The food train

Hej vänner! Känner att jag vill uppdatera här varje dag med något nytt och spännande men tyvärr håller inte det ekonomiskt för mig. Jag lagar alltid lite extra för att göra matlådor och gör sällan bara en portion. Jag borde tänka i banorna kvalité före kvantitet när det gäller inlägg. Funkar för det för er tros? Älskar faktiskt det här. Vågar mer och mer och trots att jag är lite rädd för att marknadsföra mig så är det så kul när jag ser i statistiken att det faktiskt finns några som kikar in här!

 

Jobbar nu hela helgen så det blir nog lugnt på matfronten men nästa vecka har jag några skojigheter att bjuda på.

 

Take care!

xo

Jag önskar att jag hade koll på vart man kan hitta svamp i skogen. Tänk att ha ett sådan guldställe där det finns hur mycket kantareller som helst. Jag skulle befinna mig i himmelriket! Blev så himla glad innan när mor min ringde och berättade att hennes kollega ville ge mig ett jäkla lass trattkantareller. Har lite planer på vad jag ska göra redan och längtar ihjäl mig. Som sagt, den som väntar på något gott...

 

Ska flänga runt idag men när jag kommer hem ska det lagas mat för fulla muggar. Både falukorv och kyckling ska tillagas. Ska nog även baka ett bröd! Stay tuned!

 

På hösten älskar jag mys extra mycket. Tända ljus, te, en soffa och någon god soppa och helst några skivor nybakt bröd med ost på. Det tråkiga är ju att jag egentligen inte tål bröd då jag är allergisk mot alla sädesslag förutom havre. Hur som helst har jag haft en enkel grönsakssoppa i huvudet hela veckan men har inte riktigt haft tiden. Idag tog jag tag i det mot alla odds.

 

1-1,5l vatten

8 skivor fläsk (eller något annan salt köttbit du har till övers)

4 stora potatisar

4 stora morötter

1 purjolök

1 grönsaksbuljongtärning

1 köttbuljongtärning

Salt och svartpeppar

 

Det som är tidskrävande är första etappen - koka upp ditt kött i vattnet med köttbuljongtärningen och låt sedan puttra i 2-3 timmar.

Ta sedan ur köttet och ha i dina tärnade och skivade grönsaker.

Lägg i din grönsaksbuljongtärning och låt den lösas upp.

Smaka av och krydda med salt och peppar.

Låt puttra i ca 40 minuter.

Lägg i köttet igen och låt det värmas igenom.

 

Servera med något grovt bröd och ost, och njut av höstmyset i en extra stor stickad tröja i soffan.

Good evening peeps! Made this delicious meal earlier using my lovely mother's recipe. This is English food for you and even though it might not look very appetizing to some, it does taste amazing.

 

300g mince

2 yellow onions

2-3 carrots

2 tomtoes

1 big pinch of salt

1 big pinch of black pepper

 

2 tablespoons of Maizena

2 tablespoons (the ones you use to eat with) of Bisto gravy powder

 

6-8 potatoes

Butter and milk

1dl grated strong cheese

 

Peel and boil your potatoes in a good pinch of salt.

 

Brown your mince with your chopped onion.

Season with salt and pepper.

Add your chopped tomatoes.

Add your sliced carrots.

Add water so it just covers the contents of the pan and let simmer for 8 minutes.

 

Mix the bisto and maizena together in a bowl, add a splash of water and mix until smooth.

Add another cup of water and mix till even.

Take your pan off the heat and stir the bisto mixture into your mince. Keep stiring so there are no clumps in there.

Bring to the boil again and then turn down to simmer for another 8 minutes.

Taste (!) and add water if you want more gravy.

 

Mash your potatoes with butter and milk and a tad of salt.

Mix your mash with the cheese.

 

Use a casserole dish and pour your mince into the bottom.

Cover it with the mash - be careful to not press down to much on the mince as it will pour over the sides.

Bake in the oven for 20-25 minuter in 200-225°C.

 

Serve with boiled/steamed vegetables like broccoli, carrots, peas, brussel sprouts and beans.

 

Enjoy!

Stay tuned for an easy recipe that I'd like to say is the English equivalent to a normal Swedish meal (husmanskost). Just going to snap a few shots and dig in first!

 

If you're peckish and don't want to eat anything too unhealthy, try this: fry apple in cinnamon and sugar and a little bit of butter and have it on your youghurt. YUMMIE!

Right, so I rarely bake but reading my usual food blogs I have been overwhelmed by everyones' tasty apple pie/crumble and cake recipes. I've been dying for some ALL day. I bought some nice crispy apples from the shop and also bought myself a new pie dish to make one in. I can tell you - this is one easy recipe!

