Mar
20
Mexican Fiesta
by Sofia - in Cooking
Olemme tulleet taas siihen aikaan vuodesta kun valoa riittää illalla ruokakuvien ottamiseen. Siitä ilosta täytyy heti jakaa resepti pitkästä aikaa! Uskoisin, että monessa lapsiperheessä meksikolainen ( tai joku meksikolaistyyppinen fuusioruoka) on melko suosittua. Yleensä lapset innostuvat jos pöydässä on paljon värejä ja itse voi rakennella omaa annostaan mielensä mukaan. Meillä ainakin tällaiset ateriat ovat erityisen mieluisia. Me söimme tämän iloisen värikkään illallisen maanantaina, mutta vain koska minulla sattui olemaan vapaapäivä. Jos kaiken tekee itse salsasta lähtien, ei tämä ole ehkä se ihan nopein arkiruoka jota ryhtyy valmistamaan väsyneenä pitkän päivän päätteeksi. Mutta ehdottomasti kokeilemisen arvoinen! Parasta ovat itse tehdyt nachot vielä hieman lämpiminä pehmeän guacamolen ja raikkaan mango-ananas salsan kera.
Finally there is enough light to take pictures of some dinner foods in the evening. To celebrate that I´m sharing a recipe for something else than baking for a change. And it´s about time. I recently had a lovely Mexican dinner with my friend with super fresh cocktails, fish tacos, crab tostadas and the most incredible candied corn ice-cream. It got us talking about Mexican food and I realised I have not shared some of my best recipes with you! I had a day off on Monday and this was our dinner but as it´s a bit time consuming I would say it´s maybe better for a weekend or at least prepare the salsa the day before. But it´s so worth making!!! The warm home made nachos, the creamy guacamole and the fresh salsa ( or is it pico de gallo when it´s fresh?). Please please please try this even just once and you can not go back to store bought nachos and salsa ( except if you live next to a Whole Foods and then you are just lucky!).
Mar
18
The pink ride
by Sofia - in Good things for kids
Cotton Candy made a very precise wish on her birthday. She asked for a pink (!) scooter. She got the Coral coloured Maxi Micro and it has proved to be a very good choice. Almost daily my husband takes the girls to nursery with a car on his way to work but when I go to pick them up I haul her scooter there. So I was happy to find the scoot´n pull strap. It attaches to the scooter and makes it super easy to carry it on the shoulder. But it has another handy feature as you can also attach it on the scooter beam for pulling your kid when they no longer have the strength to kick it themselves. That would also work well if you are in a crowded space and don’t want your child to scoot too far from you.
At the same time as we ordered the scoot´n pull we ordered Cotton Candy a little basket for her ride. Girls like to have their little treasures or dolls with them and it´s also very handy for the ballet kit and water bottle. Both of these items are very reasonably prized. We actually bought the basket to be given to her when she does a lovely deed. One day after nursery she decided to organise all the girls shoes in the foyer voluntarily and also re-organised the whole closet floor on the foyer ( putting mine and my husbands shoes in the back and theirs on the front). So as we would love to see more similar initiative taken in the house we gave her the basket as a thank you and an encouragement of sorts. I´m telling you that little girl was so proud of having earned it that I think the basket is very special to her and that she will do more good deeds in the future as it truly made her feel appreciated.
Mar
16
Yup. You read right. All that in one cake. And it is good. Very good. The girls and I baked this goodness on Sunday for daddy. Making the salted caramel aka dulce de leche was very easy but a bit time consuming. Otherwise it´s a pretty easy cake to make. In my opinion it sounds like more trouble than it is. The recipe for the cake is here in English plus you add a layer of salted dulce de leche. I found many different ways to make the dulce de leche ( here are 3 different variations). I used the oven version and added Maldon sea salt. You just add the caramel sauce on the cake layer(s) before adding the espresso frosting.
Teimme viikonloppuna tämän syntymäpäiväkakun ja se oli aivan erinomaisen hyvää! Suosittelen kokeilemaan. Itse tehty dulce de leche oli helppo valmistaa uunissa. Kaadoin kaksi purkkia kondensoitua makeutettua maitoa kakkuvuokaan ( mikä tahansa uunin kestävä vuoka käy) ja peitin tiukasti foliolla. Asetin kakkuvuoan vesihauteeseen toiseen uunin kestävään vuokaan ja sitten 220 asteiseen uuniin 90 minuutiksi. Kondensoitu maito muuttuu kullanruskeaksi. Siirsin sen kulhoon ja vatkasin tasaiseksi. Lopulta maustoin karamellikastikkeen merisuolalla. Ihanaa, paksua, kullankeltaista merisuola dulche de lecheä.
