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Crayfish

Lilly — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:45:13 +0000

Crayfish is a delicacy that we enjoy in the autumns. They are usually served with bread, cheese, beer and schnapps.

Read more about this Swedish tradition at sweden.se.

Healthy Appetite

Lilly — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:46:45 +0000

Three-star chef Gordon Ramsay has put together a book with more than 125 healthy recipes. The book is a follower to his other books with recipes from The F Word - Fast Food and Sunday Lunch.

Borlotti Bean Minestrone

The book is rather thick, more than 250 pages, and includes a lot of photographs by Lisa Barber. The photographs are not astonishing, but there are plenty of them and they are inspirational.

Smoked Mackerel Pâté

The recipes are very easy to follow and I have not had any problems at all executing the ones I have chosen to cook, on the contrary, the dishes I made turned out to be not only easy to cook but very tasty too.

Sticky Baked Chicken Drumsticks

I like this book a lot and I will continue to cook from it in the future.

Prawn Saganaki

Lilly — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:19:26 +0000

Prawn Saganaki is a traditional greek dish with feta cheese, tomatoe sauce and prawns.

Cooking for Friends by Gordon Ramsay

Lilly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:05:28 +0000

Next week, on the 15th of September, Gordon Ramsay’s new book, Cooking for Friends, will be published by HarperNonFiction. In this book Ramsay will show us how to cook “seasonal, simple and modern British recipes, which are perfect for entertaining friends and family”.

Opening Oysters

Lilly — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:31:56 +0000

We decided to have some oysters as a starter yesterday evening. Oysters are not something we eat very often and when we do it’s usually at a restaurant. Opening them proved to be a bit of a problem, at least with one of them. I think my next kitchen gadget will be an oyster knife.

Kitchen Nightmares Season Premiere

Lilly — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:50:00 +0000

Kitchen Nightmares’ second season will premiere Thursday, September 11 on FOX. This season we will continue to follow Hell’s Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay as he travels across America and helps restaurants in crisis.

Don’t miss it!

Smoked Mackerel Patê

Lilly — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:14:15 +0000

Smoked Mackerel Patê, served with vegetables and potato wedges.
Another recipe from Gordon Ramsay’s book “Healthy Appetite“.

Sausage and Pork

Lilly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:11:31 +0000

We have recently moved to a new house in another part of town. One thing that I really appreciate with this new location, is its closeness to nature. This last Sunday we decided to take advantage of this and had or lunch outdoors.

Apart from the usual sausage we had also brought some smoked pork with us. I think everything tastes better by a fireplace and I hope we will do this again very soon.

Minestrone

Lilly — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:52:37 +0000

Borlotti Bean Minestrone.

A Walk in the Woods

Lilly — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:40 +0000

After summer vacation we’ve been trying to live a little bit healthier. This new lifestyle includes a lot of walks and today we found a wonderful little path along the waterside. We also found some beautiful puffballs that we decided to take home with us.

We fried them in olive oil with a little salt and pepper and just ate them like that. They were alright, a little bit like button mushrooms actually, but not sensational in any way. But there sure is something special with harvesting your own food in the woods.