Chicken pie

Hey there!

I have never liked eating salty pies (if we don't count feta pies), but I once ate this chicken pie that was really good so I had to try and  make my own version of it.
I recommend you buy a ready-made base for it, but if you can't find one I basically used the same base I used for the apple pie I made a while ago but with less sugar.

Here is what you are going to need:

for the base

• 2 dl flour
• 80 gr margarine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• ½ dl cold water

for the filling

• 300 gr chicken
• 150 gr grated cheese
• 3 peppers ( I used one green, one red and one yellow)
• 200 gr cream cheese
• salt and pepper

 Click here to see how to make the base
For the filling fry the chicken and season with salt and pepper. Cut the peppers in small pieces. Mix all the rest of the ingredients together and apply the mixture on the base. Leave it in the oven for 30 minutes on 200 degrees. Voilà!

 

Karoliina

 

Just another busy day

Hey there!

Today was the big day! I had my theory test and I passed it, that's right! I PASSED! You can't imagine how relieved I was to see on the screen "your test has been admitted". Next week I have the driving test, but I am not too nervous about it.

Then I spent most of my day at the center and ran some errands. My usual boringliferoutine....blaaaah. I had to go to the library again and get something "new" to cheer me up. I never have any intentions of getting anything from there but as always I couldn't resist. This is what I ended up taking with me. No wonder why my bag got so heavy at the end of the day...

I always have this thing that I watch a movie and a great song comes along and the next day I never remember the name of the song. That's why I like to borrow music from the library! Also now that my theory test is over I am free to read whatever I like (yey!). I have no idea why I got the recipe book...I might make muffins next week, but that's a big maybe! The more I bake the bigger I get, hups! Then you wake up in ten years and you wonder where did all this weight come from -_-

But the day is not over yet, I have lot's of cleaning to do wohoo! How I love these days...not! Complaining about it won't help so I really have to do this like now or maybe it could wait five minutes...okay I'm going!

Karoliina

Helsinki!

Hei!

The weekend was so much fun and I must say that I was a bit sad to come back. Helsinki is a lot different than Kotka. There are so many places to go and different things to do. Even the people  there seem to be different! I wish I could move to Helsinki for one year and see how it's like living in a larger city in Finland. Who knows...maybe that will happen some day :)

I am glad I saw my brother and my sister after a long time. At times I wish I could have my family in one city. Now that my parents live in Greece, my sister in Helsinki and my brother in Tampere we are all over the place. It is important to cherish those few times that we are all together I guess.

So to start with the pictures....

   We went to this shopping center a bit furhter from the center that had all sorts of fun things. Those cakes looked so yummy!

 Beautiful garden

Random pictures from Helsinki

Then I met my friend Jura and for the first time in my life I had frozen yogurt with pineapple, strawberries and white chocolate...me likes!

 After sitting and talking Jura noticed this cloud. It lookes like a mouth where steams comes out of it :P

Then we went for some shopping with Nadia! I had no intentions of buying anything but then I got so excited that they had shoes my size! It is so hard to find shoes number 35!

 

  This weekend definitely cheered me up, it couldn't have been any better! :) Now I am back to work but I have only a few weeks left so that's not too bad!

Have a nice week! Life is good :)

 

Karoliina

Helsinki here I come!

Hey there!

I have been extremely tired for the past few days which is why I haven't been very creative with my posts. I have my theory test for my driving license next week and I am so nervouuuus. I just want to get it done and focus on the next step which is the driving test. I have been doing these practise tests and so far I have passed only one test...this is not good! D:

The good news are that I am going to Helsinki for the weekend to visit my sister and some friends. It is my first weekend in a long time that I have the days off from work and I am in desperate need of some vacation. I have been working so much that having two days off in a row feels like vacation to me!

I will tell you more about my little trip when I am back! Have a great weekend! :D

Karoliina

Apple jam

Hello!

It is apple season and my friend brought me a week ago about two or three kilos of apples! So for the first time in my life I decided to make apple jam! I must say that it turned out pretty good and I couldn't be more satisfied with the result :)
So here is how I made it:

• 1 kg apples
• 500 gr jam sugar
• 1 lemon (juice and grated lemon peel)
• 2 spoons cinnamon
• 1½ dl water

Peel the apples and cut them in small pieces. Add  ½ dl of water and the apple pieces in a pot and boil them for about 5 minutes. Add the jam sugar, the lemon juice, the grated lemon peel, the cinnamon and the rest of the water and boil them for another 10 minutes. Heat the jars and pour the jam. Secure them very well with a cap.
This is the result! Not bad :)

You don't need to add the cinnamon if you don't want to. You can use normal sugar, but you might have to add more than just 500 gr. Because it was my first time to make this I didn't make a huge amount (in case it would be a total disaster). With this recipe I got three full jars. You can double the ingredients if you want more.

Have you ever made jam? 
 

Karoliina

Hislop mania

Hey there!

I haven't written a post about books for a while now. Mainly because I haven't read many books this summer! Lately I have been crazy about Victoria Hislop's novels. I have read three so far and all of them were really good in my opinion. Here are two of them The Return and The Thread (click here for The Island).

The Return                                                                                         It starts with the story of Sonia Cameron who goes to Granada with her friend for dance lessons. Through her short visit there one day she starts a conversation with the owner of a small cafe. When she returns to England after her trip she decides to go back to visit the owner of the cafe and learn a bit more about the history of Granada. The owner takes her back 70 years ago when the Civil War of Spain started and Franco with his army shattered the country's peace. As it turns out there are many things that Sonia didn't know and she is close on finding the truth about her mother's past.

 

The  Thread                                                                  The story takes place in Thessaloniki, Greece where Dimitris Komninos was born in 1917. Five years later the author takes us to the story of young Katerina who is forced to escape from Smyrna in Asia Minor with her mom after the Turkish army destroys the place they used to call home. After losing her mother in the chaos Katerina is sent to Thessaloniki with Eugenia who decides to take care of her and treat her like her own daughter. After her arrival in Thessaloniki Katerina and Dimitris get to experience many ups and downs but nothing can make them leave from Thessaloniki, a place they both love very much. I finished reading this a few days ago and I must say that the first 50 pages were quite boring but the rest 550 pages are full of action so don't give up reading! :)

 

I have no idea why Victoria Hislop decided to give these short titles to her books but who cares! I totally recommend you read her novels :)

 

(hups...somebody forgot to iron the sheet hehe )

Karoliina

Are you serious? Yes I'm serious!

Hey there!

These past few days have been a bit crazy! I was so excited that at work there was this Greek couple that came to my cash desk today. It is always fun to see people's expressions when I talk to them in Greek, because I don't look Greek. They were like..."are you serious?" and I was like... "Yes I am serious!". I couldn't talk with them for too long but after a short chat we found out that we were from the same city! Like we say in Greece, τυχαίο; δε νομίζω! (= coincidence? I don't think so! )

I am so glad that these days have been busy! Tomorrow I am going to paint some walls and I was thinking to make some apple jam as well. I have never made jam in my life so why not give it a try? Also I have to study for my driving license...pffff! I really hope I get it! By the end of this month I want this to be over! :) I have been studying really hard in my opinion hihi :)

Last thing before I end this post! I have to share this video of the Guinnes record that happened in my hometown in Volos. When the crisis hits in Greece we DANCE! :D

Karoliina