FOODSPIRATION

Hi!

Sometimes we all face one of those days when your "fridge is empty and there's nothing to eat" and "I'm too lazy (or poor)  to and buy some groceries". Don't worry! I have them too. Actually I have one right now.

Did you know that your larder and spice rack are actually full of treasures?

I decided to go and give my larders a try and let the laziness win!

Let's do the oh-so-familiar step by step list:

1. Go to your fridge and take out anything that can be eaten.

2. Also go through your flour cabinet, larder, freezer, booze shelf..

3. Let your imagination fly!

Easy, right?

I could help you by telling what I managed to make, and what you most likely will be able to cook:

Inspiring Veggie burgers:

 I digged up a little and happened to find:

- Snack carrots
- Red lenses
- Onion
- Eggs
- Parmaggio
- Breadcrumbs
- Lemon
- Chili
- Salt
- Pepper
- Lettuce
- Bread
- Sesame seeds

I'd write you a recipe but it's really hard to rememeber how much of everything I used:D
But with a basic Veggie steak recipe it should be just fine.

The other recipe I tried on Monday was this:

Basil (fresh or dryed!)
Olive oil
Salt
Parmaggio
Pasta
Peanut crumble

That's it!
Just boil the pasta and mix other ingredients! D-licious!

There you go! Remember that sky is the ony limit when it comes to cooking. Sometimes you may fail but at least you'll learn something for the next time!

Tried doing this?

Comment and tell us!

If you didn't comment anyway! Just tell me how hard your life is!

WL

Momo

P.s Next up: Bakinspiration
What would it be? Microcakes?

CHERRYCHOCOCOOKIENOM

Hello!

Yesterday we went to shop to buy some groceries and begun to wonder what we should be eating tonight. We went through mozzarella salads, tortillas and all the other foods you can think of until we noticed the skewers at the fresh counter. We decided to start our grilling season with these awesomely delicious skewers!

For a dessert we wanted to have something sweet! As Ben&Jerry's is so freaking expensive we decided to come up with something similar. At the end of this post, we have a recipe for self made Ben&Jerry's alike!

At first, warm up your grills 'cause here comes the recipe for:

Bananas overdelicious skewers:

alias halloumi-cherry tomato-mushroom skewers with cream cheese filling

Ingredients:

a box (ca. 200g?) of cherry tomatoes

a box (ca 200g too?) of mushrooms (not those huge ones!)

150g of Halloumi cheese

100g of cream cheese (we used herb flavoured but use anything you like!)

Olive oil

Pepper

Skewer sticks

1. Take the spindles out of the tomatoes and pull your finger in so the contents will come off (yes, this seems awkward but actually is the only working way!

Also take the feet off from your mushrooms by twisting and pulling at the same time.

2. Fill the tomatoes and mushrooms with cream cheese. An ordinary food knife will work the best.

3. Chop the halloumi into 2cm square pieces

4. Make the skewers. (You know how to do this, right?)

5. Brush the skewers with olive oil and sprinkle some black pepper on them.

6. Grill for about 5 minutes or until the mushrooms are fully done.

7. Enjoy with Frisé salad seasoned with balsamico, olive oil and black pepper

These were so good that we almost fell from our knees while eating them! Flavor harmony - perfect!

And now, if you're dieting, it's time to stop reading.

Because....

The next recipe is:

Cherry-Chocolate- Cookie Icecream

Ingredients:

1 liter of Vanilla ice cream (just buy the cheapest one!)

100g of (cherry) jam filled cookies with chocolate on top of them (Jaffa cookies in Finland)

7 cocktail cherries

1 tsp cherry liquid (the water inside the cherry can)

Looking so good!

1. Put all the ingredients on bowl

2. Ram them with blender

3. Put into fridge for 20 minutes or so

4. Make into cute servings:

Or just be lazy and eat straight from th bowl...(we..didn't.)

This was good.

Too good.

