Christmas and New Year in summer … what a concept!
We are still strugging getting used to summery weather and activities for this time of the year. In fact, we didn´t really get into Christmas mood until a few days ago. Either way, Best wishes for the festive season and all the best for 2006!
We spend our Christmas enjoying summer, going to the beach and Baking Christmas Cookies. Here are some of the pictures:
In yearly tradition, we baked “Russion Tea Cakes”, or Christmas Cookies. Here is a picture of the resulting cookies:
Christmas Cookies
If you would like to make those cookies for yourself, here is the recipe:
RUSSIAN TEA CAKES
1c butter (1/2lb 226g)
1/2 c powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/4 C flour
3/4 C fine chopped nuts*
cream sugar and vanilla
add dry ingredients and mix.
Add nuts
Make 1″ balls. Bake at 350f/175c 8-10 minutes
Dust with powder sugar warm, then again cold.
* traditionally pecans. Also try pistachios, sunflower seeds, cashews, etc.
Here are also some pictures from our beach visits. On Gonube Beach, someone was Kite Surfing, where they use a kite to propel themselves. Looked really exciting and something we may want to do sometime during our stay in South Africa. The picture shows a normal surfer and a kite surfer in the same frame.
