Unwrapping the pork rind bread after cooling from the oven.
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Pork rind bread with 3 ingredients: ground pork rinds, egg whites and Herbes de Provence. A pinch of salt to taste.
Neighbourhood weekend walk, Tromsø, Norway
Daylength today on 24 Jan. is about 3:38 hrs. Here, the sun casts a warm glow over the coastline of Tromsø, in Northern Norway.
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Short compilation of video and photos of the day´s walk.
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Zen ensō 2021
New Year´s 2021 along the Swedish west coast, Sweden.
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In Zen, ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in minimal uninhibited brushstrokes. The circle can be drawn complete, or incomplete. More important, is that it expresses a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The transition from the last hours of 2020 to the first hours of 2021 in my view, is much like ensō in Time. All things in transition, endings into beginnings.
A medley of moments towards Zen ensō, the tail end of a circle, to begin a new. Moments of New Year´s Eve, weaving into the early hours of New Year´s Day, 2021.
New Year´s Eve 2021 and dragonfly vision
New Year´s Eve, along the Swedish west coast, Sweden.
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While humans have a trichromatic vision, seeing colours in combination of red, blue and green because of light-sensitive proteins in our eyes called opsins, the remarkable dragonfly has no fewer than eleven different visual opsins. Some species of dragonflies have 30 visual opsins [1]. Dragonflies and damselflies are colourful, diurnal insects that depend strongly on their keen sense of vision for an array of activities, from catching small prey in the air to forming territories. The compound eyes of dragonflies contain three to five classes of photoreceptors, with distinct spectral sensitivities covering the UV to red spectral range. These photoreceptors combine to produce a mosaic of images for the dragonfly, although how this visual mosaic is integrated in the insect brain remains uncertain.
Beef and duck liver pâté
Beef and duck liver pâté. A late night project, along the Swedish west coast, Sweden.
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A medley of pictures from the late night project, the making of the beef and duck liver pâté.
Saffranssemla
A saffranssemla. Like a semla, only with saffron added, along the Swedish west coast, Sweden.
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I did a post-Christmas grocery store run yesterday in Sweden. To my horror, I saw trays of semlor being brought out from the bakery department. I took a double take on the trays, to see they were not actually large cream puffs, because, why not? But, there were no cream puffs. The trays were filled with luscious marzipan and cream filled semlor, headed to the bakery shelves. A lovely sight, but a little early, I thought.
The Maine Coon
The Maine Coon with large golden eyes, that I call Chewie (Chewbacca), Swedish west coast, Sweden.
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It´s been a quiet Christmas 2020 for this one too. He was born in Norway and at 8 years old, he weighs about 9 kg. He loves water, and loves playing in his water bath. He loves sleeping thereafter on top of an electric blanket, particularly the one found in the master bedroom. He often sleeps on his back, all four paws in the air. Else, on his side, lengthwise, with his long paws draping off the edge of the bed.
Christmas marketing, Saluhallen Gothenburg, Sweden 2020
At Saluhallen Gothenburg for some Christmas marketing during off-peak hours.
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Satellite baubles adorning the ceiling of Saluhallen Gothenburg.
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Satay and peanut sauce, “your lips, my lips … apocalypse…”
A short compilation of the making of satay and peanut sauce. And, the lyrics to the song Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex (2017), “your lips, my lips … apocalypse…”
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Långedrag Värdshus, a Christmas table sitting by the sea
At Långedrag Värdshus for a Christmas table sitting, 2020, Swedish west coast.
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Julbord 2020, SE.
Långedrags Värdshus is a cozy restaurant by the ocean along the Swedish west coast, neatly tucked away in a corner near the Saltholmen ferry terminal. Saltholmen is the connecting point between mainland Gothenburg and the southern archipelago where we live. So while being proximate to Saltholmen, I think I’ve dined at this restaurant maybe three times in the past twenty years of living in Sweden.
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