Homemade Sourdough Starter

I've been curious for so long about how to make sourdough starter. Honestly,  I've trying to make it about 2 times for a few years ago but it was disaster.  It was just not working. So now I'll try to make it again and I hope this one will work. After googling and searching how to make a starter so I decided to use this recipe which is I modified a little bit.  Well,  it sounds like very me who like to take a risk.

SOURDOUGH STARTER

120g water (boiled it before using)
120g wholegrain flour or any flour you like.
40g peeled granny smith apple. (chopped it finely) 

You will need:

A wooden spatula or wooden chopstick. 

A glass container

These are the Ingredients and of course water which I forgot to take the picture. 

Mix together water, flour and chopped apple in a container.  Stir with wooden spatula. 

Wrapped with dobble cling film and make a few holes with toothpick or fork. 

DAY 1

On day 2nd,  I can see small bobbles here. 

feed with 1:1 (120g water and 120g flour)

Stir it well. 

DAY 2

More bubbles on day 3rd 

Just keep feeding 1:1

 (120g flour and 120g water) 

DAY 3

Keep feeding 1:1

(120g flour and 120g water) 

DAY 4

It's beginner to smelly.  Vinegrated smells and tangy taste on day 5th.

DAY 5

Summer day 2015

The best thing to live in Harstad are the beautifull summer days!  The sky is just so clear and blue, the mountains with a little snow on the top,  seagulls everywhere and of course the blue sea. It just FANTASTICS! 

Today was about 12 C,  perfect sun and very little wind.  We sat outside and enjoyed the weather with good foods and lots flowers in our terace made the cozy atmosphere. I take a few pictures too :-)

                         Petunia flowers

Our terrace

Kvæfjord strawberry 

Sate grill

Harstad view from the top of Thon Hotel

Glutinous Black Rice Pound Cake

This pound cake is perfect to your  afternoon tea or serve to your friends at home.  You can also freeze this cake.

Ingredients

3 large eggs

175 g glutinous black rice flour

100 dl coconut milk

75 dl vegetable oil

100 g sugar 

A pinch of salt 

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

This is how you do it
Egg and sugar mix together until it's fluffy.  It takes about 15mins. Set aside add the glutious black  rice flour a little bit and then coconut milk then oil. Mix it with spatula when it mix well you have to start again from glutinous black rice flour,  coconut  milk and oil.  Then continue until it mix well and add the baking powder and a pinch of salt. 

Get your pound form size 11x24 cm.  Grease your form with margarin and give flour on it until the form covered with a dust from flour.

Preheat oven 180C. Bake in about 30-35mins on the middle rack.
Let it cool and Enjoy!

Marius genser

After  a little over a month with knitting,  finally my very first knitted sweater called "mariusgenser"  is done.  So happy with the result.  Now the next projects will come soon 😊

Norwegian Socks

I'm feeling so lucky to have a very good co workers at my job who willing to knit socks for me. The socks are in norwegian pattern. The pattern called Marius ♡

The Sun Comes Back

Today is the official for the sun here in Harstad,  North of Norway. Yes, it comes back again after a while under the horizon for about 1,5 months. I never imagine that I could live here without sun at all!

It will take a while until the sun comes perfectly. Day by days will the sun comes out from horizon quietly slow but surely. Until it never goes down (well it goes down but just for a few minutes and then comes again over horizon. Then Midnight Sun will be here on 22.mai to 18 july. No darkness in this periods except if its cloudy.

Hooray for the S.U.N ♡

Braised Pork In Sweet Soya Sauce

Here's a typical Indonesian-Chinese recipe. Braised pork in sweet soya sauce will make you want it, again and again.

Here's the recipe:

1 kg pork ribs (dices)
1 onion (fine diced)
7 tablespoon sweet soya sauce (Indonesian soya sauce called kecap manis or ketjap manis)
a thumb of ginger (bruised)
a little bit salt
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon dark sugar (only if you want more sweeter)
1 star anis
5 cloves of garlic (fine chopped)
8 dl of water

This is how you do it:
Get your pan hot and then set it in medium heat. Add pork and fry with their own fat until golden brown. Set aside.
Fry onion with the pork fat for a min then add garlic and ginger until the fragrance comes out.

Mix all together include the rest of ingredients in a pot and let it simmers in 2.5 hours until it's tender.

Your braised pork is ready! Served with rice and salad.
Enjoy! ♡