We make this frittata often as it is very simple and you can vary the ingredients depending on what you have on hand. Sometimes we make it with mushrooms and different colour peppers, and we also do a mix of different cheeses depending on what we like on that particular day. Ingredients: 5 eggs (1 ½ cup) grated cheese (pick your favourite) (1/4 cup) milk (1/4 cup) flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 250 g cottage cheese 3…
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Liver Pâté with Thyme and Orange
In Ayoe’s family it is tradition to eat liver pâté around Christmas time (and also some other times a year). We make it either from lamb or pig liver, or do a mix of both. In this recipe we use pig liver, but you can substitute as you like. If you have an aversion for liver, stay calm, take a breath and try this recipe anyways. It is not like fried liver and with the many options for adding different…
Spinach and Mushroom Frittata
Summertime means easy access to fresh produce and this year we have our own kitchen garden with lots of veggies to use in our cooking. We have spinach and kale which are pretty easy to grow, as well as onions of various kinds, strawberries, peas, potatoes and a bunch of herbs and spices. This frittata has fresh spinach straight from the garden, it doesn’t get any better than that. You can use a variety of meats or none at all,…
Cooking Class a` la Carte
What an amazing evening! I spent my Tuesday evening in the company of 20 children and their parents cooking a three course meal from the cookbook Cozy Cooking. I had picked out three dishes that are easy to make for anyone despite their previous cooking skills, recipes that can be served as an every day meal or for special occasions, especially the salad and dessert. The menu was: Pizza with various toppings that only the participants imagination set the limit…
Spaghetti Squash with Chicken, Mushrooms and Spinach
My parents grow lots of vegetables in their garden. A few weeks ago they gave Ayoe and I a spaghetti squash when they dropped by for a visit. Neither of us knew what to do with this alien vegetable so it has been sitting on our kitchen table for a while. Tonight was my turn to cook dinner (Ayoe and I share cooking duty) so I decided to give the spaghetti squash a try. Since I had no clue what…