10 March 2018

In My Kitchen in March

Spring should be slowly coming, but it has been still snowing this week in Copenhagen. I do like the snow, but it would also be nice to have some warm and sunny spring days. I love it how some spring flowers are already trying to grow in the parks. I have also bought some lovely flowers for our home, like these Freesia and Muscari armeniacum, or the 'pearl hyacinth' as we used to call it, which is one of my all time favourite flower. It just cheers me up having flowers around.




Easter is also approaching fast at the end of this month, so I've already bought some nice Easter chocolates and beers. We will be spending Easter in Finland, so I hope that you'll allow me the early start. The squirrel was actually a Christmas present, but now it will become an Easter squirrel. We were in Finland also the last weekend, so I bought some Easter goodies there, like the real hen egg shells filled with solid chocolate and just some spring editions of my favourite chocolates. I also bought Kinder surprise, just in case we'll get some of those nice animal characters from them. The beer is an organic Danish Easter beer, and it's very good. I've already sampled it. Tuborg's Easter beer is also quite significant for my partner and me, as we often came to Copenhagen at Easter and then drank this beer, and now we live here! I just love that happy chick on the can.








More cans... I've had quite a few of these organic soft drinks lately. I don't know, but I've felt thirsty a lot, and then this kind of drinks are the best. They come at least in the cola, lemon and apple-ginger variations, and they are really nice and refreshing with cool can artwork as well. Apple-ginger was quite unusual for a soft drink, but it was very refreshing and nice tasting.


I recently cooked this dish of braised fennel with kalettes and garlic. I just adore fennel, and I served it with veggie balls and skin-on potato mash. The plateful doesn't look the greatest, but boy was it tasty!



We often drink healthy shots in the morning, mostly apple-ginger ones, but I like to sample other flavours, and these ginger and aronia (aka chokeberry) shots were great. My mum has a chokeberry bush in her garden. Perhaps I should make some fresh shots in the summer.


I bought some dried Yin Yang beans. They look great. I'm sure they will add their goodness to many dishes. Has anyone tried them? How are they?


I just couldn't resist this cute wholegrain animal pasta. I made a simple tomato and lentil soup and added this pasta to it. 
 


Here is yet another Astrid och Aporna product, a festive veggie sausage, which my partner thinks very highly of, but I haven't been brave enough to taste it yet. Maybe soon...


This was a quick overview of what's been happening in my kitchen, and as always, I'm sharing this post with Sherry from Sherry's Pickings, as she is hosting the In My Kitchen event.


Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Your VegHog

10 comments:

  1. So many fantastic things in your kitchen. I adore the squirrel chocolate and I so want to try those ying yang beans, but i have not seen them in the UK. As for those cans, I picked up some when I was overseas from Beligum in Oxfam see here https://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/zaytoun-in-my-kitchen.html

    I don't understand why they are not being sold in the UK. and finally, your braised fennel with kalettes and garlic looks really delicious. Stay Warm. PS i am hoping to get my IMK post up today, blogging really has taken a back seat - but come next month, I will be a bit more settled.

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    1. Ihaven't seen those beans before either, but good to know that the lemonade cans are more widely spread. I saw them here for the first time. I hope that you'll have more blogging time soon. It has been the same for me, life's been very busy.

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  2. Your cooking looks delicious. I love fennel, will have to make some one of these days. The Easter Beer sounds pretty exotic. Microbreweries here (Michigan) may make it, but I haven't seen it.

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you Mae! I agree about fennel, you should try this sort of slowly braised version, it's nice. Easter beers have been around in Europe for quite a while, but I'm not sure what it looks like globally. Maybe you're right that some microbreweries in your area might make some. Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. hi veghog

    oh that fennel looks so delicious. and i love your Easter squirrel. cute animal pasta. and what about those soft drink labels? very arty. the smell of freesias is so delightful. we used to have them growing in the garden. so pretty. thanks heaps for joining in this month. cheers sherry x

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    1. Thank you Sherry! It was nice to take part once again, and can't wait to have more spring flowers.

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  4. Fantastic food and other things in your kitchen, I love the animals pasta xx

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    1. Thanks Laura! That pasta also cheers me up.

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  5. Busy times in your kitchen - we have had enough hot weather to put me off buying easter chocolate as I worry it will melt - but your squirell is quite cute. I love your soft drink cans and your pasta. The vegie sausage would be really interesting to try - cute packaging

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    1. Oh that's too bad, if it's so hot that chocolate will melt! I try not to get too much more Easter chocolates either, I should now have enough.

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