Winter – Marz&Micha

I realized this year that there are 2 kinds of winter: The dark, cloudy, rainy and extremely boring one… and the snowy, with blue skies and temperatures of under -12°C. BEAUTIFUL. Precisely the kind of winter I always had in mind.

Like 50cm of snow, -12°C and frozen rivers!

Apparently this kind of winter… with this amount of snow, didn’t happen around here since at least 10 years ago. You know the only natural thing to do with some much snow right? RIGHT.

We made a full, big, proper snowman! With his own snowcat and all

I definitely had to use the chance to do all the things I couldn’t while growing in the tropics, like making a snowman (and a snowcat), riding a sled, walking in a frozen lake, making a snow “angel”, and having a snow fight!

For the sled part we had to buy one, thankfully Micha found a place that had a couple and was selling them on the spot so he, thankfully, took the chance!.
Is more complicated that it seems, specially when you ride it on a slope with a curve haha. The good thing is that if you roll, the soft-ish snow catches you.

We cannot encourage you to walk in a lake though, is quite dangerous. We did it here cause is the lake in the surroundings of Micha’s family house so he knows it, don’t try this just anywhere.

And of course, we had snowball fights as much as we could, before our fingers started to hurt haha. There I discovered there are 2 kinds of snow: the powdery one that’s super cute but cannot get in any shape, and the “wet” one that’s ideal for snowballs and snowmen. The first kind happens when the temperature is too low and the second when the temperature goes up so a bit of the snow melts and helps the rest merge into any shape you want

So we got this recipe from somewhere on the internet but we modified it so much that we had to write it down, as it follows:

(inb4 I use cups cause I got used to it but the conversion is roughly 235g).

1 cup of butter (warm/melted/soft)
1.5 cups of sugar.
Half a cup of vanilla sugar or brown sugar, whatever your heart desires
4 eggs.
6 bananas.
1/4 cup of chocolate chips.
1/4 cup of blueberries.
1/4 cup of almonds (can be in tiny pieces, slices, as you wish)

3 cups of flour (we mix a bit of integral flour sometimes)
3/4 cup of sour cream/saure Sahne/ natilla.
2 teaspoons of baking soda

Just mix everything together, put in any container oven-friendly (butter it before, can be with butter, margarine or oil) and put it in the oven for 1h at 170°C.
And there you have it! Not so dry/not so moist (but enough) perfect banana bread 🍞