Another snowstorm hits our cabin on Svalbard

We have another storm as you can see. It is wild. Really really cold. Like minus 12 I think or something. Look at this. Oh my gosh the mountains. It's very very windy. It's gonna get worse as well. And this is supposed to be here all the way till tomorrow. Oh this is so cold. Oh pajamas today was a little bit cold. Oh this was cold. No no no no. Back it up. Back it up. Oh do you hear that? What the heck? Gosh let's check if it's gonna get worse. I mean it said 1 30 and I'm in my pajamas. I'll talk more about why later. Oh my gosh. Yeah it's getting worse. Exciting. Oh it's so cold. Like speaking of like these winds are just as bad as the other storm. And I feel like we have more snow flurrying around and it's way colder for this storm. So yeah it's gonna be a lot of having the fire going. Look also how bleak everything looks. Everything looks like stark cold white. Oh no no no no no. Okay we need to clean up here a little bit. The big difference today versus the other storm is that these like this heavy wind is here as the base wind. Not in gusts. Like it's not letting up at all. It's just crazy. Okay should we have a little chitty chat I think. Oh yeah what a day. What a day. What a grim. Yeah what a grim. Grim was actually in at the vet's office yesterday because he had to pull a tooth but it was planned. Yeah so you're a little bit loopy today still? No but you're you're not super happy. He's not happy about the snowstorm either because Christopher and I we have been home sick for Christopher 10 days now and for me like the eighth or something. When Christopher came back from the mainland he came back with the flu. Oh my gosh and it's been the worst flu I think I've ever experienced in my life. So we've had a rough week here haven't we? Yep. We wanted this good so yeah we've been in bed doing nothing just trying to get through. We've had really high fevers like 39 degrees and you know just being sick like that as an adult feels like you feel like you're gonna die. It was really bad but now finally we're starting to feel like we can actually survive this and you know the worst of it is way gone and now we're left with a cold and a cough. So we have this gorgeous snowstorm day to prolong our sick cabin status and just chill because today we can't go out anyway but it's been it's been a week let me tell you that. So Grim yesterday had to go in and pull a tooth so we added him to the patient list of all of us and which was fine but we're so tired from just doing nothing and being sick you know it's like you think you would someday wake up with energy but no. So yeah that's that's crazy but so today I thought we will have a cozy snowstorm day together. I think Christopher's gonna have to do some cooking for us because I am ready for my first real meal. We we've been eating like nothing and just like crackers and now today I feel like maybe some sort of spaghetti bolognese maybe some spaghetti could be nice. I also really really need Christopher to make bagels so I think he's gonna do that again for us so I think we're just gonna hang out. That's that's all we got because today is Friday and you'll be watching this on Sunday so we're just gonna hang out together. I feel like it's a nice day though when it's stormy outside. I know we get lots of questions like if the cabin can withstand these kind of winds and yes it can take a lot more than these kind of storms and it has also you know like the windows in the kitchen and everything is triple pained everything here is double paned you know there's nothing really to worry about the cabin sits on poles that's pulled into the ground many meters also great you know we're staying put so there's not much that can happen so there's no reason to worry you know just make sure you have enough wood to stay warm and keep the cabin heated and that's basically that's basically like it and also the snowmobile you know it now it's into the wind as well so that's an important one the the weather outside today is kind of bad it's really windy so what to do let's bake we're gonna do some bagels we've done it before but the recipe is so good every time i try it so i think this is my new bagel recipe i'm gonna change one thing today because Einar and Olivia gave us some honey or we made we helped them take out this honey last year and i still have some left so i'm gonna change the sugar one tablespoon for honey that's about it i'm not gonna go in detail how we do the bagels because we've done it before and if you want to see that you can check a couple of videos back i'm just gonna do the bagels today all the ingredients are inside now except the salt i'm gonna knead the dough for 10 minutes before i add the salt then you get more chewy dough so why we do the bagels again is because like Cecilia really like bagels and they are kind of perfect to freeze because like you get them out the night before or even the day before i just put them in the air fryer for five minutes or something and then you have like totally fresh baked bread again so it's super smart to do bagels and the density for bagels are more chewier than normal bread so i think this is like kind of perfect