3 July 2019

In My Kitchen in July

I've returned back to Copenhagen from my holiday in Finland, but I'm still on holiday this week. I'll try to make another post about the holiday, but first this post that is full of food items that I either tried on the holiday or brought back here. There were again so many new veggie products that it was almost impossible to try them all, but I have a nice selection here to show some things to you.

We found beers from this fairly local brewery, Keppo Bryggeri, who brew organic craft beers, and above all have a cute hedgehog logo! We had to buy a few bottles, and the quality is great indeed.




There is a lot going on in this picture with further Finnish products: blueberry-vanilla chocolates, chocolates with jelly filling, cheese, broad bean strips, organic beer, dired pea crush, oat block, blueberry-pomegranate water, veggie sticks, more chocolates, salty liquorice sticks, oat crackers, oat mince and dried broad bean crush. This photo features most products I brough back, but not all. I think we have something to eat for a while.


From that collection I would especially like to mention these three new products, which were excellent: Beanit broad bean strips, Muru oat mince and Yosa oat blocks. They all had excellent textures and are made from local produce. I think that making a tofu type of block from oats is quite inspirational. It tasted great, and had a very firm texture. It's much better than tofu I would say (and I actually like tofu too). The Beanit strips are so versatile to use, and there are three flavours: basic, gentle lemon and garlic-herbs. In the below burritos I used the basic one, and it was so tasty with a kidney bean, rice, romain pepper and chipotle mix. I have yet to try the lemon one, but the other two I have tried, and they are excellent. Any ideas for the lemon variation? Maybe a curry or noodle bowl?




While in Finland, we sampled some further beers and ciders. The cloudberry saison and the dry ciders were great.



Here are a few kitchen things I bought for myself, a berry teatowel, a dishcloth with old houses and barns and of course a new Moomin mug with the Groke.


In Finland we mainly ate new potatoes that are so flavourful this time of the year. Then we had a couple of veggie barbecues, and I made a strawberry cake and simple vegetable tarts for Midsummer. 








I cooked this Lebanese rice and golden Thai curry here at home. Both are my go-to-dishes that I cook quite often. They are so economical and tasty. 



I got this huge tapas board as a summer present from work. It is too big to be used as a chopping board in my kitchen, so I will have to make some veggie tapas display with it, I guess. 


I'm sharing this post as usual with Sherry from Sherry's Pickings. She is hosting the In My Kitchen blogging event.


Have further a great week!

Your VegHog

17 comments:

  1. Your staged photos are great ... I like the map as a background for food, also the food in a tree.

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. The map is actually a napkin with a printed map of a close by archipelago. I haven't gone so far yet putting food on actual maps. :)

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  2. I love IMK posts that involve purchases from holidays - welcome back by the way and look forward to seeing some pictures from Finland. That is one mighty chopping board, wise to use it for tapas!

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    1. I have just posted some more holiday photos, nothing food related anymore though. That tapas board was a bit too massive, bit I'm sure I'll find some use for it.

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  3. hi veghog
    thanks for joining us in IMK land. that board looks amazing but so big. I have a similarly huge one that i just don't use as too big. love the look of your tomato tarts - so pretty. And i am very envious of your moomin mug; so very cute! and i am a big fan of hedgehogs even though we have echidnas here which are similar but not the same! have a great month. cheers sherry

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    1. Thanks Sherry. I always have to get a new Moomin mug even though I don't have much space for them anymore.

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  4. The beers and ciders would have been top of my list as well. And I would have chosen the salty liquorice sticks to bring home for sure :)

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    1. They were all very good, and not even all have been consumed yet. :)

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  5. Cute hedgehog beer labels and so much great holiday purchase - I am worried you wouldn't have room for anything else in your case. Oat tofu sounds very interesting - I wonder if they do the curds and whey with oat milk like they do with soy milk to make tofu. So much interesting food and so many delicious meals - I particularly like the look of the vegetable tarts - so pretty with those flowers. And am intigued by cloudberry - sounds like a cartoon drink to me because it is so unusual and such a great name.

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    1. To be honest I didn't have much stuff with me, just some light summer clothing, so it was easy to fit all the food. The oat block doesn't contain soy, just oats, water and pea protein and perhaps a couple of other things, but at least it's soy free, which is nice.

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  6. I love curry! Very pretty photos, Foods I’ve never seen before. That’s why I love the In My Kitchen event

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    1. I love curry too, it's often on the menu. Thank you for stopping by!

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  7. Loved your outdoor photos and summery food -- your vegetable tarts and strawberry cake look wonderful. (All the rest, too!) Neat coincidence finding hedgehog themed beer. :) As late as this comment is (I just got back from vacation, too) I have to echo everyone else's: How DO you manage to haul all that home? (thanks for your answer above) and WOW, what a tapas board!

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    1. Thank you so much Kim! :) To be honest, my partner has to carry most of the stuff back, but he's happy to do it...

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  8. This time last year we were in Finland. A lovely time but not set up for heatwaves! We had a great time looking in the supermarket and brought home lots of liquorice products. I also encountered Karelian Pies for the first time (and think I might have mentioned that to you previously). Your vegetable galettes look lovely and summery. Thanks for a taste of the very north.

    http://www.tiffinbitesized.com.au/2019/07/01/in-my-kitchen-july-2019/

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