Banana oat cookies

 Ingredients:

2 bananas

100 g oats (2 cups)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C (350 degrees F).

Peel the bananas and mash them up in a bowl with a fork.

Add the oats and mix it all together.

Make small balls and put them on a baking sheet (press down on the balls to flatten them, if you like) and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Enjoy!

Puff pastry rolls

Ingredients:

1 roll of puff pastry

1 pot of sour cream (or cream cheese with spices)

100 g (2 cups) grated cheese

1 package of diced bacon

Alternatives/variations:

As an alternative to the bacon salmon works great, too. There's a ramson cream cheese here in Germany that I think is a nice combination with that. I haven't tried other variations personally. Write in the comments, what combinations you tried.

Shopping tip:

Unless you're grating your own cheese, they will sell 200 g packages of cheese in Germany only. So might want to think of doubling the amounts and make one with bacon and another with salmon.

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C (392 degrees F)

Roll out the puff pastry and first spread the sour cream on it. Make sure to cover the edges, too, otherwise the rolls on either end of the roll will be "slim".

Next spread the bacon/salmon on it.

Lastly put on the grated cheese.

Now you're going to roll it. There are 2 variations: Rolling it from the short end will give you fewer rolls, but they'll be bigger. About 10. Or 2: Roll up the long side. It's a bit more tricky, because it's longer, but it'll give smaller and more rolls. About 16.

I personally prefer smaller rolls and cut mine about the size of the tip of my thumb to my first knuckle. Which usually is about 16-18 rolls. Place the rolls on a baking pan with some space between them. They will rise.

Put the rolls in the oven for about 15 minutes, depending on how brown you want them to be.

The rolls can be eaten hot or cold.

Enjoy!

Rolls with diced bacon:

 

Salmon rolls:

Internet sales part 2

Previous reports about internet sales can be read here: At long last... the pleasure of shopping online and Selling thing online. The following is a translation.

Carolin 20 August 2019
Still available

SA 20 August 2019

Yes, still available :-)

Carolin 20 August 2019
Could you bring it?

SA 20 August 2019

Why can't you get it?

(If I had gotten a reasonable reply that it was a disabled person or an old person within my area, I may even have brought it, but I didn't get any reply whatsoever.)

Selling things online

And here's another (translated) sale/message history from that online selling platform. If you haven't read my first post about this, you can find it here: At long last... the pleasure of shopping online. "SA" is me, as you can probably tell.

Bubé 12 August 2019

Hello, that's looking good, can I have it tomorrow?

Best regards

SA 12 August 2019

Hello, yes that would be ok. Greetings

Bubé 12 August 2019

Can I get it tomorrow at around 7 pm?

SA 12 August 2019

Yes, that's ok.

Bubé 14 August 2019

Hello, sorry for the late reply, I wasn't able to get there yesterday.

Can I get it today, in 1 hr?

Best wishes

SA 14 August 2019

Hello, I didn't read that on that short notice, because I was busy outside of the internet. How about tomorrow? Greetings

Bubé 14 August 2019

Ok, how about tomorrow about 6 pm?

SA 14 August 2019

Yes okay

Bubé 15 August 2019

Hello, I'm just coming from work,can I come there now?

I would like to have the address.

Best regards

SA 15 August 2019

Hello, I was away myself up until now, because I didn't get a message before 6 pm. If it's not too late, we could meet today. (I gave my address and which name to ring the bell). When would you roughly be here?

Bubé 15 August 2019

It  is ok if I'm there at 08:50 pm?

(Not even waiting for a reply from me, he followed this with two other messages pretty much all back to back)

Bubé 15 August 2019

Then I'll start going now, I'll take the bike

Bubé 15 August 2019

I'm already on the way

SA 15 August 2019

You're on your way now already ;-)

(Shortly after the doorbell rang. When I opened the door, I could hear someone talk in a language I didn't understand or recognise. When I was able to see the person, I saw just one man, no companion, but in conversation with someone over his headset. I lifted the water-boiler in my hand and he searched for the money to give to me. We exchanged the water-boiler and money. When I went back to my laptop I read the following message.)

Bubé 15 August 2019

Right:)

I couldn't go there, so a friend of mine got it. Thank you.

Best regards

(I thought of the advice on the internet to never ever agree to "my friend will get it", because "my friend" could be someone, who hacked the messages and just for fun gets the thing as a supposed friend. So I couldn't resist writing one last message. I didn't get further messages.)

SA 15 August 201

What? You wrote to me you're on your way to get it and then it was a friend? Ok, as long as I've got my money... Have fun with the water-boiler, if you get it...

Two signs

Saw this today in the city, no idea who made the signs or who put them there:

"Geil, endlich 4 neue College-Blöcke" - Wicked, finally 4 new spiral-bound notepads

"Kein BAUM ist EGAL" - No TREE is INDIFFERENT

Comparing pays

Christmas is long over now, but the next Christmas will surely come. For this Christmas I checked my sister's amazon wish list and found a liqueur that I knew a certain store close to my place sells, too. Amazon had it for about 16 Euros (about 18 US Dollars). I went to the store close to me and found the last 2 bottles of the liqueur my sister wanted... for only 11 Euros (about 12.42 US Dollars). It was only a bit strange for me to pay for it, because I don't drink alcohol and now was standing with a liqueur bottle at the cashout.

The moral of the story: Even if online shopping is comfortable, it may pay to compare.

Taking and giving

Last month I wanted to go shopping and found an envelop wet from the rain on the pavement. I picked it up and found that it wasn't an open one, but a closed letter. I walked the path a bit further, because there would be a mailbox. Until now anyway. When I reached that corner, I looked around. Where was the mailbox? Had I not paid attention? I hadn't used it that often so far, but it should have been here somewhere. Then I saw it: the shadow and the holes from the attachment where the mailbox had been the past years. It had been taken away! I used the entrance to the tram station and went to the inner city to throw the envelop in the mailbox there.

By the way I had to go to the inner city, because the post office at the townhall closed last year, as well as the one at the central station. I found out the one at the townhall doesn't exist anymore when I went there to send a letter and found the building closed. I was surprised about the closing of the office at the central station at the same time, which I found out, when I wanted to get some money from the cash machine there and didn't find it. Only after walking the many hallways in the building and was standing in front of the door where the counters had been, did I see a note about the closing of the office. Really great. Hadn't it been possible to pin a note on all the entrances of the building, instead of letting me walk through all the long hallways to almost the counter room first? If I understood it correctly, the thought was to have all the possibilities of service in one single office. A research on the internet revealed that I wasn't the only person angry about the closing of the office at the central station. The parking options for car owners were seemingly better at the central station than at the inner city.

Around the same time I wanted to dispose of my recycling paper and walked to the container nearby. (The same container where I had found the religious figure.) But when I arrived after about 5 minutes of walking with the full cardboard box, I found no container. Just like with the mailbox, I looked around in surprise. The containers had been here for sure. Two paper banks and one for white, green and brown glass. But there was not one container! Angry I walked the way back and further to the other containers, which are inconveniently placed so you have to stand right on the street to dispose of your trash. At least those were still there, but the paper banks were pretty full and I had trouble getting my recycling paper I there to dispose it. On my way back I toyed with the idea of writing my landlady to give us back our paper bin. It doesn't cost extra money anyway. Our “housekeeper” had argued that it had been taken away for “fire safety reasons”, because nobody would take care to empty it, but it got stuffed overflowing. I discarded that thought to write to my landlady soon however. Surely she'd disagree or take her time to get our bin back, like she had been with other things in the past.

Today I walked a slightly different way back home from shopping than usual. I wondered what kind of containers there were just at the corner of our street. Were those new containers in fact? Indeed! We have new paper banks just very near by at the corner at our street! I walked home to get rid of the shopping and picked up my cardboard box which was overflowing with paper and dedicated the new paper banks.

I'm curious though that suddenly 2 paper bands are able to stand at the corner of the street. I had written to the city a while ago, because on the map online that street corner had been marked for paper banks, but didn't have any and I asked if it was possible to add some there. They negated that arguing that the vehicles to collect the paper were too big to drive there. Suddenly it seems possible after all. Suits me.