Simple food Ideas - Skane - Sweden

Cooking in Lund Sweden

A few months ago I moved to Skåne area of Sweden. As I get settled and learn the new language, let's get busy in the kitchen. I love to cook especially Italian food. Please join me and explore the love for simple way of cooking, eating healthy and great on a recession budget here in Sweden.

I love potatos, when I was growing up in Kenya, area around Mt. Kenya , we had potato every day, its not a joke. Whether marshed, boiled, fried with beans, there was always space for potatoes. And potatoes there are  yummy. So, I still have the habit, potatoes and more potatoes - I just cannot bring myself to say no to potatoes.

So whats cooking today? As you can see from the plate it is as simple and yummy as it looks.
Marshed potatoes served with rucola and fresh tomatoes. On the side you have chicken breast roasted on the pan with only garlic, rosemary and sage.
If you have some basil, you know how lovely that goes with a tomato and a crushed garlic a bit of olive oil for rucola and tomato - you are on your way to impressing your guests.

Ps. Here in Sweden you can just pick instant potato puree it's great.

Swedish 101

Potatos - Potatis
Tomato - Tomat
Garlic - Vitlök

Happy New Year - Gott nytt år


Enjoy! 2018 the year of great cooking on a budget.

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Happy Thanks Giving to all my readers

And for those of you who are looking for information on how to prepare your thanksgiving turkey here is a page you might find interesting:

Lets talk turkey at consumer guide to safely roasting a turkey

I hope you find some recipes in this blog to brighten your Thanksgiving day!
Have a great Day

Aaahhhh! Deliciously Dangerous Potato Gateau

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Something interesting for family like this Deliciously Dangerous Potato Gateau for family

Our Simple Dinner Recipes Potato Gateau
Ingredients
1 kg of Potatoes
2 egss
200 gr boiled ham
200 gr mozzarella cheese
150 gr of grated parmesan
Breadcrumbs
salt
Pepper
Butter

This simple easy Italian Dinner recipe for you to try and share with family
Boil the potatoes make puree, cut the ham and cheese and mix together with the potatoes. Then mix with the eggs salt and pepper, mix well.
Butter the Oven container with butter and sprinkle with the breadcrumbs, add the potato mix layer and on top spread the remaining breadcrumbs and some small pieces of butter put in the oven at 180° for about 20 minutes
We had this for dinner last Saturday at a friends home. I forgot to download the picture but later will do so you can see it here on the post.

And bear in mind when in Florence eat what Florentine give you when you are home eat like Florentines do

Eating like Florentines: The florentine eggs (Uova alla fiorentina in Italian)

To make the famous florentine eggs all you need is 4 eggs,300 g spinach, 2 spoons of olive oil, 2 spoons of parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste
Steps to do this:
Clean the spinach under running water and put in a cooking pot with only water on the leaves, add some salt, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
After this pass them again under running water and press out all the liquid.
On a pan heat the olive oil and the spinach, let them cook rapidly adding pepper.
Put the spinach in an oven container and in the middle press a hole and put on the eggs plus sprinkle with the parmesan cooking in the oven at 180° for around 5 minutes
This egg florentine serves 4
See also eggs Benedicts

Tags for this recipe: florentine, eggs florentine recipe, egg florentine, what is eggs florentine, chicken florentine

Vegetable cake: Torta salata

dangerously delicious homemade pies

Vegetable Cake the Finale

Everyone is talking of dangerously delicious pies how about sampling and trying this delicious pie in the recipe here: Adopt it to dangerously delicious pie filled with mushroom and or any other vegetables you have in the house:
And this is the end product. This is a great way for you and family to enjoy different kinds of vegetables in a simple italian way.
This simple healthy Italian recipe can be adapted to what you have around in the house.
Give it a try and by the way the same dough can be used for biscuits.

Vegetable cake: Torta salata

Next step in the series of making the spinach cake my way is that of rolling the dough and putting it in your oven dish as shown in this picture.

Then from there we will add the spinach cheese mixture and cook in the oven for around 15 minutes.

