Happy
May Day everyone!
Like
last year, we decided to avoid the crowd of the May Day market at downtown and
stayed at home more than willingly.
I
have always loved to eat and my love towards making food burst out in a bright
flame since I quit eating meat. I love that every kind of festivities are great
opportunities to use the whole day making food and gives me a chance to try new
recipes!
I always
try to hold on the traditional aspect about what I will make and eat, which
means that I won’t eat something completely different than what is usually related
to each festivity, but instead I try to create something new around the traditional
foods.
Although
making most of the foods from scratch, using a lot of time to do so, we still
had time to make vegan doughnuts which we rolled in sugar.
I have been eating the whole day, but isn’t that what these days are for? I
hope you had a great and plentiful May Day in every way!
p.s. The quality of the photos are not like they used to be because my camera
decided to break up its co-operation with me after all these years. I should’ve
seen this coming...
So, I got the "5 Weekday Challenge" on
Facebook from my friend. The idea is to photograph your daily life for 5 days and put the
photos on the internet and challenge a friend every day. Since most of my
Facebook messages shows only to my friends, I decided to post my pictures in
here also.
Weekday Challenge 1/5
In a library, choosing a bleach and having a beauty sleep with my cat.
Weekday Challenge 2/5
Afternoon Tea (Cherry-Rooibos), lazy evening’s ready-made-pizza and a movie (Now
You See Me).
Weekday Challenge 3/5
Celebrating May Day, enjoying and vegan doughnuts!
Weekday Challenge 4/5
Feasting and shopping with my friend! What a wonderful day… :)
Weekday Challenge 5/5
A creative day. Drawing, writing and listening to music.
I had so much fun doing this challenge!
Therefore I challenge all of you to do this challenge as well (on your Facebook
page, on your Instagram, in your blog, etc.)...
It’s May Day!
The first of May morning rose early and created
a beautiful view to the lake when the sun started to rise red from behind the
blue clouds.
We slept late, cats included...
I like celebrating May Day, filling the house
with paper confetti streamers. Cats are always more than interested of it.
Traditionally, there is a May Day market at
downtown but we decided to avoid the crowd and stay at home drinking sparkling
wine...
Like in every festivities (Christmas, Easter,
etc.) we use time making food. I made oven baked tofu with sautéed bell
peppers, spicy potato wedges and gratin.
We also made vegan doughnuts which we rolled in
sugar.
We cleared the bottom of our glass table just
for the cats, placing a soft cat mattress on it and it has been a hit since
then.
I have enjoyed my May Day! I hope you did too!
May Day is known as Vappu in Finnish. We was
supposed to go to downtown to a May Day market and to see the carnival-style
street festivities in the centre but in the end we decided to spend a nice day
at home. I know that on May Day, Koskenranta (a park near Tammerkoski river) is
absolutely crowded with teens drinking and puking. People young and old -
particularly students - party outside, goes to a picnic and wear caps or other
decorative clothing in the city centre. I tried to gather up some friends but
it didn't really happen. I was supposed to see my father also but he texted me
that they had got other plans for the evening that day and asked to see me on
the weekend. That was fine - but my plans got really thought over again.
But the day was quite nice; I slept late and we made food and drank sparkling
wine and "sima" (a special lemonade from lemons, brown sugar, and
yeast, which contains very little alcohol). We also made doughnuts which we
fried in oil and rolled them up in sugar after that. In the evening I made
potato salad and soy wieners which I fried on the pan - so the most basic and
traditional May Day food ever! Cats were loving the paper confetti streamers
the most. They didn't really understand over balloons though.
”Simaa”
Although we did went to downtown the May Day
went very well. I can’t wait until next year!
Oh, and earlier this week I went to get a movie ticket to "Iron Man
3" in 3D and I also had a sudden urge to buy popcorn from a movie theater.
I have been so excited about the movie!
Oh, and one more thing. May I present to you a glass table and a huge cat butt:
