Klippfisk and bacalao

This is salted codfish

and I'm making Bacalao

The one I bought had to be watered for 7 hours,

I let it stay over night.

Next to the fish I use

potatoes, onions, garlic

crushed tomatoes, red pepper

chile, salt and pepper.

I put everything in layers in a pan

and let it simmer for a long time.

maybe not so elegant
but a feast for your taste buds!

Avocado

I like Avocado very much.

The trick is to find the good ones!

Lately I've had difficulties finding good ones!

They are usually sold separately or in pairs.
When sold in pairs they are garanteed to be "ready to eat"

To be sure I've bought the "ready to eat" packets

and several time I have become disappointed.

"ready to chuck" is more correctly described.

So now, I'm back on the single ones

and I have to trust myself picking the right one.

Underneath we have a good one!

With it I can make guacamole

But in a way I like it best the chunky way!

With nachos

Or in a plain chunky salad together with tomato this time

Very suitable next to chili con carne

Now this is the good life

This is our new black kettle.

It's should not to be shiny like this,

but black like the sott that covers it after ten minutes over the fire.

hence the name.

The coffee was splendid!

The spicy sausage with potato salad, ketchup,

mustard and crispy onion

in a bun
Yum!
And for the first time this year:
Strawberries, oh hallelujah!
I love strawberries!
Note the sun, it has been lovely today!
Strawberries with cream for dessert.

Another cornbread

I'm googling cornbread

I've tried one that was cakelike, sweet and nice

but I've heard that it can be used as a sidebread to warm meals!

Today I've tried a more salty version.

Less sugar, less fat, more cornmeal and with canned corn.

Since I have my lovely chile

I added some in the batter

just because.

I didn't follow the reciepe all the way

I swapped the oily skillet with a bread baking tray with baking paper

It worked very well!

Lovely with or without butter.

If there is any left at dinner time, we'll eat it on the side.

Fish and falling trees

To my fish, I need color and spice today!

The fish, fried in olive oil and chili

served with rice,

just what I needed

Then a walk in the wood.

Today the wood was full of hvitveis

the ground was covered with a green carpet and white flowers

Several trees had fallen over during the winter

The flowers didn't seem to mind,

they kept on growing on both sides of the root.

Young trees had to bend over, when the older tree fell.

Red and hot

Today I recieved

all this heart warming chile

from my friend Le Chien

I like it!!

I'm thinking about all the good food

I'm going to make with it!

The color, the smell, its heaven!

I even got seeds to plant!

They are already in the soilThanks Le Chien, you know how to warm a Nordic heart!

A spring adventure

Before going on a daytrip to the cabin

I made pancake batter and put it in a bottle

It is always fun to make pancakes out doors

with our long shafted pans

over a fire

pancake with jamor what about a couple of pieces of chocolate?

Picking flowers: Hvitveis
and drinking cocoa
We met som friendly reptiles:

Stålorm
and some frogs
busy laying eggs in the water