This recipe idea originates from the heart of the Finnish area of Savonia, where “hyrskypotut” is particularly enjoyed during Midsummer celebrations. Hyrskypotut makes for an excellent summer meal! I like serving this as a summer side dish because you don’t need to make sauce or serve potatoes with butter. The taste of Hyrskypottu is awesome….
Category: Vegitarian
Bärlauch suppe – Wood Garlic soup, and little information about this delicacy.
It’s springtime in Austria, and one sure sign of it is liverwort starting to bloom, and tender wood garlic leaves pushing through forest soil. I went to the forest this morning to see if the wood garlic was big enough to be picked. I didn’t know anything about wood garlic before I moved to Austria….
Lindströms Patties from black beans – Kasvis Lindströmin pihvit
I love Lindström Steaks. I am trying to go more towards vegetarian foods, so I wanted to try this classic recipe to see how it would work as a vegetarian dish. Originally, Biff à la Lindström is a Swedish dish made from onion, potato, red beet, capers, and ground beef, which are made into patties…
Pineapple and Cucumber salad
I am back from the holiday that we spent in Finland in our summerhouse. Finland was gracious with us this year. Temperatures between 23-32c all two weeks. Lake and seawater were also soooo warm. I who hates cold water went swimming into the Baltic sea!! So last night we returned to Austria. 910km and eight…
Whipped Rhubarb Porridge and Cold Strawberry Kissel – Raparperivispipuuro ja Mansikkakiisseli
Hot summer days in Austria. I am more or less melting while working in the garden. Unfortunately, the heat does not melt off the accumulated winter fat 😉 Peonies are blooming so beautifully and kiwi is going crazy too. I got rhubarb from my friend again, and I wondered what I could do with it?…
Cold Honeydew Melon Soup
Geesh is hot! Not complaining,not at all. I like summer in Austria. Just figuring out something to eat is problem.Not much appetite. So I foraged the fridge. I had one Honeydew melon there. Melon and air-dried ham is alway good.. Then I got an idea. How about cold soup? What should I say?! It was…
Pasta Caprese / Mozzarella-tomaatti pasta
My garden is starting to bear its fruits. I harvested today first heirloom tomatoes. This is a very simple and refreshing recipe from my good friend from Italy. All you need is tomatoes,mozzarella, basil, olive oil, salt and pepper…As always,I never ever stay with given recipe. Temptation to throw in some lovely herbs,, from my…
Wild Garlic soup
Wild garlic season is here again! I went to the forest today and managed to pick a bag of it before it started to rain. After I got home I started to look for my soup recipe and OMG!!! I just noticed that I haven’t ever written my Ramson soup recipe officially here. What a…
Goldeck Grüner Veltliner Gummy Bears (Nallekarkit kuohuviinistä)
I have been toying with the idea, of making sparkling wine gummy bears. I saw in one magazine,an advertisement about them and I have seen those gummy bear molds on sale in Amazon. I did surfing in the internet and found out how simple it is actually make gummy bears yourself. You need only couple…
Chantarelle tart in rye crust – Kanttarellipiirakka ruispohjalla
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…
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