This is absolutely comfort food and is so easy to make. Sailor’s steak got its name because it was traditionally made on ships, often in a pot rather than baked in the oven like this version. Also, cheaper cuts of meat were typically used instead of top-round beef. Slowly cooking it under a lid for…
Category: Meat
Finnish Minced Beef and Potato Casserole – Jauhelihaperunaviipalelaatikko
When Grandma invited the whole family over for Sunday lunch, it was either jauhelihaperunaviipalelaatikko (minced beef and potato casserole) or lihamureke (meatloaf) that she served. Accompanied with pineapple and Chinese scrappage salad, lingonberry jam, and grated carrot salad with raisins and beetroot. Lihamure (meatloaf) had mashed potatoes and peas as a side. Brown sauce of…
Finnish Meatballs in Brown Sauce – Mummin perinteiset lihapullat ruskealla kastikkeella
Finns love meatballs! Every family has their own recipe, so it’s hard to say what is original. Swedes have adopted meatballs as their own traditional dish. Still, almost every culinary culture has its own version of meatballs – it has evolved over the years and in many different hands. The first recorded mention of the…
Finnish Porkbelly sauce – Läskisoosi mummin tapaan
Finns are pork meat eaters. Be it Christmas ham, roast, or various pork sauces. Läskisoosi, or pork belly sauce, was one of my Grandmothers’s best foods. Oh, and how picky she was when choosing the belly bits for her sauce in the market hall of Tampere by the butcher. I still remember those shopping trips…
Lihakeitto – Finnish meat soup
My grandmother was an excellent cook. She didn’t cook fancy foods but those simple and honest home-cooked, traditional Finnish dishes. One of my favorites was her bone soup or meat soup. Pot-au-feu type of soup. Meat boiled in homemade meat stock so long that it starts to fall apart . Then, meat is removed from…
Moscow stew a la Mysi Lahtinen – Moskovan pata
Finnish food has been influenced by Swedish and Russian food heritage because Finland has been closely connected with both historically. Examples of Swedish influence are meatballs,semlor, or sandwich cakes. From Russia, examples include blinis, Karelian pies, or Stroganoff. One of my all-time favorites is Moscow Stew by Mysi Lahtinen. Inspiration for this beautiful stew is…
Crockpot Sloppy Joes
This is a little bit different from the Sloppy Joe recipe from the previous one. I usually make a big patch of this and freeze some of it, so when I need a quick meal, I just have to unfreeze it and warm it up. So get your Crockpot out, and let us get cooking!…
Tomahawk Steak
I have a hubby who’s carnivore with capitol C! So today was his day when it comes to food. I went shopping to Mekur Market near Wels and they had aged Tomakawk cut steaks. For some reason it is very hard to find dry aged meat in Austria. Austrians are not yet familiar with what…
Creamy Pepper Sauce for the Steak, the way that my Father used to make it!
I have grown up in the backroom of a restaurant. My earliest memories are; the smells of the food being cooked around me, the noice of kitchen machines, the laughter of the people. Yes, my father is a Chef. Big, burly and loud! Man equipped with big a heart, and extremely sharp tongue! He’s also…
Tex-Mex Style Sloppy Joes, Spicy Carrot Burger Buns and Parmesan fries
When graving hits it hits me usually bad! I love Sloppy Joes! My host Mom in US, made the best Sloppy Joes that I know. I loved that mess which you created, while eating those oozing buns! This is my version of very classical American burger dinner,of course I had to go and tweedle with it….
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