 

4 apples

3 tblsp cinnamon

3dl flour

0,5dl sugar

0,5dl oats och spelt flakes (havregryn eller dinkelflingor)

2 tblsp syrup

125g butter

How to:
Heat your oven to 200-225°C.

 

Mix your flour, oats/spelt flakes and sugar in a medium sized bowl.

Dice your butter and pinch together with your flour mixture until crumbley.

Add your syrup and mix in.

 

De-core your apples and either dice or slice the way you want them.

Put them in a freezer bag and pour in your cinnamon and shake about until the apples are evenly covered.

 

Butter your pie dish and add your apples.

Add more cinnamon if you wish and sprinkle a little sugar over too.

Cover your apples with the crumble mixture.

 

Bake in your oven for 20 minuter or until golden brown.

Serve with ice cream, cream, custard or marsán sauce.

 

YUMMY!

 

I've been craving salmon for ages and just haven't had the energy to cook it although it's the easiest thing ever to cook. I tried something new tonight - frying and not baking it in the oven and it was a success!

 

Ingredients (2 portions):
2 pieces of salmon
1 yellow onion
Salt, lemon pepper
Juice from 1 small lemon (preferably fresh)

 

Couscous (mine is cooked: 2dl couscous into 2dl boiling water + 1 vegetable stock cube + salt - take off heat and let stand until done).

Any salad you wish to go with it.

 

How to:
Heat pan up on over medium high heat.

Melt butter and add onions.

Add your fish and season with salt and lemon pepper, squeeze lemon juice over the fillets.

After approx. 4 minuter, turn them over and season the same way.

Fry for another 4-5 minutes and take off the heat.

 

Serve with your couscous and salad immediatley!

I've not quite mastered these Swedish meatballs. Mum is British and she makes some kick-ass ones. I usually have mustard in mine but I didn't have any at home yesterday so I had to do without.

 

450g mince (I only use beef)

1 yellow onion

3-4 tblsp bread crumbs

Salt, pepper

 

Grate your onion finely.

Mix with all the other ingredients.

Roll your meatballs.

Fry in butter on medium high heat (7/8-9 on mine) until golden brown.

 

 

Lovely with potatoes, on sandwiches, with macaroni or just as they are!

I've not quite mastered these Swedish meatballs. Mum is British and she makes some kick-ass ones. I usually have mustard in mine but I didn't have any at home yesterday so I had to do without.

 

450g mince (I only use beef)

1 yellow onion

3-4 tblsp bread crumbs

Salt, pepper

 

Grate your onion finely.

Mix with all the other ingredients.

Roll your meatballs.

Fry in butter on medium high heat (7/8-9 on mine) until golden brown.

 

 

Lovely with potatoes, on sandwiches, with macaroni or just as they are!

I've not quite mastered these Swedish meatballs. Mum is British and she makes some kick-ass ones. I usually have mustard in mine but I didn't have any at home yesterday so I had to do without.

Recipe will be up tomorrow!

So, here it goes. My absolute favourite food in the world. A good few years ago my aunt found this recipe and showed it to my mum. I used to hate it and refused to eat it for ages. I tried it one night and have been hooked since. This food includes planning and preperation but all in all, it's pretty simple!

Ingredients (1-2 people):
450g Alaska pollock (in blocks)
2 tblsp fish sauce
2 chilis (I buy mine from a local Chinese shop that sell genuine ingredients. They're HOT and very small)
2 cloves of garlic
10 lime leaves (1 leaf is like the picture below)
1,5dl cilantro coriander (preferably from a shop that sell the cilantro kind because it has more taste than the one from e.g. ICA)
100g green beans/haricot verts
1-2 eggs depending on size
25g flour (you may need more)

Oil to cook in (Approx. 2cm deep in a pan)
Sweet chili sauce to serve with.

(Just double, triple (and so on) the recipe to cook for more people;
for the best result, make the mixture the day before and keep in the fridge so the flavours come together).


How to:

Number 1: Take you fish out and let it defrost.
Number 2: If your haricot verts are frozen, take them out to defrost too.

I keep my lime leaves in the freezer. Take out 10 and cut out the stalk out like the picture shows.
When you've done that, chop the leaves finely (otherwise they're a bit chewy).
Put into a bowl.


I keep my chilis in the freezer too. Take out two and if you have plastic gloves, use them, they really are hot.
De-seed them and chop as finely as you can and add to your lime leaves.


When your haricot verts have defrosted, squeeze out all of the water and chop into smal pieces.
Add to your chili and lime leaves.


