My first night in Trondheim, I almost lost my flight, but caught the concert of Knauskoret. After the concert, we got food at Lyche.
It was late, so we got the burger (best buy in town) and they were delicious as always.
We found our friends and chatted and had countless beers the rest of the evening.
Us, being classy and adventurous at the same time.
Erik and all his medals.
I love partying with people in gala.
For once I found a dish on the internet and almost didn’t alter it at all. Or, you know, just a little.
I wish we had a fresh citrus fruit for dressing, it would have been really good with the mix.
I wish we could have more ways of shearing meals here in Norway, like they do in Korea. That you go to restaurants where the food is supposed to be shared.
Ruben trying to make sense of the menu.
You know this is going to be hot when:
Getting help deciding what to eat.
We first got some kind of soup with meat and vegetables and after we finished they put rice in the pot, mixed everything and this is what if looked like after the second “round”. Very good and a cool way of doing it.
Beer also cools the heartburn…
I wish there were restaurants like this in Oslo, fantastic for a meal with friends 🙂
So last night we were out with friends at Olympen to have whole roasted (suckle?) pig. I love coming together like this and really wish we could do it more often. To share a meal, have some really wonderful food and spend an evening with amazing people. I highly recommend the whole roasted pig at Olympen if you want a place for your Christmasparty or a friend get together like we did. It is already a tradition!
Did trustworthy red yesterday 😉
So last night we were out with friends at Olympen to have whole roasted (suckle?) pig. I love coming together like this and really wish we could do it more often. To share a meal, have some really wonderful food and spend an evening with amazing people. I highly recommend the whole roasted pig at Olympen if you want a place for your Christmasparty or a friend get together like we did. It is already a tradition!
Did trustworthy red yesterday 😉
Spending my Sunday in the guest room by the new desk studying for my exam. Fresh waffles and dance music from the kitchen. Yesterday was really good, six courses and a never ending flow of sparkly wine.
Probably one of the simples things I have tried to make is scones. I was baking for my coworkers and because I didn’t dare do something with yeast, I made scones.
I picked the recipe from one of my old recipe books from school, so the scones are probably not very British, but simple. The dough was made just by mixing everything together. I guess I should have known that the recipe was too easy, but sometimes that is what you want. Something simple.
I then cut the dough in four, flattened the loaves on plates and cut them again in four. I hope you excuse my orange kitchen walls, we haven’t decided what to do with them yet. Unfortunately they are not the best for food photography.
They didn’t look very pretty, but I hoped they would look better after they had been in the oven. And no matter how they looked, I knew they would taste really good.
I was sorry they didn’t rise more, but I have never been good at getting things as fluffy and light as they should be. But nobody thought that baking was my forté, did they.
In the end they tasted really nice and everybody at work were very happy, so I am content. What do you like to bake?
Almost exactly a month ago we went for a lovely date night. Erik invited me out to Izakaya, a Japanese restaurant by St. Olavs plass.
It has a very simple menu of small dishes and you just order as many as you want.
Kimchi, for instance. And the people who work there are very helpful and tell you a lot of information about the food.
Korean pankakes and chicken.
Japanese art and everything.
We even had japanese cocktails.
My trusted red jacket bought at Zara in Tallin ten years ago.
Then we went to the movies and stopped by a mexican place for margueritas on the way.
Røkelaks! Røkelaks er fisk du ikke trenger å steke og som kommer ferdig i biter (om du har god råd og kjøper den ferdig skivete, i hvert fall) og gjør dermed middagslaging ekstremt effektivt. Spesielt når du kombinerer røkelaksen med induksjonsplatetopp. Da går det fort, da.
Så her kommer enda en rask oppskrift på middag som ikke tar deg mer enn 15 minutter å lage. Jeg liker det når jeg ikke må tine noe av det jeg skal spise til middag og mesteparten av det jeg skal spise tåler å ligge lenge, så jeg ikke må handle hele tiden. Da passer pasta med røkelaks ekstra godt.
For å få til dette mesterverket:
Det viktigste når man lager mat er at man lager noe man liker. Det skal ta så mye tid som du ønsker og smake så godt som du ønsker. Kunsten med hverdagsmiddager er å klare å finne på ting som passer også til hvor ofte du handler og hvor mye variasjon du vil ha i kosten.
