Joys of early summer in Austria. Our local weekly market is full on yummy things! Today I found some “Eierschwammel”, translated it mean egg mushrooms. Do your guess what they could be? Well they are chanterelles, the season is just starting. Chanterelles looked so good so I deside to make tarte from them for lunch…
Category: Finnish food
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…
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…
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…
Authenthic Finnish Karelian Pie – Karjalanpiirakka
Karelian Pies..I tried to make this recipe as simple as possible to do because making of Karelian pies is a challenge by itself already but very much worth of it!
Peltilihapiirakka – Finnish Sheet Pan Minced Beef Pie
Retro foods are fashionable again. And good so! This is one of my favourite recipes.
Finnish Whipped lingonberry semolina porridge – Puolukka vispipuuro
Tasty vegan/vegetarian and milk free porridge, which is great for breakfast or as dessert. Taste of Finland on your plate!
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…
Cinnamon rolls with the extra twist (apples and carrots are involved)
In Finland we have something called “korvapuusti”, “slap on your ear” might be the best translations for it. I love them! This might be the only baked recipe, that I do not manage to screw up! Dough is simple sweet brioche dough.Very versatile to use. What makes Finnish brioche dough special is CARDAMOM. It gives…
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…
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