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Yesterday J and I had a delicious dinner at a friends house. It was the first time that I actually visited their home and I knew that they were people who had traveled the whole world (almost), but what I didn´t know was that their home decor would tell so many stories from exploring the world. Being in their house was like visiting each one of their travel destinations, all the way from Japan, Australia, Ethiopia to Uganda. They had little items that they collected from each of their travels. The bookshelf was filled with Lonley Planet books. – And even their little cute French Bulldog Chaplin had a fluffy cool dogbed from a far away exotic travel destination.

I have never been one to purchase so many souvenirs on my travels, but the next time J and I are going for holidays we will bring a few souvenirs with us back home. Actually I wouldn´t mind a good long travel right now, maybe a travel around the whole of Asia, that would be nice!

Back to reality. -Today it´s pouring  down with rain from the sky of Barcelona, and I´m baking a paleo chocolate/banana cake while I am writing this blogpost, a very nice tasty cake that J and I are going to enjoy very soon (yummmm).

Have a great Sunday, enjoy life, smile and remember it´s Daylight saving time (summer time).

A better way to peel a ginger

peeling_ginger¡Buenos días, here is a Saturday morning ginger trick. I cook with ginger, I bake with ginger, I love ginger in my tea and I always put ginger in my smoothies, I am a ginger-lover; Ginger, Jengibre, Ingefær, Ingefära, Gingembre. Before I learned this peeling-trick, I often wondered how I could reduce the ginger waste that I got from peeling ginger with a sharp knife. The outside of ginger is paper thin and using a vegetable peeler or a sharp knife removes more precious ginger meat than is necessary.  An ordinary kitchen teaspoon will work remarkably well.
Take a metal teaspoon and with a small amount of pressure, scrape the skin from one end to the other.  Continue all the way around the piece of ginger until all the ginger skin is removed.
Now you have a clean piece of ginger, ready to slice, dice or grate.
Have a good Saturday!

Are you going to Barcelona in the spring??? Meet Little Vietnam in Barcelona at LaVietnamita

Are you going to Barcelona in the spring??? If you can answer yes to this, then do not miss out for a lunch or dinner at La Vietnamita.

La Vietnamita is a Vietnamese street food deli in Barcelona, there is a restaurant in Gracia and one in El Borne. It is one of my and J´s favourite lunch restaurants in Barcelona. They are also open at night but we prefer LaVietnamita for lunch during the day 🙂

The photos below are taken from the restaurant in Gracia and in the El Borne.

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La Vietnamita is as the name says a Vietnamese street food deli and they serve very tasty and fresh healthy food made from local fresh products. They serve Vietnamese food, soups, salads, noodles, homemade lemonades, etc.<

They have a moto that I simply love, the moto is: Eat the food you mind and mind the food you eat.

Price: Cheap to medium

www.lavietnamita.com
Here is a link to their menu in English: http://www.lavietnamita.com/menu/lavietnamita-english-menu.pdf