Where does your baby sleep?

According to my calendar it is Spring tomorrow. I know it, my neighbor knows it. But it like the weather newer knows it, although it is the same time every year.

I wanted to share a danish tradition with you. Here it is very common that babies sleep outside in prams. All three of my children have done it, also through the winter. The healthcare advises that our babies sleep inside if the degrees is below 14 F.

For me it has made life so much easier because I do not accidently wake up the little ones and they sleep so much better in the fresh air. And it is easy to go shopping with the pram and the baby in it.

Now you probably wonder if they are cold lying in their pram. No not at all. I ensure to put them in warm clothes and a nice warm sleeping bag called Voksi.

Some years ago there was a huge debate about a danish mother who let her toddler sleep outside a restaurant in NY. The story went world wide. Everywhere people were in chock. In America because she let her baby sleep out side and in Denmark because your could be arrested for letting your baby sleep outside the restaurant. Have I done so? Yes! It is very common here in Denmark.

You can read an article about the subject here at BBC

Where does your baby sleep? and why have you chosen to let your baby sleep inside or outside?
lease let me know. I am very curious to learn about your traditions.

Pork tenderloin with parsley and cream cheese

I am pretty new into this slow cooking.
You can't buy slow cookers in the stores where i live and almost every one in my social circle asks me: "What is a slow cooker?" and looks at me like as if I am talking spanish (or some other language they don't know.

So far i have only tried 3 things ind my slow cooker. A paleo roast found at the Civilized Caveman Cooking, a whole chicken stuffed with some prunes and apples and yesterday a Pork tenderloin.
When searching the net it is almost impossible to find Danish recipes for slow cooking. So I use a whole lot of time searchins pinterest and all the wonderful recipes..

But most times i must realize that i an not use the recipe, either because I can not buy the ingredient in Denmark (mostly the processed ones) or because there is tomato in the recipe. My 5 yo son is allergic to tomatoes.
Of course I can find ways to sub the processed ingredients by making cream of soups my self etc. but then the whole purpose of slow cooking disappears. I want slow cooking to be an easy way of cooking healthy meals for my family.

Right now I am on maternity leave and now i have the time to practice. When I get back to work it would be so great just to start the slow cooker in the morning and come home to a house with scents of cooking...

Haha I guess that you think I am crazy. But to me this is realy a whole new way of cooking and i am so amazed of all the wonderful blogs I read online about it :)

Dear fellow bloggers and kind readers. Please if you know of a recipe online that meet my criteria:

• Easy to prep. 
• No tomatoes or mushrooms
• No processed food (or very little like soy sauce, food coloring etc.)
• Only a little amount of wheat (pasta, flour etc.)

Then I would love to see the recipe. Please share it with me.

I will be trying out the most interesting of them and giving a review here at my blog :)

And now for my Pork Tenderloin with Pasley

This was so easy to make and the taste was fabulous!

You'll need:

1 pork tenderloin

1/2 cup of chopped parsley

1/4 cup of cream cheese

salt and pepper

1 onion and 1/3 cup of water

Cut open the Tenderloin

Season with salt and pepper

Put on the chopped parsley and cream cheese

Bind the tenderloin together and cook

Slice the onion and put it in the slow cooker.

Pour in the water and put the tenderloin on top of the onions

Cook for 6 hours on low.

Use the broth to make a delicious gravy and serve with potatoes or vegetables.

You want the recepe for the sauce too?

Of course you do!

Gravy:

2 T of flour

1 T butter softned

The broth from the slow cooker

The onions from the slow cooker (blend them)

1 cup of cream

salt and pepper

and maybe some of the water from your potatoes or vegetables.

Mix the flour and butter

Bring the broth and cream to boil and and stir in the butter/flour

If it is to thick ad some blended onions and water from your potatoes

Add salt and pepper to taste.

If you want a brown grawy, use a little gravy coloring.

I hope you enjoyed the recipe and that you will share your best slow cooker recipes with me.

Thank you.

My car is a bike

While I am not working because I am on maternity leave we decided to save the money that it costs to have a car. I live in northern Jutland, in a small city.

When you live here it is almost a rule of life that you must have a car. And I must admit it is a bit less complicated to get the kids to daycare and school. But never the less. We have been doing just fine with out a car for the last 8 months. we simply decided to buy a bicycle instead. The plan was that we were going to sell it again when I am going back to work, but i am not sure if I can live without it now. I am so fond of my bike. I can have all 3 kids in it. The youngest is only 6 months old and he just sleeps in this auto chair.
Take a look... Can you see why I love my bike?

My bike with room for 4 toddlers or 2 toddlers and one baby

My "car" is for sure the cutest one at the parking lot.

Sirius in my bike, in his auto chair, ind his snowsiut and with lots of blankets.

The kids love the bike too. The youngest fall a sleep just a few minutes after we set off.
You can get a lot of different bikes like this one. Mine is from Bellabike.com

Pizza wheels for lunch

This weekend I made pizza wheels together with my 7 year old daughter.
Here in Denmark most children has rye bread for lunch. But the last couple of months my daughter has not enjoyed her lunch, and almost stopped eating her lunch. So we had to come up with an other ideer for the lunchbox.
I am not a big fan of wheat neither all purpose wheat flour or whole wheat flour. So it is very rarely that she gets other bread than rye bread.

I tried a new recipe. These pizza wheels are made of spelt and whole spelt four.
(Sorry about the measurements. Here in Denmark we use the metric system).

Wholde spelt flour pizza wheels
10 g. yest
3 dl. water (300 g.)
1 t. salt
2 T. Oil
200 g. spelt flour
350 g. Whole spelt flour

Mix water and yest
Add salt and oil
Mix the flour and add it while kneading
Hold a bit of the flour back for later use.
Let the dough rise for 2 hours

Roll it out into a rectangle

Top with tomato sauce, vegetables, cheese, sausages or what you like best.

Roll the dough into a scroll and cut it in slices
Place them on a baking tray covered with baking paper
Bake for 15-20 minutes at 200C

If you can resist eating them all, then flash freeze, bag them and use them for lunches.

Edible slime - The kids loves it!

When having small kids it is nice to know that nothing will happen if they eat the things they play with.
Last weekend we made som edible slime.
Vi found the recipe at about.com

Here it is:

1 teaspoon soluble fiber (e.g., Metamucil psyllium fiber)
8 ounces (1 cup) water
food coloring (optional)

Mix psyllium fiber and water together and let it boil for a couple of minutes, on the stove or in the micro wave.
Stir in a couple of drops of food coloring

Cool off befor letting the kids playing with the slime.

If the slime is to thin then boil again.

Have fun, we sure did.

Cute snowmen with hot chocolate and marshmallows

Just made these cute snowmen the other day for my daughter's class.
Each cup was decorated with a sharpie and in each cup was a marshmallow on a stick and a tablespoon og instant chocolate.
It was a great success

Cooking with garlic chives

Making garlic chives is easy!

Take some old garlic cloves, put them in a bowl of water and let them grow.

After 2 weeks you have the most tastefull chives ready to use.

You can use it in salats, wok or dressing.

it is easy and yummy