Market day and bilberry cake cups from the hell..

Market in Schärding,going there is pretty much my once a week ritual, to get fresh vegetables, meat, cheese and other things. It opens 7.30AM which is just fine for me. Kiddo to school,Mommy to market. Last week I made a mega found.Fresh forest bilberries! Juhuu!! Cultivated bilberries are all over but these fragrant forest berries are…

Red pearls from my garden.. Ribiselkuchen

Red current season is on full swing here in Austria.I have quite a bit of them this year. Only thing that I really make with them is cakes.This is one of my absolute favorite cakes in Austria. It is so simple to make and so tasty! Here’s the recipe for you , I hope you…

World’s simplest Garden Berry Crêpe Cake

“Lätty” or Crêpe is something that kids and adults both love. Beloved child has many names.In Austria it is called “Palatschinke”, In Germany Pfannkuchen. In Finland we call it “Lätty”. Yep,finnish is such a wonderful and easy language 😉 Crêpe or “Lätty” came to Finland from Russia, where it is called “Blini”. Or then again, maybe…

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…

Hamburger Sunday..

Sunday was lazy day in our household. Hubby came back from his business trip from US, on Saturday morning, so the theme in our house was Jet Lag. I was not in much of the mood to cook anything fancy. Since the grill season is in full swing, I decided to make hamburgers. With the…

Cauliflower breads

I made for us on easter lamb chops which were served with cauliflower parmesan wood garlic mash and of course there were some left overs.. I knew neither of my men would eat it if I would reheat it. I had to figure out something to with it. We have in Finland simple potato bread…

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…

Roasted Rhubarb Trifle & Cinnamon Twists

Rhubarb season has started.I love it.It is such a versatile vegetable. I have memories of it when I was small kid and grandmother had huge rhubarb bushes growing in her vegetable patch. Leafs were sometimes so big that I could use them as umbrella. Grandmother made cold soup and wonderful pies with rhubarb. Her jam…