RANDOM BLONDE LAW STUDENT

Hello there! How are you? I hope Monday is treating you well. Me? Oh well, it could be better. On Friday my boy left and went on a tour with his band through Austria, Germany and Belgium all the way to England (they are a punk rock band and if you like that kind of music, you should check them out, cause they are awesome! Just click here: Start At Zero). So I'm at home and gonna be here most of the week. But I decided that these 10 days are perfect to try something, I normally wouldn't. I'm going vegan. For now it's just a challenge, to see, if I can stick to it, but if I'll like it ... well, who knows. ;)

And even though it's only been 3 days, I already have a recipe that I want to share with you (I adopted the recipe from here). Vegan pancakes. No cow milk, no eggs, no butter. Yeah, no animals or animal products in here. But they are still the best "American" pancakes I have ever made and ate. Seriously. I couldn't believe the fluffiness when I tried the first pancake. And of course I had to eat like 6 more of them after that. Yummmmmmm! :3

But, how can you make pancakes without eggs, you ask me. The secret is: chia seeds. They act as eggs and tie everything together.

You will need (I made approximately 15 pancakes):

• 1 cup whole wheat flour (250ml)
• 1/2 cup regular white flour (125ml)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder (13g or 1 whole package)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 + 1/2 cups rice milk (375ml)
• 2 tablespoons chia seeds

The procedure:
First mix all the dry ingredients. Add the vanilla extract and rice milk and mix again. Add the chia seeds, mix well and let the mixture rest for 5 minutes, so the chia seeds moist (or expand or whatever they do in moist environment ... damn, that sounds so professional haha).

Use a non-stick pan (so you won't need any additional fat) and put the stove on low heat (well, medium, a little bit lower than the heat you usually use for making pancakes ... so the pancakes won't burn that easily ... but it takes just a second or two longer to make them ... be patient, they are worth it!). When they are golden brown on one side (the bubbles will form, but they form before the pancake is done, at least they did in my case, so they don't help a lot), turn them around and bake them on the other side too. Don't make them too big, cause it will be harder to turn them, because they are soooo fluffy.

And that's all, folks. I topped them with peanut butter and banana. You can also use any other (vegan or not) topping. They go with everything. Hope you'll like them. :)

Love, Kaja ♥

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Disclaimer: this is a LONG post, because it contains the description of my one week detox diet and my analysis. If you are not that much interested in detox diets, you can skip it, but if you are, just go on. It will be worth it (I hope). :)


This post will go well with the last one, since is in the spirit of my new year's resolutions. I tried a (detox) diet two weeks ago and I want to share my experience with all of you. Detoxing is something I have never tried before and I was (still am) really satisfied with the results.

My mom and I found a diet that is all about a "magical" cabbage soup (for all the Slovenian readers: recept in navodila lahko najdete tudi tukaj). Have you heard about it? Well, we decided to try it out. I know that the "you will lose from 5 to 7 kilos in a week" is a pile of sh*t, but I wanted to try it either way, just to see the results.

THE DIET

The magic is supposed to be in the soup, which is quite easy to make. You need:

Cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Put the vegetables, the water and bouillon cubes into a big cooking pot and cook until the vegetables are all soft and cooked through and through. According to the recipe it takes about 45 minutes. In the end you add some salt and pepper, for a better taste.

Ok, so now that we have the soup, let's go to the main points of the diet. You are supposed to eat a lot of this soup. According to all of the articles about it, the more you eat it, the more you will lose weight. Well, no sh*t Sherlock that you will lose weight, if the soup is almost the only thing you eat (nah, just kidding, but I felt like this before I started it - I was freaking out, cause I couldn't imagine that I would eat so many bowls of the same soup in a week).

Beside the soup, which you should eat, as I said above, as much as you can (I don't really think I ate it more than 3 times per day, which is a LOT if you ask me), you can also eat:

• Day 1: Any kind of fresh fruits, except bananas.

• Day 2: Any kind of vegetables (fresh or canned), except for peas, beans and corn. You should eat a lot of greens (spinach, salad). You can eat two big potatoes for dinner (unpeeled, wrapped in aluminum foil and baked in the oven). You can add a spoon of butter or sour cream.

