Do try these at home: some dishes from other food bloggers

What would I do without you, other foodbloggers?? You are a constant source of fantastic inspiration, and here's just a snapshot of dishes I'…

Apricot Clafoutis, with an Estonian twist

David's Fresh Apricot Ice Cream , and K. made couple of jars of his delicious apricot jam. We still had plenty of apricots left, however, so I dec…

Beetroot and Potato Salad Recipe

I love those Estonian birthday salads - the classic potato salad (a version of what's known as "Russian salad" or "Salad Olivier&q…

Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart with Thyme Recipe

I'm not even trying to pretend that this is my recipe. It's Delia's , of course. I've only very, very slightly played around with the …

Chocolate Brownie with Raspberries

cranachan , the traditional Scottish oat-raspberry-whisky concoction; more recent and prettier picture Chocolate Brownies with Walnuts Recipe (January…

Pickled Sliced Cucumber Salad Recipe

I've given you so many sweet recipes recently that it's definitely time to share a lovely savoury recipe instead. Here's a quick pickled…

A lovely aubergine curry with tomatoes, coriander and nigella seeds as part of an Indian meal

Last weekend I cooked an Indian meal. I don't know if my favourite Indian food bloggers Meeta and Nupur approve, but the meal felt definitely In…

Watermelon with Orange and Mint

Delicious, juicy, refreshing, just enough different, effortless, quick. Thank you, Maryam and Barbara !! ( Arbuusisalat apelsini ja mündiga ) Sumber h…

An Autumnal Fennel and Tomato Gratin Recipe

I am slowly, but surely, warming to fennel. Until now I haven't been a huge fan of aniseedy flavours (and I still passionately dislike liquorice …

Swedish Lingonberry Cake Recipe

recipe for Canadian Apple Pie ? Well, it's been one of my most popular recipes - and for a good reason, as it's incredibly tasty. BUT. None of…

Jamming in 2008: French Apricot Jam and Estonian Cherry Preserve

I've already put aside a fridge full of various jams and marmelades this summer (luckily, we've got an extra fridge in the garage for that pu…

Roasted Beets with Caraway Seeds

The Beet Princess (aka me) just noticed that it's been a while since her last beetroot post (over a month!?). So it's about time for another …

Kladdkaka or a Swedish lingonberry and chocolate brownie

Photo updated in October 2013. The photo above is by Juta Kübarsepp for Nami-Nami/Kodu ja Aed .  I went on a Stockholm day cruise last week with my fr…

Recipe for Crispy Lingonberry and Oat Cookies

lingonberry and chocolate cake , and Swedish lingonberry cake ? You get the picture - we've got loads of these berries). And these cookies were love…

Rugelach, rugelach, rugelach

Few weeks ago a friend of mine from Toronto, Melissa, came to visit me. Melissa and I both did our postgraduate degrees in Edinburgh in year 2000, af…

Silky pumpkin soup with nutmeg

Photo by Juta Kübarsepp, for the October issue of Kodu & Aed, 2012 As somebody aptly commented on flowering-quinces ). And this soup. There are tw…

Baked apples with crispy rye bread and lingonberries

oven-baked toffee apples a lot, and that hardly qualifies as a difficult dish. So here's another one for you. The only difficult part can be sour…

Quail Eggs with Dukkah

Rosa combines almonds and hazelnuts, and my dear friend Ximena cheats a little :) The recipe below is very lightly adapted from the British food magaz…

Ginger and Pumpkin Jam Recipe

Have you had pumpkin jam before? You should, believe me. When I had a huge pumpkin to dissect and prepare few weeks ago, then pumpkin jam was one of…

Oven-baked potato wedges with caraway seeds

I love caraway seeds, that's not a secret. There have been roasted beets with caraway seeds , shaken cucumber salad with caraway seeds , creamy be…

Recipe for Mozzarella Stuffed Peppers

Red peppers with cumin-scented halloumi cubes Pointed red peppers stuffed with spinach & mushrooms Sumber http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/

Another pumpkin jam, this time with flowering quinces

My loyal readers may remember that photo collage of flowering quinces from last summer, when I made flowering quince extract and flowering-quince an…

WTISIM: Pumpkin and Ginger Teabread

For the Love of Gourd . I've been featuring quite a few pumpkin recipes recently on my blog - pumpkin and flowering quince jam , pumpkin and ginger…

Goat Cheese Mousse with Cloudberry Compote

Looking for that little something after your main course, but don't feel like baking or making an elaborate dessert? Well, then this simple goat …

Roasted Figs with Candied Ginger

No recipe, just a simple dessert idea. Halved figs are sprinkled with sugar and topped with couple of Buderim candied ginger nibbles. Roasted in the…

Pumpkin and Apple Crumble Recipe

My pumpkin and apple supplies don't seem to end any time soon, so I'm still trying out various recipes and cooking numerous dishes using thos…

Roasted figs with thyme, cinnamon and honey

previous roasted figs dessert was more of a looker than a taster, then this one is the exact opposite. It looks much humbler, but it tasted absolutel…

Lingonberries, cookies and cream

I've started making somewhat Christmassy desserts already - I know, I know - but we've got no Thanksgiving to look forward to, you see :) Laye…

Creamy Fish Soup

I just realised that I've been posting nothing but dessert recipes in November . That's no good, is it? Hence this creamy-cheesy fish soup rec…

Coffee Cake

When I first started reading English-language cookbooks I was baffled by coffee cake recipes that had no coffee inside. You see, in Estonia we bake a…

Stir-fried Cherry Tomatoes with Basil

This must be one of the quickest - and most colourful - side dishes I've made in a while. Having spent all day at yet another cookery course tod…

Oven-baked salmon with beetroot

I've been asked to come up with various Christmas menu options - but by the readers of my Estonian site as well as some university friends. One …

An orange and fennel salad recipe

Looking for a light, quick and festive starter? Well, try this one :) It's a lovely Italian winter salad (Sicilian in origin, apparently), where…

Sunday morning pancakes

I've mentioned before that every weekend we have pancakes for breakfast. I'm no good in making them, so I stay in bed until K. calls me to ta…

Orange Cake with Dried Cranberries

Citrus fruit (especially clementines and mandarines, but also oranges) and cranberries are pretty Christmassy, don't you think? Last night I comb…

Persimmon Dessert

Another extremely simple dessert idea. Take a ripe and non-astringent persimmon/sharon/kaki fruit, peel (optional), cube. Layer with cottage cheese. D…

Something Danish for your Christmas table? Risalamande or Rice and Almond Pudding with Warm Cherry Compote

October 2012, photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the December issue of Kodu ja  Aed, 2012 From the recipe archives (originally posted in January 2007) At the …

Christmas 2008

oven-baked potato wedges with caraway seeds , sauerkraut braised in dark beer , black pudding, oven-baked carrot sticks with cumin seeds (well, not st…

Salted Herring, Estonian Style

Did you know that Estonia has a 'national fish', in a similar vein to countries having chosen a 'national flower', a 'national dr…