Creamy Pumpkin Savoy Cabbage

Presumed you have roasted and pureed pumkin, this is a real easy dish.

Do you have these ingredients?

½ large savoy cabbage

2 garlic cloves
1 cup roasted and pureed pumpkin
3 tbsp cream fraiche

oliven oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Slice the savoy cabbage.
Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the slice cabbage.
Boil for 2 mins, then drain.

Peel and chop the garlic.
Heat the oliven oil in the skillet.
Add the galic and cook for 1 min.
Add the pumpkin, mix and cook for 1 min.
Add cream fraiche, mix and cook for 1-2 mins.
Add the drained cabbage, mix well and cook for 1-2 mins.

Enjoy!

Pumpkin Polenta with Blue Cheese

Presumed you have roasted pumpkin, this is a real quicky for midweek dinner. And do not forget about cheerful orange color – it will cheer you up on Monday evening. Like it cheered me.

Do you have these ingredients?

2 cups milk
2 cups water
1 tsp salt
1 cup instant polenta

2,5 cups roasted pureed pumpkin

30-50 g blue cheese (Gorgonzola is best)

Salt, pepper

Step for step

Puree the roasted pumpkin in the blender.
Mix polenta and salt.

Pour milk and water into the skillet and bring to the boil.
While stirring the water constantly with a wooden spoon, tip in the polenta in a thin stream.
Lower the heat so the polenta isn't spluttering too much, then cook, stirring occasionally, for 10-15 mins.
Add the pureed pumpkin, season and mix well.
Cook for 10-15 mins.

Chop the blue cheese and add to the polenta. Mix. Serve.

Enjoy!

Apple Herring

Yesterday I spent morning in the Quilt Shop – in this shop you can buy everything you need to put together colorful characterful quilt. I do not sew quilts but a colleague of mine does – she got me into this shop and I spent about a hours watching lovely quilt-maker cutting and sewing triangles into quilts. This morning breezed old fashionable mood into my kitchen – yesterday's dinner was after an old Norwegian cookbook from 60thies; the cookbook is about herrings and only herrings. Easy made, quick prepared, not demanding to ingredients at all.

Do you have these ingredients?

8 herrings fillets
1 apple
1 onion
50 ml capers
30 g butter
2 tbsp bread crumbs

oil for buttering dish
salt, pepper


Step for step

Season the herring fillets. Set aside.
Peel and chop the apple.
Peel and chop the onion.

Butter the dish and put the apples and onion into the dish.
Add the capers and mix well. Season.
Place the herrings fillets over the vegetables.
Chop the butter and place over the herring.
Sprinkle the bread crumbs.
Heat the oven 210C and put the dish into the oven.
Roast for 20-25 mins.

Enjoy!

Fried Rice with Grapes

Last Saturday my husband visited the local flea market. He was there for 30 mins but came back with 2 suitcases filled with old cookbooks. Now I am a happy owner of 50 (or more) cookbooks from the seventies and eighties. Poor pictures and good old recipes. For the last 3 days I skipped hundreds of photos and read hundreds of recipes. Todays dinner is an outcome of all information consumed and digested the last days.

Presumed you already have a cooked rice, this is a real quicky.

Do you have these ingredients?

1 cup cooked rice (I took basmati)
1 red onion
1 cup green grapes
½ tsp coriander
½ tsp cumin
1-2 tbsp olive oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Peel and chop the onion. Set aside.
Wash and halve the grapes. Set aside.
Heat the oliven oil in skillet.
Add the coriander and cumin, cook for 1 min.
Add the onion, cook for 2-3 mins.
Add the rice, mix and cook for 2-3 mins.
Season and add the grapes. Mix and cook for 1 more min.

Enjoy!

Indian Apple Halawa

After I bought the book 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi a new world opened a door for me. Of'course I have eaten Indian before, in restaurants and take aways. But cooking curries on my own is definitely a new step for me. This dessert is from this book, I only adjusted 2 things – I cooked evaporated milk on my own and I substituted ghee by butter (not a smart thing to do, I know...).

Do you have these ingredients?

10 apples
½ lemon
4-5 tbsp sugar
10 g butter
1 cinnamon stick
5-6 cloves
handful raisins
4-5 tbsp evaporated milk


Step for step

Wash and peel the apples.
Grate them and sprinkle with the sugar.
Add the lemon juice and mix well.

Heat the butter in the skillet.
Add the cinnamon stick and cloves, cook for 1 min.
Add the apples and cook over a high heat for 10 mins.
Add the milk and raisins and cook over a high heat for 8 mins.

Serve warm or cold. We liked both.