Christmas breakfast

Instead of inviting for dinner we desided to invite some friends for breakfast 

Everyone brought a little something or actually people brought a lot of food. Soooo much food! 

Thanks to everyone 

Pizza night, gingerbread house and meatballs

Productive Saturday night. First we made pizza for dinner. Jonas like making his own pizza and then he gets to choose what he wants to eat too.

Then we decorated our gingerbread house and ate candy, it's December so we are taking it all out ;) 

Then Eric and I made meatballs for Christmas Eve, and more to freeze ;)

Feeling good about my Saturday 

Home made sushi

Okay so I did buy one box of sushi, just to see the difference between taking the time to make it our selfs 

 

And man is it worth it, making it your self

We have a book with explaining how to make the rolls 

Wasabi, ginger, gluten free soy sauce, sesame seeds

We only got salmon but wanna try with more things if we had the right place to buy it.

Eric and I both had lots of fun making this meal, fun to make cooking into a date

Tricked my self to eat liver :)

As most of us know liver is good for us, specially when pregnant. But the taste for me is something I just can't get used to.

So today we made a pic pot of stu, about one kilo of ground meat. 

And maybe 100 grams of liver.

For veggies we put in yams, carrots, onions, zucchini and tomatoes. Used tomato pate and some feta cheese for sauce. It was delicious and I could not taste the liver as is was chopped up very small.

Try hiding food in food it really works and I can probably end up adding bigger and bigger amounts :)

Chinese food

Beef and broccoli 

With Asian flavoring like sesame seed, ginger and gluten free soy sauce.

Turkey with carrots and broccoli and some Asian flavoring too. 

All so good 

Some Norwegian food

A kind of meatballs with sauerkraut and different veggies. I think it's important to have between 3 and 10 veggies at a meal. Then I can make sure Jonas always tries everything once and will at least eat half of the veggies. Sometimes he will eat one and sometimes he won't. Sometimes he says he likes it sometimes no. So that's why I keep making many so her keeps eating them all. Eric and I will always eat all anyways so there is no waste and really not much more work. And left overs are always good to pack up for lunch the next day. Or add some of the dinner in your kids breakfast or lunch. It's more exiting than just that same piece of bread with cheese on it...

Add less of the starchy food to keep your kids full longer and not spiking the insulin level with starches that turn into sugars....

Okay little speech in the there too.  

But might help people get more insight in the way I make my food chooses and understanding it a little better. 

Bit of a snow storm here today. All roads out of town were closed at some point of the day

Went to the midwife today. Baby is right where he should be. I'm over half way three and I can feel the little guy move quite often now.  

Glutenfree potato lefse

Well as for today's challenge, trying to make the traditional Norwegian Christmas lefse gluten free.

Went with buckwheat flour and psyllium 

It was not easy to find a way to do it. It was too crumbley to make it as big as I did with wheatflour. 

So they ended up way smaller but surprisingly tasty.

Jonas helped me grind the potatoes or Bonke poteter as my grandma told me my dad would say when she did this when he was Jonas' age.

Fun to hear some stories. While trying to learn an old tradition. ( in a new way)

When we got home to Oppdal today there was a lot of fresh snow. When we left here 32 hours ago there was only 3-4 cm of snow....!!! This is Oppdal 

This is how much I made to freeze for our Julesylte that we made last weekend!!! Oh I can't wait for Xmas 

Eric enjoying the small taste we had for our evening food.

Nice shirt eh? 

Shipping arrived!!

Yay! 

Ordered this stuff about one week ago from iherb.com

All gluten free 

Mostly treats we miss from back home in Canada, but also stuff like cocnut flour, coconut water, cocnut cream. Dried seaweed with wasabi. Dried fruit snacks.

All organic too. And so much cheaper than Norway! 

Recommend page. Also vitamins and other stuff. Just make sure to read the ingredients, some stuff might actually not be as healthy as they seem with added flavoirs, preservatives, colorings, sweeteners and so on. 

