Simple Christmas table

My First Christmas in Sweden. Over the years I have had opportunity to celebrate Christmas in different parts of the world. This is Sweden, where my family and I moved 5 months ago. We love it here, though it has been hard for me with the darkness coming soo early. I am doing good and settling well.

Well, Sweden is home of Ikea and so all Ikea in my house. I look forward to sharing with you all my experiences here in the south of Sweden.
To you all, a Merry Christmas from Happy Housewife blog

I am all simple stuff. I try to work with minimal possible. This is my Christmas table ready for lunch.

1st we are having 'tortelli in brodo'

Followed by boneless chicken thigh rolled with Italian ham, served with boiled potatoes and a side of beetroots and feta cheese salad

Dessert is classical Italian tiramisu

Fruity Christmas Eve dinner dessert

Christmas in Sweden


It's Christmas once again, year 2017, as we prepare to for the big day tomorrow here is a quick recipe for what I have just prepared for today evening dinner.
There is no snow but Christmas will be beautiful all the same with alot of rain.

I have prepared a Ricotta cheese topped with beautiful Christmas colors of Swedish berries

Sponge cake
Ricotta 250g
3 spoons of whipping cream
Sugar 200g

Mix sugar and cream
Add ricotta
Whisk with hand no need for electric one. When smooth, decorate your sponge cake layers and finally decorate with berries. That is how simple it is.
Here's to A Merry Christmas to you all!

Pre Christmas - Perfect home Christmas eve dinner

Food Diaries from Lund, Sweden
Simple is best!
Eating at home can be equally rewarding as an evening eating out at a restaurant. At happy Housewife's - home made meal is always something everyone looks foward toward to. Sitting at dinner, catching up on the day's happening, is something every family must make time for atleast a few days a week. This Pre- Christmas dinner, with family visiting us from Italy At happy housewife we love to make those dinners as beautiful as when you eat at a 5-Star restaurant Menu: Special HappyHousewife Chicken rolls in white wine
Served with Potatoes (boiled and garnished with parsley)
Tomatoe Salad
Buttered Brocolli

Dusting old recipes in time for Christmas

Cooking from Sweden Dangerously delicious homemade pies
With Christmas just around the corner, family getting together and expecting a lot of cooking, its time dust old recipes from the shelves. This is called Torta salata in Italian - 'Salty cake'
This is very easy to make at home: Filling Ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese and spinach. A detailed step by step recipe you will find it here
Cook Italian way torta salata step by step You can always use what you have around as filling. Mushrooms, marshed potatoes and pumpkin and all other vegetables you love. Keep cooking and enjoy!

Children Mixing their own fruit cocktails: Creativity in the Kitchen

You can never know childrens creativity until you let them do things. After school, a bit of play time and the child is all very tired but with homework to do there is not much time to waste. A mix of fruit juice is what my son came up with today, he never likes mango juice, so this last weekend I bought mango juice by mistake. When he came home from school and poured wrong juice into his glass and realised it was mango he went nooo...he thought of adding orange juice to see how the mix goes, plus with a bit of grenadine syrup to add some colour he loved it. Here is the look from that!

Tiramisu the Italian way right here in Nairobi

Some friends came over for dinner and were surprised to the original taste of this tiramisu. Here in Nairobi. It costs a little bit to make it the original way, but at the end it is worth it.

Chicken Recipes - Easy Recipes

This is for you all looking for new chicken recipes ideas, or just easy recipes like a simple mom. Here in this blog you will find food recipes that are simple and healthy Imagine this recipe and make it. It is easy to make recipe and from a Mom it is healthy too. Thin slices of chicken are first, flavoured (I do with black pepper grinded fresh plus salt) then covered with white wheat flour, then in eggs after that bread crumbs. Put them in hot oil to deep fry. when ready golden place on paper napkins to absorb extra oil. Serve with salad, boiled potatoes instead of chips. If you can serve with pan cooked broccoli with garlic and butter -that will be super cool. Broccoli is good for health.

Mom I hate Pumpkin - Not any more!

We often hear our kids every now and then say this and not only pumpkin but other kinds of food like vegetables.

This is what my son told me, and I said ok, lets see if he changes his mind.



Steps: Boil the pumpkin and or cook it in the oven. Then marsh it, if you have some parmesan then that is great, but if you don't have it is all the same. You can change my recipe and add also potatoes and make a pureè of potatoes with pumpkin.

(Dough Std recipe- 100g of wheat flour will mix well with one egg. No need to add water )
When you have rolled the dough into very thin, cut into small squares and add using a spoon the pumpkin. Close as in photo, placing them on a kitchen cottoc cloth on the table. When finished
put cook them in boiling water for 3 minutes and sieve.
Serve as you like. I served with garlic and tomatoes.

Fresh sage and butter would be great.

Read older articles in this blog for serving ideas.
Im sure you will hear more of "I WANT MORE"

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Happy Birthday Home Made Cake

Think...Eat...Save As we get ready to celebrate Easter holidays with the above theme we revisit some of our own home made cakes for birthdays, saving us a bit of coins. I can say my cake decoration skills are getting better. You can visit my earlier posts on cake recipes in this blog and make one at home for your family or friends. I usually do recipes that are easy for anyone to be able to make and with little.

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Pizza time!

Yesterday evening my son was in a mood to participate in pizza making for dinner. Below is the picture of us preparing (mushrooms, mozzarella) ready for the oven.

I have in the past posted steps for making your Italian true pizza just like the Italians do.

Enjoy!

Eating Healthy In Nairobi - Home Made Signature Chicken

I call myself a Happy Housewife for a reason. I love what I do, cleaning, cooking and being the manager for my domestic ltd and my talented 10 year old singer (recording artist) and actor. Being a stay home Mom allows me to be creative in the kitchen. This is the chicken I love most, boneless thigh you find a nice one in Uchumi...(Uchumi should pay me for saying this :-) There are many ways I serve this chicken, with chapati, Piadina( Bread made in the area where my second home is),boiled potatoes (meru potatoes)or with oven baked potatoes and veggies. Accompany with Salad (as you can see in the picture it is rocket-rucola with olive oil and shredded parmesan cheese) my son loves this to bits.

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