Month: January 2019

Thick bean soup with red veggies

Thick bean soup with red veggies

This thick bean soup is the healthy comfort food I love, full of proteins and vitamins. You can make it with any kind of dried beans: white beans, pinto beans, black beans, kidney beans, azuki or a combination of several. They are full of proteins, 

Broccoli salad with white grapes, Gouda & cashews

Broccoli salad with white grapes, Gouda & cashews

When everything is icy white outside, like these days in Stockholm, our body (and soul) needs a maximum of nutritive support. This green broccoli salad with grapes, cheese and nuts is full of vitamins and proteins. It is ready in only 10-15 minutes, the time 

Orange scented poppy seed rolls with raisins

Orange scented poppy seed rolls with raisins

Orange scented poppy seed rolls with raisins evoke childhood memories. My mum used to make us poppy seed pastries. She would cook poppy seeds in milk with sugar and I would steel a spoonful of this delicious filling when she would not watch. Or rather 

Completely nutty brownie

Completely nutty brownie

There are so many different chocolate cake recipes today, that you can find anything you can imagine on the internet: full fat, light, creamy, pasty, vegan, dark, milk, simple, fancy you name it. However, sometimes, one just craves the no-surprises one, the one everyone knows 

Quick and yummy guacamole

Quick and yummy guacamole

Avocado! One of those fruit you can use to make a dessert as well as a savoury dish. Guacamole is just one of them that I prepare most often as we eat it any time a day and in various combinations: sauce, spread, starter, snack, 

Polenta with glazed Brussels sprouts & roasted hazelnuts

Polenta with glazed Brussels sprouts & roasted hazelnuts

How come we start seeing Brussels sprouts everywhere around Christmas? It used to despair me as I really did not like them before. I would push them around on my plate and finally abandon them…  In my childhood memory they were more bitter than today.