Naked Plate

I am going to reveal my best kept secret, my moms recipe, but you have to come to visit my kitchen to get it. Check videolink below. We Finns drink lots of coffee, traditionally friends are welcome to pop in anytime for coffee. The moment you step in a Finnish home coffee will be brewing [...]

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Do you drink your soup or eat your soup? Traditional Finnish soups are very hearty and full of goodies, so I never knew that one would drink the soup instead of eat it. I am a fan of soups. They are easy to make and whet the appetite before the main course or could be [...]

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A perfect start for the day, lovely oven baked eggs on a rucola bed with thick yoghurt and sprinkled with chili-sage butter. Is there anything better loaded with proteins than this Turkish breakfast? Naah…. When I first saw this recipe in one of the Finnish women magazines, it was love at first sight. The full [...]

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What in the earth is harrish?! I found 2 kilos of grains in my kitchen cupboard and was wondering why have I bought it and what could I do with it. It turned out that it is harees(هريس) and not harrish as written in English on bag. I asked around, googled and find out it [...]

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The amazing smell of cinnamon and spices is surrounding my house inside out. It’s time to warm up with nice cup of glögg, a traditional Finnish winter drink called glögi in Finnish. When weather starts to get cooler, on November in Finland, this spicy drink is just so lovely warmer. The most popular glögg is [...]

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What’s with the cranberries! I have fell in love with them on this season. I promise this is the last cake or bake with cranberries, well ….almost, I had something in my mind, I’d love to share later. This is the season after all. Everyone knows Pineapple upside down cake, but have you ever tried [...]

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I took the challange of November Monthly Mingle hosted by Sally @ My Custard Pie I was thinking this is piece of cake, well it kind of was, it just made me very productive. I have made Finnish gingerbread cookies and cranberry jam and finally I prepared very first time in my life crème anglaise [...]

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A dear child has many names is a Finnish proverb and will apply to Cranberry, one of the superfoods, as well. Did you know its Vaccinium oxycoccos, sounds funny. Or mossberry, fenberry, bearberry, what about Sassamanash. In Finnish its Karpalo, how it sounds. This relish does not need cooking, but food processor or blender. It’s [...]

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Think of nice crispy sour red cranberries. We have them in Dubai markets from October to January. That’s when I can enjoy my favorite cranberry cake, I will make it later and share the recipe. Its the best cake ever…. hmmm after chocolade cake, carrot cake, blueberry upsidedown, blackforest….. I have never experienced American cranberries [...]

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Aaah, a class of cold milk and cookies to dip in it. Its again the time of the year when families are getting ready for festive season. Every year my mother made first gingerbread cookies at the time of Finnish Independence Day on 6th of December. We kids ate the dough already, so finally maybe [...]

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