White nights in Finland..

This is wonderful video about White Nights in Finland.The time when sun does not set at all for couple of the weeks in the north. How I miss that!     here are some pictures which I have taken during our summer holidays in Finland.

Sausage Goulash for rainy day

It has been quite cloudy and rainy day today. Gray and gloomy. Typical Innviertel weather.. Only fog was missing. Sometimes fog is so dense that you hardly see half a meter ahead of yourself..On days like this, soup is something that I grave. I am not very comfortable cooking Austrian dishes, but now and then…

Flea alarm!

Anyone in need of RC CAT??Special offer, especially after today… I was wondering yesterday and today, why our cst Zorro is behaving bit odd. Well he is odd red cat, but biting your own leg is out of normal even for Zorro. After close inspection I saw them, fleas!! So early, spring is really coming…

Cinnamon rolls with the extra twist (apples and carrots are involved)

In Finland we have something called “korvapuusti”, “slap on your ear” might be the best translations for it. I love them! This might be the only baked recipe, that I do not manage to screw up! Dough is simple sweet brioche dough.Very versatile to use. What makes Finnish brioche dough special is CARDAMOM. It gives…

Healthy Snack over Kiddo’s school!

In Austria, kids do not get lunch at school nor are they able to buy it .No free lunch,like kids do in Finland.They take their snack with them.Mommy or Daddy backs their lunch everyday for them. Same thing in kindergarten. When Kiddo was on his last year of KiGa,Upper-Austria started new project called Heathy Commune. It involves…

Lohilaatikko – Salmon Cassarole

This is an spin off recipe from my cooking lesson evening for Caritas. I had estimated the amount of salmon wrong. Everything else went. No left overs. I took fish with me home. And this is what I cooked yesterday with the left over salmon: It is potato and salmon casserole. Very simple and fast…

Cake catastrophy and such.. ( me baking = not good)

Anybody who knows me little better, know, that I love cooking but absolutely hate baking! What ever I bake, ends up to be some sort of disaster. I made applecinnamonrolls..They were raw from the middle, but tasted good. And there is my very famous “Scheisse-tortte”! I attended baking course last fall. We had bake Sacher-cake,…

Light Parmesan Chicken and sweet potato fries

Many of my friends, have been making lately “Parmesan Chicken”.  Simple recipe, and looked really delicious, but my was the huge amount of butter, in which it is cooked. I have been trying to lighten up my cooking,so I have been looking into alternative cooking methods. I started surfing in internet a bit,and found several…