#SEMLOR

[clatterbane]

Very late brunch of champions here today: Mr. C stopped by and picked up a couple of seasonal GF semlor from the same bakery again. (Systrar & Bröder here in town.) One each, and he just decided to get them both the same to simplify things since there were plenty of GF ones out today.

I did see another place pretty highly recommended and wanted to try theirs too, but they're wanting advance notice a day or two in advance of pickup. Not today, then!

The cream came out a little flattened on on one side, but these fared surprisingly well considering that the bakery just set them straight down inside that paper sack. 😒 Maybe they were out of boxes or something, I don't know. No bakery paper under them or anything, even--just straight into the bag.

The Bag of Shame. Didn't hurt the taste, at least!

I decided to just start out by chopping that thing in half, because those are NOT small sweet rolls.

At least the size of a large grapefruit. They are definitely not skinching on the amount of semla you're getting.

It always looks like an awful lot of bread in proportion to the cream, and especially the layer of almond paste lurking under it. But, once again the proportions balanced out better than I would have thought by looking. Nice note of cardamom in the roll, which is not too sweet. Set off pretty nicely by the much sweeter almond and whipped cream.

My blood sugar may or may not thank me, but I probably will finish off the rest of that shortly. May be a good thing I just got another insulin refill the other day! 😊

[askwhatsforlunch]

Shrove Tuesday Feast

Whether you call it Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Fettisdagen, today is a day to indulge in a feast of treats before Lent (whether or not you fast!) Here are a few of my favourite crêpe, pancake, doughnut and other lovely thing recipes! Have a good one!

Pancakes

Chocolate Chip Banana Pancakes

Buckwheat Pancakes

Nettle and Spinach Pancakes

Woodfire Skillet Pancake

Nettle and Herb Pancakes

Wholemeal Blueberry Pancakes

Boxty (Irish Potato Pancakes)

Chocolate Pancakes with Strawberries

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

Crêpes

Vanilla Cherry Crêpes

Honey and Walnut Crêpes 

Flambéed Lemon Crêpe

Chocolate and Raspberry Crêpe

Grande-Terre Crêpes

Maple Caramelized-Apple Crepes

Crêpes Suzette

Savoury Crêpes

Spinach and Muenster Galette

Breakfast Crepe

Spinach and Smoked Salmon Crepes with Horseradish Cream

Scallop and Carrot-Stuffed Buckwheat Crepes

Doughnuts

Apple Cider Doughnuts 

Nutella Doughnut Holes 

Cinnamon Doughnuts with Chocolate Glaze

Chocolate-Glazed Doughnuts 

Apple Jelly Doughnuts 

Semlor

Fettisdagens Semlor

[aggiebeaphoto]

Strawberry Semla

[petterwass]

With languages having so many strange rules and nonsensical grammar, it is nice when you find a area in which a language has decided to be eminently logical and clear.

In Swedish, you grandparents are your farfar, farmor, morfar, and mormor. Literally fatherfather, fathermother, motherfather, and mothermother.

While aunts and uncles are farbror, faster, morbror, and moster. Fatherbrother, father(sis)ter, motherbrother, and mother(sis)ter.

This makes it very easy even for a small child to know exactly where in the lineage a relative falls.

This is very important to know how many semlor and kanelbullar must be paid in blood price when one is inevitably slain in the latte-induced dynastic blood feuds that plague modern Sweden.

[pernillemagda]

I have to admit the Swedish looks better even though i like the classic Danish one

[desdasiwrites]

It's fettisdagen (Shrove Tuesday) and I'll tell you all about it before I go out and treat myself to a tasty semla.

So what is a semla? It's a sweet roll eaten in northern Europe. For a while it was just a plain bun served in a bowl of warm milk. Perhaps not that appetizing... People ate the semla and other food to prepare for Lent, a fasting period of 40 days before Easter.

Swedes love their semlor (plural of semla) and will eat about 6 million today alone! It's tradition to eat them on Shrove Tuesday, which is today, but the treat will be sold or baked at home for a few weeks and when it's over we will have eaten about 40 million semlor.

Today's traditional semla is a cardamom-flavoured bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream. But there are a lot of versions. Vanilla or chocolate filling, cinnamon bun-semla, semmelwrap etc.

Here's a few of the more creative ones:

May I suggest a donut semla? Or would you prefer a licorice one?

