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Easy baking

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I made the easiest cookies today. I had bought puff pastry because I like it and I thought I would do something with it. The one you buy is tasty and I would never do it myself. The amount of time it takes is not for someone as lazy as me. You have to roll the dough and put butter in it, let it cool and then roll it again for I don`t know how many times.

I put apple sauce and cinnamon on the puff pastry. I rolled it together and brushed beaten egg on top. I also put pearl sugar on it.

I baked it for 20 minutes at 200 C in the middle of the oven.

It was tasty!

Chocolate thing

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I think this protein obsession that`s all over the place at the moment is crazy. Every where there is some advice that you should eat more of it. Manufacturers know that protein is big business and they want to cash in. Now there are protein in almost all kinds of food. Most people don`t need all this protein that`s out there. Commercials makes us believe that we can`t have enough of it. There should be protein involved in all we eat.

I know I have fallen for protein drinks. After exercise I drink them. I could just make a sandwich but it`s easier to mix powder with milk. The sandwich would probably do a better job with my recovery but I`m sticking to my powder. I have found a product I do buy from time to time. I don`t eat it after exercise I eat it as a snack. Many protein products are disgusting but this is tasty. It`s a chocolate flavoured protein pudding. I eat it when I`m hungry and need something more than just a sandwich. I make it unhealthy though cause I eat it with double cream.

I think it would be great after exercise though. If you don`t like protein drinks you should try it. It has a great taste and it`s easy to eat. It even comes with a spoon.

Bacon

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I think that bacon makes food delicious. The salty flavour gives almost all food a richer taste. Pasta goes especially well with bacon. I like vegetarian pasta sauces but bacon sauces I like even more. And to serve a bacon sauce with fresh pasta is my favourite meal. I don`t make my own pasta because I`m too lazy and also because I think the ones you can buy are tasty.

This is an oven cooked pasta dish. Like I said I`m lazy and this is easy to make. I make a sauce with vegetables and bacon. In this sauce there`s peppers, fresh tomatoes, tinned tomatoes, bacon, onions, milk and cream. I fry the fresh vegetables and bacon for a while and then I add the tinned tomatoes, milk and cream. I also add salt and pepper.

I put the fresh pasta in an oven tin and pour the sauce on top of it. I put some cheese on it and cook at 200 C in the middle of the oven until the cheese has melted.

Scones

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20161124_15181620161124_15360320161124_17541920161124_175540I like all things that are easy to make. Scones are easy to bake. They taste good and they don`t feel as unhealthy as other cakes. I find them to be cross between a cookie and a bread.

I`ve tried many different scones recepies but I think these are the most tasty ones. These scones contains both eggs and sugar which makes them really good.

Ingredients:

7,5 dl wheat flour

0,5 teaspoon salt

1,5 teaspoon baking powder

0,5 dl sugar

125 gr butter

1 egg

2 dl milk

Oven: 250 C

Mix all the dry ingredients. Add the butter, egg and milk. Stir until the batter is even.

Make 10 scones and put them on a baking tray. Put some beaten egg and sugar on top of them. Bake for 10 minutes in the middle of the oven.

Fish

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I should eat fish more often. I don`t know how to make fish tasty and that`s why I seldom cook fish dishes. I think  fish needs a good sauce and there`s the problem. With meat you can just make a sauce out of the meat juices in the pan but with fish you need more. There are many ready made sauces but I often don`t like them. And then there`s the fish itself. I don`t like them all. My least favourite is salmon. Almost everyone likes it but I find the taste over welming. Whatever you do with salmon it just taste salmon.

This fish dish started as a sauce for baked potatoes. We had it with potatoes, butter and salt. Because I`m lazy I thought that baked potatoes required too much of an effort to eat (I said I was lazy). Then I began frying potato pieces to go with the sauce and that`s what I do now. To make it even easier I cook the potatoes in the oven while I make the sauce.

I can`t give you the amounts of the ingredients cause I don`t use a recepy but here`s what I put in the sauce.

