Ugly food!

The ugly wolffish. 

I'm finding that eating fish has kind of faded away in the last little while and I know why. I love trout and salmon. The two fishes that are hardest to find that are not farm raised. I really don't need zombie fishes on my plate raised on grains and who knows what. 

Yes I will still eat it on occasion... But I'm finding it harder and harder to justify buying it...

So today when I went to the fresh seafood counter at Coop to see what my options are that are also not gonna cost me all the money in the world. So this ugly guy does not cost the most and he tastes pretty darn good too

                              

I did not bother decorating the ugly guy either. 

But what I did  was

Fried up some easterham in butter. Boiled brussel sprouts then mix those two together with some pink himmalayan sea salt

In the butter and fat that is left I put the fish also added turmeric and some more sea salt into that mix. 

Had a look in my fridge...

There is found some red pepper I could cut up, along with some leeks that had to be used soon, so that went in to the mix.

Then I used some fresh dill and basil for some green, flavourful and nutritional color

And then half a lemon squeezed in there 

A sprinkle of parmesan on top YUM!!

It was so good!

Both kids ate really well. Jonas is starting to be a lot better with his eating. He has always ate everything but sloooowly. He is eating better now, still playing silly with his brother but he is 5 so let him be silly from time to time. 

And here is a silly picture of me and Johan

He gets so serious with shades on

Not always easy to find time to blog

So lately it's been a bit more busy and hard to find time to blog.
We are tearing the roof off the house and when the carpenter decided to show up one day early we had to move all our stuff up to the cabin where we are gonna spend the next two months.

So this is how our living room was looking for a little while. But it's all getting more and more organised now and we are settling in

Still keeping my training and food up. This wednesday was the first wednesday of the month and then we do our kettlebell test. Body gets sore and tired after this and is now on rest mode for a little. It is very important to get the body recover. 

I'm learning more and more how important that is. I'm also trying to manage my sleep. Getting more rest to get rid of the cortisol layers on my body. Training and food I find super easy to do. But the resting part is hard. There is always something more to do. Just have to tell my self, no that can wait. 

With my training I'm trying to keep it to 3-4 workouts per week. One of those is lifting. 

The food how I am doing it now and finding it very good for what I am trying to do is to not eat after six on any days except on saturdays, then I eat what ever I want from I get up till I go to bed. Well by eating anything I don't mean a bag of chips and candy. I mean heating healthy but if there is anything I want to eat during the week that is a carb I will eat this on Saturday. 

Sleep I'm still trying to adjust by going to bed about 15 min earlier then before. 

Just stared listening to my friends podcast. His interview with Keith Norris the founder of Paleo FX was very informative and in a very easy and understandable way. If you want some good info about training, food and this kind of lifestyle please look up his podcast. It's called TNA4MMA 

He is the one who got me into this and has been helping me a great deal along the road.

Having friends and family supporting you in these choices is very important. You meet a lot of judgement being different. Thankfully I have stopped caring for the most of it. Wish people could just respect others and mind their own business. 

But you learn to pick your people and I'm lucky to have the ones I need :)

Oppdal is beautiful now, long evenings with sunshine. This picture (a bit on the blurry side) is taken at 7.10 pm. Love the sunshine. 

Have been getting some days where I could sit and rest in the sunshine. 

My sister who is living with us for a while, is now on a two week trip to Beirut to visit her husband. 

Eric is busy with Stikkmenn and life seems to happen the way it's suppose to.

Planted a little bit with Jonas, some veggies. Don't know how it will work out, but it's fun to try it out.

Jonas is also taking more and more part in the cooking and today as we were making out chocolate treats. He said that he hopes he can work in a restaurant when he gets big, because he likes making food. 

Happy healthy kids what more can a mamma ask for??

Oh yeah it was the sleeping part :P

Have a good weekend

Pizza night and home made chocolate treats

Yesterday me and the boys had a really nice day. 

Started out with making chocolate treats.

Melted cocosa and 86% chocoloate. And then I added honey and vanilla into it

A little bit of himmalayan sea salt (the best)

Crushed raw cashews, walnuts and pecans. Last thing I added was the shredded coconut, then I can kind of control the texture. 

While this was cooling down we biked to Vognilsbua for a little saturday treat. Jonas is becoming such a good biker now. Went there all by him self. A little bit jealous that his little brother gets so it in the vagon on the way back up the hill. 

Then they played outside for a little while I prepped the pizza stuff. 

