Great and simple!

I love a store where I can find ANYTHING, like Åhlens, Muji and Granit.  These 3 shops are so simple, clean and practical!  My last discovery was Granit, a swedish franchise that sells things for the home and also for yourself.  It's basic black and white and some wood, glass and metal products.  They also sell spices, teas, olive oils, soap and other goodies.

A few months back, I got myself 2 items,  a black and white stripes simple T-shirt and a black T-shirt dress.  They are both favorites in my closet, I wear them in the winter, summer, anytime and go with everything. 

Dinner on a rainy weekend

We'll be having some friends over this weekend at the cabin, since it seems like it will be raining ALL the time, Jonas and I have decided on making a cozy meal.  We have two options:

 Jamie Oliver's Roast Pork Shoulder

 or... Roast shoulder of lamb (also Jamie Oliver)

 I am not very experienced cooking meat, so I need a guide, and who else than Jamie Oliver to give me a easy to follow, down to earth, 100% pleasing recipe?  I know, I am a big fan, and I have always been, but I have never been let down, and I have learned a lot about cooking from him, so, when in looking for a good recipe full of flavour, that's my man.

I'll tell you how it went!

The Neistat Brothers

Red beet soup.

My stepmother gave me this recipe a while ago.  I never wrote it down, so I am pretty sure that it has changed a bit from the original because "I play it by ear", so, I will try to be as specific as possible.

This is a great soup for anytime of the year.

 Ingredients (feeds 6)

4 red beets

4 garlic cloves

2 oranges

half a cup of orange juice

half a cup of cream

1 lt of chicken stock

30 g of butter

salt

pepper

Extra virgin olive oil

 Preheat oven in 180ºC.  The beets will be baked in aluminum foil for around 90 minutes.  Each beet should have some orange peel, garlic, a dash of olive oil, salt and pepper.  Once they are baked, peel the red beets and put them in the processor together with the garlic and a cup of chicken stock. Now, move the mix into a large pot, add the rest of the chicken stock and the rest of the ingredients, cook in low temperature for half a hour so the tastes sink in.  Serve!  The color is amazing, and the taste... well... just taste it and see for yourself.

The coolest kitchen products!

I was looking for enamel pots online and came across Labour and Wait, a fantastic shop in London that sells all kinds of kitchen and home products.  Here are a some of them that have stolen my heart!

Pink "Milk Pot"

White enamel measuring cup

Lasagna dish (there is a bigger one 

called the Roasting dish that is great too)

While these are amazing, as an addition to any kitchen, my heart is still pounding for a Le Creuset set.

Gracias mami,

Fabiana Cantilo, with Gustavo Cerati playing a Seru Giran song.... no more words necessary. All I can say is: Thank you mami for posting this video on FB! I love you.
How HOMESICK can one get!!!! Good homesick though.

Fake Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori powder is a mix of lots of spices (cumin, coriander, chilli pepper, ginger, garlic, smoked paprika and garam masala).  You can probably buy most of the ingredients in a exotic shop or even at your local supermarket, but I found an already made mix at Eksotisk Torg (Christies gt. 13) in Bergen and it is actually pretty good.

I say is fake because originally, the recipe should be cooked in a tandoor, which is a type of clay oven, or on a grill as second best.  Today I decided to make it in the regular oven since it's raining cats and dogs and we don't own a tandoor.

Anyways, I tried to do it as fat free as possible, so I mixed 3 spoons of tandoori mix with 2dl of natural yogurt and marinated 2 chicken breasts with it for around 3 hours in the refrigerator, after that, I baked it in the oven on 200ºC for around 25 minutes.

I made a greek salad (cucumber, tomato, red onion, olives and feta, a bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and a pinch of oregano as my dad does) and some bulgur to eat beside it.

Delicious and healthy!!!