PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG | Trying out “Gröna Kassen”, Sweden’s greenest grocery bag

Gröna kassen is a grocery bag delivery service (matkasse) with an all out vegan selection and close to 100% ecological suppliers. Gröna kassen delivers out of Stockholm and now also include Uppsala and Västerhaninge. They deliver every second week and you can choose to order bags with groceries for 3-5 dishes for 4 persons each. Gröna Kassen | http://www.gronakassen.se | Sveriges miljövänligaste matkasse! Always fun to try out a new food delivery service, and even more so when one of the founders is a good friend and delivers the food in person, not that I would let that cloud my … Continue reading PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG | Trying out “Gröna Kassen”, Sweden’s greenest grocery bag

BIRCH OIL | Straight out of Dalarna

Ah! Now that’s fresh mountain-grown birch oil from the hills of Dalarna. Finally, this is a product I’ve been looking for… …well no, but I love it. We pick the leaves from the birch tree and extract the etherial oils that provide a very aromatic flavor of birch. Birch oil is then mixed with a cold-pressed organic canola oil and bottled. Örtagård Öst It tastes spectacular mixed in butter, sprinkled on sallad or pasta, but make sure to apply it just before serving as the etherial birch oil is rather volatile and will disappear quickly if heated. Some people have … Continue reading BIRCH OIL | Straight out of Dalarna

KAFFETÅREN | Breakfast for Champions

• Coffee Grinds • Steam • Pressure Just add music and you can hit the day running :-) Update 2021 This classic machine from Krups served up my coffee perfectly for 15 years until 2016 when I had the opportunity to get a Siemens EQ.9 super automatic, coffee lovers dream machine for a fraction of the market price. My old Krups machine still lives on and every now and then I take for a spin to have a go at that manual espresso making experience with coffee grinds, a heavy metal tamper, and the steam huffin ‘n puffin. Continue reading KAFFETÅREN | Breakfast for Champions

HOT CHOCOLATE & WHIPPED CREAM | All non-dairy, all good

• Cacao Powder • Sugar • Oat milk (ICA Solhavre) • Soy Cream (Alpro) Chocolate from cacao powder, sugar and oat milk was easy peasy. However, whipping the soy cream ain’t no walk in the park. On the other hand, when you have it all down and served up, you know you deserved this treat. ENJOY !!! Continue reading HOT CHOCOLATE & WHIPPED CREAM | All non-dairy, all good