I bought one of those pizza rocks a little while ago. A really good idea. I managed to get cripsy pizza "dough". Using almond flour, coconut flour, eggs, olive oil and jyttemel (don't know what that is in english ) I also added oregano for the pizza taste.

Jonas and I made one half each. He is turning into such a little food helper. 

Johan was not sure about the pizza just yet. I love his interest in foods now. And he is already Making choices on what he likes or not when he gets different foods in front of him. 

He will always pick out the meat first. When he get food food. If he sees a banana or a prune he will let me know that that is what he wants. So neat to see nature in kids. It's human to choose the sweet because it tastes good. But if these objects are in front of us we will eat them. If they are not there, we will go for whats most nutritious. Well this is not how it is for all kids. Jonas and Johan are very different. Jonas will eat veggies first. It's a bit sad that I don't remember how Jonas was with food when he was little like that, because I had not yet adapted this lifestyle. 

3 years since this journey started now. Crazy how time flies! 

Have learned so much, so much more to learn. 

An other success, Jonas calls it bacon cake ( Bacon Rullekake )

But some plastic in a pan, put down bacon, on that you put ground meat, here I used ground chicken, put spices in with the meat. I use smoked paprika, turmeric, salt, pepper, garlic and cumin

On top of that again I put nice thich slices of Goat Cheese.

With help from the plastic you roll it up. Like rolling sushi. Then remove the plastic before putting it in the oven 

175 c until bacon gets a nice crispy side, then turn until the other side is the same.  About 45 min to 1 hour.

Served with some nice veggies. Balsamic and olive oil and I now add MCT oil to that too. If you haven't tried MCT and are into the whole health life style you should look into it. I have blogged about it before so look it up. It's super!

Super nice dinner with my little dudes! Jonas helped him self with the meat 3 times! He almost never goes for seconds at dinner, specially not meat! 

So meat and cheese wrapped in bacon it is.

Johan will happily eat anything at this point. Hoping that will last, but kids...they change :P

Have to make this for Eric when he comes home. We all miss him. 

Success with the kids??

It is not always easy to make the kids eat veggies.... 

My boys will eat pretty much anything now, but thats because they are used to it. If there is anything they won't eat I still manage to sometimes hide stuff in other food. Really parents it is not that hard to get kids to eat proper. Kids will not starve them selfs. And they will eat what they get served, if you give them the right options. 

So what was my big hit today?

Spagetti made from sweet potatoes and carrots.

Used my peeler to string the noodles

Pre boiled them a bit

Made a good sauce, this is where you can hide veggies. Cut them really small, or puree stuff in the beginning until they get used to the taste. Here I put onions and tomatoes that Jonas will normally not eat. But now that they are cut small ( I no longer need puree stuff ) and he won't notice and he ate all his food and seconds too. When I am done stringing noodles there are always small pieces left so i cut that up and put in too

You can boil some extra veggies on the side, veggies that your kids like so that they also get the part that they are eating veggies. 

If you can eat dairy put some parmesan cheese on too :) And there you go Italia paleo food :)

The big waffle day!

Today we had waffles for dinner. 

It is the international waffle day!

My waffles are a bit different from your sunday waffles. 

Mine are made with coconut flour, almond fluor, eggs, banana, arrowroot flour, cardamom and salt. 

I love them and they are very filling, but one thing is for sure eating this as my MEAL for the day before doing tabata kettlebell might not have been the smartes move.

I had some chicken with it too. But I need way more food than that. Cool to getting to know my body in this way.  And so much more to learn. Can't wait to learn! Wonder where I will be in 10 years :)

Candle light lunch, 30 roses and kettlebell cupcakes

Oh yeah I"M 30!

Tina got up with the boys this morning and made me a breakfast muffin and coffee, 

both with pink cream!!

And presents too!!

Then Jonas went to barnehagen and the rest go us spent some hours in the sun,

Before Tina took me to lunch at Spisbar in Oppdal. Ate so much that I could not have dinner, but she had made me pink kettlebell cupcakes. Could not say no to this on my 30th!

Neighbour poped by with 30 roses and a present too. 

So thankful for all the wonderful people in my life. 

For Tina for making this day so super special 

For Eric making my day special two weeks ago as he is working his butt of being away in NYC

For my two wonderful boys giving their mamma unconditional love

For my family and friends making me feel loved

This evening of course, went to Kettlebell class no birthday day with out a good workout :)

My birthday present from Eric, from the underwater pregnancy photoshoot. What a cool thing to have done. I have to day I am quite content with the finished result :) 

Can't wait to get it up on the wall then the roof and upstairs is done :)