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Food muffins...

Another week just went up in thin air...the days gone...and lots of things we meant to do didn't happen. Too few hours, too little time, too much happening - life happening in fact...and the opposite of life...death. You never know what to expect around the next corner of life...never know when it ends. Give an extra hug to the people around you this following week... I know I will. You just never know...

And to break of the seriuos tone in todays blog post...some food muffins. You all know the drill by know; recipe in Norwegian.

Grønnsaksmuffins ala manne:
1 liter hvetemel (evnt. 50/50 med grovt mel)
3 ts bakepulver
1 ts salt
3 egg
1,5 dl vann
1,5 dl youghurt naturell
100 gr smeltet smør
3 gulrøtter, grovt revet og forvellet
4 mellomstore poteter, grovt revet og forvellet
1 mellomstor rødløk i halve strimler
150 gr revet ost (+ 50gr revet ost til gratinering)

Bland alt godt. Det blir en tykk "deig" før grønnsakene er blandet i - sånn skal det være. Det blir en tykk røre når alt er blandet sammen. Fyll formene nesten helt til toppen og ha litt ost på hver muffins før de settes i ovnen.

Stekes i ca. 30 minutter på 180grader. Denne oppskriften gir 24 muffins.

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Back-to-school-Bento...

Yup...this is the day...summer is over... time to go back to school. Butterflies in my stomach and Bento in my backpack.
: mixed salad with chicken and pasta, dressing in the box with pink lid, ginger snaps, slices of apple and a chocolate.

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Bread, bread and bread...

I have baked some breads...in my opinion after one of the best recipes out there... As always; recipe in Norwegian.

Brød - grunnoppskrift
26 dl hvetemel
10 dl vann
2 dl melk
2 ss honning
1 ts salt
50 g gjær

Løs opp honningen i vann og melk. Tilsett gjær som vanlig (Våt i vått og tørr i tørt). Ha i mel.
(Grovere mel gir grovere brød. Ha minst 10 dl vanlig hvetemel!)
Stekes på 250C (200C - varmluft) i 30-40 min.

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Lets talk about Bento's...

Breakfast is a dim memory and dinner lays somewhere in the distanse future...your stomach is rumbling and you really need something to eat...and you take up your bag and there is; two boring slices of bread with sweaty cheese. Wouldn't you like your lunch to be a bit more exciting then that? Well... let me introduce *drumroll* ... Bento.

A Bento doesn't really take longer to make then a normal lunch - it is all about planning ahead. When you use leftovers from yesterdays dinner or make sure you have single portions stacked in the freezer it is all about assembly in the morning...or even before you go to bed the night before. Thats what I normally do...

Another important detail is: you don't need a Bento Lunch Box to make Bento's... just look at mine - Boxes from IKEA. I'm sure most of you have different containers in your house...just waiting to be used. Noone have said that you need a fixed set of boxes...you just need something to hold your food for you.

Lastly; be aware of the addiction factor... Moahahaha!

People have asked me to share the recipe of my Cottage Cheese Pancakes..and of course I will...so here it comes (in Norwegian):

Cottage Cheese Pancakes

- 150g Cottage Cheese (½ boks)
- 90gr revet ost
- 3 egg
- krydder etter smak (salt, oregano, pizzakrydder osv)

Stivpisk eggehvittene. Mos CC med stavmixer e.l om du ikke liker klumpene. Bland eggeplommer og CC med de stivpiskede hvittene.
Ha i den revne osten. Sett 8 lapper på en stekeplate (de flyter ut) og ha på krydder. Stekes på 175gC i ca 25 min.

Jeg pleier å variere disse med å ha i revet middagspølse/falukorv også...

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A week of food and such...

This week we are having a "week of food" at Hobbyboden - meaning I'll have lots of stuff of that kind on my blog...first lets take a closer look at todays dinner; Hot Autumn Soup.

Norwegian recipe:

2 bunter vårløk eller 1 stor løk/purre, finhakket
1 mellomstor eller 1/2 stor blomkål, delt i buketter (med de grønne bladene) eller 1 stor brokkoli
1/2 kålhode, hakket i biter
1 stor paprika, renset og hakket
6-8 selleristilker
2-3 store gulrøtter, i tynne skiver
1-2 ts hver av støtt spisskummen og koriander (valgfritt)
1 liter grønnsaksbuljong
400g bokstomater
1 liten håndfull persille/koriander, grovhakket
2 hvitløksfedd, finhakket eller knust
1/4 - 1/2 ts cayennepepper (valgfritt)

1)
Legg alle grønnsakene unntatt tomatene i en stor gryte, eventuellt sammen med de støtte krydderurtene. Tillsett buljong og ekstra vann hvis det trengs for å dekke.
Varm forsiktig opp til det nesten koker, og tilsett tomatene.

2)
Tilsett krydderurter og hvitløk etter ønske. Smak til med Cayennepepper.

3)
La suppen småkoke i 20-30 minutter, eller til grønnsakene er møre.

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Fly, fly - up and away...

Okey..not really away since we have our kite in a string and most of the time it was on the ground, but we had fun...and thats all that matters.

It was a bit TOO windy today. You rarely find perfect kiting wind around here...so you'll have to take what you get.

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Buying a new jacket calls for a matching beanie...

Well... the heading of the day says it all...lol... I bought a new, blue jacket and therefor I need a new beanie... Just ribbing all the way...in some blueish yarn from my stash. I don't remember the name of the yarn - it has been in my stash for a while.

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Well...what to call it?

The Swedish name for this kind of cake is "Kladdkaka"... I guess you could call it "Sticky cake" or something. It is a heavy, underbaked, delicious cake...and now I have a whole book full of recipes.

LenaF sent me and the boys this lovely book...and the boys declared that we should make every Saturday a *bake a kladdkaka day*... we will all roll before Christmas.

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August is here...

...with lots of new beginnings.

Oh man has this summer just flown away or what...? I can't really wrap my head around the fact that we already are starting school again...

Did you know btw? I'm going to be a student again... It will be fun in the beginning I guess...and not so fun in November.. Ah well... I'll take the sorrows (aka excams) when they come. Right now it is just to much fun to think about me going *back to school*.
And as all "serious" students I need to have an a-plan, right? Wow, I haven't really had to write anything down in about 10 years...and now I suddenly need this...Can you hear me giggle?

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