Shrimp-party!

Hi guys!

Alright, maybe we did wake up a bit too late to the whole crab season but seriously, no single crab in entire Berlin? And that, my friends, is how we ended up having shrimp party instead of the traditional crab party that we have in Finland during this time of the year. 

As a starter we had wasabi-salmon bread. Super easy to make; you need to mix wasabi with quark (is this a word?) or sour cream and spread it on a dark bread and add a slice of smoked salmon on top. We were generous with the wasabi and it gave a nice kick ;). Sounded something like this: "Yumm, aaaarrGGHH, yumm, ÄÄähhh"

As a main dish we had a fresh salad and king prawns fried with olive oil, dried chili and lots of garlic. We had lots of bread too to dip it in the oil. We also baked a shrimp pie.

As a dessert we had delicious home-made, or Sanna-made, lemon macarons.

Quite honestly, with or without the crabs, the evening was great :)

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Sneak peek to our new flat

Hi guys!

We moved to a new flat a while back and had our housewarming party a week ago. Before the party I quickly filmed a video so that you guys can have a look as well. I added couple of party images as well, what a good party it was ;)! Ben and I prepared some party snacks, like pizza, guacamole, tzatsiki with veggies and so on, but the icing on the cake was Taija's brownies!

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It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye

Hi guys!

The title of this post is a bit more dramatic translation to the Finnish expression "Itku pitkästä ilosta". I'm of course referring to my nice weekend after which I got sick :P.

On Friday we had Zalando's Christmas party. Me and couple of colleagues went to my place beforehand to take a powernap, eat a quick snack and to change and prepare for the night. The theme of the party was Noël en blanc and therefore the dress code was to wear something white. The party was great :)!

"Found from the phone"

On Saturday I woke up with barely no voice and a headache (I blame the hairband I was wearing :p). Anyways me and Ben had a nice brunch and in the evening we went to Lucia Christmas market at Kulturbrauerei. I was especially enthusiastic about this one because I knew they had some Finnish mulled wine and poronkäristys (which is kind of a reindeer stew with mashed potatoes and lingonberries). I filmed a short video (well of course I did). Excuse my voice there...

Sunday was very relaxed. We ate a nice breakfast at home, watched movies and read. Btw, I recommend Monster university as a Sunday movie, very entertaining :). I was feeling a bit under the weather and my throat was still sore but in order to feel productive I went to gym. Ssooo today I woke up with even worse throat ache and I had to stay home. But I feel better now.

Anyways it was a very nice weekend and I'm starting to feel quite Christmassy ;).

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