Semolina pudding

For me semolina pudding or semolina porridge is a normal lunch dish but most of the people think it as dessert. The way I eat semolina pudding is usually with vanilla ice cream and raspberry jam. I know - a wierd sweet lunch :)

1 l milk
1 1/4 dl of semolina
sugar

Carefully cook the milk into boiling but do not let it burn to the casserole. Add the semolina and now cook on very low fire around 20 minutes. Remember to stir also the bottom of the casserole so that the porridge does not burn.

Taste with sugar. As I earlier told I serve this dish to myself with vanilla ice cream and raspberry jam.

Jansson's temptation

I know Christmas time has gone already but here is the recipe for a typical Swedish dish called Janssons frestelse (Jansson’s temptation). The recipe is pretty simple and includes potatoes and anchovies in cream.

You can serve Jansson's temptation with small
sausages :)

1 kg potatoes

2 onions

2-3 dl cream

200 g anchovies

Bread crumbs

Butter

Slice the potatoes into thin long slices (kind of like French fries). After slicing, do not was the potatoes because the starch coming out from the potatoes is needed in this dish giving it its creamy texture. Slice the onion into small pieces. Oil the oven pan with small amount of oil so that the potatoes don’t burn to the vessel. Add the sliced potatoes and onions to the oven pan and mix well together.

Slice the anchovies in small pieces and mix together with potatoes and onion. Make sure all the anchovies are covered with potatoes and that they are not showing on the surface. Pour the liquid from the anchovies all over the potatoes and after that pour the cream on top of it.

Cover with bread crumbs and add 3-4 slices of butter on top.

Cook it in the oven for about an hour in 200 ˚C.

Add the butter on top of bread crumps and cook for 1 hour.

Berry pie

Serve with vanilla sauce.

This recipe I found more than 15 years ago from some magazine. I guess the secret of this pie is in sugar, cream and butter :D

150 g butter

3 dl sugar

6 dl flour

2 eggs

2-3 dl cream

2 tsp baking powder

Berries

Melt the butter and mix the sugar and flour with it. Take 2 dl of dough on side.

Add the cream, eggs and baking powder to bigger amount of dough and stir well.

Take 2 dl of the dough on the side.

Pour the dough on oven pan and add your favorite berries on it. Here I used cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, boysenberries and redcurrant. On my opinion the pie tastes better when you mix sweet and sour berries. On top sprinkle the 2 dl of dough you put on the side earlier.

Cook for 20 minutes in 225 ˚C.

Sauteed reindeer

Maybe a sensitive topic to write about reindeer dishes so close to Christmas but the fact is that some countries do eat this animal. And the meat tastes good :)

Sauteed reindeer:
400 g thinly sliced reindeer meat
salt
pepper

Cranberry sauce:
3 dl cranberries
3 dl water
1 tbsp sugar
1 clove of garlic
salt
pepper

Cook the reindeer meat on a frying pan  in butter. Taste with salt and pepper.

Place the meat on side while making the sauce. Slice the garlic and lightly cook it on the same pan where you cooked the meat. Add the cranberries, water, salt, pepper and sugar. If you want you can replace 2 dl of the water with red wine. Let the sauce cook until 1/3 of the water has evaporated. Mix with a hand mixer.

Serve with mashed potates. Hint: use sliced onion in the mashed potatoes to get more taste.

Quark with berries

Quark is somewhat similar to fresh cheese dairy product known as "rahka" in Finnish. Taste is somewhat sour and quark suits perfectly to desserts.

3 dl quark
3 dl cream
blueberries, raspberries, boysenberries etc.
0,5 dl sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar

Whip the cream and mix the quark, sugar and vanilla sugar. Add the fresh berries carefully to the foam.

For healthier version leave the cream out and use less sugar. The taste will be less sweet in that case too.

Haddock in creamy red curry

Instead of haddock you can try any other white fish like
cod or similar.

400 g haddock
8 scampi
2 dl cream
2 dl coconut milk
1 ts red curry
1 red pepper
1 leek
1 cube of fish buillon
1/2 chili pepper

Cut the fish in small pieces. Add salt on the pieces. Cut the leek and red pepper in small pieces and cook them for couple of minutes in oil. Do not let them go brown.

After cooking lightly the vegetables add cream and
fish bouillon.

Add the cream and fish buillon and let it cook for half a minute. Add the coconut and red curry, mix well. Let it come into a boil. Add the haddock, scampi and chili and let them cook slowly for 10 minutes. Do not let them boil in this point. The heat of the stew will cook the fish and scampi.

Serve with rice.

Bon app!

Blueberry pie

This pie is rather easy to cook. I was surprised that it was not that sweet with all that sugar. Instead of yogurt you can also try sour cream.

200 Celsius degrees for 30 minutes.

Base
1 egg
1 dl sugar
2,5 dl flour
1 ts baking powder

Filling
Blueberries
2 dl greek yogurt
0,5 dl sugar
1 ts vanilla sugar
1 egg

Set the oven to 200 Celsius degrees. Mix the sugar and butter. Add the flour, baking powder and egg. Mix well and place it on the oven casserole.

Pour the blurberries on top of the dough.

Pour the blueberries on the base and pour the yogurt mix on top. Cook the pie in the oven about 30 minutes.

Pour the yogurt mix on top of bluberries.