Rhubarb Cake | Recipe

Why is it that most social things are based around food and mostly unhealthy food? Like cake and candy? When we want to have a good time we go out and buy all of these unhealthy things (not that there is anything wrong with that once in a while, I love me some cake we all know THAT!)
But honestly I appreciate social time more when I am doing/eating healthy things.

Anyway some time ago one of my besties came to visit for the first time after I moved to Malmö and since we are both good at being bad when it comes to eating healthy, I decided that we were gonna have fun and eat a lot of delicious healthy things, forgot about healthy and baked a rhubarb cake, perfect for summer,  I'm so bad haahahah! If you would like to try, here's the recipe.

You will need:

- 2 dl sugar
- 3 eggs
- 100 g meltet butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanillasugar (you can substitute it with vanilla extract)
- zest of 1 lemon (or 2 limes)
- 4 dl flour
- 1 dl yogurt
-  1 ½ dl milk
- 4 rhubarb stalks cut in 1 cm pieces

Heat the oven to 200 degrees celsius (390 degrees fahrenheit)

Whip egg and sugar together until fluffy, add  meltet butter, milk and yogurt and mix.

Mix flour, vanillasugar and lemon zest. Add it slowly untill it's all well combined. Lastly fold in the rhubarb pieces.

Prepare a springform pan by giving it a genereous coat of butter and pour the batter in, and put on the middle rack for 20-25 minutes. Every oven is different so keep an eye on it.

Enjoy with fresh berries and sourcream, so delicious!

Elderflower Goodness | Recipe

The last couple of days the weather here in Malmö have been amazing, which makes me all giddy to get outside and be with nature, when I was child be would plant all sorts of fruit and vegetables and makes the most delicious food, desert and drinks of them and that has definitely stuck with me. I miss the feeling of planting, nurturing and seeing a garden come to life. Since we don't have a garden i make do with just making delicious foods and drink with everything that screams summer! And since the weather had been so good for a little while I knew that all the lovely elder-flower trees must have bloomed, which means it's time for elder-flower cordial. It's such a delicious treat, it tastes like summer, flowers and sunny warm days.

You'll need:

- 20 elder-flower screens
- 25 g citric acid powder
- 1-2 sliced lemons
- 750 g sugar
- 250 g brown sugar
- 1 L boiling water + enough to scald the container
- 1 tsp atamon + enough to rinse the container in (you can leave this out if you plan on using the whole batch within a week)
And some kind of container that will lock airtight.

Boil the water. While the water is boiling put the elder-flowers in a big bowl that you can fit a lid on, add all the other ingredients and then pour over the boiling water. Stir well and put the lid on, let it sit for 5 days, remember to stir once or twice everyday to make all the sugars melt. On the 5th day you are ready to bottle it up!
Start by sifting the cordial and then scalding the containers and then rinsing them with atamon. After that you can fill up the containers and you have a delicious summer drink. Dilute it with water after your taste, serve with ice cubes and sliced lemons. Enjoy!

One batch makes around 1,25 L/42 oz which you might think is an awkward amount but then you can bottle most of it and enjoy some at the same time !
I always double the batch since it doesn't last for long in this house ;)

Happy Summer!

Simple but Delicious Chicken Curry | Recipe

You know those days where you need to cook dinner but you don't have a clue what to cook. And you don't want to spend a ton of time in the kitchen (because it's the weekend and you rather relax and spend time with your family!). Well yesterday was one of those days, it's weekend, I want to spend time with Mr. M and just enjoy my time off. But we have to eat right? So I like to have a couple of simple recipes on hand for simple easy but still tasty cooking.

Yesterday it was Chicken curry, it's very simple with only a few ingredients that you probably already have at home and it takes little time to cook.

You need:

• 4-5 diced bell peppers (different colors for a colorful meal)
• 1 kg diced chicken breast
• 2-3 diced tomato
• 3-4 cloves of minced garlic
• 1 can of coconut-milk
• Juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 1-2 tbsp of curry
• Chili to taste (I like mine HOT!)
• Salt and pepper
• 1-2 tbsp vegetable oil

Tips!

You could also add zucchini, cauliflower or celery along with the peppers and you could top it with cilantro when serving for great taste and more color :)

Start with a large pot over medium heat, add the vegetable oil and the diced bell pepper, tomato, garlic and all the other vegetables. Cook until they have softened a little. Then add the chicken breast and cook until the meat is all white. Then add the coconut-milk and lemon juice. Let it come to a boil and add the curry, chili, salt and pepper to taste.

