What's this?

Could it be clown noses?

 Nae, it's a bunch of small tomatoes ;-)

Aren't they just looking very delicious? Yummy, yummy!

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Kram Eva

This I like =)

Quick Salted Cucumber (gherkins).

Approximately one kilograms Cucumber
12 cup (deciliterl) cold water
1 cup (deciliterl) salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar

The two ingredients below can be excluded:
3-4 dill crowns (I used dried dill)
4-5 currant leaves

Wash / brush clean cucumbers and "peck" them 3-4 times with a fork.
Add them down in a bowl with a lid that holds all the cucumbers.
Measure out the water and mix in salt and sugar.
Stir until sugar and salt are completely dissolved.
Dowse over the salt-sugar syrup over the cucumbers, and let everything rest for at least two days before eating them.

Now they are ready to be eaten.

Slice thinly and arrange on e.g. a liver pâté sandwich.
The cucumbers taste even good with a piece of meat.

The cucumbers will remain fresh for about two weeks in the fridge (if not eaten before then of course).

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Missade Du Expressens söndagsbilaga?

Monique

Expressens söndagsbilaga om LCHF. Nu finns den på Internet.

Fettbanta med LCHF

Monique gick ner 40 kilo med LCHF

Så lyckas du med LCHF-metoden

Recept för en vecka med LCHF

Webtest: vad kan du om LCHF?

Have a nice day!

Mummified Food!!

I saw this on the new web site LCHF.se. What do you think when you see a film clip like this?

NEVER EAT AT MC DONALDS AGAIN!!!!!!!

That was my first thought! Not that I'm a regular custumor at that place, but it happens now and then when Bertil wants to have a 'burger'. The thing is that he loves their French fries, and I just hate it. I use to eat a small Chicken burger when we go there, but NEVER AGAIN!

In this film from March 2008 a lady is showing a four years old Happy Meal. It is remarkable that the food not been aged in a natural way. It has instead more become mummified. The bread has not mould, just been hard. The cheese and meat is not rotten or mould. The meat is just shrunk slightly, while the cheese solidified. The French fries principle looked fresh. Unless it’s not smuggled to the truth in this film it gives you a thought about what fast food can contain. The film contains some advertising which we do not need to worry about.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Sunshine Pie á la Eva

Sunshine Pie, or You take what you have Pie =)

Filling:1 pack with bacon, about 140 gram
6-8 fresh mushrooms in small pieces (or 1 small tin in slices)
About 1½ dl parboiled broccoli in small bouquets
About 100 gram of Feta cheese in small squares
1 orange (plum) tomato in thin slices
½ leek in thin slices or ½ onion of optional type

Egg mixture:3 eggs
200 gram (2 dl) 34% Crème Fraiche
½ dl whip cream
Some salt and new grounded black pepper

Cut the bacon with a scissor or cut with a knife into small pieces.
Clean the mushrooms and cut into small pieces or slices.
Chop the leek or onion.
Put all these ingredients into a pie tin, and roast it for about 5-10 minutes while you mix up the egg mixture.
Put the rest of the ingredients, (broccoli, Feta cheese and tomato) into the tin and pour over the egg mixture.
Oven heat: 200°C (392°F) for about 30 minutes.
Serve with a salad and home made Rhode Island salad sauce/dressing.

Rhode Island salad sauce/dressing:200 gram (2 dl) 34% crème fraiche
3-4 tbsp real mayonnaise
3-4 tbsp tomato purée
salt and new grounded black pepper

I hope you will have a zestful meal!

Summer time

Yes, yes! Now these lovely berries have there season here in Sweden. They have 8,3 g of carbohydrates/100 g, so I have to be careful with this kind of goodies. If you eat according the LCHF "diet" and want to lose weight, you shouldn't eat anything that's higher than 5 g carbohydrates/100 g food.

Sweet, sweet Goodies!

Here's a new utensil in my kitchen. It's a thermos coffee percolator with two cans included in the price, 299 SEK, about $39. A very good purchase ;-)

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Junk Food!

