Waffles and tea

My husband made me waffles

and served them with brown cheese, jam and quark

Served with a good cup of tea
That was some good waffles!

Salmon says hello!

Salmon, I just love an oven baked piece of fish!

This is the trimmings

that goes well with my fish:

Potato, peas, carrots, quark and a slice of lemon

Every day the clouds are celebrating the drama of

autumn.

Is it here already?

Being a winner, then a host

I'm a girl that enjoy ordinary days, plain things

and down to earth living.

When my friend Christo hosted a sandwich challenge

after being the winner of the Culinary Smackdown in July

I thought, thats fun, and started to fantasize

about spectacular sandwiches..

There was to many ideas,

to many choices!

Then it dawned on me:

Plain girl, plain sandwich!

So I picked something I like

took a photo

(then ate the sandwich)

and looked forward to see all the wonderful sandwiches!

The next day

the results was presented to us Chez What

All those colorful, and without doubt wonderful tasting sandwiches!

Among them

The little Star from the North,

The Ugly Duckling

Scrolling down, I suddenly realized:

I won!

How fun, how strange!

So this is me now:

(the resemblance is, well, not to bad)

Christo told me:

You know, now you are the next host!

What?

(slight panic attack)

But I've come to my sences.

I'll host. Maybe not as skilled as he did

but still!

The theme for the September Culinary Smackdown is:

Chocolate

Anything related to chocolate or cocoa

Do you take the challenge??

You have until 18th of September to enter the challenge.

Twinkle sandwich

Dark rye bread

with liverpaste,

tomato and leek

Sometimes simple is the star!

This star of a sandwich

is for Christo

Tasty chaos a la potato!

After two hours of baking

and longing

The potato opened like a flower
And filled with all sorts

Major mess

major tastyness!

Perfect comfort food

Taste of Pasta

Made a bit of pasta

for my nephews yesterday

Dinkie wasn't helping much

Blåmann, the blue monkey was exhausted too!
But the pasta was a sucess
and now their mum has to make them fresh pasta very soon
Isn't it great to pass on inspiration!

National park and sunshine

We love to have a walk in

our little national park

Borre national park

it has seceral mounds and cairns

and lots of space

by the fjord

It is one of my favourite places!

But what's happening here?

Our little dog loves to rest in the sunshine

she seeks the light, on the floor

on a chair, in the sofa...

but tables?

This is not allowed!

She knows, hence the slightly guilty look

(which is hard to see because the blackness)

Spoon food

When my people is out of the house

and I find myself alone for dinner.

I make something I like very much:

Quick lentil stew a la Anette!

Lentils, potato, carrot, red pepper, cellery, garlic and

my friend chile
Hot and yummy!

For dessert:

blueberries, rasberries and custard
Simple and just lovely!

The big 14

Little Chef once was his mum's little sweet boy

He still is after 14 years

even though he soon can carry his mum!
Yesterday he celebrated his 14th birthday

His aunt brought what he had asked her to do

Oreo cake!

The day was warm and lovely

and we had a garden party with the family

Tonight there is a bunch of lanky boys and girls

all of them around the same age

laughing, talking

and consuming pizza.

Since there is one vegetarian and one with coeliac

There was one pizza with everything

one without meat

And one without gluten

And for Pink Princesse and mum,

who wasn't invited

there was Wok

Birthdays are fun, love and food!

Chile and cinnamon

The 2 th generation chile

is growing in my garden

last years summer was cold and rainy

and I had to keep my plants indoors most of the summer.

It was autumn when I spotted the first chile babies
This year, the weather is better, and my plants are in the garden,

flowering.

And by the look of it, getting enough warmth to grow their first

chile baby I got the first seeds two years ago sent to me

from my friend in NY

then I took seeds from last years chile

and planted them this spring,

hence 2th generation chile, grown in Norway.

Last week we went on holiday to Sweden.

We had such a relaxing week, everyone was on track

and the weather was lovely.

The swedish eggs was terrible,

but the cinnamon rolls was just heaven

I got inspired, and made a batch today

Now the house smells

cinnamon heaven!

I've had a quiet and relaxing Sunday today.
Husband and kids
finds it very entertaining to get scared to death
in rollercoasters etc
They've spent all day enjoying themselves in an amusement park
.
I have no near death wish,
I baked them som lunch to bring
Sent them off

And enjoyed the peace, baking and reading

and finally seeing the film

Julie&Julia

Which I enjoyed very much!