• Day 3: Fruits and vegetables.

• Day 4: 3 bananas and "non"-fat milk (1,6 %).

• Day 5: 200 grams of beef and a can of tomatoes or 6 fresh tomatoes. The beef has to be prepared without fat (I prepared it in a non-stick pan on high temperature).

• Day 6: 2 or 3 beef stakes and vegetables (preferably greens).

• Day 7: Brown rice (cooked in water) and vegetables. Everything prepared without fat. You can drink natural fruit juices.

Even the name looks yummy ...

Ok so, my lovely brother brought me a mini-donuts baking pan from Sweden (I ordered two really cute jars with straws - perfect for smoothies and cocktails ... mmmm gotta try that. Everything is from a shop called Lagerhaus). And of course I had to try it out and bake some mini (actually miniature) donuts. I searched for the recipe on Google and kind of picked the first one I got, but I changed it a little bit (since Christmas is just a few days away). Also, I felt like adding Nutella, so I made a delicious Nutella glaze for them (also from the internet, but modified).

Donuts (around 40 servings):

• 150 g of All-purpose flour
• 1 tsp of Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of Salt
• 110 g of Brown sugar
• 1 tsp of Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp of Nutmeg
• 120 ml of Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 20 g of Butter (melted)
• 2-3 drops of Vanilla extract

If you follow me on Instagram, you can tell that most of my photos of food are photos of my breakfasts. Yeah, I love them. They are usually the most colorful and photogenic meal of the day. And since I'm a slow and lazy wake-up-er (is that even a word?!) I probably take more time to enjoy my breakfast than normal people do. And not only that it has to taste delicious, it also has to look good. Oh yes, and a cup of coffee with milk is a must as a side.

Here you have three examples of the breakfasts I eat. I wanted to share them with you, so if maybe some of you are not really breakfast fans, maybe now you will because. Because breakfast is the most important meal of the day (oh, look at me, being a smart-ass here and then eating pizza for dinner). And look at them! They are too cute not to make and eat them! :3

Breakfast 1: 

• Mixed fruit (this time: banana, pomegranate, blueberries)
• Vanilla or plain yoghurt
• (Sometimes) granola

Breakfast 2: 

• Oatmeal cooked in milk
• A teaspoon of honey
• Fruit (strawberries in this case, but most of the time a banana)

Breakfast 3:

• Banana pancakes (2 eggs, 1 banana)
• Cottage cheese
• Blueberries

Do you make breakfasts like this? Do you even have breakfast in the morning or are you one of the even lazier ones that just skip it? And yes, I know I have already talked about breakfast a bunch of times, but ... come on, look at it. :D

Love, Kaja. ♥

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I spent this weekend in Ljubljana again. Why? It’s because of the Beer & Burger Fest that was on Saturday and Sunday. I love events like this. I had a chance to try 3 delicious burgers and bunch of really good beers. My taste buds were jumping with excitement, not only because of the juicy beef in the burgers, but because of the whole combination. Beef Burgers + Beer = Triple B HEAVEN. I think I will definitely visit the restaurants that made the yummy burgers I tried sometime in the future.

Love, Kaja. ♥

What does "Odprta Kuhna" mean, you ask? It means "Open Kitchen" and it's an event, a culinary project, a freshly-made food market, taking place in Ljubljana, in the city center, next to the regular market, every Friday, from spring to fall.

What is going on there? Around 50 different restaurants from all over Slovenia have joined the project and opened their kitchens to everyone that wants to stop by the market. But even though the restaurants are from Slovenia, it does not mean you can only get Slovenian food. No way. You can get almost everything you wish for: from Slovenian, Italian, Serbian, to Egyptian, Asian and Indian food. And much, much more. Sweet or salty. Vegan or non vegan. You can also get coffee, beer and even schnapps. And much, much more.

