{"id":6666,"date":"2012-11-13T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:55:53","slug":"sewing-club-for-ex-californians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/sewing-club-for-ex-californians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Club for Ex-Californians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belonging to a &#8216;sewing club&#8217; (eat good food and chat once per month or so) of Icelandic women in California went a long ways towards saving my sanity at times while at school. \u00a0I still remember walking into &#8216;a real home&#8217; for the first time in a month, after only hanging out in student housing where all the furniture is standardized and hardly anybody bothers putting art on the wall, or making their abode feel like &#8216;home&#8217;. \u00a0It was like being yanked back to reality! \u00a0Life can be nice! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As the years passed, the women started migrating back to Iceland with their families (because Iceland is Niceland, and the extended family is pretty much all here), and so an Icelandic branch of the original sewing club slowly developed.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings have been somewhat sporadic of late, but we&#8217;re hoping to get some monthly-momentum going again, and last night it was my turn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6667\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6667\" title=\"IMG_1913\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1913.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_1913-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lovely ex-Californians! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The food consisted of crepes (pancakes) with the batter prepared earlier in the day (yay for having two pans!), some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halenhearty.co.uk\/our_range\/products\/rich_chocolate_brownie_mix\/\">Hale &amp; Hearty brownies<\/a>, a home-made pineapple cheesecake, cut-up fruits, grapes, some cheese and crackers, and chocolate sauce (on the darker side).<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time, chatted about everything and nothing, and laughed a lot. \u00a0It was great. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>========================<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>pineapple cheesecake<\/strong> was partially made from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldhus.is\/eldhus.php?func=birtauppskrift&amp;id=248\">this\u00a0recipe<\/a>\u00a0(Icelandic), but I changed it to be:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost a full pack of\u00a0G\u00f6teborgs KornMo Fullkorn (oatmeal) &#8216;crackers&#8217; (because we had some)<br \/>\n150 g butter (smj\u00f6r)<br \/>\n3-4 tablespoons (raw) sugar (sykur, nota\u00f0i hr\u00e1sykur)<\/p>\n<p>Butter and sugar melted together, and mixed with the crushed crackers. \u00a0Mixture pressed into the bottom of the serving plate. \u00a0(Note: This concoction didn&#8217;t really hold together at all when served, so I&#8217;ll have to try a different brand of crackers next time, or more butter? \u00a0But it tasted good!)<\/p>\n<p>Put the serving plate in the cooler for at least an hour to cool the crackers so they won&#8217;t dance all over the place when you put the topping on. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>400 g creme cheese (rj\u00f3maostur)<br \/>\n2 teaspoons vanilla extract (vanilludropar)<br \/>\n1 small can of drained crushed pineapple (l\u00edtil d\u00f3s af kurlu\u00f0um ananas, \u00e1n safa)<br \/>\n0.75 cup sugar (3\/4 bolli sykur)<br \/>\nwhipped cream to taste (b\u00e6tt vi\u00f0 \u00feeyttum rj\u00f3ma eftir brag\u00f0i)<\/p>\n<p>All mixed together. \u00a0I added some whipped cream (probably a half a cup to a cup, measured whipped!) after I&#8217;d mixed all the other stuff together to soften the taste a bit. \u00a0Put the topping on the bottom, and leave in the cooler until served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belonging to a &#8216;sewing club&#8217; (eat good food and chat once per month or so) of Icelandic women in California went a long ways towards saving my sanity at times while at school. \u00a0I still remember walking into &#8216;a real home&#8217; for the first time in a month, after only hanging out in student housing<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/sewing-club-for-ex-californians\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}