Baking!

Today my mother showed me how to make my own pastry, sweet pastry at that. I baked some jam tarts and an apple and pear pie, I will be making custard later to go with the pie. I must admit that it seems a bit pointless in me baking these things if I am not going to eat them. But in any case here are pictures and I hope that the rest of my family enjoys the baked goods.

both jam tarts and apple and pear pie/tart are something I can't eat because of my diet.

On the dinner front thought I am cooking a chicken kebab type thing with some potato bake for everyone else and for me, with a salad. I hope that the chicken kebab turns out right. Here is the recipe if anyone wants it.

I hope that this diet goes well for me, at the moment I am trying it for a month and then upon seeing the results I feel I will decide whether or not to continue.

Peace out for now peoples..

Meatzza!!

I realise that it has been quite a while since my last post, months if I remember correctly. I have been preoccupied and not really interested in the blogosphere. But alas I'm back with news of upcoming things.

I plan to post a lot more because it could be helpful with this new diet I am trying, and I know the small conglomerate of people that read this must be thinking "you're a guy, guys don't do diets" well as much as guys don't do diets, I am and I am combining that with daily exercise because I want to lose weight. I don't want to be a huge fatman all of my life and I think that losing weight is good to do.

My meatzza with proscuttio crudo, frankfurters onion and garlic.

I am doing a diet that is huge in Sweden, its the LCHF diet, that means low carbohydrates and high fat. Effectively that means that I cut things like bread and pasta and rice and sugary things and in return I am able to eat thing that are high in fat; for instance today I am having a Meatzza which is a pizza but with a mince meat base rather than the bread base that is usually used.

That diet combined with working out and motivation should help me loose weight.

Now for other news, I have decided not to go back to university for a while I feel that I am loosing taste for it and that's not a good thing if I want to eventually get a PhD. So in the meantime I am looking for a job both here in England and in Sweden. Hopefully Sweden gets back to me on the job front I'd rather be there than in England, my reasons for that are my own.

To consolidate the job in Sweden, I have been learning Swedish, and I hope that it is going great, the reason I hope is that I am really biased against myself, I feel that I am not good at it. I have been told that I have progressed a lot in a year (that's how long I have been learning Swedish).

Anyway wish me luck with the diet, job-seeking and Swedish. I'm going to go now before my meatzza gets cold. oh and the recipe for it can be found here:


http://www.lchfrecept.com/ShowRecepy.aspx?ID=952

It is in Swedish, but it's pretty simple to follow regardless of language barriers.