Category: Main courses

Pumpkin-Potato Spätzle and Rosemary Roasted Chicken Breasts

Spätzle is bit like pasta or noodles. It use to be poor man’s food. Eaten high up in the alps during the winter months.You had your stables of fat,milk,eggs,flour,ham and cheese. Traditional recipe is just flour,milk,eggs,salt and whole thing is being served with Bergkäse (heavy and strong-tasting Austrian cheese) on top and some fried onion.Heavy…

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Savoury pie with Heirloom tomatoes, Jamon Serrano and four cheeses..

Tomatoes here tomatoes there..And they all are ripening at the same time. Never the less there’s nothing better than home-grown tomatoes.Sweet and tasty. I cooked today wonderful savoury pie using those tomatoes.Bit different than usual, because tomatoes on top are uncooked. Perfect for lunch,picnic or when you need something savoury but not so heavy food…

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BBQ day..Swordfish Cuban style served with Peach Salsa Sauce

I have been raving about our villages farmers market.Too much already,I think so..But I love the place and I am happy to do as much as of my food shopping there as I can. Couple of weeks ago I discovered new fish dealer there. Biggest problem till now what I have had, has been how…

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Korean style BBQ chicken wrapped in lettuce

Hot summer days.You do not feel really hungry but something small and fast to eat would be nice? Well this is the recipe for that! This dish has become one our family’s favourite lunch dishes. It it also great for Picnics or for kids parties. Kids love to eat with their fingers and with this…

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Kesäkeitto – Finnish Summer Vegetable soup

Summer days..Long,hot and sunny. We have been spending lots of time outside in the garden. Kiddo water sliding ,playing in the sandbox and building all kind of things. Me digging,cutting,listening music,drinking wine and reading books.. Occasionally screaming to Tweedle Dee & Dum while they’ve gotten into their normal enterprising routines of getting in trouble. Moving…

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Loimulohi – Flamed Salmon in grill, New Potatoes and Chanterelle Sauce

So it is Juhannnus? I am in Austria, and here, no one celebrates midsummer solstice.I spent my day, on Friday, sitting outside on our sauna terrace, and making “Vihta’s” for the winter.     They will be used in sauna on special occasion, to bathe.Something crazy that we Finns do in sauna.We beat ourselves with…

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