It’s getting warmer in Barcelona and I can’t wait for my first picnic this year with muffins, pretzels, strawberries and cava:) After having given up to find pretzels in Barcelona I made my first attempt to bake them today. I need to practice on the shape a bit, but the taste was exactly as imagined. For all my friends from Germany visiting me this year: No need to bring tons of pretzels anymore:)
Have a try the recipe is really easy
Update 8.3: Forget about the picnic – it’s snowing like crazy in Barcelona. The streets are full of people taking pictures. I’ve never seen anything like this before…!

Sesame Pretzels ( for 10-12 medium size pretzels)
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Ingredients:

*500g flour ( you can also use 500g spelt flour)
*30g fresh yeast
*a hint of sugar
*20g natron
*1 teaspoon salt
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Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
In a big bowl mix flour with sugar. In a small bowl crumble the fresh yeast and add 1/4 liter of lukewarm water. Stir well until all the yeast is dissolved.
Add to the flour mix and add salt. Knead well with your hands until you have an even dough. Then cover with a kitchen towel and let rest and rise for approx. 1 hour, until the dough is double sized. Divide into 10-12 equal parts and form a long roll out of each part ( approx. 35-40cm long).
Form pretzels as per pictures. Preheat the oven@220ºC.

step1

step2

Cook 1 liter water with the natron for 30 seconds, then remove for the heat. Dip the pretzels in the water, one by one, each for 1 minute, using a oven peel.
Drain well and place on the baking paper (6 pieces on each tray). Sprinkle some salt and sesame on the pretzels ( I used normal and black sesame).
Let bake each tray for 22minutes and enjoy with lovely people

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Another amazing swedish photographer who grabbed my attention recently: Louise Enhörning. I wonder where all that creativity and sense of style in Sweden comes from? If it wouldn’t be so cold and dark other there I’d love to live in Stockholm for a while, but for now I’ll conform and inspire myself with lovely pictures like these while looking at a blue sky in Barcelona

 

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a sad day for the fashion world:( A genius dies at the age of 40…

Alexander McQueen

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