9 November 2019

In My Kitchen in November

November has arrived to my kitchen with many comforting dishes to be cooked and mulled wine to be heated. I've actually put up some seasonal lights already, as November is very dark here in Scandinavia and those lights cheer me up. Now let's have a look at some of the new things and cookings in my kitchen.

We went on a lovely little city break and cruise to Norway's capital Oslo. I just love that city, even though it was quite a rainy weather while we were there. I added some photos from that trip below, and also our food haul. I had to get my favourite chocolate milk from Litago with that cute cow artwork. We also bought FISK, a drink made from a blend of eucalyptus, menthol, liquorice and vodka, Finnish chocolates with salty liquorice candy, Fisherman's Friends and Kinder Bueno chocolates. When in the north, there will have to be a liquorice theme, we are crazy about that stuff.











Now to some further shoppings at home in Copenhagen. The colour of Innocent's Blue Spark juice containing apple, guava, lime, coconut water, spirulina and vitamins, really caught my eye and it's actually very tasty. My partner said that it looks like the water that you get when you clean paint brushes, but he also liked the taste. 
 

I bought some excellent Mexican products: Mexican oregano, refried black beans and hot habanero sauce. I've been using the dried Mexican oregano for quite a while now, and it has nice and intense oregano flavour. I was first suspicious of those refried black beans, but they taste so nice, are cheap and make an excellent quick weekday meal with for example tortillas or nachos. Here is depicted my partner's refried beans and cheese wrapped in a carrot tortilla. That hot habanero sauce tastes so nice too and can be added to so many different dishes. I'm really happy with all these products and will keep buying them, as I often cook Mexican food.




I recently made these pasties and tomato tart with new ready made pastry. The triangle pasties were filled with cheese-onion-potato mash filling and the rectangular ones had a rice, carrot and pea protein filling. 
 









Here's also a comforting pasta bake with bell pepper, tomato sauce and cheese.




Sherry from Sherry's Pickings is hosting the In My Kitchen event again, so I'm sharing this post with her. Go and have a look at her blog.


Have a great weekend everyone!

Your VegHog

10 comments:

  1. Your photo series on how to make different shapes of filled pastry is really neat. They all look very delicious. And I love those cartoon cows that evidently give chocolate milk!

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you Mae! Chocolate milk milking cows are the best!

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  2. hi veg hog
    thanks so much for joining us at IMK. i love the cows on the milk cartons- so cute. mmm Fisk sounds a bit too much like medicine to me:-) all those weird flavours together... love your pasties too. We have fisherman's friend here in australia too but it is only meant for when you have a bad cold! i mean it is actual medicine. Do you eat them regularly, like lollies? cheers sherry

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    1. I love salty liquorice, it's just so normal in my country, but foreigners are usually shocked by it, haha. It's not really considered medicine, or maybe that's what keeps me healthy. :)

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  3. Your kitchen is full of comfort food indeed, pastry, pasta and bakes. Whats the filling in the first pastry?. I have yet to try Innocent's Blue Spark juice. I do like Mexican oregano its very dif. to ordinary oregano.

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    1. That's a cheese-onion-potato mash filling. I still have to start a bit lighter eating until Christmas, I think.

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  4. Lots of nice meals here - I love the sound of the blue spark juice (what a great name) - and what great cows on the chocolate milk. And pastry and festive lights sound like a great way to enjoy some wintery gloom!

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    1. Yeah I don't normally buy Innocent juices, but had to get this one and actually they had another in the series, a really refreshing one with mandarins, ginger, carrot etc.

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  5. I love all those stuffed pastries, they seem perfect for the cooling weather. I must agree that the juice sounds a bit too much like medicine. We are thinking of a trip in Scandinavia next autumn, do you have a favorite local tour group or travel agency? It's a bit difficult to do all the research from stateside.

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    1. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with Scandinavian travel agencies, as I grew up in the Nordics, so I tend to plan my trips myself. You could start here: https://visit-scandinavia.net/

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