Princess semlor, based on the traditional swedish cake

And who can forget the Nachosemla?

Maybe you'd like a drink inspired by the semla and there are many options. Semla latte, semmel milkshake and even semmel shots. Hmm.. I think it's time for fika.

[ej-photoblog]

this is a semla, a bun with vanilla cream and whipped cream.

a typical swedish coffee bread that you eat just after christmas

[myrthing]

Went thrifting today, came home with this lovely ceramic art tile! I'm going to hang it on the balcony once it gets warmer. I'm so happy with it since I have been looking for a while for something that can go on the southern wall. It gets barely any sunlight, so plants are out, and the wall is tragically good quality concrete so I haven't been excited about any idea that requires attaching hooks or wall anchors (I get enough suffering from having to hang art inside my flat).

And as a bonus, the thrift store had homemade gluten free semmel roll cake 💚

[codswallopia]

236 days until submission

I feel as if I've spent the entire week reading vogon poetry (and there's more to come).

[lynns-writeblr-multi]

★ Introduction Post ★

Hello, I'm Faelynn or just Lynn for short. This is my writing sideblog for my writing project that has gotten a little out of hand; I will be posting about my worlds, my world building, and the stories of those in these worlds.

I would describe my works as Fantasy Solarpunk, with interesting magic systems and lovable characters. I'm aiming to publish for a 12+ audience so about 30,000 to 35,000 words per book, but I hope that anyone at any age can enjoy my works.

Feel free to ask questions! I love to answer them!

Below the keep reading is the world's I have currently, and a short blurb about them, along with some of the tropes.

★Sigor★

The start of this crazy multiverse is Sigor! Home to Rosemary and her friends, it is my most chaotic world being so chaotic that there is actually chaos children. Luckily Rosemary has the kind hearted dragon Robin and her best friend Mila to help her adjust after escaping a cruel facility that wanted to take what made Rosemary so special away from her.

Tropes;

★found family.

★fish out of water.

Aesthetic: Solarpunk

★Semlor★

A world much like earth, but with the same magic system to Sigor. Join Rune as he goes on a quest to discover why his new orphanage is so strange and what the headmistress has to do with it.

Tropes;

★secret world.

★found family.

★fish out of water.

Aesthetic: late 20th century

★Penore★

Penore is a world of Harpies, Centaurs, Brownies, etc, who lost the secret to their magic to invaders. Lavender finds herself in this strange world well trying to find her mother, she must journey with Apple, Berry and Hope, if she ever hopes to get home and find her mother.

Tropes;

★found family.

★fish out of water.

★the heros quest(?)

Aesthetic: 20th century/Solarpunk.

★Aevery★

Aevery is still in the early stages of development, it is a world about learning ai, the relationship the ais have with each other, their relationship with their creator, and individuality.

Tropes;

★ghost in the machine.

Aesthetic: unknown.

[somewhatdelicious]

Semlor - Cream buns

I used the dough cycle on the breadmaker I added:

25 gr fresh yeast 2.5 dl milk 2.5 dl boiling water

200 gr butter, melted 12 dl gluten free mix for bread or buns 3 tbp psyllium husk 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp cardamom 1.5 dl sugar 4 eggs

Portion the dough into molds using wet hands, I use silicone, if not make sure you prepare them with oil

Bake buns at 250C for about 10 minutes Bake until golden and cooked I used the same dough for burger buns, but without cardamon, 1 dl sugar and sesame seads

[medium-cat]

first attempt at swedish...anything actually! semlor!! not sure how i made it this far without them bc they're heavenly like fr

[ihni]

🎉💛HAPPY BIRTHDAY IHNI 💛🎉

I hope you're having a wonderful day, we love you ! Take care and enjoy 🫂

A day later, but I'm finally eating something ... well, something resembling cake, at least! (Behold, the SEMLA)

(I couldn't fit all 40 candles on there! XD)

[spiket]

Full fart i köket idag på semmeldagen

[fixionaria]

Semlor Semla These Swedish cardamom buns are typically served on Fat Tuesday and are filled with whipped cream and marzipan. They are happily consumed whenever they can be found today. We adore that they are just the right size and not overly sweet.

[pernillemagda]

Swedes enjoying their Semlor

I actually had one myself today with whipped cream and nougat 🤤

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