today's breakfast

Trying the blogger app on my phone. Thought
I'd share my yummy breakfast. 

I had an egg and bacon sandwich with avocado and  salsa.

Swedish waffle day!

 Today is Swedish waffle day! Waffle day is celebrated on March 25, the same day as the Christian holiday of Annunciation (used to be a public holiday). Why we celebrate waffle day today is because Annunciation used to be called Vårfrudagen (Our Lady's Day) in swedish and that sounds like Våffeldagen (waffle day). Våffeldagen also marks the beginning of spring and end of winter.

I learned from wikipedia that we've been eating waffles in sweden at least since the 15th centuary, so you can imagine how many recipes there are. My favourite comes from Vår kokbok, a cookbook that can be found in almost every swedish home. We've got the 19th edition, printed 1996.

Waffles 

100 g melted butter

400 ml milk

10 gram yeast

300 ml flour

Heat the milk until it's 37 degrees C. Mix yeast and half of the milk, then add the flour, then add the rest of the milk. Let it rest in room temperature for about 30 minutes. Mix with the melted butter. 

Bake in the waffle iron.  

Serve golden brown with jam and whipped cream. 

If you want to know more about strange Swedish traditions i can recommend Sweden.se's lifestyle section.

Birthday cake

It was my birthday this week, so I baked a cake! I had problems deciding what to bake, but then I remembered an old favourite, that was actually in one of my cookbook's.

I baked Marängtårta (Meringue) from the book Svenska folkets 100 bästa recept ur Allt om Mat (1989) (the Swedish people's 100 best recipes from Allt om mat). Allt om Mat is a really good Swedish food magazine. I got the book from my mum, i guess around the time when it was published, and i have actually cooked a couple of things from it.

In the book they cover the meringue with a chocolate custard, but i wanted lemon and found a recipe on Allt om Mat's website.

I covered the meringue with lemon custard, whipped cream, raspberries and blueberries

It was yummy!!! 

You can find the recipes here: 

Kripig marängtårta med citronkräm (in Swedish)

Rice Krispies Meringue Cake with Lemon Custard (in English)

Sunday breakfast

Started the day with a lovely fruit and berry salad that Robert made for me.

Fruit and berry salad

• Strawberries (frozen)
• Raspberries (frozen)
• Blueberries (frozen)
• Grapes
• Pink grapefruit
• Orange
• Green apple
• Roasted sesame seeds
• Roasted pumpkin seeds

Served with cottage cheese. 

Empty fridge

Jet lagged, fridge almost empty (haven't been at home for a month), dark and cold outside (winter - not summer), not enough cash to get pizza delivered. What to eat?

Found a couple of eggs, some greek feta cheese and an onion in the fridge, some spinach in the freezer, salt, pepper, oregano and sweet hungarian paprika. Perfect! Spinach and feta frittata.