Keep me appdated

All the social media mentioned yesterday are of course available as apps on your smart-phone too. If you haven't got a smart-phone yet..... What are you waiting for? I promise you'll love it and you'll be wondering what took you so long....

There are some great apps for keeping up with your organic life-style. These are just a few;

Don't ever print papers again. Share your documents with friends,
family, colleagues and business-partners. On your phone or on your computer.





 



Vegetarian recepies to use on Meat Free Monday.
Good inspiration!





Photos - so many apps to choose from;

Hipstamatic, Camera+, Pixlromatic,

Disposable, Instagram. 

Add filters or flashes to create unique pictures.

Saves your pictures in one place

and no need to print them out.











Lists Swedish farms shops.

Easy way to find locally produced greens, meats and more.

 Complete with a map function and short information about each farm.





Norwegian app. Scan the barcode of a cosmetic product
and the app will tell you if that product contains

 ingredients that can mess with you hormones.

There's a list of common chemicals and products. Such a great idea!

Play a game about climate change,
read the latest green news or donate money.

I only found a Swedish version.
Gives information about Fairtrade products
and where to find them.
Read stories from farmers,
and find out what you can do to help.

Green Guide (in Swedish only unfortunately).
From The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. 

Has tips about what to buy, how to recycle, how to travel

and a smart way to find an eco-friendly store close to you.

App from from Swedavia, the Swedish company in charge of all major
Swedish airports. It's a game where you help passengers to reach their flights.
It should be quick and with as little environmental impact as possibile.

Meat Free Saturday

More ricotta. This cheese is lovely!

We made pizza. Very easy to do, healthy and vegetarian.

For 4 persons

1 roll of puff pastery (500gr)
2 eggs
250 gr ricotta-cheese
2 tablespoons of finely-chopped fresh thyme
350 gr of tomatoes (it looks really nice if you mix the colors)
1 pot of chervil
olive-oil
salt
Freshly ground black pepper

- Heat up the oven to 200C
- Put the puff pastery on a baking sheet on top of oven paper. Tuck up the edges about 1cm and brush them with a whisked egg.
-Mix ricotta, thyme and one egg. Spice with 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and 2 pinches of black pepper.
-Put the paste on the puff pastery and spread it evenly.
-Bake it in the middle of the oven about 20-25 minutes until the puff pastery gets golden-brown and crispy.
-Put sliced tomatoes and chervil on top of it and add some salt, pepper and olive-oil

Meat Free Monday

Tonight we had beefs made of ricotta cheese. They were really easy to make and soooo delicious!

4 persons

50gr parmesan cheese
500gr ricotta cheese
2,5 tablespoons of flour (I used wheat flour)
1dl chives
1tablespoon of fresh thyme
1 egg
oliveoil or butter
salt
freshly ground black pepper


Grate the parmesan cheese and chop the chives and the thyme. Mix it together with ricotta, flour and egg yolk and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2 pinches of pepper.

Whisk the egg-white until it becomes a compact foam, then gently toss it into the cheese-paste.

Put 2dl flour on a plate and put about 1/2dl of paste onto it. Put flour on your hands and shape the beefs.

Fry the beefs in a lot of oil/butter. Appr. 3 minutes on each side.

We ate it together with a salad made of spinnach, radish, rocket, tomatoes and cucumber sprinkled with olive oil.

Strawberries

In Sweden strawberries are the biggest sign that summer has finally arrived. Ask any Swede and he/she will tell you that there is absolutely no strawberries anywhere in the world as good as the Swedish ones. We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dessert and we put them in salads for dinner together with grilled meat. We eat them as snacks, as appetizers together with feta-cheese, or in smoothies. The best thing ever is to go to your local farmer and pick them yourself. You spend hours in the fields eating as many as you're picking and leave sunburnt with red fingertips and many, many liters of bright red berries. Those get in the freezer to enjoy wintertime or they are turned into jam or cordials.

Pesticides used when growing strawberries in Sweden are Betanal SC/Kemifam SC. The company that sells these products in Sweden (Bayer CropScience) writes on their own website that whatever is left of the pesticide after spraying the fields shall be kept away from children and animals and separated from food. I really don't see how that goes together since we serve those sprayed strawberries to our children later....

In a test carried out in 2009, 94% of the conventionally grown strawberries (Swedish and others) contained traces of pesticides. Several of the pesticides discovered are suspected to cause cancer.

The good news is that the industry is working to find solutions that allow less harmful farming, so I hope it will soon be easier to find organic ones. Strawberries grown organically will meet challenges like weed, fungus and different pests, so you need to grow tough species and to put in more work to keep your plants free. It's definitely worth doing so though since studies have shown that organic strawberries can actually prevent cancer. Makes the choice quite easy... You can read more about this at krav.se. 

According to a recent study made at Lunds University in Sweden, bees really like organic strawberries. They pollinated 45% of the strawberry-flowers on the organic farms and only 17% on the conventional farms. So you can basically turn one wrong into two rights and have bee-hives next to your strawberry-farm.

Eat!

Eat! Ekostore is a fantastic little store in the centre of Stockholm that has everything you need, just as your regular supermarket. You can find milk, meat, juice, vegetables and grains. They have a selection of schampoos, detergents, baby-products and sunscreens as well as chocolate, candies, nuts and much much more. So there is nothing you can't find in here. It feels good to know that you don't have to check for the organic labels, instead you just buy what you need and you'll know it's not harmful in any way. They are open 7 days a week with really generous opening hours, so there's no reason to shop anywhere else. It's also nice to support the local community and to make sure we keep wonderful places like this one open.