Why am I writing about this? Well, I love food and naturally I love events that are connected to food. And even though I have only been to Odprta Kuhna two times (I usually go home on Friday and have lunch at home), I have fallen in love with it. As you can see, I ate pie both times. First time it was a piece of asparagus pie and the second time a piece of spinach pie with pine nuts. Both times made by Bazilika. And when you eat something, knowing it's Friday, sun shining on your plate, ahhh ... heaven! I also tried a cup of delicious cappuccino made by Experiment. The experience is definitely making me think that I should spend more Fridays in Ljubljana. ;)

Soooo, if you are Ljubljana on a Friday and the weather is nice (it could be closed, if the weather is really bad, it happened), make sure you stop by Odprta Kuhna. There is something for everybody there, so don't worry, you will not be hungry. Or thirsty. ;)

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... with Ljubljana. I have lived in this city for 4,5 years now and after all this time, I have finally started to fall in love with it. Maybe it's because I have more free time now and I really started to enjoy the city vibe, or maybe it's just because I had to live in a bigger and (a bit) duller city for 5 months and now I can finally appreciate the kind and lovely vibe Ljubljana has to offer.

I spent Wednesday afternoon in the city center with my friend Ana, enjoying the lovely weather, delicious ice cream, tasty beer in TOZD (my favorite coffee and beer place in Ljubljana) and fattening pizza in Central Station (my favorite restaurant in Ljubljana). What else could a girl want. ;)

Love, Kaja. ♥

I was really craving pizza today for lunch, but since it does not really go with the all "eat healthier" lifestyle, I had to make something different. I decided to put some pesto genovese, light gauda cheese and pine nuts on rye bread, put everything in a warm pan and waited for a few minutes so the cheese melted. Delicious and (quite) healthy. Definitely worth a try. All you need is:

• 2 pieces of rye bread (or any other healthy or healthier bread)
• 40 grams of grated cheese (any kind that melts is OK, I used light gauda)
• 25 grams of pesto genovese (I am eating the Mercator one at the moment, which already has crushed pine nuts in it, but there is never enough pine nuts, so you also need ...)
• 10 grams of pine nuts

I really can't say that I'm a morning person, but still, breakfast is definitely my favorite meal of the day. I don't even mind waking up an hour or half of it earlier, just so I can make and enjoy a proper breakfast. But that's just me.

How is your relationship with mornings and breakfasts?

Love, Kaja. ♥

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Remember the post about my new year's resolutions? I do. And I know one of them: taking photos with my Canon camera. I didn't get to that until today, just because I didn't have anything to take photos of. And here is my first Canon photo this year. Edited with Picasa.

I made lemon version of my cheesecake (you can get the recipe here), just because it was the weekend and I was feeling like eating it. Of course, as usually, I experimented with something and this time it was the bottom (dough). I used different kind of cookies (Leibniz Cereal Biscuit) and I have to admit that the cheesecake was better than ever, even though I was freaking out, because I didn't know if the bottom is going to stay together or fall apart in the end. Well, it stayed together and it was delicious! I didn't do anything special with the cream, just added a drop of lemon essence and topped the cake with pieces of lemon, as you can see. And that's all. From me. For now.

I wish you all a nice rest of this Sunday and a great start of the week tomorrow.

Love, Kaja. ♥

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Time to eat healthier. Whole-grain wheat pancakes for example. And a banana and some home-made strawberry jam as a side. Yum!

Used (for 5-6 pancakes):

• 1 cup of whole-wheat flour (cup = 250 ml)
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of milk
• 3 teaspoons of brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda

I mixed everything in a bowl with a fork. I baked them in a non-stick pan, so I didn't use any butter or oil or any other fat. A healthy and delicious idea for breakfast.

• 1 skodelico polnozrnate moke (skodelica = 250 ml)
• 1 jajce
• 1 skodelico mleka
• 3 čajne žličke rjavega sladkorja
• 1 čajno žličko sode bikarbone

Z vilco sem vse sestavine zmešala v skledi. Pekla sem jih na teflonski ponvi in nisem uporabila čisto nič maščobe (masla ali olja).

