Homemade Food 家常美食

In China, we have a famous saying about food “民以食为天” which means “Eating is the most important thing in our life”. KIKI and Mr.T are eager in cooking different cuisines and inviting friends. In our daily life, we pay most attention to breakfast since it is the only meal in a day that we can ensure eating together. Also, in the aspect of health, breakfast should be as plentiful as possible:

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Everyday I make fem skiver matpakke (sandwiches as lunch food) for Mr.T. So we eat lunch separately. As to dinner, if we are free, we will make some simple, quick but delicious dishes.

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Sometimes it is in Chinese style,

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and sometimes in western flavor.

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If we have time, we will also try some advaced food:

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Sweeties can make you sweeter! KIKI has two bellies. No matter how full I feel after the main dishes, there is still room for desserts ^.^

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Though western cakes are colorful and appearing, our traditional Chinese sweet water with various stuff preserve our health. 

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Mr.T is very good at making thousands of desserts. His cheese cake, apple cake, carot cake and muffins are appreciated by our Chinese and foreign friends who once taste it.

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Also, his waffle is highly praised by Jinzi who has tried the waffle in Belgium.

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His boller can compete with those sold in bread shop. [Cook - Mr.T - is as slim as the apron while customer - KIKI - is as round as the boller ^o^]

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Mr.T’s pancake is so perfect that you can’t believe it is “homemade” food :P. Therefore, I always make joke that if he couldn’t find a decent job in China, he would be an excellent baker in Shanghai :)

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Since Mr.T is so good at making desserts, KIKI doesn’t need to find any receipt to compete with him. However, KIKI has KIKInainai (my Super Star grandma) as backup support （甜品后援团）. She collected all the receipts from the newspaper for KIKI. So when I came back from Shanghai last April, I also begins to make some special snacks:

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Besides, I learned from Renna how to make Smoothies that is pleasing to both eye and taste. It is an ideal snack in summer as well as good starter or dessert when we entertain guests.

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Oh, I almost forget to mention that though westerners always complain Chinese are crazy at eating crazy foods, however, actually Norwegian are also in love with strange foods, specially Lamb! Fresh lamb with cabbage (fårikål), smoked lamb (pinnekjøtt) and ...

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even eat directly the raw, salted lamb (fenalår) :O

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Last not least, we will see how BIG chefs look like :)  By the way, we always made food at midnight as the clock shows, so it is very challenge for KIKI to keep fit and is also very strange that Mr.T never gains any weight =.=

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（to be continued)