Sometimes, food that doesn`t look delicious are just that. This doesn`t look at all as tasty as it was.
I put fresh pasta in an oven proved tin.
I added peppers, tomatoes and onion to the pasta.
I poured tinned tomatoes over the vegetables and pasta.
I know it doesn`t seem tasty.
I had some bought meat balls I added to the tin.
I poured cream over the mix and added salt, pepper and cheese.
I cooked the dish in the oven for 30 min at 200 C.
It was delicious! Sometimes it`s as easy as that.
I told you yesterday about a tv show that was about different diets. An english man went to America and experienced the paleo diet along some other diets.
Yesterday evening I was having my evening meal and found a tv show about being over weight. I decided to watch it while I ate. In this tv show yet another english man went to America to study some research about how to fight obesity.
However, he began the show in England where he watched different experiments on how to stop people from over eating. In one experiment the subjects in the study had been given some hormones to see if that could make them eat less. A researcher gave them this huge portion of food! It was enough to feed three people. If anyone would eat it all they would explode!
Anyway back to the America part of the show. I was enjoying my meal and the show and was feeling relaxed. That changed……..when this english man also went to a poop clinic! Earlier that day the diet show man (which I told you about yesterday) went to the same or another poop clinic! Two poop clinic visits in the same day! Both times I had to watch these clinics I was eating! This time though they didn’t show when they mixed the stuff to get a better texture.
The diet show earlier that day, went to the clinic because of the research that if you insert someone elses “stuff” in you the bacteria in your body can become healthier. This show said that if you insert the “stuff” from someone else it could help you loose weight.
Both of the “stuff”segments were disgusting. And they made me loose my appetite.
I watched a tv show about diets today. An english man went to America to learn about different diets. He was refreshingly honest and I laughed many times.
One of the diets was the”paleo” diet. You eat the kind of food they ate in the stone age. It consists of all kinds of meat, vegetables and nuts. You can’t have any rice or other carbs. The english man went to a retreat where they ate grilled meat and they exercised stone age style which means they had shovels they pretended to dig with. The participants at the retreat couldn’t be more into this diet. They had never felt better. They were skinny but the english man questioned how healthy the diet was. The food was greasy and salty and it made him feel tired. He met with the leader of the retreat and that was hilarious. The leader said “he was 60 looked like 30 and felt like 18”. The english man said that he was 45 himself and that the leader looked like he could be his father!
I find that diets can be healthy but I could never be “on one”. I have to eat different foods to feel good. I have been a vegetarian and even then I varied what I ate. Now I eat meat but I could never be a paleo dieter. If I don’t eat carbs I feel sick.
When I watched the diet show I was having dinner. I ate an omelette and was happy with my eggs and tv until……..they showed an poop transplant! The transplant can change the bacteria in your body and is helpful for some. The doctor at the poop clinic took out a plastic jar with……..poop. I didn’t like my omelette anymore. She put the poop in a mixer and mixed it. I couldn’t eat the rest of my omelette.
Another diet was the fruitarian diet. The fruitarians only eat fruit. I could never even try that diet because I would be hungry all the time. I wonder how much fruit they have to buy to get even the slightest sense of not being hungry. And it must be expensive.
Thank you very much grocery store!
Thank you for not having butternut squash on the shelves today. I had planned on cooking butternut squash even though I have no idea how to. You saved me from trying to make a meal that would have been……….not tasty.
-Honey there’s only five bananas left!
-There’s five in the freezer.
-That’s right but they are the ones I planned on making a dessert with.
That’s me. I always make plans to bake or cook things I know never will happen. I put the bananas in the freezer because I’ve read recepies where they have to be frozen. I probably never will make the banana dessert and I have to throw them away.
I have peppermint oil and dried fruits “just incase”. I buy crazy spices and seeds and tell myself I will use them. I buy vegetables and fruits I don’t know what to make of. I buy crackers and cheese because I might one day like it. Crazy!
I have to eat in the evening. I can’t skip that meal. They say breakfast is the most important meal but for me evening meals are just as important. With that said I find it hard to know what to make. I almost always eat sandwiches but that bores me after a while.