Fast delivery 

Tuna salad

Take one can of tuna or two add some kesam or mayo some pickles and salt and pepper

Make a nice and green salad 

I added mixed baby leafs, tomatoes, cucumber, avocado and feta cheese :)

Try to get the tuna in olive oil or in just water, seed oils are a no no. 

Julesylte Norwegian X-mas food

Normally this would be made out of the meat that comes from the pigs head. Now it's more common that you use just pork or pork with a mix of other foods. 

I used pig, duck, chicken and beef

Layer it, put gelatin, salt and pepper between the layers

Give it a steam bath and press it over night

With all the boiling of the meat/bones comes delicious broth 

Lots of people will probably just throw this out but we freeze it in jars and reuse it for soup stock ( which Eric is preparing for this week with some of it) or to be used in gravies. 19 glass jars!

Made knekkebrød, flatbread from seeds and when I cut that up I got a lot of "breadcrumbs" that I also keep for later use. 

Pretty much everything can be reused in some way:) 

Been cooking and cleaning for about 10 hours today but it's so worth it.

Specially when there are two of us in the kitchen.

Eric made us a lovely dinner with the left over veggies from last night

Baked them in the oven with chicken breast.

We also got a nice walk in today with Jonas and went to the farm to get fresh milk!

Feeling happy and very lucky! 

Frøknekkebrød

125 grams of almonds ( grinded )

3 dl sunflower seeds

1 dl flaxseeds

1 dl sesame seeds 

2 tablespoons of psyllium powder

1 teaspoon salt 

5 dl water 

Stir it all together

Let it rest for 10 minutes

Put in on a bakinsheets on a tray spread till flat

Cut with a pizza wheel 

But one tray on the bottom of the stove and one on top after 35 min switch and leave it in for an other 35 minutes

Hot air

160 Celsius 

Cool down and break into pieces 

Happy fathers day!

In Norway it's Father's Day today. 

And I'm so lucky that I have my dad here and the dad of my kid(s)

Made eggs and bacon for breakfast

And fresh milk from the farm!!! Best! 

Tuna salad and tomato mozzarella

Been wanting tuna salad for the last few days and now Im finally gonna eat it:)

And then I just put mozarella on tomatoes marinated in balsamic vinegar and olive oil with oregano, salt and pepper 

Yesterday I finally got to do some boxing again!

Thanks to the awesome, talented and lovely Ailen!!

That was so much fun and I now know how to count to ten ;) 

Zucchini and eggplant lasagna

So many veggies! 

I used ground chicken

Browned it with onions and garlic and added some red peppers in the end. Used an approved pasta sauce in the meat

Veggies:

Carrots

Broccoli

Cauliflower 

Kale

Cabbage

All cut up nice and small and warmed up in chicken broth till a bit soft.

Then I layered it all with eggplant and zucchini 

On top I used grated cauliflower to give it that crisp. And added some green pesto to it too

Jonas loves this dish and I get to trick more veggies into him this way as it's all cut up so small ;) 

This dish can be alternated in so many ways you can add more veggies different meats and so on

Good night

Pork tenderloin

This is a very easy meal to make. 

Fry it quickly on each side till light brown and then put in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Cut up some greens while you wait. 

Voila dinner in 30 min 

Super easy and so tasty! 

Serrano/prosciutto wrapped asparagus for dinner

I have totally been craving these for weeks! Finally we made it ;)

Let it all marinate in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. 

Put in the oven and wait for the deliciousness!! 

Yum!! 

Buy local!

Finally! Milk straight from the farm! 

That's all I have to say! 

Greek dinner and avocado chocolate pudding

Appetizer mango salsa served on cucumber with Bree and Feta cheese

Hummus, Tzaztiki, beef and chicken also had falafel and couscous 

Dessert avocado chocolate pudding.

