Familjemys på Djurgården

Idag bestämde vi oss för att ta en liten tripp till Djurgården hela familjen, bäst att passa på när det är så fint väder. Emilia somnade på vägen in så Fredrik och jag gick till Villa Godthems trädgårdscafé och njöt av en god lunch där medan vår lilla prinsessa fick lite skönhetssömn :)

När hon vaknade så fick även hon lite lunch och sen tågade vi iväg till Rosendals trädgård för lite bus och fika i gräset. Emilia älskar att krypa omkring och "vara fri", men det gäller att hålla koll på henne för rätt var det är så sticker hon iväg. Hon är inte rädd vår lilla tjej, inte ett dugg ;)

På kvällen kom Fredriks bror över och vi åt middag tillsammans och till efterrätt hade jag gjort en jordgubbs-och rabarberkompott som jag varvade med citruskesella och toppade med biscotti. Den blev faktiskt riktigt fräsch och god och intogs med en kaffe i soffgruppen på altanen. Älskar svenska sommarkvällar, jag bara njuter av värmen (och lugnet som infinner sig på kvällen ;)). Nu ska jag fortsätta titta på lite damfotboll och sen kallar sängen. Godnatt gott folk!

Sköna söndag

Hon är tapper vår lilla tjej, så tapper! Näsan rinner, hon hostar och kraxar men ändå är hon så glad och go emellanåt. Den går åt rätt håll förkylningen, men på eftermiddagen när hon skulle sova kunde hon inte andas genom näsan vilket betyder att hon inte kunde ha nappen och det är ju katastrof!!!

Emilia tyckte att vi skulle köpa näsdukar när vi var och handlade

Jag är så jäkla glad att jag har kommit igång med löpningen igen och det är så härligt att ha skogen så nära. Jag springer alltid runt Mörtsjön numera, det är grymt att ha ett motionsspår i närheten. Under en längre period så har jag varit tvungen att bygga upp löptiden genom att varva gång och löpning. Huvudet vill så gärna bara springa på, men jag har haft för stora problem med ryggen så jag har varit tvungen att ta det steg för steg. Idag var första gången som jag sprang 5 km i sträck och det kändes underbart skönt. Jag har inga känningar i ryggen än så länge så jag hoppas den håller. Målet är nu att bygga på löptiden ännu mer successivt för att kunna genomföra Tjejmilen som jag är anmäld till i september. Jag hoppas verkligen att det går, jag älskar att vara ute och springa. Nästan ännu mer nu när man är småbarnsförälder och behöver lite egentid ;)

Ikväll testade vi att laga pulled pork för första gången. Det är många som har pratat om det och jag har länge velat prova själv. Jag hittade ett recept på nätet och så var vi och handlade imorse. Köttet åkte in i ugnen strax efter lunch och fick stå och puttra i ca 5 timmar innan vi tyckte att det var klart för att äta. Köttet föll isär så fort man började peta lite på det med en gaffel och vi åt det på surdegsbröd med tillbehör som sallad, tomat, lök, majs och gräddfil. Det var så himla gott! Rekommenderas starkt :)

Nu känner jag mig nöjd och ligger här i soffan och degar. Sambon är ju också förkyld och ska snart hoppa i säng. Själv ska jag nog ta fram en bok, några tidningar och bara ligga och slappa ett tag innan jag joinar de andra. Hoppas att ni alla har haft en härlig dag!

The Vow

Last night myself and my baby decided to go out for dinner, we went to a local restaurant in Sundbyberg called Bra Mat which is a fish restaurant. We both had a lovely bouillabaisse with salmon, hake, prawns and clams and we could sit outside while enjoying it.

Afterwards we walked home and watched a film called The Vow with Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. It was a really good film and even F seemed to like it. I recommend it!

Dessert

My baby was responsible for serving our dessert today - yum! :)

Vigårda

Today after work I had decided to meet up with Ellinor, we haven't seen each other since November. Time's flying, can't believe it has been so long. Anyway, we agreed to meet up at the Mood shopping centre to find somewhere to eat, we chose to go to Vigårda Barbeque. I've never been there before but it's a fast food restaurant with food of higher quality than any other fast food restaurant, it's not exactly like McDonalds. You pick the meat you want, choose something to go with it like a potato salad or chips for example and then you also get to pick a dressing. I loved it, it was all really tasty! Ellinor and I got to catch up properly as well while enjoying our yummy food.

Now I'm back in the apartment again, I'm really tired today so I think I'm gonna go to bed shortly. By the way, I started this morning by going out for a 45 minute walk, it felt really good. Hopefully I'll manage to do this more often because I really need to exercise more than I do today!

