Salmon soup is maybe the most well-known Finnish food around the world. No wonder. It’s delicious and comforting. I think it should be called salmon Chowder in English. I love fish soup! My grandmother made this soup for me quite often. Salmon or fish soup has a funny effect on me. After I have eaten…
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Finnish brined Salmon Ice Cellar style – Jääkellarin lohi
An alternative gravlax recipe Gravlax, or lox as it is called in the US, is a very important part of Nordic and Finnish food culture. Usually, salmon is dry-cured, but in this recipe, I am using brine. Brining salmon has become one of my favorite ways of curing the fish. Ice cellar salmon is a…
Salmon and Asparagus Casserole – Parsa lohilaatikko
Asparagus season started earlier in Austria and Germany this year than ever. We have been enjoying this lovely and noble vegetable since the beginning of April. People only eat asparagus with sauce, Hollandaise, or melted butter, but this wonderful vegetable can do so much more! I love making a quiche with asparagus or just baking…
Finnish Salmon and potato bake – Lohilaatikko
I am emptying my freezer, and I found a piece of salmon that I need to use away. Salmon bake or lohilaatikko, as we call this simple dish, is everyday food in Finland. Easy and fast to make. You can make it bake-ready already the previous day, and when you come home, just shove it…
Loimulohi – Flamed Salmon in grill, New Potatoes and Chanterelle Sauce
So it is Juhannnus? I am in Austria, and here, no one celebrates midsummer solstice.I spent my day, on Friday, sitting outside on our sauna terrace, and making “Vihta’s” for the winter. They will be used in sauna on special occasion, to bathe.Something crazy that we Finns do in sauna.We beat ourselves with…
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…
Giving a cooking lesson about Finnish food (and Salmon cassarole from left overs)
I have been involved with Caritas , for long time now. I have been mainly giving cooking lessons , on voluntary basis .We meet once a moth, and cook food from different countries. My friend who is organizing this, has sometimes problems to find replacement, when there is last-minute cancellation and this was the case this…
salmon coulibiac – lohi kulibiakki
Long and cold winter in Finland. You need food that warms you up. I remember my mother making this quite often during the wintertime when we had guests over. Coulibiac has become one of our family’s everyday foods. We love to eat fish, which is a slightly different way of doing it. It is also…
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