnut filling
30 dag of flour
3 hard boiled egg yolks
10 dag of butter
10 dag of powdered sugar
1 package of vanilla sugar
1 egg
2/3 glass of sugar
2/3 glass of sour cream
¼ glass of honey
pinch of salt
2 glasses of walnuts (preferably hazelnuts or almonds or the mixture of various kinds)
1 glass of chocolate flakes
How to do it?
Sieve the yolks through the sifter and add them to the flour you sieved before. Then add chopped cold butter, powdered sugar and vanilla sugar. Kneal all those ingredients. When you finish, put the cake into the fridge for 30 min. Later put away 1/3 of the cake and use the rolling pin to make the rest of the cake (2/3) flat. The size of the flat cake should fit the baking tin. Put the cake into the baking tin and bake it for 10 min only, in temperature 100oC.
Mix an egg with sugar, sour cream, honey and salt. Add chopped walnuts and chocolate flakes. Now use the rolling pin again to make the rest of the cake (1/3) flat and cut it into the stripes. Pour the filling on the baked cake, in baking tin. Put the stripes on it – make the pattern of a chess board. Put the baking tin into the cooker and bake it for 30-40 min. in temperature of 180oC.
Hello, everyone!
I have not added posts for a long time. Even obligatory tasks were delayed, I know. But now when spring has already come I made my 'New Spring resolution': be more conscientious! I hope the fresh energy of a new season will help me and I will manage:)
I have decided to add some photos - as you know I am interested in taking pictures. They were taken during Easter last year, so it was about the same time in spring as it is now. You can see many buds of the apricot-tree, lovely yellow pansies in a flowerpot and tiny cornflower blue spring flowers. All those 'spring miracles' grew in my grandparents' garden.
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles (15 May 1919 - 6 September 2005) was born in the fishing village of Pointe Michel in Dominica. She attended the Convent School, the island's only girls' secondary school, and became interested in law while working at the colonial magistrate's court. She attended university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada before moving to the United Kingdom to attend the London School of Econimics. She returned to Dominica, where she became the island's first female lawyer, establishing a practice specialising in property law.
Charles began campaigning in politics during the 1960s against restrictions on press freedom. She helped to found the Dominica Freedom Party, and was its leader from the early 1970s until 1995. She was elected to the House of Assembly in 1970 and became Opposition Leader in 1975. She continued serving after Dominica gained full independence from British rule in 1978.
Charles and her party were considered conservative by Caribbean standards. However, many of her policies appeared centrist or even leftist by American standards; for instance she did support some social welfare programmes. Other issues that were important to her were anti-corruption measures and individual freedom. For her uncompromising stance on this and other issues, she became known as the "Iron Lady of the Caribbean" (after the original "Iron Lady", Magaet Thatcher).
Probably the best childhood memories are connected with holidays. Why is that? Maybe because it is leisure time full of fun that evokes nice feelings and experience we remember the best. I think about such feelings when I think of seaside - I go there almost every year and I take a lot of pictures there. Sitting on the beach, looking at the sunset - lovely. Here is one of the photos taken on the beach when I was a 9-year-old child.
