It's high time I got back into the swing of things. Months have passed and I've made only two mediocre updates. I haven't even been cooking or baking that much, but that's changing starting from now! Christmas is coming, and before that in just a week from now it's my birthday. The perfect time of year to get busy and flex one's baking muscle! For today's post I have made a spiced plum cake after finding some cheap organic plums for just 5kr. They were from Sweden, and I have no idea how the...| Home Sweet Sweden
Sissi from Withaglass.com made a funny comment on my croquettes recipe the other day about how she felt it was a little worrying if she didn't see a recipe containing beetroot once in a while. That got me thinking - perhaps I post too many beetroot recipes, especially given the fact that nobody seems to like them. Then I shook that crazy feeling off and figured that no; it's everyone else who's wrong, and that beetroot surely is the epitome of good eating (well... almost) [...]| Home Sweet Sweden
The best potato croquettes I ever had were some gloriously creamy things with cheese and ham in the middle. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside – as a good croquette should be, with cheese oozing out from the centre when you separated them. They were made even better by the fact that the restaurant I was in was exceptionally nice. It was a very fancy-looking place in Tokyo during one of my visits there and the entire place was covered in black marble. The lighting was dim, the voices ...| Home Sweet Sweden
Yes, I am horribly late to the party, and I realise that these have been done a million ways before, up, down, and sideways, but I have a good excuse! I never once saw kale when I was living in France. After visiting a myriad markets, stores, and supermarkets I just gave up and assumed that, much like things like raw beetroot, kale would be one of those things that would "eventually" turn up. Give it a few more years and I'm sure it'll be everywhere, but sadly it didn't happen during my resid...| Home Sweet Sweden