Fluffy Finnish Potato Rolls – Kuohkeat perunasämpylät

I cooked deer stew yesterday and served it with sweet potato-potato mash. Of course, there’s a little bit of leftovers today. It’s not enough to eat with the rest of the stew or cook anything else. The rest of the stew will be mutated today into ragu, which we will eat with pasta. Also, we…

Finnish Carrot Rolls – Porkkana sämpylät

Like many of my recipes, I also learned this from my Grandmother. She baked very good carrot rolls. I went to her place after school very often for lunch. Home-baked carrot rolls were the standard thing on the table with other food. The recipe is straightforward, and you can vary it as much as you…

Finnish Meat Pierogi – Lihapiirakka

So many cultures have their own form of meat pies. Rutzas,pierogi, empanadas etc. This is the Finnish version of meat pierogis. Lihapiirakka is found in all small grills in Finland. Finding your way to the closest grilli after a night out in bars is common in Finland. Lihapiirakka is often the “fast food” chosen to…

Jalapeno and Cheddar bread

(or burger buns) One of my friends from the US posted a picture of lovely Jalapeno Cheddar bread that she had bought. Do you think I can get something like that here? No! So what do I do? My friend took a photo from the ingredients list, and I started experimenting. My first try resulted…

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…

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…

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…