I guess we all have bananas that turn black on our kitchen counters, and no one touches them anymore. In our family, those bananas are never tossed away! Here’s my banana bread recipe. Hope you like it.
Category: Desserts
Hannele’s American-style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies are one of my family’s favorite cookies. I think this was the first thing I baked with my son. This recipe is from one of my friends when I was an exchange student in the US decades ago. My problem is that some of the ingredients you use in the recipe, were…
Finnish Bilberry Pie With Cardamom Cake Crust – Mustikkapiirakka kardemummalla
This is a straightforward and fast recipe from Finland for bilberries. You can also use blueberries. Cardamon in the cake crust makes this recipe unique. Cardamon and Bilberry work well together. for a round 26-28 cm pie dish 100 g of soft butter or margarine 1 dl of fine sugar 1 tsp of cardamom 2…
Ripatella Grape Tart
This fall has been amazing with the fruits! My hubby and his friends took over 500 kg apples and pears for pressing on Friday and we ended up with 365l of apple juice. 150l of it will be made to apple cider. A new project that the men have. Looking forward to seeing and of…
Hungarian Sour Cherry Soup – Meggykeszőce
I have a friend who works a lot in Hungary. And of course, she is posting beautiful pictures from Budapest and about what she eats there. One day she posted a picture of this red, delicious looking soup. I asked her what is it? She told me that it was a cold soup made from…
Whipped Rhubarb Porridge and Cold Strawberry Kissel – Raparperivispipuuro ja Mansikkakiisseli
Hot summer days in Austria. I am more or less melting while working in the garden. Unfortunately, the heat does not melt off the accumulated winter fat 😉 Peonies are blooming so beautifully and kiwi is going crazy too. I got rhubarb from my friend again, and I wondered what I could do with it?…
Rhubarb cheese cake – Raparperi juustokakku
Rhubarb season is in full swing, and last week, the first local Austrian strawberries came into the market. I had to do something yummy with both of them together. This is the result. My hubby and neighbor approved it. Summer welcome and all the beautiful flavors that go with it! Crust 300 g spelt flour…
Cardamom and Rhubarb Cookies
Oh, how I have been waiting for spring to come! Winter was so long this year (two months or so 😀 ) Lots have happened during the winter time, and that’s why I have been bit quiet on my food blogging,no inspiratin honestly. But I will try to be bit more active again. I found…
Goldeck Grüner Veltliner Gummy Bears (Nallekarkit kuohuviinistä)
I have been toying with the idea, of making sparkling wine gummy bears. I saw in one magazine,an advertisement about them and I have seen those gummy bear molds on sale in Amazon. I did surfing in the internet and found out how simple it is actually make gummy bears yourself. You need only couple…
Grandmother’s Bilberry Pie – Mummin mustikkapiirakka
Bilberry season is in full swing in Finland, where we are on holiday. Forests are full of blue, big, and healthy berries to be picked. This year, there are so many of them that you just need to walk into the forest and pick! Picking wild berries from the forest is every man’s right in…
