Gluten-Free Southern Cooking in Sweden
When colder days start settling in, some of the foods my mind starts going around to are always pork and the new season root vegetables. Within my family, I (Gen X) did grow up a couple of generations down the line from fall hog butchering …
It’s the time of year that apples are in prime season, and warm desserts start looking very tempting. I picked up some nice fresh cooking apples, and had been plotting some good things to do with them. There are so many appealing options! I had …
I love Southern Louisiana style home cooking in the way that only someone from another region of the South who has spent the last 20+ years in Europe can love Southern Louisiana food. It’s not even my home, but by now the distinctive flavors feel …
This is the evolution of one of my old favorites, which became a standby during my vegan college days back in the ’90s–when I developed a taste for more Middle Eastern foods in general. Especially in the summer, I used to like to make a …
Tonight I got an urge for some good old fried potatoes to go along with the shio koji-marinated pork tenderloin I had already planned. And why not jazz them up a little? This is one of my favorite variations on them, and the warm Indian …
Tonight I was firing the oven up for a loaf of bread (that recipe is still under development), and got the urge to also bake something sweet while that was going anyway. This cake needed to bake at a slightly lower temperature (while also mostly …
I was actually wanting to try making some pepperoni rolls, and asked Mr. Sweden to pick up some sliced pepperoni at ICA because I saw they do carry it. The one he went to yesterday was apparently out, so he picked up the Scandi-“chorizo” instead. …
Recently, I took advantage of some seasonal deals and picked up some very nice thick bone-in pork which is particularly good for slower cooking. The portion that didn’t go into the freezer needed used up soon, and I had a hard time deciding what exactly …
“Cabbage Pudding” is an old standard of husmanskost, or Swedish traditional home cooking. It is very similar to the local version of cabbage rolls, but less complicated to put together. I have really enjoyed trying different Swedish dishes since we’ve been living here, and trying …
Today we’re going for something a little different. I picked up an interesting-looking juice on sale, with the aim of turning it into a new small batch of grocery store wine. So, I thought I might as well post a little walkthrough of the process …