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My Recipes My Recipes I've collected recipes and cookbooks for many years. Recipes of food, dinners and desserts, sweets and so on. A lot of those recipes have gone into my personal cookbook. It´s time to share them... Articles
Raspberry & Red Currant Cordial
2009-08-17 00:21:00 Many years ago, I bought an electric juice machine which squeezed fresh juice from fruits, berries and vegetables. But there were too many parts to remove and clean so the days of juice making were not many. The machine was put away in the cupboard where the waffle iron, sandwich grill, blender and ice cream maker are living and collecting dust most of the time. Once a year, I take the juice machine out, dust it off and plug it in. There is nothing more delicious or thirst quenching on a hot summer day than a home made soft drink. Raspberries are an excellent source of antioxidants and phytochemical ellagic acid which acts as an antioxidant. This plant chemical is thought to have some anti-cancer properties (not proven though). Red currants are not quite as nutritious as raspberries, but red berries always contain high quantities of antioxidants and the most important is vitamin C, which our human body can't produce, so it must be obtained through our diet. This ... More About: Raspberry
Pesto alla Svedese/Swedish Pesto
2009-08-03 01:02:00 "Pesto alla svedese" is made with flat leafed parsley, salt, garlic, olive oil, almonds (blanched and toasted), and grated Präst® (priest cheese) which has a strong and aromatic flavor. It's a Swedish cheese with historical roots. It has been made since the 16th century in the region of Småland. Originally, taxes were levied only on farm owners, They had to pay one tenth of their produce to the Church. It could be animals, milk, butter or something else from the personal industry of the farm owners. This was paid directly to the parish minister in their area. Tithing was abolished in 1862, but in Småland, housewives continued to bring home made cheeses as gifts to their care of souls - hence the name Präst®ost ("Priest cheese"). INGREDIENTS: 10 servings * 100 grams Präst® cheese * 75 grams blanched almonds * 200 grams flat leaf parsley, no stalks * ½ - 1 clove of garlic * 200 ml cold pressed mild olive oil * salt METHOD: 1. Grate the cheese finely wit...
Quick and Easy Chicken Recipe
2009-07-27 00:14:00 I must confess, there exist more exciting ways to serve chicken but this is a wonderful mild dish that the whole family will love. It is not easy finding meals that is going to please the entire family, especially if you have both picky small children and even more picky elderly people at the table. This chicken dish is also extremely quick and easy to make. INGREDIENTS: 4 servings * 4 skinless boneless chicken breasts (ab. 500 grams) * 2 cloves of garlic * butter * 250-300 ml cream * 1 chicken stock cube * 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard * 50 ml chives, chopped * 1/4 cucumber * 4 radishes * ab. 70 grams bacon METHOD: 1. Cut each chicken breast lengthwise to make flat fillets. 2. Peel and chop the garlic cloves 3. Heat the butter in a skillet over medium heat and brown the chicken fillets on all sides. 4. In a pot saucepan, combine cream, crumbled stock cube, mustard, garlic and chives. 5. Add the browned chicken, cover with a lid and simmer for about 8-10 minutes. 6. Sl... More About: Recipe , Chicken , Quick , Easy
Chocolate brownies for the teenage boys
2009-07-20 07:00:00 I have two hungry teenage boys staying with me this summer. A well stocked refrigerator and cupboard is a must because they are eating machines. I cook and I bake but they have bottomless bellies. They eat three huge meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner. But of course, a portion of their calories also comes from sweet treats . We have tried five different brownie recipes lately. Here's their favorite so far because this recipe is so easy that they can quickly bake brownies themselves. INGREDIENTS: * 100 grams butter * 180 grams sugar * 2 eggs * 60 grams flour * ½ teaspoon baking powder * 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar * 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder * 100 grams almonds METHOD: 1. Preheat oven to 200°C (ab. 375°F ), 2. Line a 20 x 30 cm pan (ab. 8 x 12 inch) with parchment paper, lightly butter the paper. 3. Melt the butter and stir in the sugar. 4. Incorporate the eggs - one at a time. 5. Combine flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar and cacao powder. 6. A... More About: Chocolate Brownies , Chocolate , Brownies , Boys , Teenage
My Favorite Sandwich
