A tiring Monday

These cards are heading to Russia, the USA, the UK, Taiwan, France, Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania and Belgium.

I have that habit of taking a new address always when a previous card of mine gets registered - what about you? Do you send more officials than "private swaps"? I tend to have periods when I send officials; at times I send a lot and constantly, at times I prefer private trades. Right now I've chosen both, though... 

This photo just doesn't do any justice for what can be seen outside, but still: I love autumn! Those colors are eye-catching and they look just brilliant when the sun shines and it's a bit cold already.

I just finished three essays for my classes, so guess how I am gonna spend the rest of the evening?! I'm a true C.S.I. fan, and this is the one and only of those series. I love all the supervisor characters, Grissom being my favorite, of course, but during the last three season I've started to like more and more of Nick (he has quite funny lines). Other  TV series I love are eg Breaking Bad, Gilmore Girls, House M.D., Prison Break, Numb3rs, Sons of Anarchy and House of Cards. Do you have any favorites?

Books and words

from Russia

from the USA

from France

Here are some fantastic book & writing related postcards I've received during the last few weeks. Besides the coffee-fanaticism, I've kind of a book-a-holic, too. When I was younger I could easily read 1-3 books a week, but nowadays my tempo is a lot slower, mostly because of all the reading I need to do for my studies anyway.

I just finished reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. I had wanted to read that novel for the last 10 yeast, but somehow I never managed to it. As I needed to read two books for my literature course in Spanish anyway, I decided that it's now or never!

What can I say? It's a wonderful, lovely, silly, funny and a very, very sad book. So fantastic that it gave me goosebumps when I read the last pages of it. Writing an essay about it was not a boring task at all, luckily.

A delicious - yet better-looking! - cheese cake

I found this recipe via a blog I read on a daily basis - it was really good, but I have to admit that it still looks better than tastes...

A poor translation of the recipe:

Ingredients:

200 g digestive biscuits

75 g butter melted

800 g natural cream cheese

3 dl sugar

finely grated zest of 1 lemon

1,5 dl milk

4 eggs

200 g crème fraîche

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 dl wheat flour

Made the biscuits into fine crunch. Stir the melted butter into them. Line the base of a springform cake tin with parchment paper and put the mixture onto it. Preheat the oven to 175C.

Mix cream cheese, sugar and lemon zest, continue until the mixture is smooth. Add milk and then the eggs one by one. Add crème fraîche, vanilla extract, wheat flour and blend until the mixture is smooth again.

Pour the filling onto the bottom and bake for 1 hour. You should place the cake in the middle of the oven. Turn off the oven and let the cake cool there for 4-5 hours.

Take the cake from the oven, let it cool, cover with foil and let it refrigerate for at least overnight.