Mmmm, brownie!

Brownies går lissom aldri av moten. For noen uker siden smakte jeg den beste browniesen jeg noen gang har smakt, hjemme hos Eli. :) Den var nok ikke særlig sunn, men sklåæ (skal love deg) den var god! Jeg måtte styre meg for å holde fokus på møtet jeg satt i, kaka var altabsorberende.

I dag smakte jeg kanskje nest beste browniesen. Ok, skal innrømme at hadde den vært nystekt, halvvarm og dryppende sprø så hadde den nok vært bedre, men med tanke på SMAK og den deilige seige konsistensen, så var dette virkelig en verdig 2. plass. Helt nydelig! Og - tada! Sunn!

Clif Kid Organic Z Bar Chocolate Brownie, seriøøøst langt navn, men seriøso så god!
Jammen meg glad jeg bestilte 4 pakker. ;)

Bilde har jeg lånt fra Hjertemat.com, men min så helt lik ut. ;)

Du tror kanskje jeg har blitt kjøpt opp av iherb for å få deg til å kjøpe ting, men it ain't like that. Jeg betaler iherb for å få blogge om det. Neida, men kunne nesten gjort det. Betaler jo for maten, så eh. Men jaffal, kjøper du denne brownissen så kan du i det minste få 5$ rabattzor ved å bruke koden SEP310. 31, sir du det, lurer på om det står for bursdagen min, jeg. Iherb knows mah date! And it's tomorrah! :U 

Fargerik mat!

Det beste som fins er å bli bedt på middag. :)
No hint intented!

Men jaffal, var på middag i går hos skjønne Kjersti, og der fikk vi mat. Sånn, skikkelig mat. Deilig og fargerik! Og småinspirert av Vesle Serena måtte jeg bare få den ned på papir, for den var så nam! Så nam at man lager lyder-nam. Nammm. :)

Også må jeg bare si at tvillingene er helt rå! Takk for en super kveld, fotballhelten og prinsessa. ;) 

i heart i herb!

Jeg, og mange andre. :) 
Har allerede unnagjort mine første bestillinger på iherb for en stund siden, men har vel ikke sagt så mye om det enda. Nei, jeg er ikke flau over det halloo. Iherb er fantastisk! Seriøso, så mye bra mat til en billig penge. Sjekka Life på senteret og samme varene koster jo 3- og 4-gangen her. Ikke så rart, med tanke på at det importeres, men kjekt å vite at man kan fåtaki billigere. :) 


Anyways. I dag bestilte jeg to pakker, må jo nemlig holde det under en viss vekt og pris for å få det kjapt og billig i frakt og diverse. Bale file dollah! Billig det. Jeg sjekka nemlig Luckyvitamin.com for å bestille bare YummyEarth-produkter (superdigge kjærligheter og drops), men frakta er jo på frikkin' 260 kroner. Waaah! Derfor er iherb.com stas! Så jeg bestilte litt i dag, da. Først og fremst skulle jeg ha meg Hvetegress. Har hørt så utrolig mye bra om dette, og har nesten cravings på det før jeg i det hele tatt har prøvd det. My sista anbefalte Pure Planet Green Kamut, så da ble det denne. Gleder meg. :) 

I tillegg bestilte jeg meg noen brownie bars, Clif Kids Brownie, fått den anbefalt av flere! Bestilte de små pakkene, ettersom Hjertemat skrev litt om dette. ;)


Og til slutt, bare for å få fyllt opp litt, tenkte jeg at jeg skulle teste denne teen. Hørt den er bra and I really do need a detox. True story. 


Og til slutt vil jeg bare si til alle dere som fortsatt sitter der og lurer på om dere skal teste ut iherb. Det er ikke noe å vente på! Ufarlig, billig og masse digg. Og i tillegg får du 5$ rabatt dersom du bestiller for første gang, bare bruk koden SEP310! Gudd løkk! :)

Morning Glory!