2009-07-13 01:49:00 This is my favorite sandwich - an open faced shrimp sandwich. In various sizes and styles, these expensive sandwiches are served at almost every café establishment. The best part about this shrimp sandwich is that it is so much cheaper to make at home than it is to buy at the cafeterias. INGREDIENTS 1 sandwich * bread * 1 lettuce leaf * 1-2 hard boiled eggs, sliced * mayonnaise * cooked and peeled shrimps, as much as possible * 1 slice of lemon * 1-4 slices of cucumber * 1 wedge of tomato * fresh dill METHOD: 1. Butter the bread. 2. Place a lettuce leaf on the butter. 3. Arrange slices of egg on the lettuce leaf. 4. Pipe mayonnaise onto the egg slices. 5. Place shrimps on top of the mayonnaise. 6. Decorate with a slice of lemon, cucumber slices, a tomato wedge and a dill sprig. Twenty five years ago, I had my appendix removed. After surgery, my diet consisted of only liquids for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I wasn't allowed to eat real food for five days. So, when... More About: Favorite , Sandwich
The Strawberry-Blackcurrant-Rhubarb Jam
2009-07-06 01:51:00 There are few things in life as wonderful as a red, fresh strawberry! Still warm from the sun. Up here in the north of Sweden, the sun never sets in summer so the strawberries get a lot of sun and daylight which is good for them. I stopped growing strawberries many years ago because the birds ate them. They took a bite out of one berry and left it, then they took a bite out of another and left it ... What a waste! Finally, I got fed up with that and put a net over my plants. What happened? Well, every day, small birds got trapped. Trapped birds were easy targets for our neighbors' cats. I willingly shared my currants with the birds. I'm not greedy. But who wants currants when there are strawberries to be had. Not the birds anyway. So, now I buy strawberries at the supermarket. How much would you pay for a small box (500 grams) of strawberries? They sell them here for 30 SEK (around 4 USD). They are not expensive but not cheap either. But it is a good thing that you c... More About: Strawberry
Feta Potato Patties & Salad
2009-06-29 00:04:00 Sweden is not a very big potato producer. Nevertheless, potatoes are an important part of our diet and I always cook extras for different purposes. Day old boiled potatoes seem to become firmer and easier to handle than newly boiled ones. Besides, cold boiled potatoes can be used in so many ways. In Greece, they eat a lot of cheese. This country holds a top place for cheese consumption per person in all of Europe (together with France). A Greek recipe of Patatokeftedes (potato balls) in the cookbook 'The Original Greek Cooking', inspired me to add Feta cheese into potato patty batter. A non-melting cheese like Feta seemed to be the right thing. I have been to Greece but I have never had Patatokeftedes, so I don't know how these feta potato patties compares to Greek potato balls. The ingredient which really made them taste different was real genuine feta cheese. It was produced by Kourellas S.A. company (located in Grevena, Greece). This cheese tastes so much bett... More About: Salad , Potato
Matjes Herring Baked in Parchment Paper
2009-06-22 00:53:00 We have celebrated Midsummer this weekend. The National Day of Sweden (the 6th of June), in all its honor, is the least celebrated holiday in Sweden. For us, the most relaxed holiday of the year is Midsummer. The celebrations are so joyously undemanding when it comes to food. Herring from the sea, soured cream with newly cut chives, potatoes from the earth, washed down with spiced schnapps from ... well ... the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly. For dessert, the first strawberries of summer served with cream. However, the weather might not always be summer-like. Bad weather really limits outdoor eating. When it is rainy, windy and cold (12°C), you don't want to eat any cold food, do you? Well, there are other things to do with matjes herring. Do you enjoy tin foil dinners when you are camping? Easy to make and easy to clean up. Here is the belly warming herring we had on this cold Midsummer Eve. Warmed in the oven adds a new dimension to matjes herring. Believe me. Serve with you... More About: Baked , Paper
Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
2009-06-15 01:38:00 During World War II, there was not enough sugar. Many things - including sugar- were rationed. Carrot s were sweet and used as a sweetener to make vegetable filled desserts. However, it was not until the 1970s that carrot cake became commonly available in cafeterias in Sweden. So, the type of carrot cake we eat today is a fairly modern cake. Now, there are so many carrot cake recipes out there and everything that needs to be said about carrot cake is already said by carrot cake experts. So, enough history. Let's get to the recipe. This carrot cake is as moist as I like it and very popular with my family. Oven temperature: 175°C (=347°F) INGREDIENTS: * 4 eggs * 300 grams brown sugar * 275 grams flour * 2 teaspoons baking powder * ½ teaspoon salt * 1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate * 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar * 50 ml dried tropical fruits, finely chopped * 50 ml almonds, finely chopped * 350 gram grated carrots * 200 ml vegetable oil (canola- or sunflower ... More About: Orange , Cake , Cheese , Cream
