God Jul❤️kettlebell

Our kettlebell group desided to have a Christmas theme workout tonight. Dressed up and just Christmas music. Such a fun group to get to be a party of. Bunch of red, sweaty, endorphine high "nisses"

God Jul

First time for everything camel meat

Today we went to drop off clothes donated by people in Oppdal to families in need. Eric goes to school with other foreigns to learn Norwegian and most if these families has close to nothing.they were very happy and exited. This family just arrived yesterday mom and 3 kids reunited with dad after 4 years. The little girl was only 1 when he left. Coming from Ethiopia they are not used to this cold... And it's not even really cold yet. They loved Johan with his light skin and blue eyes and I'm so impressed how good these girls are with babies. It's just natural to them to take care of a baby. Would not let a 5 year old Norwegian just take my kid and carry around. Here it didn't even cross my mind to let her. And the 9 year old even more safe. More safe than most teenagers here in Norway. 

We got invited in for coffee and treats and also camel meat. It tasted really good. Coffee was a bit spicy but really good too. 

Johan also had to come with mommy and Guðrún  to the gym today. 

Gotta start them early. 

Nice to have someone to workout with and help with baby when it's hard not having any family here in Oppdal

Eric is finally set up in his office. 

My grandparents came to visit. First visitors :)

Let's go Stikkmann

Antiboitics Probiotics Christmas starting

Made an other batch of Kombucca 

Even made one with Gløgg flavor, a Norwegian Christmas drink. 

Wonder how it's gonna taste....??

Trying to give Jonas some as he is taking antibiotics,thankfully they seem to help, as I'm not a fan of needing to take medications. So trying to help by giving him probiotics to help rebuild gut bacteria . 

Antibiotics kills the bacteria, but not only the bad bacteria, it also kills our good bacteria. So giving some probiotics should help a little....

Makes sense no? 

Also finished the kids advent kalendar for tomorrow.

Feeling proud of my self, think he will be happy :) Tired mamma.

Watched our first Xmas movie today with Jonas, can you guess which one it is??

Well it's tea time then bed time

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)🎅🎄🎁

Sushi time

Last night I made a nice sushi meal for me and Eric. 

And he was so happy

Buying sushi done in the store here is not quite the same.

Took me about an hour but when you get so much happiness and appreciation it's so worth it

Love sushi

So good!!

OMG! 

Made my own Larbar type bars. 

One cup if dates 

One cup cashews 

1/4 cup coconut (shredded)

And some 70% chocolate chips. 

Wish I could find darker, as they are a bit to sweet, but maybe next time I'll just put in 86% and cut it up my self, easy enough 

Can't wait to have Jonas try these

Recipe from how to eat like a dinosaur 

Waffle taste test

Today Jonas and I made two kinds of waffles, we used the plantain pancake recipe and the frozen waffles recipe from Eat like a dinousaur book

Both turned out really good :) 

Used different things on

Goat cheese both brown and white

Butter

Xylitol 

Home made strawberry jam 

Homemade strawberry cream ( butter, my strawberry jam and agave )

Sour cream 

And coffee on the side.

Enjoyed some nice outside time today. Jonas tested out the first snow, not too great yet, but kids have fun

Some snacks

Apple tidbits with cinnamon, xylitol and cocoa powder. Put in dehydrator for about 18-20 hours then they have the perfect crunch. Jonas loves these :) 

Also got my shipping today :) ordered on Thursday night last week. 