I went to Ängelhom with Anna and the children yesterday to fetch up their car that had been on service. As every other child Agnes and Tintin want to eat at Mc Donald's. Don't know why, because when they have got what they have asked for, what ever it could be - Happy Meal, Milkshake, icecream..., they just eat a small amount of the 'food'. Perhaps it's not the food that makes children want to go/eat at that 'unhealthy' place. Must be something else, but I don't know what it is. Do you?

Sweethearts!!!!

Tintin is a real bundle of energy. Her he's standing in the high chair :/

Best to hold Mammies hand.
You have to sit down!!!!!

HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD AND TASTY DINNER!

Good Food!

Got this recipe from my dear friend Lena some weeks ago. I modified the recipe a little bit so it fitted my taste.

Pork Tenderloin or Chicken stew.
4 pers.

1 pork tenderloin or 4-5 chicken filet
140-280 gram bacon (about 16 slices)
1-2 yellow pepper
300 gram fresh sliced mushrooms
3 deciliter whipping cream
1 jar cream cheese (anyone that you like)
2 bouillon cubes or 2-3 tbsp calf liquid meat extract
salt pepper

Fry the fillets and place them in ovenware. Fry the bacon with the yellow pepper and mushrooms. Pour in cream, cheese, bouillon and let it boil together. Dilute contingently with water. Pour the sauce over the meat and let it slimmer in the oven at 200°C (392°F) for about 20 minutes until the meat is ready.
Serve some boiled vegetables to this dish, e.g. Haricots verts, Broccoli or Cauliflower.

Hope you will have a tasty dinner!

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Fläskfilé eller kycklinggryta.

4 pers.

1 fläskfilé eller 4-5 kycklingfiléer
1-2 pkt bacon
1-2 gul paprika
Lite färska skivade champinjoner
3 dl vispgrädde
1 burk mjukost (vilken som helst som du gillar)
2 buljongtärningar eller 2-3 msk kalvfond
salt och peppar

Bryn filé och lägg i en form. Stek bacon med paprika och svamp. Häll på grädde, ost, buljong och låt det koka ihop. Späd ev. med vatten.
Häll såsen över köttet och låt det puttra i ugnen på 200° i ca 20 minuter tills köttet är klart.
Servera någon kokt grönsak till, t ex haricots verts, broccoli eller blomkål.

Smaklig måltid!

HAVE A TASTY DAY!

What's up for dinner?

Well, this is what I had for dinner tonight. I think the picture speaks for it self.

Click at the picture to enlarge!

HAVE GOOD DAY!

Äkta vara!!!!

En bra och informativ artikel i Allehanda.se om att vi ska ge våra växande barn bra mat i förskolan och skolan.

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Rädda våra barns hjärnor!
Öppet brev till kostansvariga i Örnsköldsviks kommun.

(Min egen kommentar till det här brevet är att innehållet i det borde gälla ALLA kommuner i det här landet).

Valet av skolmat är ett mycket viktigt val, ty maten vi serverar barnen, är byggmaterial för deras kroppar.
Allt fler kommuner väljer lättprodukter, i form av lättmargariner och mjölk med låg fetthalt, till sina skolor och förskolor. Nu är turen kommen till Örnsköldsviks kommun.
Men det är en felaktig och farlig utveckling. Barnen bör få fet mjölk och smör med naturliga animaliska fettsyror. I många studier är det just mjölkfettet som visats leda till minskad fetma och sjukdomsrisk.
Fett verkar aptitreglerande; det påverkar hormonsystemen så att det totala energiintaget blir mindre. De senaste studierna visar också att feta barns kost innehåller mindre fett, medan barn som äter mer fett i större utsträckning är normalviktiga!
Margariner består av omestrade eller delvis härdade fetter med industriella transfettsyror. Dessa kemiskt framställda fetter ersätter de naturliga fetter som egentligen ska ingå i t.ex. cellmembranen. När barnens kroppar byggs med undermåligt margarinfett, fullt av kemikalier, blir de sjuka:

o Barn som äter margarin blir lättare allergiska än barn som äter smör. Barnen med lägst intag av totalfett blir allra mest allergiska.
o Industriella transfetter och omestrade fetter ger inflammationer, ett tillstånd som ligger till grund för hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar och leder till försämrad insulinkänslighet, vilket är första steget mot diabetes och fetma.
o Margarinernas höga innehåll av fleromättade omega6-fetter skadar den känsliga balansen mellan omega3-fett och omega6-fett, vilket dramatiskt försämrar immunförsvaret och ger fel fett i barnens hjärnor.
Studier visar, att de s.k. bokstavsbarnen, dvs. de som fått diagnosen ADHD, DAMP, dyslexi, dyspraxi, autism o.s.v., har underskott på omega3-fett (som finns mest i fisk och fiskolja, men även i kött från gräsbetande djur).
Människan har under årmiljoner anpassats till en i huvudsak animalisk föda. Den nuvarande trenden att tvinga barnen att äta undermåliga vegetabiliska fetter och proteiner och dessutom stora mängder kolhydrater, skadar hela deras utveckling, både den kroppsliga och den intellektuella.
Vill man minska risken för barnfetma är det framförallt sockret och stärkelsen som man bör reducera. Stärkelse höjer utsöndringen av fettlagringshormonet insulin, som lagrar överskottet av blodsocker som fett. Om man byter ut en del av kolhydraterna mot animaliskt fett, blir barnen mätta och slipper sötsuget. Fett och protein mättar bäst i längden.
Föräldrar, protestera mot införandet av lättmargarin och lättmjölk i skolmaten! Kräv att barnen får tillgång till smör och fullmjölk!

Frank Nilsson, naturvetare, Husum.

Annika Dahlqvist, läkare, Njurunda.

HA EN RIKTIGT BRA OCH NÄRINGSRIK DAG!

36th Wedding Anniversary - 2009

"Marble wedding-anniversary".

"Marmor bröllopsdag".

Yesterday, 17th of February, we were invited to our friends, Inger and Ingmar to celebrate our 36th mutual wedding anniversary.
Inger and Ingmar served up a very delicate dinner.
For starter we got prawn mousse.
The main course was a stew on wild boar and lots of other goodies.
For dessert Inger had made a crumble pie with pineapple, almond icing and on top of that a dollop of whipped cream.
Later in the evening we got coffee and “Budapest Gateau”.
Lots and lots of yummy food indeed =)
We had a very nice evening.
Thank you dear “old” friends!

HAVE A NICE EVENING!

Bojkott av Unilever!!!!

Kostdoktorn manar till uppror mot Becel/Unilever.

Utdrag från Kostdoktorns blogg:

Får företag ta till vilka knep som helst för att sälja mer av sina produkter?
Lura friska människor att tro de är sjuka? Att de riskerar dö om de inte äter onaturliga kemikaliefyllda lightprodukter?
Gömma varningstexten för barn, ammande och gravida som inte får äta dem?
Dölja köpt reklam i tidningar som redaktionellt material?
Via PR-företag “utbilda” journalister i att naturligt fett är farligt, och de egna konstgjorda fetterna är nyttiga?
Att försöka sälja mer till priset av människors hälsa bör inte vara acceptabelt. Unilevers marknadsföring är därför djupt oetisk. Hjälp till att förbättra världen. Bojkotta Becel och tillverkaren Unilever.

BOJKOTTA UNILEVER!

Almond pancakes

I’m a great lover of pancakes, but since I started to eat according to the LCHF a year ago, I haven’t been eating one single pancake. Today I searched at the Internet and found some interesting recipes. I looked them all through and took a little bit here and a little bit there so they would suit me.

So here’s my alternative on LCHF pancakes:
4 eggs, 2-2½ deciliter whip cream, 100 gram grounded almond (should preferably be like flour), about 1-2 ml measuring spoon (krm) vanilla-flavoured sugar, a pinch (nypa) of salt and one ml measuring spoon baking powder. Use real butter to fry in.

Whip it all together and bake on medium heat in a small frying pan. Serve with whipped cream, raspberries or some other berries.

These pancakes were really delicious, and the smell that was spreading in my kitchen was very pleasant.

I can really recommend you to try these titbits.

HAVE A TASTY DAY!

Lunch today

This was my lunch today, nothing complicatedly just plain and simple. I also ate two small plum tomatoes and drank a big glass of water.

A slice of Brie cheese, some walnuts, an egg with dill mayonnaise and chipolata sausages.

HAVE A NICE EVENING!

På tal om LCHF!