Pork Steak with Salsa Salad & Cold Pink Sauce
2009-06-08 00:07:00 Fred Flintstone didn't have Tex-Mex marinated pork steak but I have. I decided to do some outdoor grilling last weekend so I purchased a large "Flinta Steak " (a Flintstone cut piece of pork). Anyway, the weather was too cold and rainy for out door grilling, so I had to cook the meat indoors. Great tasting condiments to accompany meat are a must. My basic salsa contains chopped mango, garlic, green jalapeno pepper, red onion, sweet red pepper, grated carrot, flavored with salt, raw sugar and lime juice. But one can actually try as many different combinations of fruits and vegetables, herbs and chili peppers as one can possibly dream of. A salsa involves lots of chopping and it's better to chop everything by hand rather than use a food processor. You'll then have more control over the size of the pieces. The finished product will look so much better. Naturally, with all that food, a sauce is a must too. Here's my favorite recipe for a pink, cold and ... More About: Pink , Cold , Salad , Pork
Not My Usual Rhubarb Crumble
2009-06-01 03:30:00 As children, we used to have contests that involved seeing which one of us could chew on a rhubarb stalk for the longest time ... uncooked .... without sugar. A weird kid thing that could have created a life-long strong feeling of aversion to rhubarbs. Luckily enough, it didn't.Well, rhubarb is not quite in season yet in the northern part of Sweden. The start of the growing season is behind here. Four weeks ago there were still some snow left. Now spring is here. Today is a bright, sunny and warm day here. Yesterday I harvested a few rhubarb stalks. I couldn't wait to make something with them. However, five small rhubarb stalks were clearly not enough to make a rhubarb crumble.I did an inventory of what I had in the freezer and refrigerator to get a picture of what the options were. Sweet, tropical mango together with tart rhubarbs? Maybe a wicked combination. Maybe not. I still had some red currants left from last year in the freezer. So a rhubarb/red currant/mango combo was wort...
There is an issue with my blog...
2009-05-28 20:46:00 For some time this blog has been affected by an "Operation aborted message". Internet Explorer will not let you view my older posts.Hit the Back button if you see this message. Then you should be able to get to and read older posts. They have been working on resolving this bug but it is still a problem. This only affects viewers using Internet Explorer to view the blog.Update 29th of May:I have switched my comments form from "Embedded below post" to "Full page". Will it fix the "Operation aborted" problem? Let's hope so."Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have."Copyright © 2009 This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at kirene(a)spray.se so I can take legal action immediately. My Recipes More About: Blog
Fragrant Garlic Roast Beef
2009-05-25 00:15:00 Persillade, balsamic vinegar and Chinese soy give this low temperature roasted beef its aromatic flavour. Excellent on the buffet table or served as a first course for dinner. Tastes delicious! Easy to make! The most difficult task is cutting the roast thinly with a sharp knife. I'm thinking of putting an electric meat slicer on my wish list. I have never been good about keeping my knifes sharp. It's so hard to sharpen them not knowing the proper technique. How do you like your beef? Rare, medium, or well-done? It's a matter of taste. 52°C/126°F for very rare, 57°C/135°F for medium rare, or 65-75°C/149-167ºF for well done. I like my roast beef rare. As for the health issue, I'm 63 and have been healthy all my life. However, I don't eat red meat very often. INGREDIENTS: yield: about 8-10 servings * 1 kg boneless beef roast (2.2 lbs roughly) * salt and pepper MARINADE: * 1 clove garlic, peeled and pressed through a garlic press * 100 ml Chinese Soy * 100 ml bal... More About: Garlic , Beef , Roast
Fried Salt Herring with Onion Sauce
2009-05-18 01:32:00 I have been trying to use up a large bucket of salt herring fillets. There were still four herring fillets left after Easter and that was enough for two people as a dinner. There are various ways of preparing the herring fillets before frying them in butter. Rye flour may be used to coat them, but I prefer double crumbing. INGREDIENTS: * 4 soaked, skinned and deboned salt herring fillets * approx. 100 ml plain flour * 1 beaten egg * approx. 100 ml bread crumbs * 2 tablespoons butter for frying METHOD: 1. Soak overnight in cold water. 2. Dip the fillets in flour, then the beaten egg, and finally the bread crumbs. 3. Melt butter in a skillet and fry the herring fillets on medium heat until the coating is nicely browned - about 2 minutes on both sides. Once poor man's food. Now every man's delicacy. Traditionally served with onion sauce and jacket potatoes. The Onion Sauce : * 1 large onion, finely chopped * 2 tablespoons butter * 2 tablespoons flo... More About: Salt , Fried
