This recipe for Pasta with Salmon and Spinach is one of my favorite pasta dishes. The taste is just wonderful and the time it takes to make this dish is only about 30 minutes. Therefore, it is absolutely a dish I will recommend to you if you are looking for a quick and delicious dinner. [Read more...]
This recipe for a healthy banana and chocolate shake is the reason that you should always have a few bananas in your freezer. When we have some bananas that are starting to get a little soft and brown at the edges, we never throw them out like most people would do. [Read more...]
This recipe for Danish Red cabbage is a traditional and very popular side dish for many different dishes. Red cabbage is served all year around, however, it's very popular at Christmas where it's served together with the traditional Christmas eve dinner the 24th of December. In Danish we call this side dish Rødkål which translated simple means Red cabbage. We have used this recipe several times and its way better than the red cabbage you can buy at the super market. It's really simple to make and you only need five different ingredients, red cabbage, vinegar, currant juice, sugar and salt. You can easily change this recipe into a more personal dish by adding different spices according to your taste.
Normally we would use currant juice in this red cabbage, however, we have sometimes used elderberry juice instead which is just as good. [Read more...]
No Christmas without klejner! Klejner is an old and very traditional Danish Christmas snack served throughout the month of December. A klejne is a small piece of dough shaped/twisted like a small knot or diamond and then deep-fried until it is crisp and golden.
See also: Original recipe for famous Danish Butter Cookies
In Denmark it is possible to buy klejner at almost every super market at Christmas. However, we always make our klejner ourselves. We believe that the homemade version is way better compared to the klejner from the super market. Some people think it is difficult to make them yourselves but actually it is pretty easy. [Read more...]
Why have a recipe for homemade Egg McMuffin on a blog, which is called Nordic Food and Living that might actually be a good question. For me there is actually a small history attached to the recipe I am sharing further down on this page. [Read more...]
On this page, I will share one of my personal favorite recipes - a super delicious and healthy Brownie made without any use of refined sugar and flour. If you continue to read on this page, I will show you how it is possible to make a super delicious Brownie cake, which is a healthy alternative to regular Brownie.
As mentioned just above, this brownie cake is made completely without any use of refined sugar and flour.
See also: Recipe for Healthy chocolate cake without sugar and flour
But how is it possible to make this brownie, which is perfectly comparable to a normal brownie packed with sugar and flour?
In just two words the secret is: dates and chickpeas. Trust me it is perfect.
Before you get scared away I will promise you that will not be able to taste either the dates or the chickpeas. You will only be able to taste the delicious chocolate brownie.
In this healthy brownie, the sweetness from the sugar is replaced by the sweet dates and the consistency from the flour is replaced by the chickpeas. It is that simple.
Before we continue, I will of course clarify that this cake is not sugar free. However, it is completely free from traditional refined table sugar. A cake need sweetness, which we in this case gets from the natural occurring sugar in the dates.
So no refined white sugar only natural occurring sugar from the dates.
See also: Recipe for Nordic healthy spinach buns
Dates are known for its sweetness and is therefore a perfect substitute for traditional refined sugar. I love dates and I have several recipes here on my Nordic Food blog where the refined sugar is substituted with dates.
If you are interested in other recipes with dates you can browse my section with healthy recipes and get inspired.
It is so easy to make your own Nordic rhubarb juice and this recipe only takes about half an hour to make and with only three ingredients! The recipe for Nordci rhubarb juice is so easy to make and highly addictive. When the juice is ready to drink you have the most beautiful pink juice you could ever imagine. [Read more...]
This is a recipe for a very famous and traditional Danish chocolate cake with vanilla biscuits. This version is actually an improved recipe compared to the old recipe where the cake was based on cocoa powder and coconut oil (palmin). This version is based on dark chocolate and butter which we think makes the cake [Read more...]
In this commercial post I have had the opportunity to work with the Can For Life project on developing a recipe with the well-known metal can in focus. When thinking about food form cans, of course my first thoughts fell upon homemade Dulce De Leche which is cooked directly in a can in hot water. Read more and learn how easy it is to make the most delicious brownie topped with homemade Dulce De Leche. [Read more...]
Today, I am sharing my top-1 favorite lunch dish. It is a pan fried fresh flounder fish, served on a slice of toasted Danish rye bread with thin slices of Avocado. The great things, and what I really like about this dish, are that this recipe is fantastic simple, easy to make, it is healthy and it has a wonderful taste. [Read more...]
As I have mentioned several times here on my blog, I love food which is both delicious and at the same time very easy to prepare. It is great to work in the kitchen for several hours and create fantastic gourmet meals. However, the fact is that most of the time you spend in the kitchen is to prepare everyday breakfast, lunch and dinner. That is way I am always on the lookout for recipes for great and fast food. This spicy tomato lime coconut soup is one of these great recipes if you ask me. [Read more...]
