Hamburgers and buns. What should I say? I hate those spongy commercial made things that you can get from the supermarkets. If possible I will avoid them. While ago I found a really simple a good hamburger bun recipe which I tried and modified to fit my taste. I have made couple of variations of…
Category: Baked goods, sweet & sour
Lemon and Poppy Seed Strawberry Shortbread cakes, with Licor 43 Whipped Cream
When I was in the USA as exchange student ages ago, I fell in love with Strawberry Shortcake. There was a great restaurant in Springfield MO, where to my family went always for Sunday lunch. They served this wonderful pie which was so crispy but filled with this ooey-gooey strawberry mixture and topped with whipped…
Asparagus wrapped in FILO
Today’s recipe is so simple but really good. I will have my wine club ladies over next weekend for wine tasting and I have been racking my head over what to serve? It has to be something light and fit into the wines I will be serving. I also would like to stick with the…
Spring Vegetable and Ricotta Quiche for Easter Brunch
I have been racking my head for Easter Brunch ideas. It should be something reasonably easy to make but same time pretty and have spring spelled all over it. Last fall I made simple quiche with Parmesan crust and topped it with tomatoes from my own garden. The taste was amazing and texture great,so I…
Finnish Shrovetide buns – Laskiaispulla
Finns love their pulla.Pulla is a sweet brioche type of bread baked with wheat flour. In Finland, pulla dough always has cardamon, at least in all recipes that I use, and that’s the difference with Swedish Semla. This type of coffee bread is common in all Nordic countries in different forms. You can make korvapuusti…
Rye Pot Bread
Rye bread,smell of just baked rye bread is floating in my house! There is a popular misconception that you have to get complicated about rye flour. Not so. You don’t need sourdough, you don’t need molasses, you don’t need oil. You just need the usual four suspects (flour, water, salt, yeast) to make a completely…
Finnish Spinach Soup and Feta Börek – Pinaattikeitto
Spinach soup is one of my favorite soups. It is served in Finnish schools as lunch, usually with meat-filled pies and hard-boiled eggs. I have lots of vegetarian friends, and they ask me for recipes. So, this time, I converted this classic soup recipe into something new. To my surprise, I used soy milk instead…
Tex-Mex Style Sloppy Joes, Spicy Carrot Burger Buns and Parmesan fries
When graving hits it hits me usually bad! I love Sloppy Joes! My host Mom in US, made the best Sloppy Joes that I know. I loved that mess which you created, while eating those oozing buns! This is my version of very classical American burger dinner,of course I had to go and tweedle with it….
Pannukakku – Finnish Oven Pancake
Winter has finally arrived in Austria! There is lots of snow and freezing temperatures. Kiddo and his best friend have been outside from early morning until late evening playing in the snow. Great! I have been enjoying the silence inside the house, and at least our Kiddo has been dead tired in the evenings. Something…
Potato and Pumpkin Seed Tea Breads
I have always leftover food and I hate to throw food away! I had some leftover mash potato from the weekend,that I had to get rid off somehow.I went trough my old recipes and stumbled on this one.This is a very simple and fast recipe to make. It is one of the first recipes,which kids…
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