Yummy

28/01/20177 Comments

This is a favourite dish of ours. I call it minced pancake. It’s pancakes filled with bolognese sauce. It’s delicious and easy to make. I buy the pancakes because it’s easier.

I make the bolognese sauce a little bit “drier” than usual otherwise it’s hard to make the dish. I cook the minced beef in a pan with onions, tomato puree, salt, pepper and a little bit of cream. To make 5 minced pancakes I use 500 g minced beef.

Fill the pancakes with the sauce and “roll” them together. Place them in a oven tin. I put tomatoes and cheese on top because that makes them taste even better.

Bake them in the oven at 200 C until the cheese melts.

Omelette

25/01/2017Leave a comment

I love omelettes. You can put whatever you want in them and they are easy to make. I usually make mine with bacon cause it tastes good!

I think omelettes are my favourite dish when it comes to “quick meals”. After a long day at your job you (probably) don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen cooking. For me it’s stressful to know I have to be stuck in the kitchen cooking something time consuming then eat and then doing the dishes!

This omelette is a meatball omelette. I had meatballs in the freezer and put them, peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms in the pan along with, of course, eggs.

Delicious.

Tangles

25/01/2017Leave a comment

I often get tangles in my hair. Even if I use “heavy” schampoo`s and conditioners and so on they keep showing up. When I have long hair my whole hair is often one big tangle. I like having long hair but it`s almost impossible. Because of that I`ve used different hair oils to make it better.

I write hair oils and many of you probably think “oil makes my hair greasy”. My hair gets greasy as well if I use “pure” oil like olive oil. I remember when I mixed olive oil and essential oils and put it on my hair. It looked like I had never washed my hair! It only weighed my hair down and my hair looked dirty. Pure oil is excellent for deep conditioning where you leave it on your hair for a while and then wash it off. When you only want to get soft hair you should use oils especially made for your hair.

This hair oil is probably the best one I`ve used.

20170125_180706 This is Marc Anthonys, “Coconut and shea butter oil”. It`s a lightweight oil that makes your hair soft without any greasy feeling. It smells discrete but nice and it melts in with your hair. It makes at my hair almost tangle free. I find that it`s best to put it on when my hair is wet.

You can buy this everywhere.

Never

24/01/20171 Comment

I made the biggest mistake of my life some years ago. By that time I lived in the town I live in now and my depression was through the roof. I felt like I needed a change and decided to move to the place, which I`ll call”p”, where most of my relative on my mom`s side live. I thought the small village would help me in getting better. P is a place where everyone knows each other. I felt like that closeness would bring me calm.

My relatives helped me move. They moved my furniture and took it to my new flat. I had to clean the flat I had been living in and would go to P a couple of days later. The same day my two aunts met me at the train station in P I knew I had made a big mistake by moving there. “L” who is one of them went on and on about how they had spent the whole day making my flat ready for me to move in to. When I say on and on I mean it. She made me feel guilty that they had to help me. I never even asked them to do that. The whole car ride to my new flat she kept going. When we eventually got there she continued. I was exhausted when they left. This was just the beginning.

L thinks she is right in everything. She lives in this small village and everyone is afraid of her. She makes everyone`s business her own. If you don`t live your life according to her standards you will feel it. She has always had things to say about me. Everything from that I am spoiled (when I was a child) to I have too many clothes (all the time). Nothing about that is true.

I have always had the need to be alone sometimes. I love to have days when it`s just me and I have nothing to do. Especially when my depression is bad I need those days. That`s what made things go from bad to worse when I lived in P. L seemed to think that I should visit them everyday. Even if I had days where I couldn`t get out of bed because of my depression I had to go there. And when I was in her home I was on the edge the whole time because she would say hurtful things. When I began staying away from her she became this crazy person who made my life not easy to say the least.

There is much more to this story and I have to tell that later this week otherwise this post will get too long. There is much more crazieness to come!

L is crazier than me!

Snack ideas

22/01/20171 Comment

I almost never know what to eat for my evening meal. I go through all the kitchen drawers for something easy to make. I would like to make some tasty, somewhat healthty, snacks but it always ends up being some unhealthy cake on my plate.

Today I made an effort (!) and pulled out the toaster. My evening snack, thanks to the big effort, ended up being toasted rhye bread with tomatoes and cheese.

Simple and easy deliciousness.

Simple I know.

Crazier

22/01/201722/01/20174 Comments

Kajsa loves to run. Me too. We haven’t gone running for a while and Kajsa has gone crazy because of that. Or I write for a “while” but it’s only been a few days. She would run everyday if she could and she would love it. I can’t run everyday and if we take it easy for more than one day she gets hysterical. She has all this energy that has to be let out. When we then do run she can’t go fast enough.

I often don’t want to run before I do it. It takes all my energy just to get out the door. After I have run though I feel good. Kajsa is what keeps me running. I know she loves and needs it and I do it for her. She is a lovely running buddy and couldn’t be more excited when she gets her harness on.

After every run she gets into a pillow fight and the pillows fly everywhere.

Choco

19/01/20172 Comments

One of my first world problems used to be hot chocolate. I always have cream in my chocolate and I used to whip it. The problem with that was that the whipped cream never lasted long enough. You had the delicious taste of cream and chocolate in the beginning and then just chocolate.

Now I have found the perfect hot chocolate! I don’t whip the cream. Instead I mix it with the milk in the mug. I get the creamy taste all the way.

My perfect chocolate consists of 2/3 milk and 1/3 cream. I “boil” the mixture in the microwave. Then I add 1 teaspoon sugar and 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder. I think the hot chocolate powder you buy is too sweet. By making your own you can decide how sweet you want it.

Laugh

19/01/20172 Comments

My mom always makes me laugh. We have the same sense of humour. She tells me about things in her life and it often makes me laugh. This happened a long time ago but even to this day it`s one of the funniest thing she has told me. When she told me the first time I laughed so much I almost cried.

One of my mom`s friends is also the mom of a friend of mine (did you get it??????). My mom`s friend grew up on an island that is a popular summer vacation place. The friend kept her family home after her mom moved away. Me and my mom used to go there during the summer sometimes. Anyway, my mom`s friend eventually sold the house but another friend that also grew up on that island kept her family home as a “holiday house”. My mom, her “island friend”, the friend who kept her family home and some other women used to spend a weekend every fall in that family home. They were close friends and spent the weekend there cooking and going to a dance club.

This particular weekend they arrived at the house and like always they decided which room they each would get. There were many rooms in that house and my mom got a small narrow one. She is a bit claustrophobic and felt the room was too small for her. She decided to open the window to get some air in the room. She opened the window and suddenly a sworm of flies filled the room! There were hundreds of them! They had somehow been stuck in the window and when my mom opened it they went off. They filled up the whole room and my mom was in the middle of it all. She said the room went dark because the flies were so many. My mom said she refused to stay in that room and another friend switched rooms with her. She spent the rest of that day cleaning up dead flies! Either they died when my mom frantically tried to knock them out or out of chock because they too got scared when she opened the window.

They stayed in that house over one weekend and before they left they had to clean the room they had slept in. That is understandable but the thing is that no one had cleaned that house in years. My mom said there were dust and grease everywhere! It took them hours to clean what should have only taken one hour. They had to clean the whole house and it was a big one. There were nick nacks everywhere and the women had to scrub them all!

My mom never returned again.

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