Chantarelle bacon pasta

Chantarelle pasta is easy to prepare, cut chantarelles and bacon in pieces, cut onion in small cubes.

Julienne onion cubes in butter or oil, add bacon and chantarelles. Sauté until bacon has browned and chantarelles softened. Mix cream with some Dijon mustard, pinch of salt and pepper. Mix with chantarelles, bacon and onions, serve with pasta.


Kanttarellipastaa on helppo valmistaa; pieni sienet ja pekoni, silppua sipuli. Kuullota sieniä öljyssä tai voissa, lisää sienet ja pekoni, paista kunnes pekoni on ruskistunut ja sienet pehmenneet. Lisää kermaa, johon on sekoitettu hieman dijon-sinappia, ripaus suolaa ja pippuria maun mukaan. Nauti keitetyn pastan kera. Pekonin voi halutessaan jättää pois.

My new micro loan to Kiva

I have previosly written about the nine micro loans I have made trough Kiva. Some days ago I made the tenth loan for an Afganistan tailor group.

To me this is an easy and good way to pay back even a little and help someone in need. I'ts amazing how little can make a huge difference in someone's life.

One can participate in a loan with as little as 25 $ and money can be withdrawn or reinvested trough Kiva after the loan has been paid back in full.

I have targeted my loans always to women and I am especially glad to be able to support women in Afganistan in my small, humble way.

Rahela is the group leader of the Farooqi Group. She is married with four children and lives in District 11 of Kabul, Afghanistan. Her children are students and her only desire is that her children get an advanced education and have a bright future.

She is a tailor and has been involved in this business for more than 15 years. She needs the loan to purchase all essential sewing materials to develop her business and to support her children to go to a better private school.

About Group Loans

In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a group of individuals bound by a group guarantee. Under this arrangement, each member of the group supports one another and is responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members if someone is delinquent or defaults

Olen osallistuntunut jo kymmenenteen mikrolainaan Kivan kautta. Tämä on helppo ja hyvä tapa auttaa etenkin kehitysmaiden naisia. On uskomatonta kuinka pienellä summalla voi olla mahdollisuus auttaa muuttamaan elämän suuntaa merkittävästi. Jopa 25 dollarilla voi päästä mukaan rahoittajien ryhmään.

Tällä kertaa autoin afganistanilaisia räätälinaisia hankkimaan ompelutarvikkeita.

One great trip, two counries and three cameras

We arrived this morning from our five week tournee in Hong Kong and Australia.

What a great vacation! We did and saw so much; big cities, small towns, countryside, natural parks, mountains, beaches, rich and poor, animals, relatives, great food and wine, fantastic restaurants, interesting sights and facinating people...

Will post probably for weeks of our trip, we took thousands of photos with three cameras... screen of our beloved pocke size Panasonic went ballistic in our second day Sydney, bought a new camera, good zoom and enough mega pixels, but less other features. It lasted for three weeks, suddendly the camera did not shut down anymore... fortunately we were back in Sydney and could go back to the store to get a new replacing camera.

Saavuimme tänä aamuna viiden viikon Hong Kongin ja Australian turneeltamma kotiin.

Mikä loma! Näimme ja teimme paljon; suurkaupunkeja, pikkukaupunkeja, maaseutua, luonnonpuisttoja, vuoria, rantoja, rikkaita ja köyhiä, eläimiä, sukulaisia, loistavia ruokia ja viinejä, fantastisia ravintoloita, kiinnostavia näkymiä ja kiinnostavia ihmisiä...

Seuraavat viiko kirjoitelen luulavasti pääosin vain matkastamme, otimme tuhansia kuvia kolmella kameralla... Rakasamanin  Panasonicin pokkari hajosi yhtäkkiä toisena päivänä Sydneyssä; näyttö meni täysin sekaisin. Ostimme uuden kameran; 12 x zoom ja arpeeksi megapikseleitä , mutta vähemmän muita ominaisuuksia. Kolmen viikon päästä uusi kamera hajosi. Onneksi olimme takaisin Sydneyssa ja saatoimme mennä akaisin liikkeeseen vaihtamaan uuteen kameraan... No, kyllähän noin pitkällä makalla sattuu ja tapahtuu.