This one for. me was the most interesting thing to make

Just avocado with cocoa powder, vanilla and honey. I melted coconut oil and cocoa powder and poured it on top and let it cool down so it turned into chocolate. I also made little chocolates so good.

Berries always works in deserts. 

All had a nice filling dinner. This dinner was all primal. 

Had a fun day cooking and preparing all the food with Eric 

Jonas also enjoyed his evening. He was so happy to have Siren read hike his bedtime story. What great neighbours we have

Been a bad blogger

Lots happening in life and it's making me a bad blogger.

As most people now know we have a baby on the way. Also causing me to be more tired and wanting to rest more.

We have done one month full paleo again, but are now more back to primal. I find it hard to stay away from dairy although I feel better without it.

Had a really nice trip to Iceland, went with a friend from there that it just as fixated on food, health and training as me. So our trip went from the gym to massages to spa, to health food stores, visits, blue lagoon and hiking. Was so relaxing and much needed. Nice to travel with someone that understands :)

Eric has joined me in the gym which I love. Well exept when he sings for me in class lol. I love that man ;)

Exercise for me has to slow down now as my pelvic is not at it's best with this pregnancy. That really sucks for me. It's hard to wrap my head around not exersising so much. But gotta listen to my body.

Anyways I'll get better at blogging soon. 

Just wanted to say hi :) 

Here is a new book I've stared reading. Recommend it to everyone that are interested in paleo. ( for people in Norway as information is hard to get in Norwegian) 

Hunter-gatherer

Think we have some meat for a while.

Today our lamb arrived. 

Now it's all packed up and frozen

Exept one piece we tasted and some meat we cut up and leaf to marinate for dinner tomorrow :) 

Yum yum!!! 

Jonas calls it Dinner Egg Cake

When we went to Iceland this weekend we had this kinda dish in a Health Food Store/ Resturant. 

And it was so good I had to try to and recreate it. 

Eggs and almond flour mixed together

Fried up some chicken 

Cut up pepper, kale and garlic

Added some curry, cummin and paprika spice

Green pesto and a sprinkle of parmigian cheese cheese on top. 

8 eggs

4 chicken breasts 

One pepper 

2 big leaves of kale

2 cloves of garlic

Served with a spinach on the side

And also had some carrots and cauliflower on the side

Jonas keeps asking for more and more spinach that he dipped in balsamic vinegar. 

Now back to watching the soccer game Norway-Iceland

Don't know who I'm cheering for...

Fårikål

Sheep/lamb

Cabbage and potatoes 

This is a Norwegian dish and now it's the festival here in town so yesterday we ate out and it was good :) 

Eric makes wicked breakfasts

And Jonas helps crack all the eggs 

One is with eggs and salmon and one is eggs and bacon!

Yum! 

Got any of these?

You should probably think about quitting gluten.

Just start googling your thing and gluten. Then google what you have and paleo. 

Stupid gluten=pain

Two days ago I was not paying enough attention and got gluten in my food. 

Immidiatly (about an hour after eating) I felt joint pain in my hands and knees. And like I had water under my feet. Swelling!

And for two nights now I have almost had no sleep, major burning sensation in my stomach and headache :(

Last night I was up crying in pain. It really sucks! 

I understand more and more how bad gluten actually is and why people feel like something is wrong without really understanding what it is. That is how I was feeling since I was about 14. 

Now I feel 100% better, well exept when I'm not paying attention and get it in my system!

Wonder how many days it's gonna take to get over this one :/ 

Today's buy at the festival in Otta

7 kind of sausages, olives and other olive marinated veggies.

Night snack 

Two happy kids

Baked chicken

This turned out really good, put butter in the bottom with kale, then some weird looking carrots, purple, yellow and orange. ( wondering how they r made, natural or not??)

Then some yams and onions before I put the chicken with bacon on top. Added some water in the bottom so the veggies get steamed.

Mackerel

That was our dinner tonight so simple and easy to make.

Cucumber with olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper :)

Butter on the rest ;)