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For my best friend’s birthday party I made vanilla...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:48:02 +0200

For my best friend’s birthday party I made vanilla cupcakes with lilac frosting. My best friend had a cupcake tree, so they looked so cool!

(You can find the recipe for the cupcakes here)

The classic

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:20:33 +0200

This is a dish I make quite often because it’s so easy to prepare and it tastes very good.

You’ll need:

Olive oil
2 big onions
400 g minced chicken meat
1 box crushed tomatoes/tomato sauce
Salt
Spaghetti/pasta (we always use wholegrain)

Start by chopping the onion and heating the water for the spaghetti. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Add the onion and let it get transparent before adding the minced chicken. Cook the spaghetti as normal (I use water with olive oil and salt). When all the minced meat is thoroughly cooked you can add the tomatoes. When the sauce starts to bubble, dinner is served! We usually eat this with some mixed salad on the side. Enjoy!

A friend of mine baked this for another friend’s birthday....

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:49:55 +0200

A friend of mine baked this for another friend’s birthday. It’s a delicious brownie with chocolate mousse on top, yummy ♥

Couscous salad with chicken

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:21:19 +0200

It’s been a really warm day so I actually didn’t want dinner at all. I decided to make something easy and healthy: couscous salad with chicken.

You’ll need:

Green salad.
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Green/spring onion
Red onion
Feta cheese
Couscous (wholegrain)
Chicken breast (filet)
Olive oil
Garlic
Salt
Dry parsley

Heat olive oil and chopped garlic in a skillet over medium heat. Let the garlic get golden before adding the diced chicken. Add salt and parsley. Cook until all pinkness is gone. Prepare the couscous according to the package instructions. Chop the vegetables and then mix them in a big bowl with the chicken, the couscous and the feta cheese. Bon appetit!

My healthy (and tasty!) lunch today: wasa crackers with cottage...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:24:32 +0200

My healthy (and tasty!) lunch today: wasa crackers with cottage cheese, egg and tomato :)

My healthy (and tasty!) lunch today: wasa crackers with cottage...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:24:30 +0200

My healthy (and tasty!) lunch today: wasa crackers with cottage cheese, egg and tomato :)

I want to make this some time soon, it looks delicious!

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:58:42 +0200

I want to make this some time soon, it looks delicious!

foodfuckery: r0llercoasteroflife submitted: Mint Chocolate...

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:38:33 +0200

foodfuckery:

r0llercoasteroflife submitted:

Mint Chocolate Gelato

The BEST flavour in the world!

Recipe: Risotto with leek and champignons

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:00:05 +0100

I made this for dinner on Wednesday with marinated turkey breast and gratinated tomatoes. I’ll post the recipe for the tomatoes later :-) It was a D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S. dinner!

You’ll need:

Olive/rape oil
1 big leek, sliced
300 ml long-grain rice (1 1/4 cup)
600 ml water (2 1/2 cup)
1 vegetable bouillon cube
250 g champignons (9 oz), sliced
2 tbsp parsley, chopped
1 tsp salt

How to:

Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat and add the leek. Cook until a little golden.
Add the rice to the saucepan and keep frying until the rice grains are shiny/glossy.
Mix the water and the bouillon cube until dissolved, and add 1/3 of it to the saucepan. Stir over medium heat until there’s not bouillon left, then add the rest and let it cook by itself.
Heat more oil in a skillet over medium heat and fry the champignons until golden. Add to the risotto.
Add parsley and salt and stir it in.

Bon apetit!

Recipe: White Italian Bread

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:07:00 +0100

I should have posted this a LONG time ago, I’m sorry, I’ve been through some stuff lately, so I haven’t had much time for my blog. I’ve been cooking a little bit though :-) This is the recipe for an Italian Pane Bianco from Tessa Kiros’ book “Twelve, an Italian cook book”.

You’ll need:

12 g active dry yeast/25 g fresh yeast
a pinch sugar
300 ml lukewarm water (1 1/4 cup)
500 g fluor (18 oz)
a pinch salt
1 tbsp olive oil

How to:

Combine yeast with sugar and a little bit of the water until dissolved.
Put the fluor into a bowl and make a pit in the middle. Add the yeast mixture, salt and olive oil and mix everything well.
Knead the dough until elastic and smooth, about 10 minutes. If needed, add more water or fluor.
Let the dough rise in a bowl with a kitchen towel (or use my yeast dough rising trick) during 1,5 hours.
Take the dough out of the bowl and make either one or two round breads. Put them on a fluored baking sheet and cover with a kitchen towel. Let them rise 30-60 minutes.
Bake them in preheated oven at 200 degrees C/400 degrees F for 30-40 minutes. They should be golden and hard/crispy on the outside. If you knock on it, it should sound hollow.