Pliiis, kan noen kalle meg en helsefreak? Har alltid ønsket det. :) Jeg - helsekostopptatt lissom? HAHA. Ja, det er faktisk morsomt. Men du kan kimse så mye du vil - I'm lovin' it. Og nei, dette er ikke det eeeeeeneste jeg bryr meg om om dagen, så læx ok jeez. I'm normal, bare ikke et konstant godterispisende monster med luft i magen og lite treningsgidd. Jeg trenger treningsgidd!

Jeg testet denne oppskriften i dag tidlig. Ja, - før jobb! Gikk kjempefort. :) Mandler, banan, isbiter og kaffe i blender og voila litt frokost! Jeg spiser dårlig med frokost nemlig og Mimse sa i går at "Mette! Det er jo det viktigste". Er det? Ups!

Så i dag drakk jeg denne og selvom det kanskje smakte litt nutrishake (bare uten bismak av pulver), så var det egentlig ganske godt og jammen satte det igang forbrenningen. På-do-før-lunsj-foråsidetsånn. Prosjekt Overskudd og Velfungerende Mage Uten Luft har herved startet. IKKE LE!

Have a lovelyjobely friday og hvis du har laget deg Pinterestkonto i det siste - don't hesitate to follow me, sånn at jeg kan followe deg to back.

Peace out!
AMSkofterud sier at: "Kaffen setter fart på systemet, bananen gir deg et høygt energinivå som en kickstart på dagen. Den inneholder også masse fiber som er bra for fordøyelsen. Mandlene har synne fettsyrer som smører kropp og sjel å holder blodsukkeret stabilt og metthets følelsen i sjakk." så da tror jeg på henne. :)

Muffin on: What To Eat For Lunch

I am soooo so sick of eating Wasa Cracker Bread (?) for lunch. Every. Single. Day. What do people eat for lunch, I thought - what can I make to increase the level of satisfaction during my lunches? Lunch is everyone's favorite part of the day, right? But this boring food! I couldn't stand it any longer.


So I started paying attention to other peoples eating habits, and lucky me - I got two very helpful and healthy sisters who make interesting lunches. I will fill you in on both, but here goes number one.


My hardworking sister Tone probably felt like I do, and instead of sobbing about it, she made The Tuna (almost her name) Cottage Nut Mix. And then she sent me the recipe and saved my week.

The text next to the tuna says: "they're not really whole like this" (I found it hard to draw tuna meat). 

Soooo ... you might say like I did: "Tunaaa?? that's cat food!" And yes, it is. But also human food and mixed with this stuff it's actually really good. I've always hated tunafish, everytime I smelled it I could see our Cat (may she rest in peace) chew away on a chunk and it just made me sick to my stomach to even think of eating it myself. Ever seen how a cat eats? Yes, exactly. But let me tell you - I liked this. It's the first time I've willingly eaten cat food (tuna), and then had some more.


To spice this up a little you might add stuff you like, like onion, tomato, ... etc. No limits!


Enjoy! :) 
Oh, and if you've got some really good lunches to recommend - I'm more than welcomming it. Leave a comment here or send me and email to themuffinblog @ gmail.com. I might even illustrate it. :D

Another Bea-utiful Monday

The secret of the biscuit part? You wanna know?
It's easy, but not something everyone can do.


First put your muffin mixture in your muffin cups and insert into preheated oven.
Then leave for a while.
And then leave longer.
And finally leave too long. 

There you go, - biscuit muffins. :)

Although - getting through that crunchy outside was totally worth in. Inside was soft and yummy (at least when eaten right after I took them out of the oven (benefit of being the muffin maker)).

That Easy Apple Sugar Crunchy Muffin

A Mouthful of YUM.

The story on how THIS

became THIS ... and the cutest little muffin cup.

Tomorrow. 

Julie&Julia - thank you.

It's been a while since I went to the movies and came out happier.
Yesterday, that happened.

:)

Drawn and colored in Photoshop.

Go see it if you like food, blogging, Meryl Streep, tiny appartments, small kitchens, french talking and a shreeking voice. ;)
I loved it all!

