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Romanian Meatball Soup (Ciorba de Perisoare)

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Week 49 – 2020 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. I grew up in Romania, in the region of Transylvania, in a small village with no restaurant or food delivery services. Buying ready meals was not popular at all in the area. And in all honesty, is not popular today either. Everyone cooks at home and I grew up on home-made food, which I crave now from time to time. With Christmas coming, and me not able to see all my family this year, I need to bring some childhood home smells and tastes into my own home. Today I decided to make sour soup after one of my mum’s and aunt’s recipes. They have been sharing recipes for so many years and I grew up eating food cooked by both of them so it’ hard to separate. For me, all the Romanian recipes I have come from both. They are family recipes! Sour soups are very popular in Romania so I will share more with you in …

Swedish Saffron Buns (Lussebullar)

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Week 48 – 2020 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. Sunday blues are even more real in lockdown, in late November. Friends and family are far away and the overcast skies make it seem like it’s always 4pm on a winter day. Now more than ever it’s time to bring warm light and winter smells into the flat! In Sweden the Lussebullar are eaten throughout the Advent. The first Sunday of Advent is today, so we lit the first advent candle and started baking! We found a recipe online and we adapted it a little bit to what we had in the home so I am going to share it here. The recipe will yield around 30 buns. Ingredients Dough: 3 x 8g dry yeast sachets 6dl milk 2 sachets of saffron 150g butter 2 dl sugar 1 egg 1/2 teaspoons salt 16 dl wheat flour For spreading on top and garnishing: 1 egg sultanas Method: Add the yeast and saffron to a bowl, with the melted butter and the milk warmed to the …

Homemade Basil Pesto

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If you like pesto why not try to do your own at home, since it takes around 15 min and it goes great with pizza, pasta and salads. Here is a classic recipe with basil, pine nuts, Parmesan and garlic. This recipe will yield 4 portions of pesto. Ingredients 2 bunches / 2 cups of basil leaves 1/2 dl pine nuts 1 1/2 dl olive oil 1 grated garlic clove 1 dl grated parmesan cheese 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper Directions Put all the ingredients together in a blender and mix them! That’s it! I have seen recipes where you mix all the ingredients with the exception of oil first but I mixed everything at once and it went all. The pesto has a great consistency. Tips I got this tip from a family friend so I thought I would share it here. In order to keep pesto for longer you can freeze it, and you can use ice cubes containers so that you can easily defrost small quantities when you need it. I …

Lingonberry Jam

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There are a few types of lingonberry jam: light jam, dark jam, jelly – made only of juices and raw jam. This recipe is for the light jam which takes only 15 minutes to cook. Ingredients 2 kg lingonberries (aprox. 3 litres) 3-4 dl water 1/2 kg sugar Directions Clean and wash the berries. Put them into a pot with water. Heat them up slowly and let them simmer for 15 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and then add the sugar. Stir slowly from time to time until the sugar blends into the jam. Skim the foam and pour the pot content into pre-warmed jars. Enjoy!

Pickled Cucumbers and Green Tomatoes

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For preserving a 1 litre jar of cucumbers or green tomatoes you need about 1/2 litre of salt water, so I am going to write the ingredients that you need for that. The quantity of cucumbers or tomatoes really depends on the size. You don’t actually need that much and is very simple to do. It takes about 3 weeks for the pickles to be done, but if you put them somewhere in the sun it takes even less, about 2 weeks. Ingredients cucumbers/green tomatoes (to fit in a 1 litre jar) 1/2 litre water 30g salt 1 teaspoon black peppercorns 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar 1 bayleaf 1 garlic clove 1 teaspoon dry thyme 1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon sugar a few slices of horseradish root Directions Boil the water with the salt and the bayleaf and let it cool down. In the meantime, put the cucumbers or the tomatoes in the jar and add all the other ingredients. One important thing to do here, if you pickle tomatoes, pierce them a few …