Matcha smoothie

Hello sweeties! Lately I have fell in love with matcha. Matcha is japanese fine powder green tea. It has many health benefits. I gonna list some of them for you.
Health benefits of matcha:

• Boosts metabolism and burns calories
• Detoxifies effectively and naturally
• Calms and relaxes
• Enhances mood and aids in concentration
• Provides vitamin C, selenium, chromium, zinc and magnesium
• Fights against viruses and bacteria
• Is rich in fiber
• Lowers cholesterol and blood sugar
• Does not raise insulin level

I like to use it because I’ve always liked it taste. I didn’t knew about the health benefits until last weekend. But hey, it’s better late than never
Jonna’s matcha smoothie:
1 liter of turkish yoghourt
about 1-2 dl whole milk
1-2 tea spoons of matcha
small about of hot water
2 bananas
If you wanna sweeten the taste you can add teaspoonful of honey.
Mix all the above ingredients in the blender and blend until the mixture becomes smooth. You can also stir if necessary.

 

Till the next time~~

Low carb diet

Hello sweeties! 2 weeks ago I started to follow low carb diet again. Mostly because I feel much better when I don’t eat carbs.I have noticed that when I eat carbs I feel sort of puffy. I also started to go to the gym. I’m really glad that my back isn’t aching as badly as month ago. So hurrey to that!  That’s why I keep going to the gym 3 times a week. 

Anyway, I gonna share with you my low carb pizza recipe. It’s really good, personally I think it’s even better than normal pizza. And it’s super easy to make!

 

Jonna’s low carb pizza:

pizza base:

150g of mozzarella cheese

2dl curd

1 egg

3 tea spoons if wheat brans

3 tea spoons of rye flour

toppings:

ham

pepper (red, green or orange)

pine apple pieces

slices of onion (half of it)

2 tea spoons of tomato sauce

150g mozzarella cheese

sprinkled oregano

 

Preheat the oven to 200C. Mix mozzarella, curd, wheat brans, rye flours and egg. Make base of the dough and put it on the oven for 10 minutes. After that add the toppings on the base and put pizza back on the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Enjoy!

 

If you are interested to know more low carb recipes let me know!

 

Until the next time~~

Paddington-what a cute bear!

Hello sweeties! I had a day off from work today and coz I didn’t had any plans for the day I decided to go to see a movie. I saw  Paddington ( <- see the trailer) is running on local cinema as original version. Perfect! I really can’t what dubbed movies, there’s always something missing when film is dubbed. Besides on Paddington one of the actors was amazing Peter Capaldi. Some of you might know him as twelfth Doctor. Anyhow, I liked a lot Paddington. It was very funny movie with some of best actors in UK at the moment. Like Hugh Bonneville from Downton Abbey.
Here is a little about the movie; A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck (‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.

I think Paddingto is a bit like me. I also love pretty much everything British. Especially the accent. It’s so….hot. Well, Scottish accent, to be precise. I have always liked more British English than American English coz British English sounds prettier, sophisticated and to be honest more intelligent. Not so into marmelade yet but I do love British biscuits with cup of tea.
O yes! I finally got the wellies that I won on Chill Out! wine’s competition. Hurrey! And the color is yellow as I hoped. I so gonna hear that I own hipster wellies but hey so what! I like them. That should be the main thing, not what other people think of my wellies

 

Alright! That’s all for now. I’m off to make delicious Baileys coffee and read a book.

Till the next time~~

Traditional dresses

Hei! Hello!Hallo! こんにちは!
Today I gonna write a little about traditional dresses. I think them are beautiful and they tell a lot about the country. Unfortenally I don’t own Finnish traditional dress yet, but it’s my dream to own one someday. But I do own yukata (from Japan) and dirndl (from Germany) As some of you already know I am interested of both countries so it’s not a suprise if I own something from both countries   First I gonna talk a little about dirndl, and then yukata.

Dirndl
A dirndl is  traditional dress worn in Germany – especially Bavaria, but also in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants.).A dirndl skirt generally describes a light circular cut dress, gathered at the waist, that falls below the knee.
The dirndl consists of a bodice, blouse, full skirt and apron.
The dirndl is mostly worn in Bavaria and Austria. It is used as an everyday dress primarily by older women in rural areas. Other women may wear it at formal occasions  and during certain traditional events. It is hugely popular also among young women at the Oktoberfest ( I  love to go in Oktoberfest some year so I could wear my dirndl in there and drink beer, haha)  in München (and similar festivals).

 

 

Yukata (浴衣)
A yukata  is a Japanese garment, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric, and unlined. Traditionally yukata were mostly made of indigo-dyed cotton but today a wide variety of colors and designs are available. As with kimono, the general rule with yukata is that younger people wear bright, vivid colors and bold patterns, while older people wear dark, matured colors and dull patterns. A child may wear a multicolored print and a young woman may wear a floral print, while an older woman would confine herself to a traditional dark blue with geometric patterns. Men in general may wear solid dark colors. Yukata are worn at outdoor summer events such as hanabi (fireworks) festival.  Yukata are also worn at Japanese inns ryokan after bathing

O my, both photos of me are quite old. I’m glad that I found them on my laptop. Anyhow, I love to have a new apron with my dirndl. I also like to have tsuke obi. Tsuke obi ( 付け帯) or tsukuri obi (作り帯) is any ready-tied obi. It often has a separate, cardboard-supported knot piece and a piece that is wrapped around the waist. The tsuke obi is fastened in place by ribbons. And I like to have coz it is easy to wear with yukata.
Till next time~~