Sula vineyard in Gangedoddi village, Nandi hills.

A couple of days ago we where lucky to get invited to visit the Sula vineyard up in Nandi hills. I have tried Sula wine during our last stay in India and I wasn’t really impressed but they sure have improved. I ended up buying a couple of bottles of their BRUT.

KADU is their new line of wines and money from the sales go towards protecting the tigers around.
We got the full tour …..here outside a wine stomping room. Only used for getting pictures.
The KADU house was coming up. I guess it’s going to be an informative house about the tigers and what’s being done to help them survive us humans.
Among the vine. It’s not season to harvest the grapes as you can see. That’s being done in dec-jan.
Inside the fermentation is on it’s way.
We got to try 3 different KADU wines.
Love how this was done with corks and bottles<:
How to check the wine !

I wouldn’t mind going back when the grapes are being harvested. Maybe I know someone who would like to come with me ?

To the vineyard we are not travelling by rickshaw though. Just so you know.

Rajasthani family in Karnataka

Imagine my surprise when I noticed a Rajasthani family living along side one of the roads here in Bangalore. They sure are a really a long way from home.

They make these faces that most people have hanging on the outside of their house to keep bad spirits out. Of course we also have one that was given to us by the former tenant.

They are a long way from home just like I am.

Are you still hanging on ? Find the rickshaw ride a little bumpy? It actually was since it was quite a long ride. I will try to make it smoother next time but you never know on these roads.

A Parvati temple in the village of Huskur.

This temple is quite close to school so while my other half, that I’m dependent upon while here in India, was working I and my driver Ganga payed a visit.

The temples here in the south are so colorful and so filled with all these details.

Parvati is the wife of the hindu god Shiva. She is the hindu goddess of fertility, love, beauty, marriage, children and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.

Nandi is the gate- guardian deity of Kailasa, the abode of Lord Shiva.
Naga , sanskrit for serpent, a mythical semidivine being, half human and half cobre. They are strong handsome species that can assume either wholly human or wholly serpent form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans.

This is just one of many thousands of temples around. Some tiny and some are really huge. I will show you more when I visit.

See you soon <:

Street life from the village of Varthur, Bangalore, Karnataka.

The drive to school goes through the small village of Varthur and it’s always fun with a narrow road which means you see a lot. By the way, by small village I mean small Indian village. Where I come from it would be a big city of 46.000 people.

The woman is selling water jars for a living.
So this is palm fruits from where you get palm oil.
Flowers to make malas. The flower necklaces for the puja-the praying ceremony or to actually put in your hair !
Mala vendor with her beautiful flower necklaces.
The other day they where handing out buttermilk to everyone due to something.

Hope you enjoyed the little ride with me in my rickshaw and that you enjoyed the views from it. The smells I can’t help you with so I guess you have to imagine what it smells like until you yourself travels here to get the whole experience including the honking of the horns which is a big part of traffic in India.

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My journey into the soul of India.

I have just begun a new journey into the soul of India.This time based out of Bangalore, Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka in the southern parts of India. Totally different from the life in Gurgaon, NCR area Delhi.

I sure hope you feel like you want to hop on my auto rickshaw and ride along with me.

We live in an area filled with palm trees and flowers. Nice and green. Tropical, exotic and so beautiful.

Hope you like the start of my journey as much as I do. Please feel free to ride along.

See you later.

PS. Don’t know how much later though because I don’t have the internet up and running in my house yet !!!!

New exhibition coming up in Gothenburg.

Welcome to Gothenburg and Arken Hotel & Art Garden Spa, where some of my my pictures will be on display together with Marie-Louise Landéns art.

 

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Välkomna, Welcome !

Red velvet bundt cake/ Red velvet sockerkaka.

Red velvet cake

What to do when you can’t do what you normally do? You bake something yummy but not necessarily for eating but for pictures! but I can tell you that they turned out so moist and yummy so we’ve eaten them all. Them meaning I used the children’s small baking pan so it actually turned into 10 small red velvet bundt cakes.

Vad göra när man nästan inte får göra någonting av det man brukar göra? Jo givetvis sysselsätter man sig med att baka någonting smaskigt inte för att i första hand äta utan för att fotografera ! men de blev så smaskiga så vi har ätit upp dem allihopa. Jag valde att använda barnens lilla sockerkaksform så det blev 10 stycken små smaskiga red velvet kakor.

 

Red velvet cake, 10-12 bitar, (form 2,4 l)

2 1/2 dl mjölk samt 1 tsk vitvinsvinäger
1 tsk bikarbonat samt 1 tsk vitvinsvänger
3 ägg
3 1/2 dl socker
3 dl rapsolja
60 gram röd karamellfärg ( går bra med mindre)
6 1/4 dl mjöl
1 1/2 msk kakao
2 tsk vaniljsocker
1 krm salt

smält smör till formen

Gör så här: Sätt ugnen på 180 grader. Blanda mjölk med 1 tsk vinäger i en skål. Låt den stå och dra. Blanda bikarbonat och 1 tsk vinäger i en annan liten skål. Det kommer bli bubbligt men det är meningen.