Snacks For My Couch Potato
2009-05-11 02:11:00 The goddess of fortune and chance has paid me a visit. A couple of weeks ago I won a check for 160 SEK (20 USD) from Candy king! I definitely appreciated this prize. Recently, Candy king purchased Parrots, Scandinavia's oldest and largest producer of snack foods (nuts, beans, peas, dried and soft fruits), which meant I was able to put together a large candy/snack bag according to need and taste. I didn't know that Candy king had so many varieties of snack packs. Delicious snacks for my Sunday couch potato who is watching sports all day long on TV! He doesn't care much about the calories:)Copyright © 2009 This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at kirene(a)spray.se so I can take legal action immediately. My Recipes More About: Snacks , Potato , Couch
A Simple Eggless Cake Recipe
2009-05-04 00:38:00 I love that this cake is so simple to do. Five easily accessible ingredients and you have got everything you need for simple, delicious and eggless cake layers. This pastry reminds me of the so called "Pariservåfflor" (Paris waffles or French Waffles) which my father used to purchase in the village pastry in the 1950's, although I don't think they were yeast leavened. I remember them being filled with butter icing and dusted with icing sugar. Very crisp and flaky they were. To roll this dough out as thin as you can, roll between two layers of cling film (or parchment paper). DOUGH INGREDIENTS: * 150 grams flour * 125 grams butter * 75 ml cream * ½ teaspoon regular fresh yeast (2 ½ grams) * approx. 100 ml caster sugar METHOD: 1. Work together half the flour with all the butter. 2. Dissolve yeast in cream and add yeast with cream + remaining flour. 3. When everything is well combined, roll the dough out very thinly. 4. Using a cake plate as aid, cut out 2 thin roun... More About: Recipe , Cake , Simple
Classic Swedish Pizza Salad
2009-04-27 01:00:00 The first pizzerias in Sweden were owned by immigrants. Most Swedish pizzerias are still owned and run by people born in other countries. So, pizza salad is not at all a Swedish invention. It was immigrants who gave us this raw green cabbage salad. Now it can be found in every dining place where they sell pizzas in Sweden. Pizza salad has a sourish flavour. It is well known that sour things provoke appetite. But it also serves the purpose of keeping the guest occupied while waiting for the pizza to cook. Order your pizza, go to the salad bar, take a plate, pile it up with pizza salad, and eat it as a healthy and tasty side dish. It's usually free. Here's an excellent cabbage salad recipe to try at home. INGREDIENTS: * 500 grams/1 lb cabbage, very finely shredded * 5 teaspoons white wine vinegar * 5 teaspoons vegetable oil * 2 tablespoons sugar * 1 teaspoon salt * ½ teaspoon black pepper * ½ teaspoon oregano (optional) * ½ teaspoon basil (optional) METHO... More About: Classic , Salad
What To Do With Failed Sponge Cake...
2009-04-20 03:00:00 Are there fail-proof sponge cake recipes? I don't think so. There are an unlimited number of reasons why we may fail, and we all have had our fair share of failures, I guess. Mine was stuck to bottom because I did not grease and flour the bottom of the pan enough. But wait! Read this post before you throw away a cake. You can make Chocolate Dipped Marzipan Rolls that look like old vintage vacuum cleaners. Small oblong pastries covered with neon green marzipan. The ends are dipped in melted chocolate, and inside there is a mix of cookie or cake crumbs, punsch/punch (Swedish Arrack liqueur), butter, and chocolate. These pastries are called "Dammsugare" (vacuum cleaners) in Swedish. Also known as "Punschrullar" (Punsch-rolls). IKEA's Swedish Food Market sells "Punsch Rolls". It's a product packed with many E-numbers and synthetic ingredients. Working with marzipan is difficult. I didn?t feel like rolling out marzipan. These balls are the result of my fa... More About: Cake
Soft Bread Baked with Soft Whey Butter
