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Vegan chocolate tart with flaky sea salt and toasted oats
I love this slightly healthier chocolate tart. My favorite part is the smooth and creamy texture you get from using a food processor to whip up the filling. My other favorite thing here is the flaky salt on top and the toasted oatmeal is something special everybody should try! The…
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Eating the right fats to live longer
The verdict is out! We should avoid trans fats and saturated fats all together. Up until now there have been some conflicting reports on weather we should avoid saturated fats or not. An extensive, three decades long, newly published longitudinal study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
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Presidential Cardamom and Vanilla Cake
When I was a little girl my mom made a cardamom layer cake for Christmas. It was an old recipe from my great grandmother. I loved the smell of cardamom and ever since it’s been my favorite spice. To grind the cardamom seeds she used my great grandmother’s mortel and a…
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Breakfast of Champions
The Icelandic man’s soccer team is participating in its first ever major tournament at the UEFA 2016 in France. Yesterday they had a match with Austria and won resulting in the team qualifying for the final 16. That’s big for such a small nation with a population of only 334.319…
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Coca Cola, Chocolate, Salted Caramel and Popcorn Cake
This is my version of Oscar night Cake. Pop corn and Coke for the traditional movie night atmosphere and the golden caramel looks like the statue itself. This cake stood well up to the occasion! For the cake…. 120g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease 250ml cola 250g dark brown…
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Quinoa, Beet and Avocado salad
I’ve found that preparing ahead is the best strategy when it comes to staying fit and healthy. If I skip on the preparation I tend to grab something on the go and that’s very often lacking in necessary nutrients. One of my biggest issues is getting enough variety of vegetables.…
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Perfect Breakfast Coconut and banana muffins
As you may have noticed by now my family loves muffins. I am constantly using that fact to get something healthy and good into my boys. Especially the youngest one who is a fuzzy eater. He’s got his own mind! This version went down very well and is to date…
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Every day Hummingbird muffins
I made a Hummingbird cake the other day. I loved it! I think it’s now my favorite cake. But supposedly you’re not allowed to have cake every day so I made my version of Hummingbird muffins. And as everybody knows you can always have muffins. They’re practically health food, right?…
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The almighty now
A study at Harvard that found that 50% of the time we’re either caught up in regretting things from the past or worrying about what we’re going to do in the future. Half of the time! That means that when we finally go on that dream vacation we’ve been thinking…
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Action chia balls
I’m always trying to find new ways to make healthy, quick and easy snacks for us, on the go. Today we went cross country skiing and I made these to have with some coffee and my banana muffins. They worked well and are so easy to make and to keep…
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