Got my arrowroot flour as I can't find it here and ordered a box of Lärbars. One happy kid there too

Favorite treat from Canada 

Kokebanan (Plantains)

Finally, thanks to the helpful people at coop Oppdal, I can now make plantain pancakes again :)

Bought frozen strawberries and warned then up with some agave 

To make it a little sweeter

So good and so easy 

Recipe from PaleoMom 

Cauliflower pizza crust

Probably the best pizza i have had in a long time.
Eric made the pizza crust earlier today.
With cauliflower and eggs and different pizza spices. Baked it first and then we when we came back from our movie day while I feed and put little dude to bed, Eric and Jonas made the wickedest pizza.
I think pretty much everything was on this pizza, Ground pork with added liverwurst ( as the liverwurst I made the other day was too gamy to my taste, but I know it is good for me so we added it in the meat...), pepperoni, parmegiano, mozzarella, shrimps, olives, tomato sauce....it was awesome.
How ever I think next time we will try to bake it on a pizza stone... gotta get one of those tho
Next purchase :)

Home made Liverwurst

So today has been a busy, getting back into normal days I guess.
Eric stared norwegian school today. My big school boy :P

Jonas biked and I walked with the stroller into town today. 7km impressed with the little dude
How ever after our dinner and pumpkin carving party with friends he was totally bagged and was begging to go home because he wanted to go to sleep.

So yesterday I got delivered at my door, liver from 3 deer, shot yesterday. Cant get much fresher then that.

So today I wanted to try to make liverwurst
I found a couple of recipes and mixed them together and made it kinda my own.

First I fried up onions with bacon fat
Also added some garlic an different spices
(thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper, paprika were the main ones)

Then I added the bacon

Then the liver

Yesterday I was so lucky to get to borrow the neighbours kitchen machine. So put it all in there and blend till smooth

Then put it in a water pan in the oven for 45 minutes to bake

A picture from our pumpkin carving night, nice to meet up with other people to do this, when it's their tradition too. Eric really misses halloween stuff

Took out all the seeds and now they are in the dehydrator with some seasoning on them

Also made apple bits with cinnamon today

And got milk from the farm.

We sure are lucky 

First food for baby

Baby food

Just an idea if you didn't already know. 

Blend your baby food in a blender, freeze in an ice cube tray, break up and put in a bag. Perfect little meals when you first start baby on foods. 

Lamb liver and avocado is the first food Johan got, first avocado for a few days then I added liver.

He now also get banana. And that is his favorite 

Some me time

Little WOD today

Some thrusters

T2B

 

Box jumps with burpees 

And squats 

All good now :) 

Love the gym 

Paleo cures food phobias

So now that I'm starting the littlest one on foods, its all about food quality for his little tummy, and what to introduce

Seeing as I could get fresh lamb liver here, I decided to give it  a try.... (again)
Hey, maybe lamb will be a bit different that veal

So after making baby food I had to make something for us too
Here is what I did:

Marinated the liver in paprika, thyme, salt, pepper, parsley and olive oil (plus a scandinavian forest spice)

Lots of butter and onions in a pan until soft, put in the liver until browned, then I had a huge lamb burger that I cooked up and threw in there as well

Put in some garlic

A bit of milk from the farm

Two scoops of sour cream
(again yes we are mostly primal, but if you are 100% paleo or AIP just skip the stuff your body can't have)

Boiled some broccoli till its bright green but still crispy ( I peel the stem and use that too )

Fry up some bacon bits till nice and crispy
(pour the bacon fat into the pan)

Then cut up some mushrooms

Put the mushrooms in, stir it good, then put the broccoli on top and let it sit for a few minutes.

Use these minutes for something fun :) Having fun while cooking is always a good thing :)

And serve the dish on a bed of rucola, and "sprinkle" the bacon bits on top.

So what I mean about food phobias, it that the most of these things I would refuse to eat for some reason.... Now after eating clean, my tastebuds have totally changed. It's awesome because I now WANT to eat whats good for me and I'm no longer craving the junk

Onions I would not eat because they felt funny in my mouth when I was a kid

Mushrooms I ate for the first time today as it was a small amount and they had been cooked in everything, I still don't like eating just mushrooms and the smell even bugs me

Liver was just torture when I got it served, oh probably 5 to 10 times in my life time

Still something I'm working on but today was a very positive experience with it

Lamb was just a no no as no one in my family would touch it, so I just grew up learning that lamb and sheep was a gross taste, well sheep can be a bit particular, but lamb....baah tastes so good.