Chop your coriander finely and add to the ingredients above.
Crush your garlic into the bowl too, and mix around.

When your fish has defrosted, squeeze out all of the water.
You can either use a food processer to mix everything together but I prefer to pull the fish into smaller pieces to make it meatier.
Put your fish in a big bowl or saucepan and add your green mixture, your fish sauce, the eggs and mix together with your hands.
Add the flour as you go.
You want the mixture to be sticky enough to make small cakes, like the picture below.


Heat about 2cm of oil in a pan (9/9 on my stove); to check when the oil is hot enough, drop a piece of bread in the oil and when it floats up sizzling - get frying!
Put your fish cakes in the oil and fry until golden and cripsy on both sides.
Let them drip off on some kitchen paper and serve straight away with sweet chili sauce.

 

ENJOY!

At the moment I'm watching Master chef USA and am amazed by one of the contestants. Her name is Christine and she's blind. To quote Gordon Ramsey: "You cook like a frickin' angel every single time". Imagine that, huh? She probably has a more sensitive taste but when she had to cook, pick and make something out of a an alive - that's impressive.

 

Lunchen slutade i ett katastrofmisslyckande så då fick det bli knäckemackor med prickigkorv och ost. Inte fy skam det heller!

Efter ett träningspass är det alltid gott med ett rejält mål mat men när det är på kvällen föredrar jag något som inte är så tungt. Tacosallad är då perfekt! Gjorde min guacamole till med 1 avocado mosad med några skedar creme fraiché, en skvätt citronsaft, 1 vitlöksklyfta, och några nypor salladskrydda och örtsalt. 

I knew I'd wake up with the same toothache I went to bed with so I'd made up my mind to cook a cracking breakfast. I made myself a mug of black coffee and whipped together these beauties. I barely need to chew them because they're so fluffy!

 

5dl flour (atleast half should be plain flour)

2-4 tsp baking powder depending on the altitude where you're cooking; I used 2.

1 tsp salt

4 tbsp sugar - I used half ordinary sugar and half vanilla sugar

2 eggs

3dl milk

4 tbsp butter

 

Mix your dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

Melt your butter.

Whisk your eggs in a seperate bowl.

Add your milk.

Add your melted butter and mix the all the wet ingredients together.

Pour into your flour mixture and use a fork to mix together.

 

Heat a pan on medium heat and fry your pancakes in butter.

About 1/2dl of mixture or the size of your liking.

When bubbles appear on the surface, turn them and fry till golden.

 

Siv vanilla sugar over your pancakes and serve with syrup, berries, ice cream, or whatever you prefer.

Enjoy!

One of the best things I know is cooking after having a bad day. It's therapy to me. And it's comforting knowing that even if you've had a shit day where nothing has gone your way, when you come home and enter your kitchen a cup of tea is always a good idea. The fact that tacos, any kind of potatoes, a smoothie, brie and salami, spinach and bacon, a ceasar sallad or egg and kaviar are just heaven, it's nice to know that some things don't change. 

I have been craving mum's dumplings for weeks now and I only got round to making them this morning. They didn't turn out as well as hers shape-wise but they still tasted great. It's as simple as mixing flour, cold milk, a little bit of baking powder and a pinch of salt to a dough and frying them on "low-ish" heat in oil. 

 

With this I had my favourite sides - baked beans with a few drops of hot pepper sauce, fried potatoes and HP sauce, and fried bacon and spinach. So, so good.

 

Ingredients for your dumplings:
2 cups of flour (I used 2-2,5dl)

1 cup of milk (1 dl)

2 teaspoons of baking powder

A pinch of salt

 

Mix together with a fork as it's quite a sticky dough.

Add extra flour if you need to - it's not to be too sticky.

Roll into balls the sizes about 1,5x a golf ball.

Fry in oil on medium heat in a regular frying pan until brown all round.

(Mum, if I need to be corrected here, please comment how, haha.)

Serve straight away and half them and spread butter on like you would with any other bread.

 

Enjoy!

 

P.S

I hate the pain growing wisdom teeth bring. I'd rather be less wise than endure this pain. Therefore I am eating Alvedon, Ipren and Paracetemol to keep me from crying like a little baby.

Så enkelt och så gott till kvällsmat häromdagen.Stekte kycklingen i lite olja och kryddade med salt, peppermix och lite paprikapulver. I salladen hade jag ruccola, bladspenat, fetaost, gurka, tomat, rödlök, avocado, jalapeño och oliver. Pressade lite citronsaft över det hela och avslutade med att ringla lite balsamico över. Så.jävla.gott.