Här är några bra webbsidor med mycket läsvärt om LCHF, LCHF mat - recept och hälsa.

http://www.kostdoktorn.se/

http://www.metrobloggen.se/jsp/public/permalink.jsp?article=19.711548 Vägen från 137 kg

http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/

http://airamsmat.webblogg.se/

http://blogg.passagen.se/fettbramat/

http://www.pagina.se/filer/A-LCHF.pdf

http://www.lowcarbkost.com/index.php

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_E-nummer

http://www.aktavara.org/default.aspx

Gör gärna ett besök på dessa sidor så lär du dig mycket om LCHF.

HA EN BRA DAG!

Recept på Julbrödet

Det blir två bröd av en sats deg som ni kan se i tidigare inlägg.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Home baked

Well, this is what I've been doing this afternoon. "Christmas bread, coconut cakes and hazelnut cakes. I'm not eating any of these my self, but when it's Christmas time I need to have something to offer if any unexpected guests are coming to visit us.

Coconut cake.

Hazelnut cake.

Christmas bread.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Julmat - Christmas Food

Today I’ve been standing at the kitchen sink and cooker stove the whole afternoon. I’ve made some of the Christmas food we use to eat on Christmas Eve. Among other things I’ve made Meatballs, Jansson’s Temptation, Potato Gratin and Ginger bread muffins.
Since I eat according the LCHF diet I usually don’t eat potatoes or any coffee bread, but on Christmas Eve I’ll make an exception.
Potato Gratin is one of my favourite dishes, so once a year I will indulge my self to eat that. I have a lot of whip crème and rasped cheese in them.
I haven’t been eating potatoes more then twice this year, and that was this summer when I tasted the Swedish new potatoes at Midsummer. Two small Bjäre potatoes ;-)
We also have our Christmas ham, chipolata sausages (prinskorv), boiled eggs in halves, boiled potatoes (for Bertil who doesn’t like the gratin), about two kind of herrings (that I don’t like), bread (that I don’t eat), cheese, German sausage, liver pâté, fresh vegetables e.g. tomatoes and cucumber, boiled vegetables e.g. Green beans, cauliflower on the table at Christmas. Perhaps I’ve forgotten something, but I think this was enough anyhow ;-)

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Afternoon

This is what we had for dinner today (afternoon). It's a stew made of fillet of pork and lots of other goodies. The potatoes you can see in the background is for my husband and the cauliflower is for me =)

Eva's Fillet of Pork Stew

Here are the ingredients for 2-3 persons:
1 fille of pork, about 20 small mushrooms, 1 leek, 1 dl 34% crème fraiche, 1-2 dl whip cream, 1-2 tbs mustard, 1-3 tbs Chinese Soya, some black pepper and butter to fry it all in.

Observe! No salt! The soya is salt.

Sauté the fillet, leek and the mushrooms. Put it all in a casserole and muddle up the rest of the ingredients and let the stew simmer for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile the stew is simmering boil the potatoes and the cauliflower.

If you try this recipe I hope you will enjoy it and have a tastful dinner ;-)

1 fillet of pork.

1 leek and about 20 small mushrooms.

About 1 deciliter 34% crème fraiche and 1-2 deciliter whip cream, no light products.

Simmer for about 30 minutes.

Potatoes (for my husband).

Cauliflower (for me)

=))))

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Dinner Today

Today we had oven baked salmon fillets, haricots verts (green beans) and a crème fraiche sauce.

Here’s the ingredients and how to do:

4 salmon fillets (4 st laxfiléer)
Salt and lemon pepper
½ a fine shred leek (½ finstrimlad purjolök)
butter to fry in (smör att steka i)

Cold sauce:

2 dl 15% crème fraiche
1 dl whip cream (1 dl vispgrädde)
2 tbs mayonnaise (2 tsk majonnäs)
About 1 tbs of dried or fresh dill (ca 1 msk torkad eller färsk dill
salt

Boiled haricots verts, green beans (kokta gröna bönor)

Salt and pepper the salmon on both sides and grease the oven ware with butter or oil. Fine shred the leek and put it on top of the salmon or if you prefer on the side of the salmon. Put it all in a 200° C hot oven for about 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile the salmon is in the oven blend together the crème fraiche sauce and boil the green beans.

HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A TASTY MEAL!