Tomato sauce

Yum yum. Many fresh tomatoes, herbs from the garden and roasted garlic fill the kitchen with a nice smell, plus now we have this delicious tomato sauce :-)

From the garden

Meanwhile, I completely forgot that I had tomatoes outside. But they look just fine, so I were snacking on them all day long. And watching this handsome boy )

Breakfast in the garden

When you don't like anything in the fridge for breakfast, you go outside and pick some raspberries and an apple - breakfast ready. Not many raspberries left though.

This is the herbs garden - basil, oregano, different kinds of mint, dill, thyme, while rucula refused to grow.

The tomatoes finally started getting some color.

And the sweat peas were smart enough to hand on the lemon tree for some support :-)

Have a great Monday.

Tomato sauce

Another good idea is to make a huge casserole of tomato sauce and freeze it it small portions - for pizzas, pastas, rice etc when you need it. I put everything I have of the vegetables: broccoli, leek, onion, garlic, peppers, carrots, and tomatoes, of course. It turns out to be pretty good.

Cravings?

This must be something strange related to pregnancy, right? Otherwise, how do you explain that I NEEDED strawberries and guava iced tea at 11pm in our yard?

Now is my turn

Greta asked for a white cooked egg to decorate, good we have a food markers. What do you think about her outfit today, when it snows outside? It is just that she plays "the beach", with a bucket she puts the imaginary sand and builds imaginary sandcastles. But back to the egg: here it is!

Mr. Egg

It is snowing outside, but the Easter mood is on, anyway. This is todays egg for Greta, thankt to the tips from Pilli Pilli

The Easter bread

This is the Easter bread. Fresh and warn, right from the oven, tastes a bit of lemon, you feel the Easter mood.

Happy easter!

Happy Easter!!!
Greta peels and eats eggs (she usually does not eat eggs, so coloring them was a success!)

Happy easter!

Eggs are painted! Greta brought her cress form the kindergarten! Easter has come!

Our garden

This year I challenge myself to plant a lot of edible things in our garden. Now, it was already pretty late for planting tomato and paprika, but we try. The problem is that Greta "helped" me to plant it, so no I am not quite sure where is what, and in some places there are so many seeds per one space. Ahhhh.
But the plants are big, I was several herbs, carrots, berries, and other things you see on the first picture. Let's see how it goes.

When everybody sleeps

I eat cake-pops! First, I had to make them, but it was so easy peasy. Now I hear snoring from upstairs, but I am sure tomorrow somebody will like to try them, too. And I knit the dress for Milton doll. Will be ready soon. And I plan Greta's birthday party. And the trip to Spain/Andorra. So many things to do.

Yesterday

Apart from visiting our friends, we just enjoyed ourselves and ate cupcakes, had fun on the sofa and had a nice walk in the warm weather outside.

A salad full of colours

I never imagined one could combine so many colours (and tastes) in one salad. Theck out this salad, give it a try, and you will not regret!
Now, I made so much that I will be eating it for 2 days more now. Looking forward for tomorrow just to eat it again.

Berry day

Today I ate a lot of berries. Just felt an urge to eat it all. First, the redcurrant. See how good it looks.

And even better with a bit of raw cacao nibs and agave nectar. Yummy!

Then, I could not resist these strawberries. Of course, they are not so good as the authentic norwegian strawberries, but still.

Sprinkle with raw cacao nibs and cream!

This summer we will pick all the possible fruits that Norway offers to us. I am really looking forward!

An easy and tasty lentil soup

Ingredients:
100 g green lentils
1.5 onions (I would take two, but just half of it was not in a good shape)
2 ts curry paste
2 cubes chicken broth
1 spoon coconut butter
1 spoon coconut oil
4 spoons cream
a pinch of salt

Preparation:
Boil lentils for 20 minutes on medium heat.
Fry the onion with curry paste in coconut oil, add chicken broth with 1 l boiled water, add lentils and the rest of the ingredients. Mix well. Enjoy!

The experiment

The first time I am trying to make the no knead bread. I decided to try the beer bread. Baking tomorrow, so I am waiting impatiently.

The last day at home

Tomorrow is the kinderdgarten and work. Greta is well aware of that and she says she missed her kindergarten friends, too. Meanwhile, we had a good day at home. I wanted to take her to the horse farm to take a look at some horses, but she wanted to stay at home today. Yes, it was strange that even horses did not convince her. But in the swimming pool today, she was a star! She started wanting to swim all by herself all of a sudden, she jumps like crazy into the water now (before she jumped too, but very carefully, preferrably holding our hands), swam to the border, and was incredibly active (even considering she did not nap today).

Nice to start the day with some astronomy books :-))

And then to watch Moomin together with mommy.

And have pasta with this tomato sauce.

And painting and coloring

And this was inspired by Kigami. Well, we just needed to do something for St.Valentines Day, even when daddy is away for a trip. We made this paper wreath together and glued it to the door of her room. She loved it.