Vegetable cake: Torta salata

Spinach Cake

For the ingredients I used 300g of flour,80g of butter, 2 eggs, 2 table spoons of sugar, salt and 2 flat tea spoons of baking powder.

Cake making steps: I mixed all the ingredients and made a dough, then I put in a container (closed) in the fridge for 30 minutes.



Next step is preparing the cheese spinach filling.
The spinach filling is none other than parmesan grated, and boiled spinach. Mix together to form puree like you see in the picture. You can substitute the spinach with other vegatables.

Other fillings include, pumpkin and who knows how it would come out with the normal potatoes or taro? Will give a try!

Come back tomorrow for more on this spinach cake

Simple easy quick Italian recipes:Cooking in times of Pandemic delicious potatoes for breakfast

Ingredients,
4 potatoes
1/2 onion
100g Bacon
2 garlic cloves
salt and pepper

steps:
peel and boil the potatoes
in a heavy pan, cook onion and bacon over medium heat until onion is golden brown and bacon crisp around 6 minutes.Add garlic and cook another 2 minutes
Break the potatoes with a fork and add them to the pan mix well with bacon, onion and garlic. Add salt and pepper.
Cover and steam for around 10 minutes.
This is great served for breakfast as a side dish with eggs.
Enjoy your weekend!!!!!!!

Cheap Dinner from under 10 dollars

Cooking in recession.

Many people out there including me are looking for ways to bring cheap food on the table. I cultivate herbs and some vegetables on my small balcony. When I was in Italy I had vertical garden on my small balcony as well.

All the same there is a way you can save on food, cook it fresh from your lovely kitchen and enjoy with family. From the web I found these recipes try them


"Campbell's Dinners Under $10

See some recipes from Campbell's that can be prepared for less than $10.
Pace Texas 2-Step Chicken

Prep : 5 min.Bake: 20 min. Makes: 4 servings

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1 1/2 cups Pace Picante Sauce or Thick & Chunky Salsa
3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1 tablespoon Dijon-style mustard
3 cups hot cooked regular long-grain white rice

1. Place the chicken into a 2-quart shallow baking dish. Stir the picante sauce, brown sugar and mustard in a small bowl. Pour the picante sauce mixture over the chicken.

2. Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Serve with the rice.
French Onion Burgers

Prep: 5 min. Cook: 20 min.Makes: 4 servings

1 lb. ground beef
1 can (10 1/2 oz.) Campbell's Condensed French Onion Soup
4 slices cheese
4 round hard rolls, split

1. Shape the beef into 4 (1/2 inch-thick) burgers

2. Heat a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the burgers and cook until they're well browned on both sides. Remove the burgers from the skillet. Pour off any fat.

3. Stir the soup in the skillet and heat to a boil. Return the burgers to the skillet. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 min. or until the burgers are cooked through. Top the burgers with the cheese and cook until the cheese is melted. Serve the burgers in the rolls with the soup mixture for dipping."

A celebrity way of life: Dessert collections from Lenotrè

Ravioli: easy simple and healthy recession ravioli

When it comes to recession some people just tend not to feel what's in the air. Today I feel awful as I am in recession too.
If you could visit my http://infoplastics.blogspot.com/ if you know someone who might need help in sourcing of products from here I will appreciate.

Coming back to the dessert collection, we had dinner the other day with some friend from Italy and I prepared tonnes of homemade ravioli, easy simple and tasty with bolognese sauce




Near where I live guess what restaurant/coffee shop you find? Lenotrè I guess a French restaurant I have passed through there a million times but guess what I have never had coffee there because my pocket too light for such a restaurant.

Anyway here is a collection of the cakes and dessert he brought home.


with additional fruits on the cream



Ok the next post will bring more

Family restaurant: Prepare your stomach before going there

This is one of the servings I really enjoyed this time, beans with Italian sausage.
I imagine if you want to try it some onions, garlic, beans and sausage with a lot of tomato. I will try to prepare and post results here in the future.



