Homemade Big Mac result

You guys remember that recipy I had on the blog for a homemade big mac? Well here's the result!

Took about 10 minutes to make from scratch and tastes absolutely delicious!

Trying out Amnesia

Just trying out my casting skills in English. And what better game to start with than Amnesia? Needless to say it turned out to be an epic failure! Enjoy!

Popcorn Jack

So I was feeling bored today:

[13:56:45] Michael Westside: i wanna write something
[13:56:49] Michael Westside: give me a topic
[13:56:50] Hannah: write somethign then
[13:56:51] Hannah: um
[13:57:05] Hannah: hmm..
[13:57:19] Hannah: popcorn
[13:57:29] Michael Westside: right
[13:57:32] Michael Westside: give a name
[13:57:39] Hannah: of popcorn?
[13:57:45] Michael Westside: of a person
[13:57:46] Hannah: oh
[13:58:18] Hannah: hmmm
[13:58:29] Hannah: jack abramoff
[13:59:06] Michael Westside: alright
[13:59:24] Michael Westside: im now gonna write a shortstory about Jack Abramoff and popcorn

So that happened. And here is the result. Took 43 minutes to write. I'm getting slower =(

120 calories. That's the average energy content of a bag of popcorn. It was enough to fuel Jack Abramoff for six percent of a day. 86.4 minutes. Three and a half of those minutes would be wasted converting the small and incredibly hard yellow pebbles into white fluffy clouds thought. The instructions clearly states that three minutes would be enough but Jack knew that to be a lie. People always lie. 

He placed the flat bag in the microwave and turned the dial to three and a half minutes. His friends had tried to make him get one of those newer, more fancier, microwaves. One with a showy digital clock and a hundred different pre-sets to prepare food with. As if anyone ever used those. No, Jack preferred the old fashion ones. It reminded him of his youth.

Still three minutes left on the timer. The light inside the box was glowing a sickish yellow, radiation the popcorn, while the bag spun around like a carnival's carousel. Round and around.

Jack turned around and leaned his back against the bench that held the microwave. "Don't stand too close to the microwave" she used to tell him. "The radiation will leak out and give you cancer." Even though he now knew that it was just another lie he still felt a bit uneasy about being so close to it. Somewhere deep inside his head there was a voice going "get the fuck away from that machine." Old habits die hard.

Jack turned around again and just when he did he heard the first POP go off. The bag flinched ever so slightly. Only two minutes left now.

He tried to remember the first time he had popcorn in his life. He knew it must have been when he was really young. He faintly remembers popping them in a large pan. This was before anyone in his family got a microwave of their own so he must have been around 4, maybe 5 years old.

One minute left on the timer now. The popping had picked up a lot now. It sounded almost like firecrackers or maybe muffled machine gun fire. Taken directly from one of those bad war movies back in the eighties  It wouldn't surprise Jack if they actually used the same sound for the movies. It wouldn't surprise him at all.

Only thirty seconds left. The ruckus inside the glowing box had calmed down quite a bit. "Guess popcorn are like rock-stars"  Jack mumbled to himself while standing alone in his kitchen. "Live hard and die young." At that moment he remembered that he had to count.

Counting is important while preparing microwaved popcorn.  You have to go POP one, two three POP. If there's no pop at the end of the count the machine must be shut down. Fast. One second could make the difference between the best junk food known to man and a block of smoldering coal.

The last pop was counted and he launched at the timer. There can't have been more than two, maybe three, seconds left on it. But it matters. "The count never lies." Jack thought to himself while carefully removing the steaming hot bag from the oven.

His wait was done. Wasting another nine minutes and thirty-eight seconds eating the bag of popcorn he now had 73.3 additional minutes. Just over an hour of his life his to do with as he wishes. 

Yeah... I hate being sober.

Recipe for Heart beef stroganoff

I was planning to make some food the other day and I really felt like making some beef stroganoff. But then I realized that good, lean, beef meat in Sweden is like €15 a pound. And I'm a poor student so that won't do. I almost replaced the beef in the dish for some cheap sausages before I realized:

If I'm going to eat ground up organs, why don't I just buy some beef hearts instead?

Now, some of you might find the idea of eating an animals heart disgusting. But it's not worse than eating liver. In fact, an animals heart is the cleanest and most lean muscle in an animals body. It also got more protein than a regular muscle and contains a lot of nutritious iron. It's pretty damn healthy. But the best thing about it is that it goes for like €3 a pound. If not less.

Well I made the dish, and it turned out great! So now I'm going to share this wonderous dish with all you loyal readers!

• 1 Kg Cow Heart
• 1 Large Onion
• 50 cl Cream
• 500 g Strained tomatoes
• 1 tbsp of Mustard
• Soy
• Habanero Tabasco
• Chili powder
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil

Mince the meat into small pieces. Cow heart needs to be prepared a certain way which can be seen here.
Make a marinade with oil, mustard, chili powder, salt, pepper and soy.
Toss the meat into the marinade and leave it be for about an hour or two.

Chop up the onion nicely and fry in a large pot.
Now add the the marinated cow heart and fry it until it gets a nice golden color.
Add the strained tomatoes, mustard and cream.
Add all the spices after your own taste.
Boil on a low heat for about 30 minutes.

Serve with rice!

Dumb Ways to Die

Some vid made by the australian Metro or something. Thought it was cute enough to log in and share with you guys.

New Girl

I just saw the last episode of New Girl. Never buy me a cookie guys. Ever.

How to make tunnbrod

So this is what we Swedish do on Saturday nights. We live an exciting life. Also, this is the proper way to make tunnbröd/tunnbrod. I would post the actually ingredients but since it's been in my family for generations I'm quite reluctant to do that. Googling a random one on should do just as well.

We're using a table, a Koskenkorva Vodka bottle, a Pizza Stone in the oven and one of these:

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The XX - Coexist album

This is the new album Coexist from the band The XX. It got some really cool song in it. But that's not why I'm blogging about it today. I'm blogging about it because of their most awesome idea of spreading it to the public

The XX shared their new album with only one fan to see how quickly it could go viral. And they decided to make the progress visible. So all you have to do is to click "Click here to see the share visualizer" and then share it on twitter or something to be part of the map.

You should most definitely check them out.

Tracklist:

1.	"Angels" (lyrics by Croft)	2:52
2.	"Chained"	2:48
3.	"Fiction" (lyrics by Sim)	2:58
4.	"Try"	3:16
5.	"Reunion"	3:58
6.	"Sunset"	3:39
7.	"Missing"	3:35
8.	"Tides"	3:02
9.	"Unfold"	3:04
10.	"Swept Away"	5:00
11.	"Our Song"