If you're a company they're able to deliver fruit to the office; a nice and easy way to care about your employees. They will even bring coffee, milk or other products if you want to. Of course your shopping will be delivered in a car that runs on biogas.

As an ECOmmunity member you'll get special deals and invitations to events, and if you're on Twitter or Facebook you'll get all the latest news and offers. Also, check out their website were you can read their blog and find some delicious dinner inspiration in the recipes section.

Meat Free Detox Saturday

There was meat on our plates this monday so we postponed Meat Free Monday to Saturday instead.

We chose to go green (in every sense of the word) today.

For 4 persons

Breakfast - Fruitsallad
4 green apples
1 large box of green grapes
4 pears
4 kiwi fruits
1 galia melon

Lunch - Green lentil soup with lemon and garlic
1/2 kgs of green lentils
1 1/2 liters of vegetable broth
2 spring onions
4 tomatoes
2 garlic cloves
1 1/2 tsp of cumin
1/2 a lemon
Salt
White pepper

-Peel and chop spring onions and garlic. Chop the tomatoes and squeeze the lemon. Put the lentils, tomatoes, garlic and half of the spring onions in the boling broth.
-Let the soup stew for about an hour until the lentils feels soft. Spice it up with grounded cumin and pepper and salt. Sizzle the rest of the spring onion and lightly fry it.
-Right before it's served, put in the lemon juice and mix it all together.
-Sprinkle the fried spring onion on top.

Dinner - Green salad with all the good stuff we could find.
Fresh spinach
Avocado
Rocket sallad
Cucumber
Broccoli
Green Bell peppers
Asparagus
Pumpkin seeds
Olive oil.

Meat Free Monday

Today we had pancakes à la LCHF with fresh strawberries.

4 pcs/2 persons

4 eggs
2dl cream
2dl almond powder or shredded coconut
2 pinches of salt
1 tablespoon of baking soda

Whisk eggs and cream together och add the rest of the ingredients. Fry in i pan with a generous amount of butter. Serve with whipped cream and fresh berries.

They are really good but you don't eat as many of them since they are quite filling.

Goodstore

Goodstore is located in Stockholm and committed to organic and vegetarian merchandise. It's a cosy place with a wide range of food, cleaning materials, candy and beautyproducts. If you don't live in Stockholm they even deliver for you. Visit their webshop to see the complete range.

As well as providing you with everything you need for dinner you can also buy ready to go meals, smoothies and fruit. If you want a vegetarian wedding or birthday party they'll help you with the menu and cater the event.

Goodstore sell produce from a lot of different brands such as Kung Markatta, Saltå Kvarn, Ellas and Clipper. They also have their own brand, Goods, which provides organic produce at good prices. If you're a member, Goodfriend, you always get 3% off every purchase.

Meat Free Monday

Today we had italian/american inspired vegetarian burgers with fresh vegetables and feta-cheese mix.

For four persons you need;

8 burgers
8 large leafs of lettuce to be used instead of bread
freshly sliced cucumber
freshly sliced tomatoes
toasted onion
sliced cheddarcheese

Fetacheese-mix;
2dl turkish yoghurt
150g fetacheese
1/2 jar of sundried tomatoes
1 clove of garlic
salt and pepper
fresh basil

Crush the feta-cheese into the yoghurt. Chopp the sundried tomatoes into small pieces and put that in the mix together with pressed garlic, salt and pepper. Add a teaspoon or two of the oil from the sundried tomatoes to add flavour. Finish the mix with a few leaves of chopped basil.

Put your burger together and enjoy!

Meat Free Monday

It's monday again and today I'm going to make tagliolini with lemon, feta-cheese and basil. It's a recipe from Gordon Ramsey that we've tried before and it's one of the most fantastic pastas I've ever eaten.

For 4 persons you need;

500 gr of fresh pasta (preferably tagliolini)
zest and juice from one lemon (appr. 1/2 dl)
5 tablespoons of shredded parmesan
200 gr feta-cheese
1 pot of basil
2 tablespoons of toasted pine nuts
olive oil
salt
freshly ground black pepper

-Cook the pasta and pour it over the strainer. Keep 2 tablespoons of the water in the saucepan.
-Put the pasta back in the saucepan and add 4 tablespoons of olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice and parmesan.
-Crush and add 3/4 of the feta-cheese and the basil and mix it all together. Season with 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and a few pinches of pepper.
-Top with the rest of the feta-cheese and the pine nuts.
-Serve and enjoy!

Organic Breakfast

Todays breakfast consist of;

Turkish yoghurt, bananas, fresh strawberries, and homemade cereal. The cereal is mixed with coconut flakes, flax-seeds, almonds, quinoa-puffs, sunflower-seeds, hazelnuts and pumpkin seeds. The ingredients are from Kung Markatta, Saltå Kvarn, ICA - I love eco and Biofood. A cup of  Pukka Vanilla Chai tea completes the meal. It is delicious!

Meat Free Monday

It's monday again, and ok I haven't really gotten the cookbooks needed, nor do I have the (much wanted) ability to look through the kitchen and mix together what I find into something fantastic.

But anyhow this is what we'll have for dinner tonight;

Vegetarian schnitzel made of soy and wheat protein (frozen, not made from schratch). This is served with a large sallad made of spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli and feta-cheese. Dressing is regular evoo (extra virgin olive oil) with a taste of lemon. Yummy!

Meat Free Monday

We have decided to join the Meat Free Monday movement and exclude meat on our plates on Mondays.

Today I'm making tacos with all the good stuff; fresh salad, sour cream, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, spicy cheese, avocado and spicy sauce. We'll mix it up with the new vegetarian tacomince made of soy protein from Hälsans Kök.

Read more at meatfreemonday or in Swedish; köttfrimåndag.