Sweet Potato Hash with Sausage & Eggs / Eggless Pear Pancake / Finnish Pancakes

Blog Post & recipe: Brunch Recipe: Sweet Potato Hash with Sausage & Eggs

Savory, garlicky sweet potato hash, roasted with sausage and rosemary, and baked the next day with eggs on top.

Blog Post & Recipe: Eggless Pear Pancake

Mix together the dry ingredients. Add in about 3/4 Cup milk and gently stir. Add the grated pear and mix well.

Blog Post & Recipe: Finnish Pancakes

I can either poach 12 eggs and make a Hollandaise sauce with home fries or I can just make this quick Finnish-style pancake, bake it for 25 minutes and serve it all at once. These pancakes are so delicious. They are thin and the texture is like a baked custard.

Sour Meatballs / Boozy Mint Lemonade Slush / Whipped Cranberry Porridge

Recipe: Sour Meatballs

800 g ground veal
2 medium sized zucchinis
1 egg
1 bundle of mint
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Blog Post & Recipe: happy hour: boozy mint lemonade slush

The thing is, I don’t have anise seeds, so I went with a classic summer pairing, lemon and mint, which I thought sounded super refreshing, especially for a slush. And since it’s happy hour, a little bourbon doesn’t hurt either.

Blog Post & Recipe: Whipped Cranberry Porridge

Along with rye bread, quark, wild berries and squeaky cheese, whipped lingonberry porridge is definitely on the top 5 of my favourite Finnish foods. Now, there is an obvious lack of frozen lingonberries here in Sydney - so far I haven't found any. The second best option for those wanting to make any lingonberry dishes is, in my opinion, to use frozen cranberries

How to Pan-Fry Tofu / Finnish Salmon Soup / Spicy Kimchi Stew (Kimchi Jjigae)

Blog Post & Recipe: How to Pan-Fry Tofu with Crust is Simple

With one table spoon of oil, we will be able to fry these tofu and yield crisp golden crusts. I did not coat it with egg, batter or any flour. It is just naked firm tofu (bean curd). A non-stick pan is neither necessary.

Blog Post & Recipe: From riches to rags - Salmon Soup [via]

If you don't like to cook whole salmon piece, you could use the cubed version, you could add them add it after cream comes to boil, take care to cook since it is already diced, the layers might get dissolved in soup when it is over cooked.

Blog Post & Recipe: Spicy Kimchi Stew (Kimchi Jjigae)

The secret to kimchi jjigae is using very old kimchi(see kimchi bokkumbap). If you can't get a hold of the old kimchi that is sold, you can just let your kimchi age in your fridge until the cabbage loses its whiteness and turns dark and a bit transparent like the picture below. Taste the kimchi and if its really sour then it's perfect for jjigae.

Finnish Summer Soup. Tomato-Bread Soup. Explore Fennel.

Blog Post & Recipe: Kesäkeitto: An Easy Finnish Summer Soup To Try

Many years ago my aunt gave me the Sunset Complete Vegetarian Cookbook, which contained a recipe for Finnish Summer Soup. It was an easy-to-make concoction that contained potatoes, onions, carrots, and green beans swimming in a creamy broth.

Blog Post: Florence Fabricant's Thick Tomato-Bread Soup, Catalan-Style

Florence Fabricant, ever trustworthy, provided me with just the thing: a tomato-bread soup by way of Catalunya, chockful of most of my favorite things. Peasant bread and fresh tomatoes? Check. Smoked paprika and saffron? Check. Cubes of chorizo and minced parsley? Well, hello, lover.

Blog Post & Recipe: exploring the vegetable world – what to do with fennel

First, lets talk about the bits you can eat:

Bulb ... Fronds ... Seeds ... Pollen ...

With so many different edible bits, our friend fennel is pretty versatile in the kitchen. Here are a list of the types of ways you can use it.

Shaved Salads ... Braised Fennel ... Soups ... Fish ... Pasta & Risotto ...

two hour pork & fennel ragu

Blueberry Soup. Herb Guide. Fennel and thyme roasted chicken.

Recipe: Fennel and thyme roasted chicken

Think it takes too long to have a roast dinner on a weeknight? Think again!

Blog Post & Recipe: Blueberry Soup

I first bought mustikkakeitto or blueberry soup in Finland by accident ... Very quickly blueberry soup (which is more of a hot drink really) became a favourite post-work pick-me-up drink, especially in the icy winter months when colds and other ailments were common.

Article & Recipes: The essential herb guide

A brief guide to thirteen common herbs. The links to the recipes are in a box to the left.

- Dill has an intense, peppery flavour that deepens the sweetness of root vegetables ... Mint, such as you might buy in the supermarket, will bring out the sweet notes in savoury dishes ...

Related Links

* Tarragon, strawberry and cherry salad

* Parsley, white bean and prawn salad

* Herby lemon grilled chicken

Blood

Recipe: Black Pudding

Ingredients

1 litre blood of wild boar
oxtails
300g fat wild boar, cubed
1.5 large onions, diced
300g oatmeal, soaked
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp butter

Recipes: Sangue di Maiale

Two regional Italian recipes for pork-blood pudding.

TIPS FOR WORKING WITH PORK BLOOD
1. Gather the blood as it drains from the slashed throat of the pig.
2. Stir continually while the blood drains. This is to avoid clots. Clots affect the texture of the finished product which you want as smooth as a dense pudding.
3. It is preferred to use the traditional method of pig slaughter to gather blood. If you can't and have obtained blood from a slaughter house then be sure to strain it, before cooking.

… Sangieri di San Fili ... Sangguinaccio Cheitin

Article & Recipe: Boudin Noir

Follow the links in the article to find the recipes.

Boudin noir — blood sausage — is one of France’s oldest charcuterie preparations. It’s part of a sausage making tradition in France that has lasted well over 2000 years. “There is evidence of the activities of the lardarius, the Gaulish charcutier, in a number of bas-reliefs and inscriptions found at Narbone, Bordeaux and Cologne, and at Rheims, where a bas-relief shows two of these specialists at work…. All the items of charcuterie shown in the relief are easily identifiable: [blood sausages], strings of sausage, joints of pork, pig’s heads.” Although the raising and subsequent slaughter of the family pig was common in the French provinces up to the Second World War, today few families in the countryside raise their own pigs …

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Boudin Noir … Boudin Grillé en Compote de Pommes Citronnée et Fruits Secs … Émincé de Boudin Noir aux Pommes … Tarte au Boudin Noir et aux Deux Pommes … Bouchées Croustillantes au Boudin Noir … Feuilletés aux Pomme et Boudin … Crème de Boudin Noir

Recipes: Food that does not taste like chicken

A collection of blood recipes, some of them sausage.

BLOOD SAUSAGE OR BLACK PUDDING … NAVAJO BLOOD SAUSAGE … WORSPE BLOED … BLOOD PANCAKES (VERIOHUKAISET) … BLOOD BREAD … SANGUINACCIO DOLCE … TIếT CANH (RAW BLOOD SOUP) … PENANG CURRY MEE … DINUGUAN … SAKSANG (PORK BITS WITH HOT SAUCE) … CZERNINA … CABIDELA … SWARTSOPPA … CANARD AU SANG