The Food Day

You hear of Recipie Monday, Tartar Tuesday, Truffle Thursdays, Feeding Fridays and all kinds of other Food-loving-blogging-days all around.
People blog about food, and they do it good.

Check for instance PioneerWoman.
or RookieCookie.
or Sweet Paul.
or just put them all together and dive hungry in to Tasty Kitchen.

Whatever you prefer.

Anyways. I like to make food, but I rarely do so.
This is not because I'm lazy, no no. It is because I live with four wonderful girls, and they make good food. :) And I work late. Too late.

Sooo ... sometimes I do make food. And when I do, I apperantly have a need to show it off to the world. So here I am - Food Blogging.

I have done it before, and I might to it again, so therefor, with no pressure, I just call it The Food Day. Whatever day of the week that might be.

So.
I spent the previous weekend and IA's house. It was one of the better weekends. :)
She made us Parmesan Chicken.

And so I made Parmesan Chicken with Tomatas è Spring Onienz especialés.

You start off with the Tomatas. They're like tomatoes.
Chop them in pieces, whatever piece size works for you. I do them in fours or sixes.

You boil the rice in a rice boiler. It's so simple it almost makes me cry.
I looove the rice boiler.

Chop the spring onienz!

The chicken, you know what the chicken looks like. Not necessarily nice in pictures. This is what you do:
- Put marinated chicken in
- Put food cream in, covering it
- Put tomatas and spring onion in.

Get ready to be parmesanized. And that smell is a good smell.

Shrip - shrip - shrip! All the way in. Dont smell your fingers.

Par me shaaan. Why have I never used you in food before? (I honestly havent)

Parmesan Tower.

Spread it all on top. Aaall of it.

Let it cook for a while. It gets sooo well cooked by the cream. Oh yum. :)

Ok. So it looked better while making it than in the end. But it did taste good. :)

Ragnar makes hot chocolate.

• dedikert til linda •

Apple Muffin Sugar Sticky

You didn't see this one coming, did you! A food post.
Well, I'm not one to ask twice about making muffins, and when I suggested it to myself yesterday you can guess the answer.

The thing was - I went outside in our very tiny half circled back yard and guess what I saw. We have appletrees. We do! :D And they had apples on and they were big and nice and red and green and I picked some.


Inside again, I thought about how to use these for some good. Hum hum. "What about Muffins?" I thought. Don't know why that came to my mind first. So, without further questions I decided on the muffins.


I pealed the apples.


I chopped them.


I put cinnamon, brown sugar and white sugar in a bowl and tossed it around.


I put it in a purple nicer shaped bowl, just so it would look better in the pictures.


I put the ingrediense for the muffins in a bowl.

--- OK OK. It's from a 1-2-3-muffins pack. :/ I didn't even make it from scratch. Oh well - I'm not a house wife, give me some rest. ;P ---


I poured water and butter into the mixture.


Spin, spin, spin!
Watch your clothes, you get stains. This is why you use an apron. .... Which I didn't. And I do have an apron WITH muffins on, from Anthropologie. It's so cute. :)
I'll wear it next time. :P


I made sure of no clods in the mixture. I hate clods (klumper).


Butter your muffin tin with a neat silicon buttery thing.


I put bits of the sugar sticky apples in the tin, and poured in mixture on top. Fill about half way up, ... and then a little more.


Be patient.

If you rush it, this is what you get:


Yes, Naan-Pizza. You don't want that when you expect muffins.

Although - they were good. :)


Almost there! Oh, that smell!


Let them rest for about a second or two.


Put cheese frosting on top and take a bite before you even manage to take a picture. :P
Oh yum.



Don't eat me!
(Do you see the sad Muffin-man in there? ;P)

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I forgot to put this in, but as some of you may have noticed,
a certian Pioneer Woman has been the inspiration for this post.
Yup - gotta love her. :)

Go see her amazing website here.
And make sure you have an hour or five to spare.