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Ég hef verið að blogga á ensku og ætlað að þýða það íslenska yfir á ensku, þannig að sama færslan væri eins á íslensku og ensku. Einhvervegin fer það alltaf fyrir ofan garð og neðan hjá mér. Færslurnar enda á að vera mjög ólíkar og ekki einu sinni endilega um það sama því oft er ég að þýða gamlar íslenskar færslur.

Þannig að með tímanum þarf ég að sjá hvort það sé tilgangur að vera með tvö matarblogg á sitthvoru tungumálinu, því tilgangurinn með þessu hjá mér er aðallega að halda utan um uppskriftir.

Ég ætla því núna að láta reyna á letina og setja inn ensku færsluna eins og hún leggur sig. Eru ekki allir það sleipir í ensku hvort eð er?

The perfect “naan” FINALLY! and gorgeous Northern Lights

The good thing about waking up every now and then to feed your baby is when you look out the window of your bedroom in the middle of the night to feed and you see the sky lit up with beautiful green Northern Lights.

My bedroom view last night

I had to go out and see the sky dance. It was hard to get out of the warm bed after the baby was a sleep with the rest of the family members. But it was worth it.

As some of you might know I live in the country. Than means no traffic, no street lights and very few neighbors. So, at 2 in the morning I was up and out to enjoy the beauty of the Northern Lights, all by myself. The sky was filled with stars as well. The weather was completely still, little bit cold but nice.

At one point I saw an amazing shooting star, burning up. It was so clear and unreal. At a point like this, where you are all by yourself, it´s totally still, not a sound around, the sky covered with a green dancing light and bright stars, some of them falling…It makes you wonder

My back yard last night

How to make a good naan has also made me wonder…how do they do it, at those good Indian restaurants, they have tandoori oven I know, but I was sure I should be able to do something better than what I´ve done in the past. I always find my naan more like a pizza crust. Too hard.

I saw a recipe for a naan, similar to all of the ones I´ve tried. Then browsing around that site I found a recipe for something called Onion Kulchas. It did sound good and something worth trying…and O MY COD, yes..COD! ( I´m from a fishing nation ) They were so good that the Indian dinner I did with it wasn´t eaten. My husband and I, we stood by the kitchen Island the whole time and ate the naan as soon as they came off the pan, with raw onion mix… I have a recipe for that as well.

They were so soft that I could roll them up, that is how I like my Naan. So this isn´t Naan but Kulchas I guess, and Kulchas is what I will be making from now on…

You can put a little pit of the onion mix into the dough while you are rolling it out, i prefer the onion mix raw…

Kulchas

3 cups flour
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1/8th tsp Baking Soda
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup Yogurt

Mix all ingredients well together, add little bit of water if you need the dough more wet. Set a side for 1-2 hours, room temperature.

Divide the dough into small golf ball size balls. Flat out very thin with a rolling pin. Bake on a very hot pan on your stove, about 1 minute each side.

Raw onion mix

1 onion, chopped very finely
1-2 chillies, slices thinly
1/2 tsp ginger,grated
Fresh Koriander (Cilantro)
Salt to taste

I made a vegetarian dish as well, even though we didn´t end up sitting down to eat it, it was really good.

Believe it or not, I used the leftovers on a pizza couple of days later! It was a reeeeaally good pizza, I will make it again. I had the rest of the fresh onion mix spread on top of the pizza when it came out of the oven.

The paste was onion, garlic, chili, ginger, fried in oil added canned tomatoes and a bag of cashew nuts. I spiced this up with an Indian spice blend I have, durban curry. I put it in a blender. Then I fried up veggies and mixed it with the paste as well as some yogurt. VERY TASTY!