And also milk from a farm was something I would not do, because somewhere we went to visit when we were kids, would give us milk from the farm. 

But it had been out the kitchen counter and warm so to me that was disgusting.... Well that was just a mistake from them, because you can not get better milk than ice-cold farm milk

So things have changed

Burp ! :)

Getting back into it

Well we have been back in Norway for over a week now things are starting to get back to normal.

It's been a interesting week. Tired kids, tired parents.

But now it's time to start life again.

Tomorrow Jonas goes back to Barnehagen, he is really exited and does not quite agree on not having his 4 days a week back yet. Had a playdate there for a few hours last week. 

He had so much fun and was so happy to be there again. Think the kids were quite content to see him again too. And maybe the teachers as well.

So today I had to do some food prep. Made coconut flour waffles from 

www.wellnessmama.com. 

I found them a bit too dry might try to add some banana next time.

But the good thing is that they taste good, will probably freeze well, does not crumble or stick in the waffle iron. So over all I'm satisfied with the result. But some goat cheese on there and voila :)

Or Jonas will probably want peanut butter and banana

This picture is a bit upside down, don't know how that happen, but its fresh milk from the farm and lamp liver. Liver is straight from the butcher, fresh today....

 Starting Johan on food this week so his first meat introduction will be lamb liver. After testing the liquid avocado breast milk combo he cot today.

Think this kid was very ready for food. He kept opening his mouth for the spoon and making a funny face.

The past couple of weeks he has been showing a lot of interest when we are eating, I just didn't want to start him on solids before switching time zones and messing up his routine. 

Following Sarah Ballantyne's aka The Paleo Mom's food guide of what to introduce when

www.thepaleomom.com

Jonas also got to try to feed his little brother, we all laughed a lot :)

We made pea soup today, with salted pork. I have to say that this is one of my favourite soups, know peas are not high up on the food rank in paleo but more in what you can call the fray area. 

I like to go over to the grey area and the primal, just because everyone in my family can eat it, and it cut's us some slack and gives us more options

How ever all clean food :)

Norway is starting to feel like home again, still miss Canada like crazy (!) But as Eric is putting it we have a mission here. 

Life here is good to us. 

Good Night From Oppdal

Food and people

Well here is a little from the kitchen again. So hard to keep up with the kids, family friends and just having  summer time fun

Now that it's fall it's so easy to get the freshest veggies.

Top one here I used the chard from Carmen's garden

Mixed all my different herbs from my garden into my ground chicken and when can you go wrong with thick cut bacon? 

Mission meat shop guys. Right up the hill on Stave Lake! Go there! Local and so tasty.

Using lots of turmeric lately as a flavor but also for the anti inflammatory purpose. 

Gotta do all I can to figure out this shoulder pain. Doing lots of stretches, massaging with balls and using a bar over my head rolling my shoulders back all the way to my butt, what ever that thing is called again. To much to remember. 

Yesterday I finally got some time to listen to some podcasts again. So energizing and have so much catching up to do. Time will come :)

And today I saw a stays update from a Facebook friend of mine that she is 1 day into paleo. So I sent her a text just telling my story, so we texted a bit. Cool to hear why others get into it. 

And then maybe be a help or support if needed

Two others have also contacted me over the summer, both I have blogged about. 

First the one I put on a full paleo plan in January, she saw big results but fell out of it because of moving, changing towns new life pretty much. But now she is settled down and is back on it and after 3 weeks she is again seeing big results. Crossing my fingers for a longtime result :)

The other lady was my client in the salon she is cutting more and more down slowly and seeing slow but BIG improvements. 

Two very different spiracles but both big big results. 

Happy to help even if it's just a few. 

