lasagna

I'm on a diet... or I'm changing my lifestyle (that's a fancy way of saying that I'm trying to change my eating habits without starving myself).

It's been going on for a while, and I've has some great weeks (amazing weight loss) and some lazy weeks (no loss... or even worse weight gain). I'm very good at starving myself for a 2-3 days and then eating everything I can get my hands into the next 2-3 days (or 2-3 weeks).. it's so easy., but eating healthy regularly and getting all the nutrient and the right amount of proteins, carbs and fats is difficult. It's just easier to skip the lunch and just eat cake for dessert (right?!).

What works for me is changing small things (and keep away from cake). For example for dinner tonight I made lasagna. And by changing a few things it turned out to be a pretty healthy dinner.

Ingredients:
Low fat minced meat
2 cans of diced tomatoes
1 small can of tomato paste
3-4 onions (yay for vegetables)
2 cloves of garlic
what ever vegetables you have!
I added 3-400 grams of frozen vegetables (had a couple of opened bags of vegetable mixes: broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, parsnips, belled pepper)
50-100 g of red lentils
spices(salt, peber, thyme, oregano... what ever you like)

White sauce:
½ l of Milk
2 TSP of Flour
Salt
Pepper
Muscat

Lasagna plates or pasta (today I used 300 grams of leftover fresh fettuchine)
Grated cheese on top.

Brown the meat over high heat. Put aside (drain of excess fat if you want)
In the same pan, clear onions for a couple of minutes, add tomato paste and canned tomatoes. add vegetables and lentils. Let simmer for 20 minutes.

In another pan: Heat up the milk, saving a bit of the milk (maybe ½dl) to mix with the flour. When the milk boils, add milk/flour mixture while whisking. Season.

Blend tomato sauce- be careful - it's hot.

Add the meat to the sauce, and reheat and season the sauce.

Layer the sauces and pasta in a baking dish, starting with the tomato sauce, and finishing whit the white sauce. Top of with grated cheese.

No pictures, but it was delicious and less than 100 calories pr. 100 grams (75 calories to be more exact)

A nice salad on the side would really finish this dish of.

I'm thinking that....

...someone has outgrown his baby carriage.

summer day

It seems summer has arrived. Our garden is growing and blossoming and we are enjoying the additional sq. meters to our house. With the mild weather we leave our garden door open and walk in and out using the garden as our living room. I've put up a sun canopy to protect us from the rays of the sun, it gives us shade from the baking sun.
Our strawberry plants are blooming, and I'm sure it will be a fruitful year for us.

Adam is squatting down.. because he saw the photographer (me) do the same.

He's not happy that I want him to wear his sunhat... by the way, the wellies was his idea, not mine.

..and here he's unhappy that he can't get the camera... he's pretty unhappy most of the time these days... he has the chickenpox. With a fever, and a lot of chickenpox in his diaper area he's not too happy about the hot summer weather.. or the warm summer nights. Sleep has been in short supply in these parts the last couple of days, but luckily it seems that things are looking better. Adam is sleeping right now, all passed out after running and laughing with/of? my brother's dog for hours and hours this afternoon. Who knew a dog could bring the smiles (and sleep) back to my baby?

but he's still cute though <3

he's got moves

Please ignore my singing, this is just a random song, that Adam has never heard before, but he is our little dancer. He's got some strange and wild moves that boy!

Midway he get's distracted by the TV, I stop singing until he wanted me to continue. 

He's such a random dancer. He doesn't always need music to dance, I'm guessing that he has his own private theme song running in his head. The other day we were out for a walk and he suddenly started making his moves. He's so funny!