Dinner @ Aifur

In a few minutes I'm gonna jump in the shower to start getting ready for tonight. Myelf and F are heading out for dinner together and we're gonna try E-type's restaurant Aifur at Västerlånggatan in Gamla stan. I'm really excited about it and I'm looking forward to spending some time with M & M :)

Earlier on we went to Solna Centrum to get some things done. F bought some clothes and I bought a new Essie nail varnish and some other stuff. We ordered fresh smoothes from the juice bar and mine was with ginger, mango, orange and banana - it was yummie! I'm getting hungry again so I better go and get ready cause we're heading into town in about an hour!

Food @ Byn

Last night we enjoyed such lovely food @ Byn, we were still full when we woke up this morning ;)

What's for dinner

Thank God this day has come to an end, I was so tired when I woke up this morning and I didn't exactly wake up feeling fresh.. We had our Christmas party with work last night and it was a very enjoyable evening in a place called Marion's. We were divided into different teams (32 to be exact!) and got to play bowling and take part in a quiz. After that dinner was served, not traditional Christmas food, but burgers! I had a lovely night and even though I didn't get home too late I still didn't get enough sleep so I'm looking forward to hitting the pillow soon enough ;)

Tonight we didn't wanna cook so we ate the leftovers from the other night, a stew with ginger bread spices. We're getting home deliveries from a company called Gomiddag and we've been really happy with the recipes and the food so far, but this wasn't my favourite. Oh well, I suppose you cannot like everything!

American pankcakes

A couple of weeks ago F and I decided to go for a swim on a Sunday and then afterwards, we treated ourselves to a brunch at the popular café Sirap on Surbrunnsgatan. I had never been there before but a lot of people have said it's really good - and it was! We were starving after our swim earlier on and ordered scrambled eggs, sausages, toast, bacon and american pancakes with blueberries and maple syrup. We weren't disappointed, it was absolutely gorgeous and I was so full afterwards! ;)

Today I'm so happy for my mam because she's got a new job and starts on the 28th of November! When she was let go from her old job a couple of months ago and started looking, I never thought she was going to get a new permanent job (not because she isn't good, but because of her age). But she has chosen to do this her own way by not listening too much to others. She has not applied for any kind of job, only the ones that she has been interested in that are in the industry she wants to be in. She has actually been called to two interviews and the later one got her this job! I'm really proud of you mam :)

Mamas and Tapas

A couple of weeks ago my family, Fredrik and I went out for dinner together. We had booked a table at the Mamas and Tapas restaurant in Kungsholmen. The place was crowded as it was a Saturday night but luckily we got a table at the back and we enjoyed the most gorgeous tapas ever. My favourite dish was probably the chorizo, it was so tasty! We all had a lovely time and afterwards my brother left to meet up with a friend of his but my parents, F and I walked across the street and ordered some drinks in the Lokal bar.

My grandparents give us some money every year so that we can go out for dinner together. We tend to go to the same restaurant every single time but this time we chose to eat tapas. I really enjoyed it!

Homemade muesli

Last week I finally decided to make my own muesli after thinking about it for quite some time. I browsed through various recipes on the Internet but didn't find any that I liked 100%. Therefore I decided to create my own recipe that was based on what I had at home. I must say that I'm very happy with the result and it's so much nicer than any other muesli you buy in the supermarket. I let my darling taste it last Saturday when I made him breakfast in bed and he thought it was nice but he asked for more nuts, especially hazelnuts. I will have to take that into consideration the next time I'm making a load ;)

Katja's homemade muesli


7 cups of oatmeal
1 cup of linseed
1 cup of sunflower seeds
1 cup of pumpkin seeds
1 cup of coconut flakes
1 cup of pecan nuts
1 cup of cashew nuts
1 cup of almonds
dried blueberries
raisins
dried apricots
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of water
1 cup of honey
1/2 cup of cooking oil

Heat the oven to 200 degrees

First you mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl except for the blueberries, apricots and the raisins. Then you add salt, water, honey and cooking oil and stir. After that you put your mix in a bigger cooking dish or a baking tray and put it in the oven for about 30 minutes. Make sure you stir often to avoid it getting burnt.

Chewy chocolate chip cookies

On Sunday I decided to make chewy chocolate chip cookies, I had stumbled upon the recipe on the Internet and decided to give it a go. They were really easy to make and very tasty ;) Here is the recipe:

2 egg whites
2 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup cocoa
1 tablespoon marsansåspulver (vanilla sauce mix)
100 g chopped chocolate (white)

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Beat the egg whites and powdered sugar with an electric mixer for about 3 minutes, then gently stir in the cocoa and the vanilla sauce mix. Mix until dough is smooth and then stir in the chopped chocolate. When it's ready put small amounts of the batter on a baking tray with baking paper, you can make around 8-10 cookies out of the batter. Even though the cookies don't float together while in the oven, you can leave some space between. Bake the cookies in the oven for about 13-15 minutes. Remove, let cool slightly and enjoy. Best of luck!

