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Fast and healthy burrito, baby!

Hi guys!

I was craving for comfort food today and decided to create a healthy version of burrito. I pretty much just improvised but it turned out to be really good! This is an easy dish to optimize (a natural choice of word for an email marketer...) to a healthier version. The bad brother of my version is pretty naughty with all its cheese. I decided to share this idea with you as a "foodspiration".

For my burrito-baby I used:

Gluten-free tortillas

Tomatoes

Cucumber

Tabasco

Home made chili salsa

A lot of home made guacamole (without cream cheese)

White beans

Boiled brown rice

Fresh coriander

Red onion

Salad on the side

Just pile everything on top of the tortillas and pop it in the oven for about 10 minutes until they warm up a bit. As usual I overestimated my hunger and thought I could eat two of these bad boys but no, one was enough!

Before the oven

Talking about burritos... I tested with a couple of friends a burrito place at Neukölln called Burrito Baby. They had vegan options as well (or maybe all of them were?). The burritos were massive and _so_gooood_. You might explode but I'd still recommend taking the nachos as a starter because WHY NOT (what I really wanted to say is: YOLO)!

Massive burrito at Burrito Baby

Summer-to-dos in Berlin

Hi guys!

I had lovely guests visiting from Finland and we had lots of summer fun! If you're planning to visit Berlin during summer, here's some of the things you can do...

1. Go to a Biergarten.

We went to Prater in Prenzlauer Berg which is one of the biggest in the city, but there are plenty to choose from!

2. Go to a lake.

The biggest ones are Wannsee and Müggelsee. They're a bit outside of the city but there are smaller ones near the city center. We went to Weissensee.

3. Go sightseeing by bike.

Berlin has great biking roads. Renting a bike for a day normally costs 10 €. You can find bike rentals all around the city.

4. Go to an open air party.

There's lots of these in summer. Check out the facebook group "Open airs in Berlin". There's an open air at Badeschiff every weekend. We went to Bite Club, a street food party in Mitte.

5. Eat brunch + veggie food

There's no better way to start your day than by eating at one of Berlin's brunch places! We ate a delicious vegan brunch at Veganz. Here are more vegan & vegetarian restaurants listed.

6. Go to an open air flea market

One of the most popular ones is of course the flea market on Sundays at Mauer Park. Here a few more.

7. Check out the events.

This weekend there was Karneval der Kulturen. We went to see the parade and enjoyed the sunny weather. There's a lot happening here during the summer so make sure to google "events in Berlin" when you're visiting ;)

8. Go rollerblading/skating/walking/biking in Tempelhof

Tempelhof is an old airport now open for everybody to have a picnic or BBQ. The runways are perfect for rollerblading or skating!

Top restaurants in Berlin

Let's share some food-love!

Here are my favorite restaurants in Berlin. Please help me to grow the "to go" -list if you know any good restaurants here :).

My birthday dinner at Transit

White trash: "Berlin’s best steaks plus German-Asian-Mexican-French-Swiss-Army Fusion, with guitar". Reminds me a bit of Hard Rock Cafe...only better

Yumcha heroes: So good dumplings, so good!

The Bird: One of the best hamburger places in Berlin. They also use very good, fresh ingredients. For many this is a MUST when visiting Berlin. Reserve!

Schwarzwaldstuben: German food. Especially food from Bavaria. Try Maultaschen mit Kartoffelsalat (my favourite!)

Mustafa's Gemüse Kebab: The best döner, but be prepared to line up for half an hour or so. It’s totally worth it though, I’ve done it four times, no regrets!

Transit: Asian “tapas”. Nice with a bigger group...order the table full and share ;)

DUDU: Asian fusion, try their fish bowl or crunchy dudu...or both. Reserve!

A Magica: The best pizza I’ve eaten. Real italian!

Van hoa: Vietnamese fast food

Monsieur Vuong: Vietnamese, try their awesome cocktails too! Go early as they don't take reservations

YamYam – Korean food

Wok Show – prepare your tummy for this –great dumplings in big portions! “real Chinese homemade food” as my Swedish-chinese friend put it ;)

Zuckerfree – Lovely brunch place, You order from the list. Also great lunch + cakes!

Le Midi – Another lovely brunch place from Corsica right next to Zuckerfree. You order from a list...great cakes here as well!

Omoni: Korean-Japanese, for sushi lovers as well as non-sushi lovers, eh? Reserve!

On my “to go” list

Kimchi Princess: Korean food

Betje Ethiopia: Ethiopian restaurant

Maria bonita: little Mexican bistro

W- Der imbiss: Hawaaian fusion

New York!

Hi guys!

Me and my older sister took my little sister as a surprise to New York this spring. It was her Christmas-birthday-graduation gift ;D. We spent 8 days there and managed to include quite a bit of stuff in one week. I could babble weeks telling about the trip but in short - It was awesome and it was lovely to spend time with my sisters!

Brace yourselves, here are the pictures. I didn't put any of statue of liberty etc. You know how it looks like. The food pictures tho...couldn't resist...just look at them! The food was just _so_ good!!

Places we loved

Shopping/other:

Century 21 (outlet) 22 Cortlana street

Blades west (rollerblades to rent) 156 West 72^nd St/ Broadway

Lion king musical at Minskoff theatre

Woodbury outlet (outlet “village”) – about 1h from Manhattan

Wholefoods Market (organic food, great salad buffet) – All around the city

Food:

Pongal (Indian food, vegetarian, ask for their recommendations!) 110 Lexinton Ave. (between 27^th and 28 st.)

Hangawi (Korean food, vegetarian) 12 east 32^nd st. (between 5^th Ave and Madison Ave)

Mangolia bakery (A café, the cheesecakes are to die for! Known from Sex and the city. A chain) 1240 6^th Ave/ 49^th St.

Sarabeth’s (Awesome brunch, café) 423 Amsterdam Ave/ West 80^th st.