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…

Long forgotten recipe from 70′ a la Ottolenghi (and some spring stuff)

Weather has not been the best lately.Rain, hails and everything in between.Right now wind is so string that tree tops are bending double. Great weather for Kiddo to be in Easter vacation. I did some Easter Decorations outside. Burlap rabbit and flower baskets,door reef and small tree where I hang some eggs. That’s it. Inside not…

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…

Sausage Goulash for rainy day

It has been quite cloudy and rainy day today. Gray and gloomy. Typical Innviertel weather.. Only fog was missing. Sometimes fog is so dense that you hardly see half a meter ahead of yourself..On days like this, soup is something that I grave. I am not very comfortable cooking Austrian dishes, but now and then…

Lohilaatikko – Salmon Cassarole

This is an spin off recipe from my cooking lesson evening for Caritas. I had estimated the amount of salmon wrong. Everything else went. No left overs. I took fish with me home. And this is what I cooked yesterday with the left over salmon: It is potato and salmon casserole. Very simple and fast…

Light Parmesan Chicken and sweet potato fries

Many of my friends, have been making lately “Parmesan Chicken”.  Simple recipe, and looked really delicious, but my was the huge amount of butter, in which it is cooked. I have been trying to lighten up my cooking,so I have been looking into alternative cooking methods. I started surfing in internet a bit,and found several…

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…..