All done!

Serve with some fluffy rice and you have a yummy meal.

Try it and tell me what you think!

Freshly Baked Buns on Easter Morning

I decided to bake warm delicious buns for my family yesterday, and I used Emily Solomon's recipe, and tweaked it a little to be a little more neutral to taste, I have made them by the original recipe, with raisins and cardamom and they are mouthwatering, with butter, tea and nothing else! Find the original recipe here, on Emily's blog :)

The recipe makes between 16-20 buns:

• 25 g Yeast
• 5 dl Milk
• 30 g Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 15 g Salt
• 900 g Flour
• 75 g Butter
• Sunflower seeds as topping
• 1 egg for brushing

Heat the milk till it's lukewarm in a small pot, you can also heat it in the microwave, but keep a close eye on it so it doesn't get too warm.

Put a little milk in a big mixing bowl and stir out the yeast in the milk. 

Add the rest of the milk + the sugar and salt, give it a little stir and then add the flour and eggs. Stir/knead until well combined.

Add in the butter little by little until all the butter is well incorporated. Leave the dough to rise,  in the bowl covered with a kitchen towel, for around 2 hours. Put it someplace warm.

When the dough has risen, knead it through and divide it into 16-20 buns. 

Put them on a baking sheet, lined with parchment paper, for my standard size oven I need 2.

Cover them again and let them rise for another 2 hours.

10 mins before the buns are done rising set your oven to preheat to 200 degrees Celsius. 

Whisk the egg together and give the buns a generous coating. 

Sprinkle on some sunflower seeds or any other seed of your liking and put them in the oven and bake them for about 10-20 mins depending on your oven (until they are nice and golden brown on top) You can bake both sheets at the same time, just remember to switch the places for the bottom ones to get color too.

I love the toasted sunflower seeds on top, I have a habit of collecting the ones that have fallen off the buns and sprinkle them back on the cut and buttered side, yum!

Bon Appétit :)

Oatmeal & Coconut Cookies | Recipe

Some days I wanna pamper myself, with food! So i like to bake something and what better than healthy oatmeal and coconut cookies?

This batch will make about 18 cookies, you will need:

- 2 Eggs
- 200 g Sugar
- 200 g Unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 2 tbsp Honey
- 1 handful of linseed
- 5 handfuls of oatmeal
- 2 handfuls of shredded coconut
- 1/2 tsp Soda
- A pinch of salt
- 200 g Flour

Mix everything together in the order listed and put a tablespoonful of batter approximately 4-5 cm apart on a baking sheet. Bake them for 20-30 mins (depends on your oven so keep and eye on them) at 200 degrees Celsius. To make sure they are done stick a wooden toothpick in the center of a cookie and if there is no batter on the toothpick they are ready. They should be golden brown and just slightly crispy at the edges.

And they come out beautiful ready to enjoy with a lovely cup of tea.
The tea I'm drinking is a Green tea with Jasmine from a little shop called "The Tea Embassy" placed in Germany, Hamburg. Right in the central train station, it's the most cozy little tea shop! Check it out if you are a tea lover and happen to be in Hamburg.

Bon Appétit! :)

Baking Cake!

So I was baking a cake yesterday and I decided to share the recipe with you guys!

Here goes:

2 Eggs

300 g Sugar

75 g Margarine

1 tsp. Soda

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Vanilla sugar

2 dl Milk

300 g Flour

The thing is after I started mixing the ingredients I figured out I don’t really follow the recipe.

I do butter instead of margarine because I never have margarine? I don’t do regular soda at all – I always feel like I can taste it.. Yucky!. Then I use yogurt instead of milk – I never have milk in the house because I don’t drink it (more on that later).

So I guess the real recipe looks like this:

2 Eggs

300 g Sugar

75 g Butter

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Vanilla sugar

2 dl Yogurt

300 g Flour

You can make it as a chocolate cake too, just add 1 dl of Cocoa powder.

Start with setting the oven at 180°C (356° F) and then mix the eggs and sugar, then you add the butter (easier if room temperature or melted) and mix, then add the baking soda, vanilla sugar and yogurt and mix well, lastly add the flour little by little and stir well.

Butter the cake forms well before putting the batter in so they will slip easily. And then just keep an eye on them. When you put a toothpick in the cake there shouldn't stick anything to it.  

This batch is enough to bake both the cakes on the pictures so it will be a good size cake!

Try it and tell me what you think :)

P.S. We probably should have been eating this, right? ;)