Indulgent day

A healthy lunch for an otherwise indulgent day... The little one is in daycare, and I'm enjoying a day-off on my own. A visit to the Iittala Outlet store, a little run and the a lunch on the balcony with a book. How I've missed being able to do this on my own...

Smoked salmon salad

Lettice

Rocket salad

Coriander

Artichokes from a jar

Tomato

Spring Onion

Avoca Citrus Salad Dressing

Avoca Citrus Salad Dressing

1 tbs lemon juice

4 tbs olive oil

grated lemon peel (1/2 lemon)

1 garlic clove 

1 tsp of mustard

Just put everything in a jar and mix well. 

The baby food jars are perfect for making and storing salad dressing. 

Luckily Iittala Outlet Store sells napkins and other utilities (like the garlic press in the other picture) so I didn't have to buy new tableware...

Yllättävä iltapala

Ruisleipää, tofua ja sipulirouhetta, kevyesti voissa paistettuna. Nam nam.

Minestrone soup

My first ever minestrone soup, yummy! Not at all like I remembered from school. And very easy to make.
Recipe will follow soon.

Emmi's Brownies

All Brownie and Chocolate Cakes always have egg. Why is that? Even Mudcakes, even though they are supposed to be sticky anyway, with now air or fluffyness in them. So I set on a hunt for an egg-free recipe and found some examples and then ventured on my own. 

1 dl flour

2 dl water

100 g butter

150 g dark chocolate

2 dl sugar

2 dl dark muscavado sugar

4 dl flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 tbs cocoa

1 tsp vanilla sugar

chopped cashew nuts

Put 1 dl of flour and 2 dl of water in a pan and slowly heat up, constantly mixing until it becomes a gooey mixture. Set aside to cool down. 

Melt chocolate and butter, and mix in the sugars. Combine the two mixtures. 

Then mix together all the rest of the ingredients and add the add to the dough. 

Place in cake dish as a thin layer and cook in 200C for 20 minutes. 

Be sure to let the Brownie cool down completely before eating...