Spinach Lasagne

3 (MAYBE 4) people

450 g frozen, chopped spinach (1 lb)
1 onioin, chopped
1 vegetable stock cube

1 can diced tomatoes (500 g / 17 oz)
1 onion, chopped
1 clove of garlic, grated
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 vegetable stock cube
1 Italian herbs stock cube
2 lumps of sugar

5 dl milk (2 cups)
2½ dl cream (I prefer single, but whipping cream works well too) (1 cup)
2 dl grated cheese (7 fl oz)
about 3.5 tablespoons of Maizena
Salt and pepper to taste

Lasagnaplates
1 dl grated cheese (3-4 fl oz)

Saute the onion and the garlic in oil. Add the rest of the ingredients to the tomato sauce and let it cook gently for at least 20 minutes.

Thaw the spinach and let it drain. Fry the onion lightly in oil, add the spinach and the stock. Sizzle until it's all the liquid is dried out.

Whip the Maizena together with the milk and let it come to boil. Simmer it for a few minutes until it thickens. Remove from heat and add cream. Stir in the cheese and salt and pepper to taste.

Put a layer of cheese sauce in the bottom of a medium sized, oiled, casserole. Add a layer of lasagnaplates. On top of that, half of the spinach and half of the tomato sauce, and another layer of cheese sauce.

Anohter layer of plates, rest of the spinache and tomato sauce and some more cheese sauce. On top a last layer of plates and the last of the cheese sauce. Top with grated cheese.

In the oven (225* C / 430* F) for 20-25 minutes.

Some of my beloved family members

Uncle Lasse

Aunt Ulrica and my cousin Carolina

Youngest cousin Olivia

My dad, Mikael

Cousin Isabella

Cousins Carolina & Alexander

IKEA

I spend almost an entire afternoon at IKEA this week, and we only bought 3 things:


A nice, red bookend (really needed one). Though it's not used in a Billy-bookcase but in a Expedit.





A fitted sheet, Dvala.



And a set of Kotte Christmas gift wrapping set.









And then we had lunch there too, and we got to think about IKEA food. I assume they serve Swedish meatballs at all IKEA stores, but what about the other dishes? I had chicken with coleslaw, BBQ sauce and fries. What do they have at a US IKEA restaurant?

Corn Pancakes with Cottage Chese

Ingredients for 4:

½ red chili pepper
½ pot of fresh coriander (cilantro)
4 eggs
1 1/4 dl milk (4 fl oz)
3 dl wheat flour (10 fl oz)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 can of corn (340 g/12 oz)
Cottage cheese
100 g Feta cheese (3.5 oz)
Baby spinach
Tomatoes

1. Half the pepper and remove the seeds and chop it finely (I usually take 1 whole chili), chop the coriander as well (same here, I use one whole pot).
2. Whip egg and milk together in a bowl, add the chili and coriander.
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Whip it to a smooth batter.
4. Pour of the liquid from the corn and add it into the batter.
5. Cook in a hot pan with some butter. It will probably be 12-16 pancakes.
6. Mix the cottage cheese with the Feta cheese, and make a simple sallad of baby spinach and tomatoes. Serve with the pancakes.

Fun Polaroids

Thanks Amanda for the link to Rollip! It's super fun.

I'm back

I'm back here after a few set backs last week; a bad cold and a computer crash.

My comp crashed after installing Windows Vista Service Pack 2. And this was apparently a very uncommon problem, I found no help at all on the Internt. Yay.. But we managed to extract my files and then re-install Windows.

I'm gonna try and translate a lasagne recipe to publish later.

I bought this sweater/jacket last week. Way too expensive for my student's budget, but I hope my parents can help me finance it.






















I'm totaly in love with it!


And I'm searching high and low for a job. Money to spend on a ticket to the States next summer. I really, really want to go! But I don't know how, with whom, or when. Yet.

Carrot soup with sweet potatoes

This is a lovely soup. I love the sweetness of the carrots and the sweet potatoes!
I don't really have any specific measures, but it's really just a question of taste and amount of people.

Another variant I do is replace the sweet potatoes with regular potatoes (so much cheaper), and add some finely grated ginger.

8 Carrots
2 (SMALL!) Sweet potatoes
1 Onion
1 Clove of garlic
2 Vegetable stock cubes
2 Tablespoons of thick youghurt, milk, or cream
Enough water to almost cover the carrots.
1 Orange

Chop the onion and the garlic, sizzle it in oil in a pan.
Cut the carrots and potatoes into cubes.
Put them in the pan, add the stock and boil.
When the vegetables are done, take the pan of the heat.
Add the yoghurt and put the vegetables all in a blender.
Run until smooth.
Add juice from the orange.
Thin down the soup with the stock.
Re-heat and serve with a nice bread.