Jeg som liker å ikke spise det same hele tiden jobber hardt med å finne på nye ting jeg kan rullere på, men røkelaks dukker ofte opp må jeg innrømme.
English: you should try smoked salmon on your pasta with some leek and sour cream. It is fast, delicious and so easy.
Erik hadde kjøpt masse deilig ost til da jeg kom hjem fra Norwich og vi innså fort at vi hadde mer enn nok til gjester. Så da inviterte vi Tone over på ost og vin (og øl). Og så tok jeg noen bilder av stua i samme slengen. Det er dessverre allerede to uker siden vi gjorde noe i leiligheten sist, men jeg håper vi snart føler vi har roen til å gjøre litt til. Er fremdeles en del detaljer igjen som må fikses. Røykvarslere ikke minst…
Mmmmost! Parmesan, Manchego, Stilton, Brie, det var deilig. Og så hadde vi litt akasiehonning 😉
De gule tallerknene er nye. Jeg arvet dem fra farmor og de er faktisk veldig praktiske. De er sikkert fra 50-tallet og er derfor ganske små. Det er utrolig å tenke på hvor mye porsonsstørrelser har endret seg på 60 år. Disse er i hvert fall våre nye “slanketallerkner”, fordi de får deg til å føle deg mett og forsynt fordi du har fylt tallerkenen din, men det ikke var så mye mat.
Ny skrotlampe fra billigkroken på IKEA 🙂
Nye sofaer, bord arvet fra farmor, Eriks lenestol fra IKEA og verdens beste ullpledd fra Berger.
Vi har ikke ordnet ordentlige lamper ennå, men vi har stålamper over alt. Eller innflytningsfesten har vi massevis av planter også 🙂 Og så ser dere at Erik har fått plass til alle brettspillene sine i hylla, ikke dårlig!
Masse plass til langbord og to sofagrupper! Det er utrolig deilig.
There was Internet and a quiet night here in Okbo, so here are some more pictures. These also from Seattle. This is the Saturday we spent being tourists.
Hello! New bag and some colour.
Before breakfast.
Too many choices.
Mmmmm, coffee.
Hash brown, two eggs, bacon and toast. What else do you need?
Banana pancakes!
Then we did the underground tour of the city. The whole city is one story up and there is a whole network of sidewalks and things on the ground.
The city was founded in 1850-something when the first settlers arrived.
Up there is the street.
Old things that have been left behind.
What once was a very high building.
We then went to Pike Place Market, where you can find anything, but especially fish. We had breaded cod
and fish tacos for lunch.
Then we walked around and found this guy doing Korean painting.
And they sold loads of flowers.
So Erik bought flowers for me and we went home. This is actually outside the first ever Starbucks. The first one was here in Seattle.
Vi hadde en veldig hyggelig kveld på innflytningsfest i Helges nye hus, eller småbruk som det jo er.
Vi prater rundt rabarbraen.
Bille på rabarbrablomst.
Uthuset som skal bli brygghus.
Vedfyrt bakerovn som jeg gleder meg til å bruke.
Låve ved vannet.
Langveisfrabesøk og rabarbra.
Sjøen som skal få båt.
Skigarden har ikke vart evig.
Verdens kjekkeste mann.
Veldig bra grillmat. Helge har alt på stell.
Til og med Ægirglass til Rallaren min.
Huset som blir fullstendig omgjort inni.
Greit, jeg vet jeg er treig. Men for en uke siden fikk jeg endelig satt meg ned og overført bilder fra kameraet mitt. Og det som var aller eldst var bilder fra 17.mai. 17.mai i år var skikkelig bra. Vi hadde frokost hos oss, men alt for mye mat og mange bunader. Vi dro ned til sentrum og fikk sett litt barnetog og unngikk å drukne i det ene regnskyllet som kom. Vi spiste lønsj i logen med familien til Erik, hørte på Den Norske Studentsangforening og pappa på aulatrappa og spiste is med mine foreldre. Så dro vi til Sofienbergparken for å drikke øl og prate skit med venner. Fordi vi skulle på kanotur dagen etter ble det en kort kveld, men det var en veldig bra dag.
