Today is the first day of this semester of school and "everydays". So, after a wonderful weekend with vintage Volkswagen camping, racing and friends we dived into our Monday with our hearts filled with tons of good summer memories, laughter, hugs and sunshine ... So, for some reason I love the fresh start of new everydays. It gives me the opportunity to create new routines, start fresh and make changes. One of the things I love the most with "everydays" are planning, preparing and making the meals and gather the family for a healthy meal. I love the idea of sitting around the table taking time to eat healthy and share what ever happened in our day. The meal itself doesn't have to be fancy, actually I love simple, easy made, tasty ...
Keeping the inspiration while working on larger creative projects.
The last couple of weeks I've been working on a large crochet summer shawl. I've made a previous post on this project too. You'll find it here. Today I'm finishingup the instructions and pattern in Norwegian and English (!!!) and they will be available shortly so stay tuned. When working on larger, more time consuming yarn projects like this one or knitting sweaters or anything like that people often ask me how I find the patience to finish such a time consuming project. And you know what... I have no idea (!). Lol. True story. While working on some big crochet or knitting project I always have thousands of new ideas popping up in my head. New ideas. New inspiration. But what keeps me going, finishing the project is probably the joy, ...
Dried yellow chilli
Good day! While working on some larger projects and preparing a description and pattern for the crochet shawl I've been working on for a while I wanted to share a fun little project with you. I loooove these useful and tasty homegrown, dried yellow chilli peppers. You might already have seen my canned yellow chilli peppers ... you'll find it HERE http://www.gudruns.blog/2018/07/canned-yellow-hot-chilli-peppers-💥/ I also saved some of the chillis from my friends garden to hang dry in my kitchen. I love making my own chilli powder or chilli flakes to use in my cooking. Drying whole chilli peppers are easy peasy. You just pick whole chilli grab a needle and thread and use the needle to "sew" the chilli peppers on to the thread. I ...
DIY Kaffe peeling
🇬🇧English👇🏻 Hei og god mandag! Idag tenkte jeg å dele oppskrift på en finfin hjemmelagd peeling-krem lagd av sheasmør, kokkosolje, eteriske oljer og kaffe. Hvordan er det med sommer-huden din? Er den klar for høstlige dager eller er den litt tørr og bitt av sol og bading og sommervarme? Det er aldri feil å skrubbe av litt døde hudceller for å gi huden fin glød og mulighet for dannelse av nye, friske hudceller. Denne hjemmelagde skrubben er både skånsom, effektiv og gir god næring til huden. Visste du at kaffebønner inneholder mye fett som er kjempebra for tørr hud. I denne peelingkremen er det også frankincense eterisk olje som beskytter cellene og er veldig bra for huden, hjelper mot arr og elding av huden og copaiba som forsterker ...
Yellow sunshine soup
Hello and happy Saturday. Hope your weekend is good. Today I want to share the recipe for a tasty, summery, yellow sunshine soup, made of sweet corn 🌽 zucchini/ squash, coconut milk and fresh turmeric root. I love soups, even in the summer. This one is light and fresh and can even be consumed cold if you have any leftovers. The corn will soon be ready to harvest - and that's by the way one of my favourite things to go harvest at the near-by farm. Grilled, freshly picked sweet corn is sooo good. Freshly pickled corn can even be eaten raw. It's sweet and delicious. So, if you, like me, love picking sweet corn you should definitely try this yellow sunshine soup. You can even use leftover corn after bbq or if you cook a few extra corn. ...
Instant sunshine popsicles ☀️
Peppermint-Melissa tea popsicles with Caramelised kumquat Wow! How cool is that?!? To make popsicles of tea made from your own homegrown garden herbs!! I love herbal tea made of peppermint and Melissa - it’s fresh, cooling and uplifting. It works perfect both as warm tea and ice tea, so if you have some leftovers after making tea in your tea pot, don’t throw it away! And as a bonus melissa and peppermint both have some wonderful medical properties. Soothing, calming, antibacterial, supporting digestion and so on. So, I got this idea it might be yummy to make iced tea popsicles. I had a few kumquat from my friends greenhouse and I wanted to use these for something fun. Citrus are all uplifting and works as instant sunshine. So this ...
Gardeners Peppermint tea. 🌱 (and how to easily dry your garden herbs)
Peppermint tea made of real peppermint leaves from the garden is one of my all time favourites. ❤️ Peppermint isn't just tasty and have a wonderful aroma and scent it also has soothing and cooling effects it helps digestion and makes you feel more comfortable after eating a heavy meal. And if you wonder why people of Northern Africa drink sweet, warm peppermint tea during the warmest days, I can tell you; peppermint is cooling and the warm beverage makes the body absorb the water and liquid more easily... and if you sweeten the tea using for example honey you'll have a little boost of energy during the day... specially after lunch ... So, my favourite peppermint tea is made of peppermint leaves from the garden. You can use fresh ...
The best homegrown, homemade basil pesto
Today I'll share a super good recipe on homemade basil pesto. Pesto is one of my all time favourite sauces, it's soooo easy to make, you can use it along with "all kinds" of dishes and you can use different kinds of basil, oregano, parsley, cilantro, Thai basil, ruccola or whatever ... by the way; did you know there are SO many types of basil?! The " normal " basil we buy in the shop is often times with round, soft leaves and "leafy ", mild taste. But there are lemon basil, cinnamon basil, red basil, Thai basil, Thai chilli basil, holy basil (tulsi) For the pesto we made at my friends house the other day, we picked several different types of basil in her greenhouse and garden . So, without further ado here is the very best homemade ...
