My Christmas butter breads

Mes sablés de Noël

Christmas baking with my rose-patterned cutters... The big one is for the shape, the small one the inside pattern. They are so colorful and the girls have so much fun painting them (or messing around for my youngest !) with icing sugar ! For sale at birkiland.com

Les sablés de Noël avec mes emporte-pièces en forme de roses... Le grand découpe le contour, le petit sert à dessiner les motifs intérieurs. Ils sont tellement colorés et les filles s´amusent comme des folles à les peindre (ou se barbouiller pour la plus jeune !) avec un glaçage au sucre ! En vente chez birkiland.com

The shops in Iceland - Les boutiques en Islande:
- Kraum, Aðalstræti, Reykjavík
- Kokka, Laugavegi, Reykjavík
- National Museum of Iceland
- Museum of Egilstaðir (west Iceland)
- Museum of Akureyri (north Iceland)

Caviar !

The other day, I was approached by Danish cook and food stylist, Jakob Kristian Sørensen, from Kulinaria. He´s currently working on a book project which focuses on Nordic food and Nordic / Danish designers. It won´t be a cookbook, it won´t be an artbook, it won´t be a design-book either, but the three of them alltogether! He saw my rose-patterend cutters and he would like to work with them in the book, so... today there is caviar for Jakob !

L´autre jour, j´ai été contactée par le chef et styliste culinaire, Jakob Kristian Sørensen, du restaurant Kulinaria. Il travaille en ce moment sur un projet de livre axé sur les plats nordiques et les designers nordiques/danois. Ce ne sera, loin s´en faut, pas un livre de cuisine comme les autres, ni un livre d´art comme les autres, ni un livre de design comme les autres, car les trois en même temps! Alors, pour Jakob, aujourd´hui c´est caviar!

Rice and tuna

Riz au thon

The girls are on vacation and today for lunch, they absolutely insisted on having rice with canned tunafish... :-( I tried to make my own dish a little bit more exciting using my rose-patterned cutters!

Les filles sont en vancances et à midi, elles voulaient absolument manger du riz avec du thon en boîte... :-( J´ai essayé de rendre mon assiette un peu plus attrayante avec mes emporte-pièces en forme de rose!

Roseburger and chocolate cake

Today for lunch, I had roseburger and chocolate cake. I´m not usually that greedy (well, actually, I am) but I had to take more pictures of playful food made with my rose-patterned cutters. The burger sort of shrink after cooking, so the cheese pattern was a little bit too big and I got a little clumsy with the ketchup... But I think the chocolate cake with cream, blueberries and raspberries came out nicely. I didn´t eat it all though, and saved the three pieces for my girls! If you want to have a try, you can buy the cutters for example from the e-shop http://www.birkiland.com/. And you can knit a matching sweater, beret or scarf from my book, Icelandic Knitting using rose-patterns! I am planning in a near future to open an etsy shop, but it all takes time.

Casa D

When I opened my mail this morning, I found Casa D, an International Italian magazine on interior design and contemporary living behaviours. First I didn´t understand why, then I saw my rose-patterned cutters! Thanks Casa D for sending the magasine to me! There were also other great stuff to look at.