I’m trying to eat less sugar. Some people might try to be really nice, but honestly I have put on like 2-3 kg the last month, and I’m starting to notice it. Better to do something in time, I was sitting too much still before, but now I have started running again. Anyway, I made this dip today (couldn’t find a recipe so I just made something up, that tasted very good), ..(tastes very good with carrots or cauliflower (or cucumber). Here comes the recipes:
Red dip: Sour cream, ketchup, finely chopped onion, chili powder.
White dip: Sour cream, mustard, tarragon, a hint of garlic powder, salt and pepper.
Otherwise I would suggest:
Tsaziki: Plain yogurt (put it in a coffee filter for 10-30 minutes, and it becomes thicker, if you don’t have that kind of greek yogurt), add garlic, salt and pepper, and cucumber that you have grated and put in a colander for at least 5 minutes (to get rid of the water).
Tomato salsa: Chop tomatoes (peel them if you like to), chop onion pretty fine, add chili powder, salt pepper, a tiny hint of vinegar and a little olive oil. Mix and put in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before you eat.
“Skagenröra”: You’ll need sour cream, (a table-spoon of mayonnaise), that kind of shrimps you buy in plastic cans, that are already peeled. Dill, salt pepper. Mix everything except from the shrimps, add the shrimps, put in the fridge 30 minutes before you eat. Very good on a piece of toasted bread, put salad under the “röra”.
I just have to share my opinion on guagamole. I don’t like when it’s tomatoes in it, and no, don’t add sour cream either. Avocado, onion (or red onion) a little lemon juice, salt pepper, and garlic is enough if you ask me. I would never buy that kind of mix, haha! Im very into olives now, I can’t understand WHY I have started to like it??
And to the microwave challenge. To bake in the microwave works!! I’ll make a cake next weekend. The stupid thing is that you’ll get flat muffins, but otherwise they taste pretty much the same. Chocolate is best because they don’t get “brown”. Just be sure to not use the max power. 350w is enough. A couple of days ago I made oatmeal cookies. I kind of created my own recipe because I couldn’t find a good one. You can’t really make a full recipe because not so many cookies fits in the “oven”.
12 cookies (pretty small)
50g butter (1/2 stick?)
1/4 c brown sugar
1/8 cup white sugar
1/2 egg (whisk it a little and use half of it)
1/2 tea-spoon vanilla
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
a hint of baking soda (you’ll not need much since they rise very much in the microwave)
3/4 cup rolled oates
a hint of cinnamon
Cream butter and sugar with an electrical mixer, add the egg, and mix for 30 seconds or until fluffy. Add the rest of the ingredients (mix the baking soda with the flour before you add it). Use a spoon to scoop the batter. Put baking paper on the microwave plate, you can make 5 cookies each time if you have a medium size microwave. I put it on 350w for 4 minutes, but watch them carefully. They’ll seem doughy at first but after 10 minutes they become much harder and crispier. Remove them from the baking paper and repeat. If you put less than 5 cookies on the plate, 1 minutes can be enough. They burn very easily because of the sugar (it kind of “boils” and gets brown very quick). Next time I’ll make them I’ll take a picture.