2009-04-06 01:52:00 "Fjällbrynt Messmör" ("mountain browned soft whey butter") is a typical Swedish product made from cow's milk whey. There?s more than one variety to choose from: Original, Classic, Old-fashioned, or Light. Depending on the boiling time, colors may vary from light yellow brown to dark toffee brown. Consistency-wise, it is almost as thick as peanut butter but not that well known outside Sweden. People, who come from foreign countries, usually find "messmör" too weird to eat. It is sweet but approximately 90% of the carbohydrates come from milk sugar, which is naturally present in whey. Lactose (milk sugar) is much less sweet than plant sugar, and the carbohydrates in milk sugar are absorbed into the bloodstream more slowly than sugar carbohydrates. "Messmör" is not fat (between 2 and 6 g/100 g depending on the variety). It is free from artificial colors, stabilisers, and preservatives. But there are plenty of vitamins, calcium and iron. Cheap as well as healthy. Its primary use is... More About: Baked , Soft , Bread , Butter
Two Foolproof Swedish Herring Recipes
2009-03-30 03:57:00 Easter is approaching and it is time to start thinking about Easter food. Our Swedish Easter 'smorgasbord' would not be complete without at least a couple of herring dishes.Two days ago, I purchased a large bucket of salt herring fillets. Once soaked, the fillets can be prepared in so many ways. I usually make a lot of pickled herring because it will keep up to two weeks refrigerated.Swedish recipes call for 'ättiksprit' - a special kind of vinegar. Not the kind you use in salad dressings. It's very important to use distilled white vinegar, acidity 12 percent, to inhibit bacterial growth.Foolproof Swedish Pickled Herring RecipeINGREDIENTS* 8 salt herring fillets* 100 ml distilled white vinegar (12 %)* 200 ml sugar* 300 ml water* 2 red onions, peeled and sliced* 1 teaspoon allspice berries, crushed* 1 bay leaf* dill sprigsMETHOD1. Soak the herring fillets in plenty of water overnight.2. Bring white distilled vinegar, sugar and water to the boil.3. Remove from stove and cool the ... More About: Recipes
A Swedish Temptation
2008-06-10 11:01:00 I wonder what my mother would have said if she had heard that most people only serve Jansson's Temptation on the Christmas table nowadays. My mother passed away when I was very young. I remember her... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Swedish
Sticky Chocolate Cake Time
2008-06-03 10:24:00 Next Friday school year ends. The children have summer holidays for two and a half months. We have our grandchildren coming to stay with us and look forward to that. My grandchildren like to bake a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Time , Cake , Chocolate
Salted Sliced Pork with Onion-Sauce & Boiled Potatoes
2008-05-27 11:38:00 My husband likes to eat food but he seldom makes meal requests and he seldom cooks. He was brought up in a large family with strict traditional rules about men's and women's roles. In recent years,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Potatoes , Pork , Sauce , Onion
A Basic Swedish Beef Stew
2008-05-21 10:15:00 I have not been able to update my blog because I have been on the wing for 14 days. I arrived home yesterday afternoon but I was too tired to write a post. The dinner was already waiting in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Beef , Basic , Swedish
Freezer Cooking Meat Sauce Recipe
2008-05-06 09:44:00 Pasta and meat sauce - one of the most popular dishes among Swedish families with children. The price of this dish has risen by 20% in the past year. In spite of that, it continues to be one of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Cooking , Meat , Recipe , Sauce , Freezer
Spiced Banana Cake
2008-04-29 10:44:00 Is this a banana cake or a banana bread? I am confused with the cake/bread distinction in English. Pretty much the same. isn't it? INGREDIENTS: * 100 grams butter * 3 dl / 300 ml caster sugar * 2... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Banana , Cake
Swedish Oven-Baked Pancake
2008-04-22 11:32:00 Nigella Lawson is back on TV here in Sweden again with time-saving meal ideas in her 13-part series 'Nigella Express'. After watching the first five episodes, I find that certain of the many store... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Baked , Pancake , Oven , Swedish
Herbed Flatbread Chips & A Small Giveaway
2008-04-15 10:56:00 Last weekend, I baked bread with a sister-in-law. She has a neat little cottage near her house. A cottage with a wood-fired baking oven. We spent a day making both hard and soft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Small , Chips
Mozzarella & Tomato Salad
2008-04-08 08:52:00 There is a dramatic surge in food prices all around the world. I am now experiencing the highest food bills I have ever seen. Meat, diary products, vegetables and fruits tend to have the highest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Salad , Tomato
Minced Meat Patties & Lime Sauce
More articles from this author:2008-04-01 11:49:00 This is not at all a traditional Swedish recipe. It's more or less a blend of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine. The sauce is sourish, refreshing and creamy. My family likes this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Meat , Sauce , Lime 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
