Zucchini alarm.. Zucchini fritters…

My veggie garden was two weeks unattended, and yesterday I had a look where my zucchini plats grow..Well,I found this whopper! 3,4 kg of overgrown zucchini. I know,it is not that tasty anymore but somehow I felt bad just to dump it away. So I had to figure out something to do with it. Yesterday…

Real Sicilian pizza dough and Mini Calzones

I have loads of wonderful and very sweet tomatoes. My friends have been getting their share of the tomatoes  and I am planning to make some ketchup and Marinara sauce for the winter. Pizza is something that we like to eat a lot. I have pizza stone in my grill which I use. This is the…

Savoury pie with Heirloom tomatoes, Jamon Serrano and four cheeses..

Tomatoes here tomatoes there..And they all are ripening at the same time. Never the less there’s nothing better than home-grown tomatoes.Sweet and tasty. I cooked today wonderful savoury pie using those tomatoes.Bit different than usual, because tomatoes on top are uncooked. Perfect for lunch,picnic or when you need something savoury but not so heavy food…

Kesäkeitto – Finnish Summer Vegetable soup

Summer days..Long,hot and sunny. We have been spending lots of time outside in the garden. Kiddo water sliding ,playing in the sandbox and building all kind of things. Me digging,cutting,listening music,drinking wine and reading books.. Occasionally screaming to Tweedle Dee & Dum while they’ve gotten into their normal enterprising routines of getting in trouble. Moving…

Asparagus Quiche and first salad from my own garden

Finally it is warm in Austria. Spring has been so cold and rainy this year. So, today, I have been working in garden the whole day.Digging and weeding. I mowed the lawn, sprayed the weeds with vinegar soap mixture to kill them,cleaned vegetable garden and planted some flower bulbs which I have been saving since…

Green Asparagus and Parmesan Tartelettes

Asparagus season has started! So the spring is truly here. it is some sort of obsession of mine to have asparagus in form or a nother as soon as local asparagus is in the shops. This spring has been really cold so season has been delayed at least by a week. This is how it…

Peruna Blinit – Potato blinis

Blinis..part of Finnish winter food which has its roots deeply in Russia and russian food culture. Blinis are eaten during the cold winter months with fish roe or just with fish.Winter food..Hevy and fatty..Blinis are usually made with buckwheat flour. I found this recipe last Christmas in one of the Finnish magazines. Idea of using…

Wood Garlic risotto with shrimps (and other shenanigans)

It has been one of those days when WTF?? has been my first thought.. This being one of them. I am used to all kind of disturbances, but it always makes me wonder a bit, when I hear :” Booot-bo-boot-koot-ko-koo”, behind my kitchen window, because I do not have chicken! I do not have anything…

Gnocchi with Wood Garlic Pesto and Parmesan Crusted Salmon

Continuing with Wood Garlic saga…  I guess I am overdoing it little ,but don’t worry it will ware out soon. I spent whole morning in the kitchen today, and I had fun! Lunch turned out to be good, even though I almost managed to have green walls. Yeah,idiot me opened blender lid bit too early…..