Good luck!

Wow day

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:24:46 +0100

I’m not talking about World of Warcraft. Yesterday was a work wow day and a sleep wow day. I worked for more than 11 hours, then I got home at 07.30 PM, had dinner and passed out in my bed. I didn’t wakeup until 10 PM because my mom wanted to talk to my dad. Then why did she call me? I went to the bathroom to take out my contact lenses and then I passed out in my bed again. Today I got up at 07.30 AM, which means I slept for almost 12 hours, apart from the conversation I had with my mom of course. Today I’ve had the most wonderful morning with a cup of cardamom coffe with milk, homemade bread and a little The Sims 3 playing. Perfect. And when I had to wait 10 minutes for the metro, I realized how beautiful the day was:

I know my city looks like hell during the winter months without snow, but look at the sky! It’s BEAUTIFUL :-) This weather is normal in May, not in March, so today’s weather really made my day.

The recipe on the Italian white bread will be published later today. I have to eat now, I’m starving, ciao belli!

Italian white bread fresh from the oven. Recipe tomorrow ;-)

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:02:33 +0100

Italian white bread fresh from the oven. Recipe tomorrow ;-)

Tessa Kiros: Twelve, a Tuscan Cook Book

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:45:19 +0100

Last week I bought a new cook book. It’s written by Tessa Kiros who’s one of the most international persons I’ve heard of. I don’t remeber exactly where she is from, but her mother is from Finland and I think her father is half something and half something else. Tessa was raised in another country and I think her grandmother is greek. Now, Tessa lives in Italia because she’s married to an Italian man. I would love to have so many nationalities represented in my family, or in my life for that matter! It’s so inspiring! It makes me want to make food from all over the world!

Well, the cook book I bought is called “Twelve, a Tuscan Cook Book” and it has that title because Tessa writes about one whole year in Tuscany in this book. She starts with January and it all ends in December. Every month has its special recipes, for example November, because in November they have to start testing that year’s olive oil, so they use it a lot. I’ve always loved Italian food (I’ve tasted more than pizza and spaghetti), especially risotto, pesto and bruschetta con pomodoro. And you also have the variations of pasta, like Tortellini, Ravioli, Gnocchi, Tagiliatelle etc. I LOVE pasta, but I don’t eat it so often though. I really miss eating white pasta, because I normaly eat the wholemeal kind :-( It’s boring…

The cook book is full of mouth watering recipes, but I haven’t tried out anyone yet. I really want to make an Italian bread that’s calledpane bianco, which means white bread. It’s just a normal bread, but without salt because it has to balance the salt in the Italian prosciutto hams. That’s what the recipe said. The bread can be used to make bruschetta and to make a bread soup that I want to make too!

I’ll post recipes from the book as I make the different dishes, so you should be prepared for some Italian madness on my blog in the near future, haha, yummy!

You can buy the book here.

Recipe: Apple sauce

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:17:03 +0100

Another recipe from AllRecipes that I’ve tried twice. I changed it a little bit the second time, so I’ll publish it here as it is a little different. You can find the original here.

Ingredients:

5 small apples
3/4 cup water
1/8 cup fructose (of course you can use sugar if you like!)
All the cinnamon you want

How to:

Peel, core and chop the apples. I like to chop them like dices.
Mix apples, water and fructose in a saucepan. Add some cinnamon and let it all cook over medium heat for 20-30 minutes. Add cinnamon more times if you like. I think I ended up adding at least 10 tsp of cinnamon when I doubled the recipe yesterday, yummy!
Take the saucepan away from the heat and allow to cool. When the apples are lukewarm or cold, you can mash them with a potatoe masher or a fork. I haven’t tried to do it with a fork, but it may work :-)

You can eat this apple sauce on bread if you like. It tastes just like my mom’s apple jam/mermelade, but she used to add less (or no) cinnamon.

Happy sunny(!) monday, everybody :-D

Frozen pancakes?

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:08:00 +0100

I had to write this all over again because it wasn’t saved. FML.

This was today’s breakfast:

American pancakes with maple syrup and a cardamom coffee with milk.