That’s why I’m happy I have found mugcakes! I have seen mugcake recepies before but they have all been a celebration of all unhealthy things. This mugcake is not the most healthy thing you can eat but it’s healthy enough for me.
Mugcakes are what it sounds like, a cake in a mug. You make the batter in a mug and then you bake the batter in the mug in a microwave. East!
Blueberry muffin mugcake.
Ingredients:
4 tbsp flour
2 tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp baking powder
1/16 tps baking soda
3 tbsp milk
10 blueberries (I used frozen)
Mix all the ingredients in an microwave “proven” mug.
Streusel.
1 tbsp cold butter
1,5 tbsp flour
1,5 tbsp sugar
1,4 tsp vanilla extract (I used powder)
Mix the ingredients in a bowl. “Pour” it over the blueberry mixture and put the mug in the microwave. The recepy said to bake at 1200 W for 1 minute. Our microwave only has 750 W and I baked the muffin for 1,5 minutes.
I hope this year will bring you happiness and all the things you want. I hope this year will be the year where I hopefully will feel better. I have gone through crazy things these last few years when it comes to my depression but I have finally gotten in contact with a doctor that seems to know what he`s doing. I am going to tell you about this journey later.
I haven`t made any new year`s resolutions to myself, which I never do anyway, because I can`t keep them. One thing I will try though is to cut down on my sugar intake. I have done it before and I will try my hardest to do it again. I got inspired by a blogger that is struggling to quit sugar. I have actually succeeded to do it before, which I never thought I would. For me, candy is my biggest weakness when it comes to sugar. I eat candy because I like it and also when I`m hungry or bored. Sometimes I eat chocolate instead of a sandwich because I`m too lazy to make it, and it`s crazy. And when I`m bored I eat candy to keep me busy.
Happy new year.
-Mom I don`t care that it`s a new year.
-Every year is a Kajsa year.
I hope you had a wonderful christmas! We had a relaxing one. Christmas lately has been about food and family and not so much about gifts. We have reduced the number of christmas gifts drastically and to not have to buy things to everyone has made it easier. For instance I only buy gifts for my mom. My aunts only buy gifts for their husbands and children and so on. I remember how it was before when I raced around town to find things to buy. Some are not the easiest to buy for and more than ones I ended up with buying just for the sake of buying which means crap gifts. I also waited until the last minute which was stressful in itself.
For me christmas has become more of a food event. Before I thought “lets get food out of the way and lets open our gifts”. Now I like the food more. Because I don`t eat many things on the traditional christmas table I have added some foods that I like. I always make porkribs and a brusselsproutstew.
Porkribs, brusselsprouts and red cale.
This year I also made applepie.
Apple and marzipan pie.
Of course I also ate candy!
The best thing about christmas was of course Kajsa dressed as a christmas gift.
-Honey we`ve only got three litres of milk left. I don`t know if that`s enough to last until tomorrow.
Haha. There`s two of us and no one actually drink milk. Again, that`s what happens when everyone just buy things without asking what needs to be bought.
There`s a commercial on tv where someone comes to Sweden from another country to celebrate christmas. Because of that the family in Sweden replaces some of the food they normally serve at christmas. They replace it with food that`s eaten in the guest`s country.
First I have to say that I`m not upset or anything like that by that commercial. And second, I know the family does this as an act of kindness as well as show respect for another country and the traditions there. (And I know it`s only a commercial). It got me thinking though. If I were to celebrate christmas abroad I would like to eat what they normally do. I would never expect to get swedish dishes and honestly I would prefer not to. I eat swedish christmas food every year and it would be more than great to try something else. I sometimes spend christmas in Austria where my dad lives and I like that they just serve their traditional dishes. It`s like when people travel to other countries for their vacation. Many always choose their home countries food, if it`s available, from the menue.
In Sweden we eat a lot of different food at christmas. One thing that many consider to be the most important one on the christmas table is pickled herring. I think it`s disgusting. If you`ve never heard of it, it`s raw fish in vinegar. It tastes like………raw fish and vinegar. What I mean is that I would never not serve the herring if a guest from another country would spend christmas at our place.
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