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
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!
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Thank you Mae! Chocolate milk milking cows are the best!
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ReplyDeletethanks 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
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. :)
DeleteYour 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.
ReplyDeleteThat's a cheese-onion-potato mash filling. I still have to start a bit lighter eating until Christmas, I think.
DeleteLots 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!
ReplyDeleteYeah 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.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately 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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