Birthday!

1. We began my birthday with a delicious breakfast:

• waffles with sourdough starter - Lievito Madre. They were more crispy than usual.
• fresh orange juice.
• baked brie and Lapland cheese
• fruit salad
• different kinds of homemade jam that we made during the summer season :)
• and tea from our other Advent calendar - Advent tea calender by English Tea Shop. It was Gingerbread treat: black tea, cinnamon, ginger, apple, cardamom - all ingredients are organic. 

2.Then there was a photo shoot :) We do it always on a special occasion like birthday or Christmas...

Somehow it ended with a degustation of my birthday cake - Medovik. It was never our favorite. I even thought that I had never tasted it before... But I did and  when I tasted it this time I recalled that I didn't like it at all then. It was always too sweet, too mush.

I changed its cream: made Pâtisserie Traditionnelle cream with a juniper berry instead of vanilla, and with lingonberry filling. It was very original :) Not too sweet, with mild pine scent, lingonberry bitterness and a slightly sour taste... Good!

29!

Not sure, if I made any wish...

3. And the 1 December prescription from our Advent calendar was "Make Christmas decorations" :)

We did it whole evening... Very unusual evening :) But happy one :)

Best wishes,

Katia