All that blooms…

it is my favourite time of the year again. Our garden is in full bloom. Color therapy as its best! Hope you will enjoy my pictures.  

Green asparagus risotto and pistachio parmesan chicken

Asparagus…Asparagus.. You wait for it..You crave after it.Every spring same thing.  Waiting and checking up when asparagus stand close to us opens.Well, they are open and I bought my favourite green asparagus. Recipe is very similar to my Wood Garlic risotto. I had one small addition, which i would not normally use. I had some…

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Cauliflower breads

I made for us on easter lamb chops which were served with cauliflower parmesan wood garlic mash and of course there were some left overs.. I knew neither of my men would eat it if I would reheat it. I had to figure out something to with it. We have in Finland simple potato bread…

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Easter.. At home..

Easter came and went.. We had quiet easter at home,for change. Weather was not at all nice this year.Snow,sleet,rain…And everything in between..On Saturday we went to Schärding for farmers market.And it rained.. I managed to get some nice shots from the city.I felt so sorry for all those market sellers. Lots of people on the move…

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Green Asparagus and Parmesan Tartelettes

Asparagus season has started! So the spring is truly here. it is some sort of obsession of mine to have asparagus in form or a nother as soon as local asparagus is in the shops. This spring has been really cold so season has been delayed at least by a week. This is how it…

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Roasted Rhubarb Trifle & Cinnamon Twists

Rhubarb season has started.I love it.It is such a versatile vegetable. I have memories of it when I was small kid and grandmother had huge rhubarb bushes growing in her vegetable patch. Leafs were sometimes so big that I could use them as umbrella. Grandmother made cold soup and wonderful pies with rhubarb. Her jam…

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Long forgotten recipe from 70′ a la Ottolenghi (and some spring stuff)

Weather has not been the best lately.Rain, hails and everything in between.Right now wind is so string that tree tops are bending double. Great weather for Kiddo to be in Easter vacation. I did some Easter Decorations outside. Burlap rabbit and flower baskets,door reef and small tree where I hang some eggs. That’s it. Inside not…

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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…

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