Korean food

I've had a nice and relaxing weekend this weekend and I so needed it. On Saturday we went into town to have a look at all the marathon runners and I was hoping to get a glimpse of Lina and Hilton or Tuffy. It was quite cold on Saturday but I suppose it was great weather for the runners. After walking around the shops for a while (Note - I didn't buy anything, only a present for mam! ;)) we walked out to have a look at the runners. Where we stood the runners were on their second lap and had run around 29 kilometres. I think it's so impressive that so many people are able to run that distance. I mean I am so proud of doing half the distance and I can only imagine how sore your body must be after such a run. Anyway after standing there for half an hour to 45 minutes I finally noticed Lina and Hilton in the crowd and I was shouting and screaming to cheer them on - well done guys!

Yesterday we decided to head to IKEA, I haven't been there for ages. I bought some stuff that I have thinking of buying for a long time; a cake dish(!), lighter duvets for the summer, duvet covers and some candles. Later on in the afternoon we went to F's mam in Vällingby because we were having dinner there. Since it was Mother's Day F and his brother cooked some Korean food, it was my first time trying it and it was yummy :) I was so stuffed afterwards and I don't know how we managed to have blueberry pie as well before we left to go home!

Tonight I've been to Täby to have dinner with my parents and to celebrate Mother's Day. I had bought some marzipan chocolate and a Nuxe hand cream that I gave mam as well as a card that I had made!

Sjung Nu concert 15th of May

I'm so glad Monday is almost over, I just didn't want to get up when the alarm went off this morning and I have been really tired throughout the day. Tonight I'm heading to bed early! The reason I'm so tired is because we had our concert with the choir yesterday which is our way to end the semester. We all met up at 12 and sang until about 15:30. Then we had a short break before it was time to get on the stage for 16:00 again. F had bought a ticket and was in the audience which meant a lot to me.

I really enjoyed the concert and we all gave it all we had, I think it was probably the best concert we've done so far (it was the 10th concert with the Sjung Nu choir and I've been part of three of them now). Our guest artists Lisa Nilsson and Stephen Simmonds brought the concert to another level and it was a pleasure singing with them. We sang Armageddon with Stephen and Himlen runt hörnet with Lisa, we also did the beautiful Tror på dig all of us together. To finish off, the choir sang Total Praise which is one of my favourite songs with the choir - it's so powerful!

Louise and I had more or less said that we were gonna skip next semester with the choir to see if we were gonna miss it and because it felt like a good time for a break. But then they told us that next semester they're gonna change some things and we're gonna do a Christmas concert with more of an unplugged sound. When they informed us about that yesterday we looked at each other and thought Feck it, we'll go for it again! :)

A few weeks ago myself and the girls met up on a Saturday to make sushi together. Camilla was in charge and told us what to do ;) We had such a good time and made the most tasteful sushi I've ever had! We drank a lot of wine, talked a lot and had a great laugh. We're not that good at meeting up very often but now we've booked another Saturday in June that we're gonna spend together. I'm already looking forward to it :)

Waffles

I've had a great weekend. The weather has been lovely although it was a little bit too windy yesterday. Despite the wind, we decided to take a walk around Djurgården in the sun and walked for about an hour and a half. There were loads of people out and the spring is definitely here to stay I think. I prefer it to be a bit warmer but it's getting there ;) After the walk we stopped off at café Vurma to have coffee and waffles and the waffles were yummie I can tell you! The icing on the cake was the basil sugar that was served with it :)

Today has been a lazy day. I've just done the laundry and now I'm gonna start packing for my trip to Denmark this week, I'm gonna be there Monday until Wednesday. Luckily Maria and Lena are coming with me, the bad part is that I have to get up at around 4:30 tomorrow morning. It's way too early for my liking! Soon it's time for Stockholm - Båstad that they're showing on channel 4 and then I need to clean up in the apartment a bit before I hit the pillow!

Byn

Had a lovely Friday evening with Let's Dance and also a visit to restaurant Byn. The Let's Dance rehearsal was finished at around 18:00 so then we left the SVT studio to meet up with the girls at Byn. There was no table available when we got there but we all ordered beer and cider and then we walked upstairs while waiting for our table to be ready. I was really looking forward to a glass of red wine when I got there but soon realised they only served cider and beer. Maria and I had the cider of the house and it was really nice so I was happy in the end ;) I haven't seen Camilla for ages so it was nice to talk to her again as well as the other girls Tanja, Ellinor and Maria. It's so nice to meet up like this on a Friday evening!

After about an hour we could walk downstairs again to sit down at our table. We all ordered our choice of crepes and I picked one with scampi, lobster sauce, mushrooms and leek - yummy! After having my main course I was really full but couldn't resist ordering a dessert crepes as well :P Maria and I shared one with hazelnut ice cream, nutella and fresh fruit! Needless to say I was extremely full after that ;)