Matcha and lemon marble cake

Hello dears,

Some of you knows that I love matcha. I love it as tea, as flavor on smoothie, on cookies and cakes etc. I wanted to make marble cake with a twist so I decided to add a hint of matcha and lemon on it.

Matcha and lemon marble cake:

Ingredients 

 

200g butter

2dl sugar

3dl flours

½ dl potato flour

2 tsp baking flour

2tsp vanilla sugar

2 tbsp matcha

3 tbsp lemon juice

1. Preheat oven to 170C
2. Butter the loaf ban using a slice of butter.
3. Mix the butter and sugar. Add the eggs one by one. Mix well.
4. Mix the flours. Fold the dry ingredients in 2-3 folds. Mix well.
5. Add the vanilla sugar and mix well.
6. Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Put lemon juice and zest into one bowl and matcha powder into the other. Gently mix together with a rubber spatula.
7. Pour the 2 batter mixtures a little at a time into the buttered loaf pan and run a spoon or spatula through it until you get a marbled effect. Careful not to over mix as the cake will just come out brown rather than marbled.
8.Bake the cake for roughly 45 minutes, sticking a skewer or knife into the centre and if it comes out clean, the cake is ready.
9. Let the cake cool before serving.

 

The day of culture

Hello dears,

Yesterday I had museum marathon. I visited 5 museums. I finally bought museum card to myself. It allows me to visit in 240 museums in Finland for free, just showing the museum card. Pretty awesome! It's perfect for someone who loves to visit in the museums. Like I do. What a cultural journey I will have this year. Anyhow. The museum marathon. I started my marathon from National museum of Finland where was "The Renaissance. Now!" exhibition. On exxhibition was  oil paintings By Italian Renaissance artists. I liked the exhibition. Even some paintings were slightly said disturbing.

Like this one. Very disturbing.

The next museum was HAM, Helsinki art museum. There was exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, In infinity. I liked it a lot. There was lots of dots, balls and more dots. Lovely!

Balls everywhere!

The third museum I visited was Sinebrychoff Art Museum. I wanted to see their current exhibition, Still Life- The World on Display. Most of the paintings were still life paintings from Netherlands.

This one was my favorite painting.

After still life paintings I went to see exhibition about history of Finnish art in Ateneum. There's a few paitings of Hugo Simberg. He's one of my favorite Finnish painters. I like his paintings about death. His painting, on the river of life is one of my favorite paintings.

On the river of life.

The last museum I visited was Kiasma. It was my first time to visit there. Mostly coz I never been fan of modern art. I must say, I did liked the exhibition of Mona Hatoum.



Red globe.

After my museum marathon I met a friend and we went to see some light art in LUX Helsinki. There was many beautiful works. I think I might go there again today or tomorrow coz I didn't see all the works yesterday.

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Till next time! Ciao!

Happy New Year 2017

Hello dears,

I want to wish all of my blog readers a very happy new year. I wish all of you a great 2017, filled with lots of good health, success, love and happiness. So once again: hyvää uutta vuotta, Frohes neues Jahr, 明けましておめでとう! and Happy New Year!

Happy New Year dears!

My a new tattoo

Hello dears,

Yesterday I spend about 3 hours at the tattoo studio. I got a new tattoo on my right arm. I looooove it! I have always liked the old school tattoos. Especially old school swallow tattoos. Most of my tattoos are related to Japan somehow. So is my new tattoo.

Pretty, isn't?

Now I love to take a new tattoo. I have a couple ideas. I like to have old school swallow tattoo on my left arm too but with the text, envelope or pentals of cherry blossoms. If I decide to take it with the text I want the text to be "mia san mia" coz I'm fan of FC Bayern München. If I decide not to take it with the text I like to take the text anyway. I have so many ideas and so little money :S

Till next time! Ciao!

Good music makes you happier

Hello dears,

Yesterday I went to Tavastia club with my friend to see a concert a Finnish metal band called as Stam1na. Stam1na is one of my favorite bands so it was pleasure to see them on stage again.

Our evening started in a pub called as Rotterdam. We had drinks there and then we headed to the Tavastia. Tavastia was sold out so it was full of people. One a huge minus of these club gigs  is the fact there's always someone taller standing front of you so you aren't able to see much. Anyhow, I did enjoyed a lot the gig. It was suprising to see that people sang a lot and some even danced. Dancing on a metal gig? Well, I suppose all you need is to catch the rhythm. 

Stam1na

Stam1na

Antti "Hyrde" Hyyrynen

I had lots of fun. I sang, danced, jumped and simple were happy to be there listening some absolutely fabulous metal music. I don't go much gigs anymore but when I do, I go to see the bands which I really like. Speaking of it, Stam1na will have gig in Helsinki next year. They'll play with another Finnish band, Eläkeläiset. Since I like both bands I love to go that concert too. So I have to buy a tickets to that gig soonish.

Till next time! :)

Happy Independence Day Finland

Hello dears,

Today Finland is celebrating 99th Independence Day. To celebrate it I got two candles, blue and white ( the colors of Finnish flag) and also bunch of flowers, also colors of Finnish flag.
As food I made sauteed reindeer, in Finnish "poronkäristys". It's traditional Finnish food from Lapland. I have never made it at home and I was suprised to notice that it's actually quite easy to make :) I definitely gonna make it again.

Sauteed reindeer.

There's couple things that Finns are obsessed to do on Independence Day.

• to watch Tuntematon sotilas, "The Unknown Soldier", a movie based on a novel By Väinö Linna.  The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers. Here's a clip of it, in Finnish: 

 
 

• and watch Linnan juhlat on the evening, also known as Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto. In English, Presidential Independence Day reception. It's held in Presidential Palace and it is broadcast on national television and has been a perennial favourite of the viewing public.

Personally I have never watched "The Unknown Soldier", not a fan of war movies. But this year, I gonna watch it. Since every year I hear comments like "you aren't a true Finn if you haven't seen the movie." A newsflash, I haven't read the book either.
 What comes to the Presidential Independence Day reception, never understood what is so great about watching people getting a good meal while you're eating potato chips front of your TV. But I guess I might watch the reception this year, so I know what people are talking about at work tomorrow.

Happy Independence Day Finland!

Till next time!

Ugly Christmas sweater party

Hello dears,

Yesterday I hosted Ugly Christmas sweater party. I like the idea of Ugly Christmas sweater party. It's about being silly and having fun. We had lots of fun and it was great that my friends had saw a little trouble with their sweaters. <3

Merry people wearing ugly xmas sweaters.

As you can see the idea was to make really tacky Christmas sweaters. My personal favorite was the white sweater. I was speechless when I saw her sweater. Simply brilliant! It's great that somebody else has understood the idea of ugly Christmas sweater as I have; more is more.

My ugly Christmas sweater; have a holly jolly xmas!



What do you think about my sweater? Ugly, isn't?

 

Till next time!