The ring of fire

I read at some point about a research study which showed that people who had been thinking mostly about food during a specific period, they gained significantly more weight compared to those who were thinking about sex. I guess there are many reasons for this but ...wait a minute...

Oups! One out of two posts in this blog is about food!!

Bells ringing! Bells ringing!!

Alarm! Alarm!!

For the sake of my scale... I have to fix this!! The sooner the better! 

So this post is going to be about the ring of fire as in Johnny Cash... :D

Being a foreign single girl in Norway is certainly interesting! You face almost a paradox; you know how to play but you don't know the rules... Been there done that in the past but now? Suddenly someone has changed the cipher or even worse he enciphered the rules of the game after first encoding them... Most of your interpretation doesn't make sense but you still see it works for the most around you... 

Advanced level for sure but I'm a tough one, I'll break it! I like challenges! ;D

After discussing my frustrations on the issue with a friend (oh yes, teenage years are forced back, apparently!) she sent me this fun post from an American girl who lives in Sweden. It has seeds of truth, believe me! It was such a relief and I laughed my head off! I hope you enjoy it!

''Dating in Sweden: sex, booze and mobile phones''

And just to close with a little food for thought, the extrapolation of the study is very fitting to my views. What you think or you allow yourself to think is who you are going to be! Scary and promising at the same time!
Take care of your thoughts! :)

Greek salad!

First and foremost I have to state that I really really love how much Norwegians enjoy and appreciate greek products! Feta, olive oil, ouzo...
We do,too! :) And I can't help it, every time I find similarities I feel happy!

Now that I made myself clear on this, I can continue with some criticism.
I come across again and again to the term ''Greek salad''.
Yeah, well, only that it is NOT a greek salad!!!

Would any Greek accept a salad that contains lettuce, tomato, olives, onion, pesto and feta cheese with tzatziki on top (!!!!) as a greek salad?? Damn it, NO!

First of all, tzatziki is a salad itself! Yeah, right, a separated one! It isn't a sauce and I doubt that during the almost 30 years I lived in Greece I tasted a single combination of tzatziki and feta at the same dish! Even the idea gives me chills...

Everyone is of course free to use greek ingredients to his fancy, and it is nice to let imagination and creativity wild but by all means don't call it greek! And even more don't present it as greek in your menu!! It is quite unfortunate on how many restaurants and cafes here, you meet this distracting idea of greek salad. Especially when one can easily find ALL the ingredients that a real greek salad contains!
It's insane! It isn't either that Norwegians haven't visited Greece or tasted the real thing...
I really, seriously, honestly find no reasonable explanation why this happens!!! It's simply insane and it drives me crazy!

Let's see;

• slided tomatoes
• onion (the colour doesn't really matter) in small half-moon slices
• green paprika in rings
• feta cheese, in a shape of block 8x12 cm
• oregano or thyme
• olives
• salt, preferably sea salt (&for God sake not pepper!!)
• cucumber (of course, corrected after the kind contribution of Camillaki) 
• optionally capers.

Do I forget something? Ah! Yes, a decent amount of olive oil!

Here you go! Greek horiatiki (meaning from the village) salad 1000% acceptable of any Greek around the world!

And another thing the so called tzatziki is another painful story! No, yogurt with garlic and something green inside is not called tzatziki either but I'll stop here because I have an upper time limit in nagging and Ι'm right now approaching it!

Last but not least, you can actually find real feta here! No, I definitely don't mean appetina, but there are greek brands in some supermarkets and you can find it also in Bondens marked in Torg. Once I had an excellent chat with one of the farmers when I certified that he actually makes real feta cheese and we laughed about having a label to his stand like 'Approved by Greeks'! :D