We need to kill this epidemic 

Tonight we had fantastic BBQ ribs with a nice fresh cilantro-avocado salad 

Cilantro is one of my favorite herbs 

And guess what it's good for you too :)

Here are some geeky facts about cilantro if you wanna read

Took this from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277627.php

Consuming plant-based foods of all kinds has long been associated with a reduced risk of many lifestyle-related health conditions. Many studies have suggested that increasing consumption of plant foods like cilantro decreases the risk of obesity, overall mortality, diabetes and heart disease while promoting a healthy skin and hair, increased energy and overall lower weight.

Natural preservative: Because of its high antioxidant content, oil extracted from the leaves of cilantro has been shown to inhibit unwanted oxidation processes when added to other foods, delaying or preventing spoilage. Cilantro leaves have also been found to have an antibacterial effect against Salmonella.

Lead detoxification: Cilantro has been found to suppress lead accumulation in rats, which gives promise for the use of cilantro to combat lead and other heavy metal toxicity. Because of its chelation abilities, cilantro is also being studied as a natural water purifier.

The antimicrobial and heavy metal chelation factors of cilantro have led to its recent use in many "detoxification" juices and drinks.

So there :)

Anyways good day in Hatzic

Quitet

Miss my neighbors tho

Good night 

Plantain muffins

Last night instead of going to bed early I made plantain muffins. 

Used paleo moms recipe. Google it :) how ever I made a mistake and got a baking powder explosion in my mix. Fished most of it out, but still had a bit too much so I added to a bigger recipe with some almond flour also used cardemom 

So now me an Jonas are gonna go crazy on these. I love the discovery of plantains in my kitchen. They make muffins and pancakes easy! 

Both recipes from paleo mom 

Kelowna tomatoes

People leaving the park, leaving us food

Lillian gave us a nice salmon that I dressed up with tomatoes from Venke and Peters garden. Put some parmagian cheese on it heat them up for the last ten minutes. So good!

Had champagne at the neighbours cabin before dinner while Jonas watched Shreek. 

Had a nice picnic over at the school with Janet. Jonas biked all the way there without training wheels 

Not the best picture but I'm trying to learn kipping so using anything I can hang from as a tool :) 

It's fun, but hard to figure out. Practice practice 

Now sofa time for me and myself 

Chillaxing 

Hei alle mine venner i Norge (fra Jonas)

Hallo mine venner hjemme i Norge

Nå er jeg litt over halv vegs inn i ferien vår i Canada. Første bilde her er fra vår første stopp vi hadde i Amsterdam. Der var det tusenvis av sykler, vi lånte også en og syklet rundt. Kjempe gøy!

Her er jeg og søskenbarnet mitt Ian

I bassenget der vi har hytta vår

Vi dro på telt tur sammen med han og familien hans til Osoyoous. Vi sov i telt i fire netter. Det var så kult!

En kveld hjemme hos dem hadde vi StarWars kveld. Vi leker starwars masse!

Her måtte jeg og pappa fikse en lekkasje i vasken på kjøkkenet. 

Lillebror sier også hei :)

Her fikk jeg vere med naboene til venner og ri på ponny. Dette er Janet leker masse med henne og noen ganger store broren hennes Jack. De bor rett over veien og har mye kult å leke med. Vi dro med dem til en vann park en dag også.  

Her hadde vi basseng fest. Her er jeg sammen med Ian og Ryan. 

Her var det leirskole i parken vi bor i. Det var gøy. De andre barna måtte også lære litt norsk. Jeg prøvde å lære dem sanger men de syntes det var vanskelig. Her snakker de bare engelsk. 

Her er det en kjempe stor kino! Det er 12 kino rom! Jeg har sett to filmer her håper jeg får se en til. Popcorn er godt

Her er jeg på stranda i WhiteRock etter overnatting hos bestekompisen min Ryan

En dag dro vi til Vancouver. Der er det masse store hus. Fant en kul lekeplass å leke i og etter det fikk jeg et spesielt eple, det hadde karamel og m&m's på, det var så godt. 

Koser meg masse her i Canada på hytta. Nå er det bare 1 1/2 månte til jeg kommer igjen ibarnehagen. Gleder meg til å se dere alle sammen.

Stor klem fra Jonas