to freeze and to make like pieces of like you get 16 breads of this one and it's works perfect even if it's been in the freezer for a month or two take it out air fry five minutes tastes like freshly baked we haven't had any bagels in the freezer for how long Christopher? I don't know, two weeks? A month i think it's been a tragedy which is why this is a baking emergency now i've been saying every day when i'm saying some bagels maybe and he's been just as he's like i can't but now now we can you know we were also now kind of like brainstorming should we do a different taste and then we shot all of it down because no we just want sesame well i ate all of the everything bagel spice no what's it called topping that one of you sent me absolutely incredible but so we have none of that either so we're just gonna do sesame sesame is always the best i can eat bagel every day now maybe i should take off my pajamas considering it's 2 15 maybe oh no not the great oh you gotta be quick you have some burning stuff here round number one there's coals everywhere close this there's a burning here inside that's fine crisis averted guys well we have a little bit of burning in this one stick that one in here anything else on fire i was in a catastrophe grin the dough is set in here let it proof for one hour ish we have the wood stove here so it's kind of warm up here so it's perfect for proofing yes the dough has proofed for about 50 minutes and it's really nice doubled in size i'm just gonna bake it out boil them and brush them with some egg yolks and then in the oven so if they are a bit sticky you can put them in really much flour on both sides and then you have to give them some pressure a little bit of pressure when you start and then they're going to get sticky again and then you get them up like a bowl see this dough is kind of sticky but a little bit pressure from the start and then it forms like a bowl and then so it's time to make the the bagel shape so two minutes timer stop two minutes timer so when you boil the bagels with a lid you don't need to turn them around you just see have really warm water and put the bagels in and let them stay for two minutes instead of one minute and then turn around so you will have water everywhere in here so there that's that's the trick to go to make it easy i got 15 bagels i i weighed them about like 105 gram ish so if they are between 100 and 180 it's okay for me i get 15 out of this so stop and i boiled them for two minutes a little bit of salt 25 minutes timer and we're starting now 220 degrees celsius i forgot to sos sos sos the plan for these two that i forgot is to do them in the air fryer think that's gonna work perfect yeah but i never done it because the air fryer is a bit too small either way to i can't get everyone in but i'm just gonna see how they work out so if it's 220 degrees in the oven i will go for 180 about the same time 25 minutes 22 25 minutes i'm gonna try with that or the air fryer say 160 degrees so we're gonna try 160 25 minutes let's try and see how it goes turn it pink outside i'm so tired the wind was roaring and shaking the whole cabin last night it was crazy but today we woke up to no wind but it's supposed to be really windy again tomorrow so i think we just have one day one day of a pause which is really nice let's take this coffee outside it is turning so pink and we also have which is my favorite when the coastline is frozen because then all of the ice all of the stones and everything and rocks is covered in ice so it looks like ice balls following the entire coast it's cold we've had really cold weather and next week we're gonna have like minus 22 wow this was a nice break from the very stormy dark weather how are you doing grim he's doing better with his tooth now wow it's cold but nice and quiet this is cold i think we're just gonna go in and take a bagel so we can see what they look like they turned out so good this is very cold i'm already starting to get sad that we're gonna finish them all i told christopher i'm like you have to just make more um we're gonna take a little bagel i like toast in mine when christopher just came home now from sweden well he was in norway but his mom came from sweden so she could bring them some things she brought the best thing ever for us so it's swedish butter especially this one with the sea salt is incredible we've had so much already but that's like the one thing that i miss from sweden today we're doing our own first which i found out is a norwegian that's nice now i mean he really has nailed the recipe bagel wow let's have a taste it's so good he's so good at making bagels go christopher oh my lord i'm tired i'm tired it's really cold but it's good for grim to get a walk i'm gonna bundle up just like this this is so beautiful oh i love when it gets this cold that the whole whole that the whole coastline freezes grim what are you doing what are you doing that is so beautiful so so beautiful we're gonna keep walking because brim still has a lot of energy it's cold everywhere but grim is getting a good walk in which is important we've been out for almost 40 minutes already so we're gonna turn around soon i think that's enough for today