Börja med att vispa äggen fluffiga. Fortsätt vispa och tillsätt socker först och efter 1 minut, i med rapsoljan. Häll i den röda färgen och vispa tills färgen är jämnt fördelad. Blanda alla torra ingredienser för sig och vänd ner i äggsmeten. Vispa några varv och tillsätt mjölk och bikarbonat. Vispa till en klumpfri smet.

Smörj formen med smält smör. Häll i smeten upp till 3/4 av formen. Grädda i nedre delen av ugnen i ca 45 minuter. Kakan blir först hög men sjunker när den svalnar. Låt den svalna helt i formen innan du tar ut den.

RECIPE IN ENGLISH:

Red velvet cake, 10-12 pieces, (pan 2,4 liters)

250 ml milk and 1 tsp white vinegar
1 tsp bicarbonate and 1 tsp white vinegar
3 eggs
300 gr sugar
300 ml vegetable oil
60 gr red food color (or less)
370 gr flour
10 gr cocoa
2 tsp vanilla
1 pinch of salt

melted butter for the pan

Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Oil a cake pan with butter. In a large bowl mix flour, cacao, vanilla powder and salt. In another small bowl, mix milk and vinegar.

Beat the eggs. Add the suger and keep whisking. After a minute pour in the oil. Whisk until you have a fluffy batter. Mix vinegar and baking soda and add to the batter. Whisk and pour in the food color.  Stir in the flour mixture into the egg mixture. Add milk and bicarbonate. Beat until smooth.

Pour the batter up to 3/4 of the pan. Bake in the lower part of the oven, about 45 minutes. Let the cake cool completely in the pan before removing it.

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DIY Wild strawberry macarones/ DIY Smultron macroner <:

dramatic wild strawberries (kopia 2)

So yesterday I saw all these wonderful wild strawberries in my garden and instantly I just felt the need to make macarones.

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For my daughters wedding in 2012 I think I made 600-700 of these yummy treats. My colleagues at work kindly tasted all the different ones and gave me input on which where the yummiest ones. They never ones complained./ Till dotterns bröllop 2012 tror jag att jag gjorde mellan 6-700 av dessa superduper goda små tilltugg. Mina kolleger på jobbet ställde gladeligen upp och smakade på alla olika smaker och hjälpte till att bestämma vilka som var godast. Ingen gnällde över detta extra jobb.<:

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It’s not the easiest ones to make ….but worth it in the end I promise./ De är inte de lättaste att få till ……men så värt det i slutändan. Lite champagne eller Prosecco …Oh my good <:

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Glad Midsommar på Er

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Wild strawberry macarones/ Smultron macroner <:

dramatic wild strawberries (kopia 2)

So yesterday I saw all these wonderful wild strawberries in my garden and instantly I just felt the need to make macarones.

IMG_1358-1

For my daughters wedding in 2012 I think I made 600-700 of these yummy treats. My colleagues at work kindly tasted all the different ones and gave me input on which where the yummiest ones. They never ones complained./ Till dotterns bröllop 2012 tror jag att jag gjorde mellan 6-700 av dessa superduper goda små tilltugg. Mina kolleger på jobbet ställde gladeligen upp och smakade på alla olika smaker och hjälpte till att bestämma vilka som var godast. Ingen gnällde över detta extra jobb.<:

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It’s not the easiest ones to make ….but worth it in the end I promise./ De är inte de lättaste att få till ……men så värt det i slutändan. Lite champagne eller Prosecco …Oh my good <:

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Glad Midsommar på Er

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3 weeks postop my spinal fusion surgery. / 3 veckor efter min ryggoperation.

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It’s 3 weeks postop my spinal fusion surgery and  slowly, slowly I’m getting better day by day. Some days I have been doing to much and instantly my back tells me to slow down or actually cut it out, stop!   / 3 veckor har gått sen min ryggoperation och långsamt så blir det lite bättre för varje dag som går. Jag har haft dagar som jag uppenbarligen gjort för mycket eftersom ryggen genast talar om för mig att ta det lugnt eller egentligen ,Lägg av!

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Thursday I got to take out the surgical clips …14 of them ! Kind of felt like I had a date with a wasp but so nice that they are gone./ I torsdags fick jag ta ut agrafferna….14 st! Kändes lite som en date med en geting men sååå  skönt att de är borta.

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3 times a day I do a couple of “easy” exercises that my the physiotherapist recommended me to do. Can’t wait until I meet her in a week and get to do some more. That’s really the start of my rehabilitation. / 3 ggr om dagen gör jag några “lätta” övningar som min sjukgymnast rekommenderade. Om en dryg vecka ska jag träffa henne igen och det är starten på min rehabilitering och det ska bli underbart att komma igång med lite mer träning.

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