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:

Plugging Lifeofcray.com for once

I'm going to plug my blog for once.

If you enjoy reading my blog there's several ways to subscribe to it. Here's some of them:

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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"

Stason bros. - Best Bike Rental (Director's version)

Yeah... I think I'm going to rent a bike.

How to make an instagram filter in Photoshop.

It's kinda hard to admit, but I've always thought that photos run through the instagram app for them iPhones and what not looks kinda cool. Perhaps it's due to the fact that I actually grew up during the time of analog photos. Cross processing was a thing back then as well. It was actually when you used one type of chemical solution to develop the wrong kind of film.

This was more often than not purely by accident but sometimes, if you were lucky, you'd actually get pretty cool results.

Anywho, since I don't own an iPhone, I don't own an analog camera anymore and my digital camera doesn't really support being dropped in chemicals I had to figure out how to do this in Photoshop. Turns out, it's not so hard. So here goes it!

First you do is open the photo you want to "Instagram". I'm going to use a self shot of my self, taken half naked in front of a mirror, just to give it that whole Facebook/blogger feel. The camera used was a Canon PowerShot A2200 installed with the CHDK hack.

Next thing you have to do is make a new adjustment layer. Pick Curves...

This should give you a new layer like so.

Click on the white square thingie to the left on the new layer and It'll bring up the curves.

Now you have four different curves. Just drag them so that they correspond to the curves in the next pictures. The black curve should be slightly adjusted as well.

And that's it really. Enjoy your new "cross processed" image. Here's how mine turned out in all of its 14 megapixel beauty.

If you click it, it's probably larger than your screen.

And yes, this whole post was just a silly excuse to post pictures of myself on my blog.

Best essay ever

Some guy I know was complaining over the fact that he had to write some kind of essay for school. It had to include all kinds of stuff, like some life story bullshit and talking to a waiter and what not. So I said to him, I said: "I'll just write it for you." And I did. Then I felt like sharing it with you guys, so here it is.

My name is Name Mc. Nameson and I'm XX years old. I've lived quite the uneventful life. I'm not to say that it has been boring, or even bad, but it hasnt been so much eventful either. I was born in a town called "my town" and more or less lived there my whole life. We've moved around a couple of times, my family and I, but never had any real changes. 

I remember this one time i went to a restaurant thought. A shabby little asian resturant in the outskirts to town. It didn't look like much but the food was pretty decent. And it was cheap. One day they had a new waiter tho, who was a bit strange. Our conversation went something like this: Waiter: "What you order?" to which I responded: "Fish filet." 

As soon as i said "fish filet" the waiter got this blank stare on his face. He litteraly just stared at me for around 20 seconds. And then i heard it. The music. It didn't seem to come from anywhere and yet it came from everywhere at once. The waiter stepped back a couple of feet and started screaming "WHAT SHE ORDER? FISH FILET!" over and over again. I was starting to freak out at this point. 

After he waiter had repeated the phrase about nine or ten times, the chef came out and wondered what was going on. He tried talking to the waiter who was still screaming. Even though he waiter had started of screaming with full force, it seemed like he was getting louder and louder every time he opened his mouth. I was frozen in my seat just watching in horror. The chef was shaking him now, also screaming, with fear starting to show more and more in his eyes. 

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP! TING XIALAI! LIJI TINGZHI!" he screamed. Everthing after that was in chinese. I decided that it was it was time for me to leave. 

I didn't actually have a tab since I hadn't ordered anything yet but i decided to leave a tenner anywho. I felt sorry for the chef that had to deal with this unatural behavior. I promptly left the resturant after that. Door slamming behind me with that distinctive bell sound those restaurants always use I could faintly hear someone say "Thank you! Please come again!" Perhaps it was my imagination. I never went there again thought.

I hope he gets an A.