Me and H and her friend C are off to Skåne tomorrow morning - waaaaay down to the south of Sweden. No nothing, just us. And apparently two days of rain, and two days of no-rain. Ah well, we really had way too much nice weather here, haha!

Anyway, just us, and a couple of laptops and other electronic gadgets =) Plus I bring the book that I never manage to finish (Middlesex!), plus all the papers I bought last week to catch up on some reading too.

Cause I'm a real wild child

Also known as Lucia buns, or Saffron Buns that they prepare for Saint Lucia's day - she is the saint for Light (luce in Italian means light, so it should come from Latin) - on 13 December, and when families get together on advent Sundays they usually consume this.

Here's the recipe:

1. Melt butter or margarine in a pan and add the milk and the saffron.
2. Warm the mixture to 37 oC (100 oF).
3. Use a thermometer; the correct temperature is important!
4. Pour the mixture over the finely divided yeast; then add the remaining ingredients (except for the egg and the raisins), which should have a temperature of 21-23 oC (72-75 oF).
5. Mix into a smooth dough.
6. Cover the dough with a piece of cloth and let it rise for 30 minutes.
7. Knead the dough, divide it into 25-30 pieces and form each piece into a round bun.
8. Let the buns rest for a few minutes, covered by a piece of cloth.
9. Form each bun into a string, 15-20 cm long, then arrange the string in a suitable shape, e.g. an S or double S. Regardless of the shape, the ends of the string should meet.
10. Press a few raisins into the dough.
11. Cover the"Lucia cats" with a piece of cloth and let them rise for 40 minutes.
12. Whip the egg together with a few grains of salt, and paint the"Lucia cats" with the mixture.
13. Bake them for 5-10 minutes in the oven at 250 oC (475 oF) until golden brownish yellow.

"Nobeldagen, 10 december, den dag då nobelprisen utdelas. Alfred Nobel avled denna dag 1896 i San Remo, Italien. Nobeldagen är allmän flaggdag i Sverige."

It's funny to write it down, but just down the street where I live, in the City Hall, people are currently having the Nobel Dinner. If you turn on TV4 (Swedish!) then you see them eating and there are anchors talking about a lot of stuff that I don't understand right now. But in a year I will!

So, as far as I understood, Nobeldagen (Nobel-day), 10 December, is the day when they give out the Nobel Prizes. This is a flag day in Sweden, and Alfred Nobel passed away on this day in 1896 in San Remo.

Ohh, and the royal family is there... the photo above is take from the inner court of Stadshagen. Now they are talking about the diamonds on the crown of crown Princess Victoria =)))) And when I passed by the building yesterday and the day before while jogging the HDTV crew was already there, and with Lisa we also saw some of the chefs =)))

Seriously, it's cool that the building I now live in was designed by the same architect as the City Hall =DD

UPDATE

Es hihtetlen, mert most oroszlanok balettoznak a nagy terem lepcsojen! De ugy latom megerkezett Pippi Longstockings is....! huuuuuu.....