Quite a while ago we were invited to Tina and Jeevan in Ås to have Indian food and meet all the interesting Indians in Ås
Tina to the right, btw
This is Jeevan and Erik
Playing with marbles
All of us together. Malik to the far left also works at CIGENE with Tina and me.
(please ignore that Erik and I are totally maching…)
I really love those tights
All the guys had plaid shirts
I didn’t get a single picture of the food, because I eat it with my hands (no fork) like real Indians do, and then you can’t take pictures at the same time. But it was really good, Tina is a wonderful chef and I love chapati with all my heart.
These are my best pictures from our days in Firenze (Florence).
Vegetables at the marked just around the corner from Victoria’s flat.
Buying meat in the food hall.
Walking around town in the cold.
Massive doors in the old part of town.
Home cooked meals.
The big cathedral.
In Italy, more is more.
We saw most of the museums only from the outside.
I love the level of detail!
David nmbr 3 and I
Ponte Veccio in the background.
Coffee on a cold day.
A summer dress
Nuns in the street (they were tourists)
The bag I didn’t buy. It was lovely, but heavy.
Playing boardgames on the iPad together with a bottle of wine in the early afternoon.
Chocolate place where you needed to buy minimum 7 pieces. Oh, no…
An old fashioned gentleman store where Erik bought a pair of woolen trousers for winter.
Their pattern diversity was wonderful.
We found a marked and bought 12 port glasses. Not these cups though.
And found a really cool restaurant with a great wine selection.
We have even started our own cork collection 😉 (only champagne ones, though).
Don’t you just love these chairs?
I bought these shades at the marked, too. 4€ and made in Italy.
Kjære Tone
Jeg synes det er trist at du har vært borte så lenge, selv om jeg er glad for at du koser deg på reise. Jeg gleder meg til å høre om det morsomme du skal gjøre til høsten. Om to uker får vi nøklene til leiligheten og da kan du komme på besøk og sitte på balkongen og se på solnedgangen. Denne er til deg.
(det er en kake)
Saturday night when we got to know Jonas and Hilde in our building, we were being generous in turns. First they wondered if we would share their dessert (strawberries). We accepted, but said that we would bring some white port to add. Then after the port was empty they brought this one out. This is the best tequila I have ever tasted, and when I googled it seems the whoe internet likes it too. I even saw this post on Cake Wrecks:
The last day of our trip, we went to a cooking class to learn some Italian food art.
The house where we stayed
Our teacher
Italian bacon crisps
Tiny, round squash.
Rice and egg fill.
Huge aubergine in the oven.
Erik doing the work.
The basis of ITalian cooking, olive oil, garlic…
…and tomatoes.
We filled them 🙂
Five year old parmesan, it was superb. And this is the proper size for a piece of cheese.
The best balsamic vinegar that I dipped my cheese in. I know, we had the best time.
Vegetarian “lasagna” with aubergine and tomato sause.
And parmesan on top.
As I was in Tønsberg last weekend, I had to see Sara. It’s been ages and it was sunny and wonderful.
Sara looked gorgeous in mixed patterns and new jacket. I want one of those!
And this is Frank, he was also just visiting, but he lives in London.
We stopped by this bakery to get Sara some lunch (she had a hard time deciding).
I got a sweet bun and some juice.
I looked like a bum after the scout trip, but Frank lent me his sunnies so I look cooler here.
Sunny spontaneousness is the best!
In one day we did two wine tastings and were lucky to see two very beautiful cities as well. First we went to Montacino.
This is the old castle.
And this is where the magic happens.
We looked…
…we found the wide we had the day before…
…and we tasted.
We learned the beauty of riserva.
The next wine tasting was in Montepulciano. Lonely Planet had complained that it was very hilly, but I didn’t believe them, but when we came there, it was true! The whole town was one big clilmb.
This is the top, the town square.
It was raining and it was a long and steep klimb, so we were quite alone.
And the unfinished front of the church.
Here we visited a winery, so one producer.
They also stored wine the old fashioned way.
Riserva are the ones that are also stored for a year on the bottle before they are sold.
The modern (and hygenic) wine storing method.
Montepulciano is known for their Vino Nobile and we triend different types.
We ended up buying a very expencive bottle of wine in Montalcino, as an investment. I wonder what occation will be the right one.