Oregano Beetroot Meatballs

Step for step:

400 g beef mince
2 beetroots, grated
50 ml semolina
1 tsp fresh oregano
2 garlic cloves, crushed

2tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp olive oil

1 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp olive oil

300 ml stock

salt, pepper


Put the beef mince, grated beets, semoline, oregano and crushed garlic in a bown.
Season and mix welll with your hands.
Form into walnut-sized balls.
Put the flour on a plate and roll the meatballs in the flour.

Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a skillet and blown the meatballs.
Move the meatballs to a plate.

Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in the skillet and the onion.
Cook for 5 min and add the stock.
Get to boil, lower the fire, add the meatballs and put the lid on.
Simmer for 1 hour.

Serve with rice and bread.

Broccoli Red Pepper Chicken Meatloaf

Do you have these ingridients?

2 red peppers
1 head broccoli
2 garlic cloves

1,2 kg chicken mince
70 ml semolina
1 egg
1 tb sp mustard

Salt, pepper

Step for Step

Heat over to 220 C and roast the peppers for 30 min.
Cool and peel the roasted peppers.
Drain and chop the peeled peppers.
Cut the broccoli head into florets.
Peel the garlic cloves and chop roughly.

Put the chicken mince, semoline, egg and mustard into a large bowl.
Squezze the garlic cloves into the bowl and mix well.
Add the broccoli florets and roasted peppers, season and mix again.

Cover a tin by a parchment paper and spoon the meatloaf mix into the tin.
Flip the overhanging parchment paper over the top.
Heat the oven to 175 C and bake the meatloaf for 1 hour.
Cool in the tin for 10 min, then drain off any excess liquid and turn out onto a board.
Cut into thick slices and serve warm or cold.

Spring Cabbage with Prawns

We call it summer cabbage, it comes to Oslo in late June. It is green, soft and tender. You can saute it with a butter, fry in oil, just slice for a salad or saute in Asian way, like I did this evening.

Do you have these ingredients?

2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped.

2 tbsp grated ginger

3-4 tbsp vegetable oil

400 g spring cabbage, shredded

1 1/2 cups already cooked prawns, defrozed and peeled

1 tbsp soy sauce

salt and pepper

Step for step

Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet.

Add ginger and garlic, stir well for 1 min.

Add the cabbage, mix well and stir for 5 mins.

Add the prawns, mix well and stir for 1 min.

Add the soy sauce, season, mix and stir for 1 min more.

Roasted Bell Peppers Rolls

This is a real celebration of summer colours. Red and yellow bell peppers, green spinach and white garlic! Try this easy made Roasted Bell Peppers Rolls as appetizer.

Do you have these ingredients?

7 red or yellow bell peppers

100 g spinach
1-2 tbsp olive oil

185 g can tuna in oil
1 tbsp capers
7-8 Basil leaves
1-2 garlic cloves

1 garlic clove
1 tbsp olive oil

salt, pepper

Step for step

Heat oven to 210C.
Put the peppers into large baking dish and roast for 30 mins.
Peel the peppers and divide into 3 parts each.

Heat olive oil in a pan.
Wash the spinach and add to the pan.
Leave the spinach to wilt for 1 min, stirring once or twice.
Peel and slice 2 garlic cloves.
Put the tuna, capers, spinach, garlic and Basil leaves into the blender.
Puree.

Lay the peppers pieces on a work surface and put a teaspoon of the spinach-tuna mix over.
Roll up the pepper pieces put on a plate.

Peel and slice the garlic clove.
Mix the garlic with the olive oil.
Sprinkle the garlic olive oil over the pepper rolls.

Amond Salmon with Asparugus

Finally summer arrived in Oslo. We had guests for dinner the last Tues. Easy made quickly prepared Almond Salmon was served.

Do you have these ingredients?

250 g asparugus, trimmed and halved

4 salmon fillets, about 200 g each

2 handfuls of flakes almonds

olive oil

salt, pepper

Step for step

Heat oven to 210C.

Tip the asparugus and the olive oil into the overnproof dish.

Season the salmon and put the salmon in with the asparugus.

Scatter the almond flakes over the salmon.

Roast for 15-20 mins.

Warming Winter Punch

It was minus 18 C in Oslo 1 week ago. Can you imagine? I was wearing wool sweater, wool jacket, a long wool scarf and a long warm mink coat. And it is noway we could survive without this warming winter punch. The recipe is from nice sales assistant working in Vinmonopol.

Do you have these ingredients?

500 ml red wine
70 g sucker
3 1/3 cup strong tee
100 ml vodka
1 lemon – zest

Step for step

Grate the lemon zest.
Pour the wine and sucker into the skillet.
Warm up but not boil!
Add the tee, vodka and lemon zest.
Warm up.

Lovely.