OMG, my exchange is gonna end this week. I'm flying home on Friday, so this weekend was my last weekend here. After spending 3 days a little bit northern, in Göteborg (post about that is gonna come some time this week), I was really tired, so I decided to spend Friday at home. Since Miha was leaving to the States for two weeks on Saturday morning we made our last dinner here together. Yummy as always. Of course, because he is the best brother ever, he woke me up when he left (at 6AM I think), just to say goodbye. I spent the rest of Saturday preparing for the pot-luck dinner I hosted that evening. I think there was 11 of us, stuffing ourselves with the most amazing food we made and having a great time. A proper last weekend here. Thanks to everybody that came and made my last Saturday so amazing! (a proper thank you post is still to come anyway ...). Sunday was of course clean-up day. And now it's Monday, the beginning of my last week here. I think I'm getting pretty sad and that a lot of tissues are gonna be used until Friday when I will be on my way back to Slovenia. Uh.

Oh, moja izmenjava se bo končala ta teden. V petek letim proti domu in ta vikend je bil moj zadnji vikend tukaj na Švedskem. Po treh napornih dneh nekoliko bolj na severu, v Gothenburgu (objava o tem bo še prišla enkrat tekom tedna), sem bila v petek precej utrujena in sem se odločila, da ne bom hodila ven. Ker se je Miha v soboto odpravljal za dva tedna v Ameriko, sva si v petek privoščila eno konkretno zadnjo večerjo skupaj tukaj. Seveda je bila odlična, kot ponavadi. Ker je najboljši brat na svetu, me je v soboto, ko je odšel, zbudil in pozdravil (ob šestih zjutraj se mi zdi). Preostanek sobote sem porabila za pripravo na pot-luck večerjo, ki sem jo organizirala tisti večer. Zdi se mi, da nas je bilo 11, in vsi smo se veselo basali s hrano, ki smo jo pripravili (bistvo pot-luck večerje je da vsak nekaj prinese) ter uživali v super družbi. Zadnja sobota tukaj ne bi mogla biti boljša. Nedelja je pa seveda morala biti namenjena čiščenju. Sedaj pa je ponedeljek, prvi dan mojega zadnjega tedna tukaj. Joj, že postajam žalostna in že vidim koliko ropčkov bo porabljenih do petka ko bom na poti proti Sloveniji. Uf.

Love, Kaja. ♥

A quiet Friday with "family" at home with fusion dinner, chocolate chip cookies and beer. And then a crazy Saturday party in Lund full of amazing Basque food. Tack så mycket Ainize, for everything!

Love, Kaja. ♥

Perfect lazy food for the first day of the year. Yum.

Love, Kaja. ♥

Jupi! Tokrat mi je pa uspelo. Prestala sem 7-dnevni no junk food izziv. In zelo sem ponosna nase. Na trenutke je bilo precej težko, predvsem ker sem velikokrat pred sabo imela grešno hrano in sem ji morala odločno reči ne. Vednar sem bila močna, in končno mi je uspelo. Zahvale gredo knäckerbrödu, ki sem ga imela za nadomestek kruhu, vsemu mogočemu svežemu in suhemu sadju, ki je nadomeščalo sladke stvari, oreškom, ki so nadomeščali čips ter seveda Nini, ki me je vzpodbujala, da sem ostala na pravi poti. :)

Izziv priporočam vsem, ki ga še niste, v kolikor se res težko uprete sladkarijam in čipsu in podobnemu, pa še toliko bolj. Poročajte kako bo šlo. Danes bom uživala v nagradi v obliki pizze, kar seveda ni ravno pametna ideja, ampak res sem si jo zaželela. In po celem tednu zdrave hrane se niti ne bom počutila tako kriva, ko jo bom zmazala. Upam.

Hej då, Kaja. ♥

Kot sem obljubila, še en recept: testenine s tuno, limonom in grahom. Prirejeno po: Real Simple.

Za enega potrebujemo:
85g testenin
1 majhna konzerva tune
30g graha
1 jedilna žlica olivnega olja
2 jedilni žlici limoninega soka
čajna žlička limonine lupinice
en stok česna

Testenine skuhamo po navodilih na škatli. Olje segrejemo in na njemu malo popečemo sesekljan česen. Dodamo tuno, grah in limonin sok ter počakamo, da se vse malo popraži. Nato dodamo testenine in vse dobro premešamo. Na koncu dodamo še limonino lupinico in vse še enkrat premešamo.

Meni je bila jed zelo dobra in zelo osvežilna. Priporočam.

