Plantain Weekend: Brazilian Inspired Fish Stew

Plantain weekend continues with… you guessed it – plantains! Today I threw together a Brazilian fish stew, or at least somewhat inspired by Brazil. Very colourful and tasty, took some time to prep and cook though. Here’s what we need: 28 oz can of tomatoes 1 lbs of salmon fillets 1/4 cup olive oil 1 [...]

Plantain Weekend: Fried Plantains

It looks like a banana. It kind of smells like a banana, if banana was a vegetable. But taste different when you bite into it. And it’s alot harder to peel! Kicking off this theme weekend with plantains :) For this simple recipe you’ll need: 1 plantain 1½ cup water 1 tbs salt 3 cloves [...]

Red Curry Seafood Combo

More Thai food! So much that it should keep your mouth watering until Monday next week. Today I present a spicy red curry seafood combo with octopus and shrimp. Here’s what you need: 1 lbs octopus (cleaned and rinsed) 1 lbs shrimp (peeled and deveined) 14 oz. can of coconut milk 3 tbs red curry [...]

Thai Coconut Rice

I was reading around for coconut rice recipes and the Thai style coconut rice seemed to be the most entre like. South American and Indian coconut rice seemed a lot more dessert like. So here is a simple Thai coconut rice recipe. What we need: 1 can of coconut milk 1 can of water 1 [...]

Green Onion Soup

It was lazy Sunday and I didn’t come up with anything other to do with the green onions I had to use up before it was “too late” other than 1. put them in a salad, or 2. put them in soup. I went with number two. Very fast, simple, maybe not all that filling, [...]

Pizza With Shrimp

American style dough and European style toppings, but American style amounts :P (so much for “less is more”, haha) Its a fairly simple recipe :) (This recipe easily serve 4-6 people) Ingredients: 3 cups of bread flour 1 package of dry active yeast (the recipe I did said 1/4 oz but I used 5/16 oz [...]

Mango Chicken

It is so hard to find crème fraiche in America but when you do you’re happy! At least I was :D Although the only meal I know by heart goes well with crème fraiche is Mango Chicken – here it is! Its pretty simple actually, takes about 30-40 minutes total maybe. What you need is [...]

Fruit Juice Extract

Something that is really common in Sweden is “saft”, a fruit juice concentrate which is mixed into water. Usually 1/10 juice extract and rest water. I hadn’t had it in so long and I remembered I had seen it at IKEA and got a real urge to make it. I took all the fresh berries [...]

Finnish Pulla & Swedish Vanilla Buns

I’ve wanted to bake bread for a long time and last night I finally got to do it, I looked around for a good recipe, found one. OH WAIT, it was a no knead recipe which apparently means you have to let it sit for 12-18 hours. So after I had bought ingredients for the [...]