We recently got our first slow cooker and are already in love! It is amazing how easy it is to make a healthy hearty meal for the whole family with very little prep work. We love to eat short ribs and have made them before in the oven in a pot, but it is a little bit different using the slow cooker, and the result is tender, fall of the bone, pieces of beef that melts in your mouth. What’s…
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Tomato and Zucchini Frittata
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…
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,…
An easy dinner recipe is pie, and once you get the basics down, you can experiment with the fillings! So here is how to make the piecrust, we use a mix of rye and wheat flour, but you can use all kinds of flour, what ever your preference is. Ingredients: 100 g (3/4 cup) rye flour 120 g (1 cup) wheat flour 1 dl (2/5 cup) water 1/2 dl (1/5 cup) coconut oil 1 teaspoon fine salt Directions: In a…