Jalapeno and Cheddar bread

One of my friends from US posted a picture of lovely Jalapeno Cheddar bread that she had bought. You think I can get something like that here? No ! So what to do? My friend took a photo from the ingredients list and I started experimenting. First time try resulted in quite lame tasting bread,…

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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…

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Cardamom and Rhubarb Cookies

Oh, how I have been waiting for spring to come! Winter was so long this year (two months or so 😀 ) Lots have happened during the winter time, and that’s why I have been bit quiet on my food blogging,no inspiratin honestly. But I will try to be bit more active again. I found…

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Finnish Rye bread

Is there anything more Finnish, than sourdough rye bread?  I do not think so. There is a lot of writings, about rye bread. In my opinion, real one comes from Finland, where I come from. Finns are particularly crazy about 100% rye bread: it contains coarse rye flour, salt and water, starter and sometimes some…

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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…

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Grandmother’s Bilberry Pie

Bilberry season is in full swing in Finland,where we are on holiday right now. Forests are full of blue,big and healthy berries to be picked. This year they are so much of them that you just need walk into the forest and pick! Picking wild berries from the forest is everymans right in Finland ….

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Very berry ombré no bake cheesecake

Summertime is time for light cakes. Cheesecakes are my favorite . They are easy to change and fast make. As Finn I love  Forrest berries and I were lucky enough to find real bilberries from our weekly market. The flavours of forest bilberries is so amazing! We spend about three weeks in Finland in our summerhouse…

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Poppy fields… Lovely!

We have couple of huge poppy fields in full bloom close to home. Today I took little bicycle ride around the fields and I had my camera with me. So gorgeous!  

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…

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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…

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