The bizarre experience of watching the BBC Wallander… also on German telly!

Last week I found myself watching another episode of Wallander – originally a Swedish TV series, that was reproduced by the BBC with British actors. The story is the same as the Swedish original, it is filmed in Sweden, and basically it’s like if it was the original but with British actors speaking English (so for example, if they are reading an email, it shows up written in Swedish, although they read it out-loud in English). Well, its strange and funny, but you grow to love it. However, I have now the added bizarre value of having to watch it dubbed in German…. 🙂

wallander

yummy sunday

The days are getting short, dark, and cold…boo! So I’ve decided to add a bit of flavour to my weekends by creating delicious recipes. I will share these with you every other Sunday, in a feature post called: yummy sunday. I hope you also get inspired to create your own recipes and maybe try some of mine. I would love to read about your yummy sundays too.

Today, an easy one:

homemade_hummus

Time: 10 minutes

Serves: 3-4 people

Ingredients:

210g of canned or bottled chickpeas

75g of Tahini

2tbsp of the chickpeas cooking liquid

1 large garlic glove

2tbsp of lemon juice

1/2 tsp of cumin seeds

 

  • Gently fry the garlic and the cumin seeds in a 1bsp of olive oil, don’t let the garlic burn. Leave it to rest.
  • In a food processor mix the chick peas, the Tahini, and the precooked garlic and cumin seeds. Add the lemon juice, the chickpea cooking liquid, and salt to taste.

That’s it! you can then enjoy it with pieces of fresh baguette and some cut-out crunchy vegetable.

 

 

Weekend Plans: Trip to Kassel, home of the dOCUMENTA

I’m excited to go to Kassel this weekend. This time it’s just a short day trip to see my cool friends from Kassel. I lived there for a short time in 2001, and coincidentally that year was also a year of the dOCUMENTA – a massive art exhibition that takes place every 5 years. I really enjoyed living there, there was lots of things happening as part of this art show, and the city is generally a cool place to be.

Last year I visit the dOCUMENTA again and I was quite taken by these portraits by a South African artist – Zanele Muholi

documenta

Happy Weekend! Any nice plans?

A Strange Longing for California and Arizona

Last year we went on a road trip on the west coast of the US. It was my first time in the US. There were some amazing surprises and some disappointments, as you can expect when you travel somewhere new. However, what I did not expect was to be left with this strange longing for the Californian hills and the Arizona desert. I am not even really sure what I miss, maybe the dry heat, or maybe the feeling of endless space…. Strange!

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

This is a challenge I could not resist.

Surfing

I also leave you with a poem by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen – O Mar – The Sea (Only in Portuguese. I will not attempt to translate it…sorry! if you can’t understand Portuguese, trust me its beautiful :))

Mar, metade da minha alma é feita de maresia
Pois é pela mesma inquietação e nostalgia,
Que há no vasto clamor da maré cheia,
Que nunca nenhum bem me satisfez.
E é porque as tuas ondas desfeitas pela areia
Mais fortes se levantam outra vez,
Que após cada queda caminho para a vida,
Por uma nova ilusão entontecida.
E se vou dizendo aos astros o meu mal
É porque também tu revoltado e teatral
Fazes soar a tua dor pelas alturas.
E se antes de tudo odeio e fujo
O que é impuro, profano e sujo,
É só porque as tuas ondas são puras.