yttereneby2: Pink is the colour!!

Monday, 24 January 2011

Pink is the colour!!

Rose and I drink one freshly made vegetable juice every day. Living in Sweden this limits us to the winter veggies we find available, which are mostly roots. One can love roots when one is creative with them! So the juices we make are often of the colour PINK, since beetroots are high in season here (they store well!). Our juices also contain carrots and apples, cabbage and ginger, pear and orange sometimes. I swear, I have never lived as healthily as here. (And I was an eco freak per se before I moved to Sweden!!). But here I learn to live in a truly different way, not a eco freaky but eco friendly, fun and stylish lifestyle. Not necessarily the typical Swedish lifestyle, but a way of living that I feel is timeless and placeless, it should be in any household at all times, that's what I mean!
Rose has one of the best juicers there are, and a blender for smoothies will be bought as soon as she can afford to. Did you know you can make banana ice cream in a juicer? Well, I didn't before I saw Rose do it last night. The frozen bananas go into the blender rock hard and come out as sweet and creamy, icy delight without anything added to them but pressure and some sharp teeth of the juicer. Wow!
You bet, we are looking forward to the Spring!! With fresh leaves, herbs, celery, and so on... But I can do with more pink juices for a while still. Spring comes late in Sweden, but when it does, it really does, that's what I've been told. The colour will be green then, for sure!

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The Prince of Fishes - or the story of to be and not to have.

So the story goes that once upon a time in a land not so far away there was an old man and his wife who lived in a small hut by the ocean. On a day like any other day the old man took his rod to go fishing. As luck had it, on that day, the old man caught the Prince of Fishes (of course it was a majestic haddock).

The Prince of Fishes said to the old man when he reeled him in, "please, let me go, for I have a kingdom to rule and if you let me go I will grant you every wish you desire."

So the old man returned to his wife and told her what had happened. The wife said "Oh, to have a cottage rather than a small hut..." The old man returned to the ocean and called to the Prince of Fishes and told him of his wife's request.

And the Prince of Fishes said "It is done".

When the old man returned home there stood a lovely cottage. But the next day, the old man's wife said "Oh, but to have a castle!" The old man returned and gave his wish to the Prince of Fishes and the Prince of Fished said again "It is done".

The old man returned home and there stood a magnificent castle. But after some time the old wife was not satisfied. "Oh husband, " she said, "to have a kingdom!". So the old man returned again and as before the Prince of Fishesd said "It is done".

But the old woman, as it was her nature, still wished for more. She said to her husband "Oh, to be like GOD!". The husband returned to the sea and the King of Fishes said "It is done as you have wished". When the old man returned home, he saw with joy that there once again stood his small hut. He went to sit next to his wife on small blue bench in front of their hut and there they lived happily to the end of their days.