Creme fraiche

Tinned tuna in water

Tomato purèe

Red onion in small pieces

Dried dill

Salt and pepper

I mix it all in a bowl and serve with fried potatoes.

Already made

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I like watching cooking shows on tv. Masterchef the England version is my favourite show. The judges are great because they are sympathetic and nice. When the contestants don`t do that good the judges don`t make them feel bad. There are other Masterchef versions where the judges are horrible.

There are talkshows where there are cooking segments. I like them too. One thing that strikes me when I watch them is that the stoves don`t seem to do what they should. You never see the food getting cooked. When they shoot something that`s supposed to be cooking there`s nothing going on. No bubbles in the so called boiling water or the butter in a frying pan sizzling away. There are food there but nothing happens.

Often the cooks say that things are already made. They make a dish and instead of completing it they pull out something that`s “already made”. I know that certain things takes too long to cook and to be able to show how the dish should look Before the program ends they need to make some things ahead of the show. I don`t know if that is the actual reason though. What if the stoves in some of these shows are just props and the only way of having a dish to show is to have something already made. I don`t know.

Fast food

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I write fast food and I mean food that takes little time to make. This was fast food. It`s not the healthiest food but I think you could treat yourself to it from time to time. I like bacon and french fries together and that`s what it is. It`s bacon and french fries along with peppers and tomatoes. I cook it in the oven.

In the oven tin there`s eggs mixed with milk, salt and pepper and I cook it at the bottom of the oven. The french fries are cooked in the middle of the oven.

Food

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I think food should be easy to make. I love slow cooked meals but not to do them. They take a long time to make. Often when I make dinner I`m starving and to then cook for hours is not for me. I know most slow cooked meal you put in the oven and then it cooks itself so to speak. You often don`t have to touch it until it comes out of the oven. The only thing is that I`m never home long enough to do that. I would never leave the house and have food in the oven which I would have to do if I wanted something slow cooked.

The food I made today I cooked in the oven but it was fast cooking. It was more than delicious if I might say so (modest I know). It doesn`t look good in the pictures however it was. I had some bolognese sauce I had made and I put it in the corner of an oven tin with some cheese on top.

In the rest of the tin I put peppers, thinly sliced potatoes and brussel sprouts. I added some cream and salt and pepper. I put it in the middle of the oven at 200 C for 50 minutes.

I like to cook the whole dinner in one tin.

Tasty

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I won’t call this post Food idea because I know that most of you probably won’t try it. It was the dinner for today. You should try it though cause it’s delicious!

It’s bacon and black pudding. What black pudding is, for those of you that don’t know, is a pudding made from blood and other things. I haven’t read what the other ingredients are because if I did I would never eat it again. It’s enough that I know about the blood.

This is everyday food in this country. It doesn’t cost much and it is tasty. On the plate shown there’s also lingonberry jam which is necessary. It’s not complete without it.

Treats

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Much of the dog treats available are not good. They smell bad and has additives that shouldn’t be there. Even if dogs like smelly stuff you often wonder what they put in the treats to make them smell like that. Many doesn’t smell of what they should be made of. Liver treats are one of those that smells disgusting. I don’t like liver but it doesn’t smell like that. There was another treat that smelled so bad that I had to throw it out. They often don’t even have natural flavours.

Treats often have sugar in them and that’s hard to get. Dogs don’t care about the sweetness give them real flavours instead.

I have found a treat that is natural and I will write about that another time. In the meantime I can tell you I made my own dog treats today. I just used ingredients I know are good to dogs. I didn’t think about writing down how much I used of the ingredients and I can only give you an estimate of it.

1 egg ( I’m sure of that )

1 tablespoon peanut butter

1 small piece of apple ( in small pieces and remove the peel and seeds )

2 dl oats

I mixed everything together and I tried to shape the mixture into bones. I don’t know if I succeeded. I put the “bones” in a tin and cooked them at 150 C for 20 minutes.

Kajsa loved them!

I have to say that you should only give them to your dog in moderation as they contain peanutbutter that is not exactly diet food.