Sunday, February 24, 2013

I would like to give you a gift....












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It has come to the time where I really have to re-pot some of my plants. And the Aloe plants are the most urgent ones. When they start to break their pots because of too many roots, I guess I have to do something. The problem is that they become so plenty-full and get so many children that I soon have to, like in Monty Python , send my children to "medical experiments"....Of course I would not do that to my little babies. But I would like to give them new homes since I don´t have room for a thousand Aloe plants!
So let me do some advertising for these wonderful beings : If you would like to have a plant that nearly takes care of it self, you can go away for weeks and come home to your" still going strong Aloe"...It grows to become a big, sculptural and decorative plant that also survive the Norwegian summer outside. . It never get sick and is a pleasure to have around.
 And of course,as everybody knows, it is olso a great healer for your skin if you have been so unlucky to burn your self in the sun or on something  hot, or gotten otherwise soar and burning skin. You only break off part of one of the fleshy leaves ,slice it open in the middle and smear the cooling and healing gel on your  burning skin....a medicinal plant that should be in every home, I would say...
Well then, do you need an Aloe plant?
If you are lucky enough to live round the corner to where we live, I would be very glad to give you some of mine. Please come by and become the proud owner of an Aloe baby!

Monday, February 11, 2013

Thank you pappa !




Thank you .dear pappa for giving my life
Thank you ,dear pappa, for creating my safe and loving home for growing up
Thank you pappa, for giving me freedom to choose what I wanted to study and do
Thank you for always supporting me in my life choices
Thank you for showing your emotions and tears when I would come to visit after long times away
Thank you for crying with me when I was sad...
Thank you pappa for beeing the very best pappa I could have...I love you and will forever miss you


Monday, January 7, 2013












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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Sowing the seed of recycling!

Isn´t this a great idee? Take an old and beautiful book, take some little seeds and put between the pages that you have made wet and press together, and tie a ribbon around to keep it like that.
Water regularly and soon you have a wonderful, green sprout appearing.
When the plant is getting bigger,just plant the whole book into the soil and the book will go back to it´s origins..

The idea I got from a great face-book site about recycling that is worth wile checking out!



Saturday, December 29, 2012

Happy new year, birds!




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It seems we have hundreds of birds here these days. And I love it! I think they all are born under our roof and thus belongs to our family. And of course they also deserve some festivities!
I have made melted fat and thrown in whatever I had in my cupord of cereals, millet, corn,sunflower seeds, etc. Then I put it into my muffin forms,with a thread in the middle. Then out in the cold for half an hour before I took them out of my muffins forms and hung them up outside.
I have used melted animal fat, but could have used coconut fat or any other fat that goes hard when cooled down.

Light in the dark...






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Saffron pears for the new years celebration!






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These are my absolute favorite pears ! A recipe so simple to make yet so sophisticated... The combination of pear and saffron is out of this world.
I serve it with whipped cream and caramelizes slivered almonds sprinkled on top .Et voila...a dessert
worthy any grand occasion.

2 kg organic pears
2 l water
1 3/4 l  unrefined cane sugar
2 g saffron
1 lemon plus water to cover the pears .

Peel the pears (you can leave the stalk on for decoration) and put them into the lemon water to prevent discoloring.
Miz water, sugar and saffron in a casserole. Boil up and stir till the sugar has melted.
Put in the pears and let them gently cook for 15 -25 min. depending on the size and softness of the pears. If the pears all fit into the casserole, cook them in different batches.
You can leave the pears to cool and enjoy them right away, or you can pour them into clean,hot glasses and leave them till the right occasion appears.