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Hi!
Today it is the popular Pancake day! It simply means you eat pancakes for the dinner. Here at cosners they ate there pancakes with orange sauce, simular to the "crepe suzette".

Pancake day we celebrate in Sweden to, but in Sweden it is called "fettisdagen" and me and Paula thought we could make "semlor". It turned out to be an adeventure because we were running around in Abingdon trying to find fresh yeast! It was impossible! So we used try yeast instead and it turned out really good. Our co workers appreciated the semlor, at first they thought it was strange to put cardamom in the dough but after one bite they loved "semlorna".

Hope you had a nice day with youre friends and family! All the best!

// Tonja


 

The dough with tips from Paulas mom



Brushed with eggs to make them golden and shiny!



Readyyyyyy!!! mmmm...

Hi!
It's been a time since our last blog update, sorry for that! It have not been happening alot. Right now it's pretty quiet around here, there is not alot of guests so the service have been very slow...
Tonja is out exercising  (good girl!) right now so I'm just writing a short update for now!
Next week it's what we in Sweden call "fettisdagen" and me and Tonja are going to bake "semlor", they celebrate "fettisdagen" here in England, but not in the same way, they call it shrove Tuseday or pancake day because they eat pancakes for dinner on this day. We will upload some photos on the result next week!

I will write another update with Tonja tomorrow about our visit to one of Jamie Olivers restaurants, Jamies Italian!  but until then, take care and stay tuned!

/ Paula or Paoula ;P

HELLO! were should we start... 28th of january there was Burns supper here at The cosners house! Burns supper is a scottish tradition and the main objective of a Burns Supper is to celebrate the memory of Robert Burns(a young scottish poet) and your Scottish heritage. if you like to read more about this you can read on this page: http://www.worldburnsclub.com/supper/burns_supper_1.htm

Our part in this night was to make food, we did the cock-a-leekie soup which is a soup made of stock, onions and chicken. For the main course, TADADADADAAAM: HAGGIS!!! I (Paula) Did not like haggis at all but Tonja loved it! Then what is haggis? Haggis is a kind of savoury pudding containing sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach and simmered for approximately three hours.  (source:wikipedia)





The beautiful chefs! ;)





Here it is, the famous haggis! there is a tradition to this to, our chef (Zoran) had to bring it out while bag pipes were playing and at the end, he had to listen to a speech and then take a shot of wihskey!




DESSERTS!!!! It is a chocolate mousse with a fresh fruit salad.


The Burns supper night was a funny experince! Well thats all for now, Stay tuned!

/ Paula & Tonja