CatPoet

Suz: we got to choose dinner at our name day, not birthday and since mine was squeezed between Christmas and my sister birthday, I would wish for kebab, pizza, cheese plate or elk ( alces alces) stew, what I got was whole different story sometimes.

Radiocake! Yum, made it for a friend who loved it.

I am born in late May, that is the end of the jam jars in our house and my dear mother used to refuse to buy jam, so most often my cake was apple sauce, vanilla cream ( horrible stuff), whipped cream and sprinkles or my name, some times I would get a store bought cake and then I would ask for Russian banana or Black currant or Budapest, but these where are treats . My sisters would get strawberry, cloudberry or raspberry on their cakes and chocolate since they are born close to major holidays in Sweden but when my came around that jam was gone, so one year I hid a jar of strawberry jam for my cake , I guarded it like made and when I knew mum was making the cake I sneaked in with the jar, otherwise my middle sister would eat it. YES, if there was a berry jam jar left before my birthday, she would eat it to spite me.

Just remember to pop the beans out of the skin before eating. I have had them jarred and most often seen them eaten like a snack. If not cooked correctly you can get alkaloid poisoning.

The chokeberry didnt works so we made bramble cake for out beloved 82 year old neighbour. I used a recipe called cake bottom cake as replacement, one I normally use, it is very neutral in flavour and easy to make if you can get potato starch / potato meal.

Linda, I can post Swedish ones, they are thin and crisp and the dough need a day to mature before baking.

Or boxes are 1½ cm high and contains 2 - 3 cups of food. which is perfect, we can stack a whole month worth of food in the freezer if we needed but we only do lunch boxes for my husband.

Paul: if your elderly relative eats like mouse, you need to make high protein and energy food.

I do 2- 3 loafs a week, it most often something simple as porridge bread or potato bread. Do people want to see this? I never bake any fancy because I bake to fill tummies.

Jesus: I am jealous ! I live in the wrong part of Sweden for good blood sausage of any kind. *sigh*

Another tip is to get flatter boxes for storing the food, it thaws up easier and more evenly.

Smithy it was lovely and the lady got so happy.

I made a surprise birthday cake for my neighbour since she will be neglected by her family on her birthday tomorrow. It bramble jam and vanilla custard as the filling, standard white cake bottom cake ( got to love that name) and whipped cream, bramble and crushed oatmeal cookies on the side. Not the pretties but lactose free dairy cream is really hard to work with.

I been told by a barista to keep my coffee jar in the freezer and use from frozen since we dont use so much coffee to preserve the flavour. Maybe it goes only for Swedish coffee. So far the coffee taste great from the first cup to the last according to those who can drink it

I have already gotten my sla... I mean helpers for Christmas cookie bake of and it isnt even November. WOHO. It could be because I promised them they could borrow some of my 300 cookie cutter... could be closer to 400 now, I havent counted them in 5 years.

jesus: it been 27 years since I had butifarra negra, I remember that to be nearly as good as the Finnish blood sausage, but hey I was a child then.

Typical Swedish meatball dinner. YUM: Lingon and potatoes and meatballs smothered in cream gravy.

Estratto di Pomodoro is something I have used, is it similar stratto di pomodori? If it is, I used a tablespoon in my bolognese and I have used it for another tomato based pasta dish, cant remember the name for that ragu, it just for added flavour and instead of salt.

Pie filling with 2 pounds of apples ( the picture shows just half a batch) 1 pound of tart apples 1 pounds sweet. 1/3 cup raw cane sugar 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of vanilla 2 tablespoon of butter 1 tablespoon of water. 2 tablespoon of cornstarch Peel the sweet apples and cut into cubes. In a pan add Sugar, water and butter. When the butter is smelted add the sweet apples and cinnamon and let it simmer for 15- 20 min. The apples should be broken down into a goo by then and it should have reduce to half in size. While the apples are cooking peel and cut the tart apples into bite size cubes. Stir them in and let it cook with the sweet apples for 5- 10 minutes, until just tender. Add the vanilla and stir. Let it cool down to hand hot. dust over the cornstarch while stirring. Now add this to any pie case, put on lid and bake as you would do.

Brooks: Have fun baking! I am making a birthday cake today, filled with chokeberry marmalade.

Sundays dinner, a lovely Dutch Hachee with boil potatoes, peas and pickles. Monday dinner, well this is the left overs from our feast of yummy stuff. The recipes I have comes from the net , my mum´s friend who grew up in China and a woman I know who's both name means Cherry, Finnish and Chinese ( surname ). So there is pau, chicken spring rolls, pork spring rolls, beef skewers ( that is from a cookbok I have) , potsticker and steamed dumplings and in this case just soy as dipping sauce. We did have a few other choices at the table. Inside the pau, YUM.

gfweb: we get taught this in school here in Sweden. Also many mistake solanine poisoning for upset tummy or they gotten bad meat , therefore gotten ill or gotten a tummy bug. It seldom it gets as bad as in the UK.

Shelby, they look yummy. The same recipe for Swedish meatballs, I think I posted here can be used for meatloaf, patties and pudding ( yes we have something called cabbage pudding). I give you the recipe for it later.

You can freeze soups too.

How firm are your potatoes before cooking? How are they stored? And another, I know a bit stupid question, do you throw away potatoes that are green or do you just peel away the green? The reason for this question is green potatoes how small the speckle is are poisonous and doesnt taste good. Yeap, I was married to a potato farmer family once....