Spring is finally in Austria! My garden is in full bloom and we have started grill season. Lovely slow afternoons spent with friends and family. Asparagus season is in full swing in Austria. Field fresh asparagus is all over the place. Last weekend we had friends over for lunch and I prepared this simple pizza…
Category: Savoury baked goods
Chantarelle tart in rye crust
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…
Poppy seed and Turmenic Hamburger Buns
Hamburgers and buns. What should I say? I hate those spongy commercial made things that you can get from the supermarkets. If possible I will avoid them. While ago I found a really simple a good hamburger bun recipe which I tried and modified to fit my taste. I have made couple of variations of…
Spring Vegetable and Ricotta Quiche for Easter Brunch
I have been racking my head for Easter Brunch ideas. It should be something reasonably easy to make but same time pretty and have spring spelled all over it. Last fall I made simple quiche with Parmesan crust and topped it with tomatoes from my own garden. The taste was amazing and texture great,so I…
Spinach Waffles and Salmon Mousse
Sometimes you need a fast and fun food to eat. I like waffles because they are fun and fast to make And Kiddo loves them. My only issue has been that normal Waffels are so heavy and full of not so good things. So I decided to make a new recipe and give. Change for…
Spinach Soup and Feta Börek
Spinach soup is one of my favorite soups. It is served in Finnish school as lunch,usually with some meat filled pierogi and hard-boiled egg. I have lots of vegetarian friends,and they ask very often from me recipes. So this time I converted this classical recipe into something new. I used soy milk instead of the normal milk…
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….
Potato and Pumpkin Seed Tea Breads
I have always leftover food and I hate to throw food away! I had some leftover mash potato from the weekend,that I had to get rid off somehow.I went trough my old recipes and stumbled on this one.This is a very simple and fast recipe to make. It is one of the first recipes,which kids…
Karelian Pies; Soul searching deep into my Finnish heritage….
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!
Pumpkin dinner rolls
Today it happened..Hubby told me that he cannot take anymore anything that has something to do with pumpkin.He is suffering from pumpkin overdose 😀 So this will be maybe my last pumpkin recipe this fall. I cooked pulled pork today and we had pulled pork sandwiches as lunch. I served it with these dinner rolls.I…
Lihapiirakka; Minced meat Pie Finnish way
Retro foods are fashionable again. And good so! This is one of my favourite recipes.
Real Sicilian pizza dough and Mini Calzones
I have loads of wonderful and very sweet tomatoes. My friends have been getting their share of the tomatoes and I am planning to make some ketchup and Marinara sauce for the winter. Pizza is something that we like to eat a lot. I have pizza stone in my grill which I use. This is the…
From my garden into my kitchen 