As I promised, the recipe for pasta with tuna, peas and lemon. Modified from: Real Simple.

For one you need:
85g of pasta
1 small can of tuna
30 grams of peas
1 table spoon of olive oil
2 table spoons of lemon juice
1 tea spoon of lemon zest
1 garlic clove

Make the pasta according to the instructions on the box. Heat up the oil in a pan and fry the chopped garlic in it a little. Add the tuna, lemon juice and peas and wait a little, until everything is a little bit fried. Add the pasta and mix well. In the end add the lemon zest and mix again.

I loved the dish. Very refreshing. I recommend it.

Hej då, Kaja. ♥

Ola, končno imam čas za eno konkretno objavo. Kaj se mi je dogajalo v zadnjih tednih? Ne ravno veliko, saj sem bila precej zaposlena s šolo. Ja, več šole in manj žuranja. Vem, da je to nekaterim mogoče čudno, saj je v večini primerov Erasmus izmenjava = žuranje non stop, ampak v mojem primeru ni tako. Seveda sem sama vedela v kaj se spuščam, ko sem se prijavila na polletni študij na najboljšo pravno fakulteto na Švedskem. In prav nič se ne pritožujem, saj je bila to najboljša odločitev kar sem jo naredila do sedaj. In posledično sem zadnja dva (ali tri celo) tedne večino časa presedela za takimi in drugačnimi knjigami, študirala snov, ki smo jo obdelovali na predavanjih ter napisala esej s 3000 besedami o definiciji upoštevnega trga proizvodov v konkurenčnem pravu EU.

Še kaj? Ja, ob tem sem pojedla še ogromno odlične hrane in se zaljubila v različna good-looking in seveda tudi good-tasting piva. Haha, mojim prijateljem se to zdi verjetno zelo zabavno, saj sem bila do sedaj vedno zagrizen ne-pivec piva. No, dokaz da se ljudje spreminjamo. Tako kot vreme. Prejšnji teden je tukaj namreč divjal vihar Sven in prinesel tudi tanjšo snežno odejo, ki je pa na žalost hitro izginila.

To bo pa to. Moj no junk food teden je (zaenkrat) še zelo uspešen, saj mi je uspelo se upreti belemu kruhu in celo čipsu, kljub temu, da je Miha pred mano včeraj zvečer (ko mi je želodec pošteno krulil) pojedel skoraj pol vrečke odličnega čipsa. Upam, da bom zdržala vse do ponedeljka, nato pa že vidim kako si bom privoščila eno odlično doma narejeno pizzo, ob tem ko bom pakirala kovčke, saj v torek poletim proti domu. Kdo bi si mislil, da se bom dejansko veselila odhoda domov. Ne vem česa se tako veselim, tega da bom končno po 4 mesecih spet videla fanta ali tone praznične domače hrane, ki nas vseh čaka v prihodnjih tednih. Verjetno bo drugo. ;)

I finally have time for a proper post. What has been going on last weeks? Not much, because I had a lot of work to do for law school. Yes, more school and less partying. I know that this may seem strange to some of you, because usually Erasmus exchange means partying 24/7, but not in my case. And I knew it is going to be like that, since I applied to the best law school in Sweden. And I have no regrets, because it was the best decision I have ever made. But consequently I had to spend last two (or three) weeks behind books, studying stuff we did during the lectures and writing my 3000 words essay on the definition of the relevant product market in EU competition law.

Anything more? Yes, I ate a bunch of delicious food and fell in love with various good-looking and good-tasting beers. A lot of my friends are laughing their asses of now, because I was always a serious non-beer-drinker. I guess this is a proof that people change. As does the weather. Last week there was a big storm called Sven here and he actually brought a little bit of snow, which was gone to fast if you ask me.

And this is kind of it. My no junk food week is (still) very successful. I actually said no to white bread and chips yesterday, even though Miha ate a half of a bag of chips in front of me. I hope I will survive it until Monday and then I will treat myself with a delicious home-made pizza while I will pack my bags. Yes, I am flying home on Tuesday. I never thought I will actually look forward to going home. I don't know what I am looking forward to more, seeing my boyfriend again after 4 months or eating all the holiday food. I think it's the second one. ;)