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The Viking in the Kitchen

One dish and one honest story per episode. Magnus cooks something high-protein and tells you how a Swedish bodybuilder ended up feeding the internet from a pink apron. Listen while the pan heats.

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Korv Stroganoff — High-Protein Comfort Food & Becoming a Father

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Korv Stroganoff — High-Protein Comfort Food & Becoming a Father
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The season finale. Korv stroganoff — Swedish sausage stroganoff with quark instead of cream — and the story behind the pink apron: fatherhood, two daughters, and the Father’s Day gift that gave Magnus permission to love this. 🔗 Recipes & meal plans at slimdietera.com — from Slim Diet Era. Train hard, eat heavy, and sleep […]

Pytt i Panna — Swedish Protein Hash & How I Met My Wife

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Pytt i Panna — Swedish Protein Hash & How I Met My Wife
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The leftover dish — pytt i panna, Swedish hash with crispy potato, lean meat, and fried eggs — and the stupid, wonderful story of how Magnus met his wife Janine: a dare from his friend Jerry, a bar, and the line ‘Hello, I am very strong.’ 🔗 Recipes & meal plans at slimdietera.com — from […]

Astrid’s Köttbullar — Swedish Protein Meatballs & My Grandmother

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Astrid’s Köttbullar — Swedish Protein Meatballs & My Grandmother
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Magnus’s grandmother’s Swedish meatballs — köttbullar, lean beef, quark gravy, lingonberry, a big high-protein batch — and the real story of Mormor Astrid: the cast-iron pot she threw in 1985, her superstitions, and why a recipe is a phone line that never hangs up. 🔗 Recipes & meal plans at slimdietera.com — from Slim Diet […]

The Heavy-Day Ribeye — Bodybuilding, the Iron & the Glory Years

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The Heavy-Day Ribeye — Bodybuilding, the Iron & the Glory Years
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A training-day ribeye — dry-aged, cast-iron seared, butter-basted — and the truth about the best years of Magnus’s body: the iron, Quads Gym, old Sal, and an honest, positive-key look at his years on cycle. Lived experience, never a how-to. ⚠️ For entertainment and education only. Magnus is not a doctor. He discusses his own […]

Laxen — Crispy High-Protein Salmon (and Who I Am)

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Laxen — Crispy High-Protein Salmon (and Who I Am)
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The very first episode. Magnus makes Laxen — crispy-skin salmon with a dill-quark sauce, ~60g protein in about 15 minutes — and tells you who he is, why a bodybuilder cooks in a pink apron, and why this is a podcast and not a YouTube dance. Featuring his grandmother’s onion, the 2020 lockdown, and the […]