I’m kind of angry today because it’s my second Saturday in a row working and all I want is to sleep and to wake up with my boyfriend. That’s sad. I got up at 7.30 AM and found out that we didn’t have bread. Well, great start. So, I took the frozen pancakes from last Sunday out of the freezer and defrosted them all in the microwave. Then I toasted a few to have them for breakfast. And they were really good actually! I think I’ve read on the internet that pancakes are bad if you don’t eat them right away, but I don’t think that’s true, because they weren’t so bad this morning. Last Sunday I went to the gym before anyone got up, but when I arrived afterwards, everyone was eating breakfast and I was going to make pancakes. By the time I had finished, everyone was gone :-( So I had to freeze them because I made like a quadruple of what my recipe said.

I’m at work now and I’m bored as usual. Thursday will be my last day here and on Friday I’ll start working in a kindergarden, woho :-) Should be nice doing something else than sitting on a chair everyday. I’ve never worked in a kindergarden, but it should be fun and challenging. I’m not THAT used to small kids you see… :-O

Ciao belli!

Making apple sauce and it smells so good :)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:43:28 +0100

Making apple sauce and it smells so good :)

Gone

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:44:16 +0100

I’m at my aunt’s house. We’re here to help her clean her house :-) to gain some extra money. So I’m not cooking these days as my aunt is a professional cook and makes great food. I’ll be back home tomorrow and I’ll post a new recipe, woho :-D

Recipe: American Pancakes

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:02:47 +0100

I have to admit that this was my first time making American pancakes. When we say pancakes here in Norway, we usually mean the french crepes. We make very thin pancakes which are bigger than the American ones. For us, the American pancakes are small and chubby, but we like them as well! Maybe even more :-P

The recipe I followed is from AllRecipes.com and was submitted by kris a couple of years ago (I think). This was my first time making it, so I chose not to experiment too much this time. I only doubled the amount of baking soda without knowing… I wanted the pancakes to be perfect, at least good and fluffy :-) And I really liked them! So did my boyfriend, who I woke up today, 15 minutes before leaving for work, to eat pancakes for breakfast with me. I’m so happy he actually got out of bed at 8 AM to be with me :-) Even though he didn’t have to get up early!

Ingredients:

3/4 cup milk
2 tbsp white vinegar
1 cup all-purpose fluor
2 tbsp white sugar (I’ll try to use brown sugar next time!)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
2 tbsp butter, melted
Oil/butter/cooking spray

How to:

Mix the milk and vinegar in a medium bowl and let it “sour” for 5 minutes.
Mix fluor, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in another (small) bowl.
Add egg and butter to the “soured” milk and pour the fluor mixture into the wet ingredients afterwards. Whisk until lumps are gone. This is the last time you should be stirring the batter. If you stir it more after the rest or while cooking the pancakes, they won’t be that fluffy!
Leave the batter to rest for about 20-30 minutes. This isn’t really necessary, but it makes the pancakes more fluffy!
Heat a skillet over medium heat and add a little oil, butter or cooking spray when it’s hot. Then pour the batter (1/4 cupfuls for each pancake, says the recipe, but I just poured it into the skillet using a soup ladle/scoop[?]). Cook the pancakes until bubbles appear on the surface or until golden, then flip and cook them until golden on the other side.

We ate them with maple syrup and I also added a banana to my plate. The BEST breakfast! :-D

The thief

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:23:00 +0100

I just stole this ice cream (it doesn’t have cream though, so what do you call it?) from the freezer in the kitchen I share with my colleagues on this floor. I have no idea who’s ice cream it is, but there were like 10 more, so I don’t care. And by the way: Who buys ice cream and takes it to work? AND IN THE WINTER? Weird people…

I just wanted to update my readers (haha, I have 7 followers or something) and tell you that I’m going to publish the recipe I followed to make pancakes this morning. Maybe you’ve seen the photo already? The recipe is from AllRecipes.com and the pancakes turned out really good even though it was my first time making American Pancakes.

Hasta la vista, baby :-*

Food blog?

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:24:41 +0100

This blog turned out to be a food blog. I won’t write more about makeup, skincare, fashion, music, nothing :-P I think I’ll write a little bit about the gym though, because it’s kind of related to food and eating. It’ll be like a lifestyle blog. I like to go to the gym to use my body and to sweat, but I’m not doing it to have the fittest body in the world and not to loose weight either. Just to try to be a little healthier and live a little longer :-) And it gives me a lot of extra energy and I sleep better. I’m never tired at work anymore and that’s awesome!