I want more.

I guess that was it!

I will continue my food travelling series shortly!

Yours icereamfully,

Momo

P.s Poke will spend next week in Amsterdam so I will most likely be making some boring updates 'cause I'm bored. Sorry in advance.

GOT ANY....GRAPES?

Hello!!!

Today is time to cook something VERY special!

it's called....

GRAPE-ORANGE-CHICKEN!!

now you can wipe that WHAT THE FRED-face from your face and keep on reading!

I admit, it seemed like a crazy idea when I read the recipe for the first time but the outcome was DELICIOUS!!!

now, let's see what do we need!

Ingredients:

a. 1 kg of chicken breast

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

4-5 garlic gloves

2 tsp provence mix

juice of one orange

1 tbsp chicken fond

2 sliced oranges

200 g grapes (sounds weird...I know but the taste is wonderful!)

1 dl of kalamata-olives/black olives

1. Put the chicken breast to the pan

2. Brush with olive oil, season with salt, garlic and provence mix

3. Chop the oranges and separate the pulp from the skin, cut the grapes and olives into halves.

4. Cook chicken breast in 200*C for about 30 min

5. Add the fruits'n'stuff and cook from 10-20 minutes

6. EAT

Anyway, this is how it should look like...

This is it!

WL:

Poke (and Momo..grammar nazi)

BUN BUN BUN BUN

HUOMENTA!!![fi-en translation: morning!!]

So! Poke is back!

I'm very glad to announce that my cooky cookery book is now ready!!!

Maybe you will see a sneak peak someday, other day! maybe neverday! genious.

Today we won't continue our food trip (or momo's food trip...) but it'll continue shortly when easter holidays are over and momo is bored to hell again.

I haven't been active with this blog, so I decided to update with BUN RECIPE!!(momo didn't force me to do this...too violently..)

Today is a sweet day!

Starting with bun!

Ingredients:

5 dl milk

50 g fresh yeast( or 2 sachets a 11g dry yeast)

1 tsp salt

1,5 dl sugar

1 egg

c. 13 dl wheat flour

150 g margarine

a lot of crushed cardamom

Brushing: egg

Topping: coarse sugar

I should probably confess that I almost word-to-word copied this recipe from ES wheat flour packet...but almost!!! I would never use so much flour! and there was no egg...so no copyright violation!

1.Mix the yeast with warm milk (exact warmth, 42°C)

You can measure it easily with food frobe! used for example measuring the ripeness of the meat!

Heating the milk is easy to do in a microwave! just make sure your container can take the heat....just sayin'

2.now when the yeast is completely dissolved in to the milk, add sugar, salt, cardamom and gradually start adding flour! Firstly, only 1,5 dl and then another 1,5 dl or 1 dl....get it?

3.You should stop adding flour instantly, when it no longer sticks to your hand, even if you still have a few desilitres of flour left! that's the secret of perfectly soft bun!!

4.Add the melted margarine! DO NOT ADD FLOUR!!1!11

yummyyyyyyyyy..wait no.

4. Now. Let it rise for about...one hour? when it's doubled it should be ok.

5.When you think it's huge enough to be baked, you can start forming it into small buns or slap in the face...I mean cinnamon rolls ( try to translate korvapuusti into english with google translator and see for yourself..)

You can also make bun girls and bun boys or a massive pullapitko which is basically bread made out of bun dough..like sweet bread?

like this...

Cinnamon rolls are made easily, just roll the dough into huge sheet, butter it with melted buttet, sprinkle a lot of sugar and cinnamon on it (more the better...) and simply roll it into....a roll

now cut it like this...

easy as dough.

OK, now when the folding is done, brush the buns slightly with beaten egg and decorate with coarse sugar!

Bake at 225°C for about 10-15 minutes!

ENJOY WITH FRESH MILK!!!!

It wasn't too hard was it?

With love:

Poke

PS. HAPPY EASTER!!