Friday Night Dinner

My boyfriend went home to his parents today to help his father move. That means (except that I have to be alone in the appartement and I'm super scared of the dark) that I can eat stuff that he doesn't like. Like shrimps and avocado.

Pasta with Ham and Mushroom sauce

Serves 4

300 g/10 oz pasta

150 g/5 oz smoked ham

200 g/7 oz mushrooms

1 tablespoon butter/oil

2 ½ dl/1 cup single cream (matlagningsgrädde)

1 dl/3 fl oz chopped parsley

2 cloves of finley chopped garlic

½ teaspoon salt

a pinch of black pepper

(Maizena)

Optional add ins:

1 dl/3 fl oz grated cheese

1 chopped onioin, fried with the mushrooms

Boil the pasta according to the instructions. Cut the ham in shreds and the mushrooms in slices. Fry the mushroom in butter for about 3 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients. Let it all boil together for a few minutes. You might wanna add some Maizena or other thickenings to make it more sauce like. Pour the sauce over the cooked pasta stir and serve.

Super Simple Pea Soup

Serves 2

2 cups of frozen green peas
1 onion
1 clove of garlic
2 vegetable stock cubes
1 cup of boilingwater (approx.)
2 tablespoons of thick yoghurt
Salt and pepper to taste
Oil to saute in

Chop the onion and the garlic and saute it in oil in a pan. Add the green peas and the stock cubes. Remove from the heat. Pour boiling water over the peas until they are almost covered. Stir. Put everything in a blender or use a stand mixer and blend smooth. Add the yoghurt and salt and pepper to taste. Put on the heat again and let it be warm. Serve with bread.

Cool Stationary

Knock Knock

Have you seen this? I love it! Unfourtunatley, there's only one online store selling their stuff in Sweden, and only part of the selection.

Exam again...

I'm having another French exam tomorrow. I failed on the last one, but that doesn't really feel that bad. But this next one... It'll be bad if I fail that one too. We have to read an entire textbook and remember all the texts, stupid, stupid exam. I really hope it's gonna go well.

I will hopefully be back with another recipie update tomorrow when I've had the time to translate one. I'm also trying to find time to bake some bread.

Inglorious Basterds

Just got back from seeing Inglorious Basterds by Tarantino. No, no, NO!! Not a movie in my taste. Too much blood and icky stuff. But sure, the story itself had its points. And I finally have seen a whole Tarantino movie (I kind of had my eyes shut during half the movie when they showed the icky, but you can still say I've seen the whole film, right?).

Bean Burgers with Coleslaw and Avocado

Serves 4

1 onion

1 clove of garlic

1 tablespoon butter (for frying)

1 can of beans (400 g/14 oz) or 4 dl/13 fl oz home cooked beans

2 boiled potatoes

2 tablespoons of raspings

1 teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon chili powder

½ teaspoon salt

150 g/ 5 oz red cabbage

1 carrot

1 dl /3½ fl oz thick youghurt

1-2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

½ teaspoon salt

2 pinches black pepper

Raspings

Oil and butter for frying

Hamburger bread

Sallad

2 mashed avocados

1 tomato

1. Peel and chop the onion and the garlic. Saute them golden in butter.

2. Mix the beans with the onion and potatoes in a blender or with a hand blender.

3. Add raspings and cumin, chili powder and salt. Shred the cabbage. Put in a colander and pour some boiling water on it. Let it rinse.

4. Peel and grate the carrot roughly. Mix cabbage and carrot with youghurt, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Make burgers of the batter, 4 really large ones, or 8 smaller. Turn them in raspings. Fry in oil and butter, approximatley 5 minutes on each side. Serve with bread, coleslaw, mashed avocados and tomato in slices.

When I make this, I normaly need to add an egg into the batter, otherwise the burgers just fall apart when I'm frying them. That might depend on what kind of beans you use too, I've done this recipie with kidney beans and black beans. Yesterday we skipped the cabbage and made a coleslaw on just carrots and served with a nice pineapple salsa. Yummy!