During our stay in Italy, we enjoyed family dinners and lunches with friends.
The place we could not miss was Ristorante La Monda the family favourite.
If you are travelling to Forli or in the vicinity this would be great place to savour the local delicacy in a family owned restaurant.

All the food is great and big portions prepare your stomach before you go.


Getting there


Ristorante La Monda
47100 Forli' (FC)
72, VIA MONDA
tel: 0543 86372

Simple easy scallop

Turkey/Chicken scallop or cutlet wherever you may call it and whats in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet!

4 Person
Ingredients
Turkey breast cut 250 g.
Flour (just enough)
Olive Oil (just enough)
Sage (just enough)
Dry White wine (just enough)
Salt

In a pan put Oleve oil and 1/4 glass of white wine. With a wooden spoon emulsify cold and add some leaves of sage. Put the meat on the flour and coat it well and then put them on the pan. Put on the gas and cook turning the pieces until the liquid dries up. Adjust the salt.

Serve with Potatoes or add in your creativity.

I will be bringing you more recipes from Italy for the next 2 weeks as I travel around.

Meatballs with Gravy, marshed potatoes and pickled cucumber

Meatballs with Gravy, marshed potatoes and pickled cucumber

This picture I took at a restaurant Soleil at the seaside in HuaHin. I still think I want to come up with a composition of my own for this recipe.

I do not have the original recipe but Im sure I can come up close with something. Let me try it sometime and if I get it right I will share with you here. But, in whichever way I try it your way and let's see how your recipe will be like.

Post here how you go about composing this tasty recipe, will share mine soon!

Simple and easy tomatoes in the Oven: Simple easy cheap recipe

Filled tomatoes in the oven

This is a simple Italian cheap and recession proof menu
Take 8 ripe tomatoes if possible same size and round ones. Cut horizontally halfway, remove the seeds and liquid, add little salt and pepper inside.
For the filling:

Usually I do with what I have eg: breadcrumbs, parsley, garlic and olive oil. Mix the mixture together and fill in the tomatoes and arrange them in an oiled oven plate and cook them for 20-25 minutes.

Valentines special recipe:
Try this filling: Parsley, basil, 1 clove garlic, 2 anchovy fillet and mixed with parmesan and breadcrumbs and together with a little olive oil.

Have a special Valentine

Dangerously delicious vegetable torta

My most dangerously delicious torta vegetable cake with spinach and cheese



You will find step by step vegetable cake recipe here
and here steps for the torta

And other Pastas here Here

Happy Thanksgiving but no turkey here

This is a popular dish in my house also because it is the only way I will make my 2 boys really enjoy their food.




I mix all kinds of vegetables that I have but the most popular ones are Zucchini and carrots then I grill them in the oven with onions cut in big pieces, I add garlic potatoes and chicken



I exalt (magnify) the taste using rosemary sage and salt.
I discussed earlier in this blog how I make my herb salt with rosemary and sage

Thai Fruits: Mangosteen

This is the fruit I love most in Thailand other than eating Kilos of it when in season, I continue to give myself the benefits of this fruit by using its herbal spa bar soap which you can find in various shops here.

If you want to see my other blog on Aromatherapy beauty in times of recession go here
Aromatherapy

Easy Simple and Quick grilled recipe: Cutlets of Chopped Meat

Italian grilled meat

Take good lean beef, clean it well and remove all the little skins and tendons, then chop and after you grind the meat fine in a grinder.

Season with salt, pepper and pinch of grated cheese.

Mix it well and shape it into a ball, then with bread crumbs over and beneath flatten it with a rolling pin. Make a sheet of meat as thick as a silver dollar. Cut it in square pieces and cook in a sauce pan with butter.

When cutlets are browned , pour over some tomato sauce and serve.

Shrimps and shrimps

My sister inlaw's easy way of making shrimps. We cleaned them put a heavy pan on the fire added the seasalt then the shrimps and you cook them (roasting them on salt)
The following time I made them I added rosemary and sage the taste was even better!