If you have read my recipe how to steam broccoli and why you should not boil it like many people does – then you know much I love broccoli. I think that broccoli have a wonderful fresh taste and the fact that it is packed with great vitamins and nutrition only makes it way better to eat. You simply sit back with a great feeling after you have eaten this great vegetable. [Read more...]
Whether it is new year’s eve or just a Saturday evening relaxing on the couch this recipe for homemade Brownie cake is the perfect choice for a great dessert. [Read more...]
These Crispy Avocado Fries with a Chipotle sauce is just a perfect starter or a welcome snack for your guests. Find the super easy recipe on this page. [Read more...]
When you have a food blog you have to have a recipe for the best Mojito drink. Besides being my top one favorite drink it is also one of the most popular drinks in the world. [Read more...]
Today, I would like to share another non-Nordic recipe. Even though, the origin for this recipe for minced beef pancakes are not any of the Nordic countries it is still quite normal and a popular dish in the Scandinavia. [Read more...]
The best recipe for bacon wrapped green asparagus is exactly what you can find here on this page.
Even though, it is many years ago since I graduated as a mechanical engineer from the university in Copenhagen I am still seeing my old friends from the school. Every second week we meet up about 10 people from my school to eat dinner together and to have a good time. It is going on by turn, where we are meeting at each other’s homes and then we cook dinner to the rest of the group.
We have a rule that the dinner should be a two-course dinner minimum. I typically always make a two-and-half course dinner; a simple pre-snack when my guests arrive and then a main course and a dessert.
These bacon wrapped green asparagus are one of my all-time favorite pre-snacks when I am having guests over.
A long story short, this recipe I have listed below on this page is one of pre-snack I love to make and a snack that I know people love. They are very simple to make and it does not take that long.
You can serve these bacon wrapped asparagus as they are. I personally like to make a simple homemade dressing/dipping out of some sour cream, different herbs, some lime juice, salt and pepper. You can also serve them with a good olive oil or maybe just Ketchup - basically whatever dipping sauce you prefer.
In the summertime, you can make these bacon wrapped asparagus on the grill in the garden. However, you can also just fry them on a frying pan in the kitchen. This is up to you.
I normally use wooden sticks to secure the bacon around the green asparagus.
You can also use steel meat needles. However, I just think the wooden sticks or toothpick are a better choice. It just looks better somehow.
Basically, it is up to you. If you decide to use wooden sticks, it is a good idea to soak the sticks in water for about 20-30 minutes. This way you reduce the risk that the sticks will burn if you are cooking these bacon asparagus on a charcoal grill in the garden.
This recipe for Danish Cold Potato Salad, or Kold Kartoffelsalat as we called it in Denmark, is a great summer side dish and is a most-have for a traditional Nordic barbecue party. Cold Potato Salad is a fantastic side dish for most types of meat especially sausages and pork made on a grill. It is very easy to prepare and it has a great and fresh taste which is perfect for a hot summer day. For me, this dish has some great memories attached to it. I always remember it from my childhood and that we almost always had it as a side dish in the summer time. I did grow up in a family where almost all dinners, during the summer period, were prepared on a grill in the garden - so of course we did eat a lot of Danish Cold Potato Salad. [Read more...]
Sun-dried tomato Parmesan pesto is just fantastic for your breakfast bread or as spreading in your lunch sandwich. Of course, there are many other great things that you can use this homemade sun dried tomato pesto for - the two above examples are just what I typically like. [Read more...]
Today, I would like to share another Danish recipe. In Denmark we refers to this recipe as 'Hens in Tartlets' or sometimes simply just 'tartlets'. Hens in tartlets is an old and very traditional Danish recipe. Even though, this is an old dish it is still very popular and is typically served at buffets at restaurants around in Denmark, at Christmas dinners or maybe just at home, a Saturday evening, when you are hungry for traditional Danish food. They are sometimes uses as a starter because of their relatively small size and 'lightness'. However, they are also sometimes served as the main course typically together with some other food. [Read more...]
This recipe I am sharing here on this page is actually as far away from the traditional Nordic kitchen as it can possibly get. However, this recipe for a chicken red chili curry is just fantastic - the taste is very rich and it just has the right amount of spicy flavor from the red curry paste. This is overall a super delicious dish. Besides being very delicious, it is also very simple to make. I uses this recipe when I want to prepare some fast but also when I want a good looking and tasteful dish - perfect when you are having guests over for dinner. [Read more...]
Today I would like to share a very old and traditional Danish recipe. This Danish recipe is called Boller I Karry which directly translated into English would be Danish Meatballs in Curry. I remember having had this dish since I was a kid and that it was one of my favorite. I know that my mother also liked making this dish because it is tasteful and easy to prepare.
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This recipe I would like to share with you here on this blog page is probably, and unfortunately, not invented in Denmark even though I would have loved it had been. Breaded pork chops is probably hard to assign to one specific country but if it should be one, it should be Germany or Austria. Denmark it located just north of Germany and part of the Danish island Jutland shares boarders with Germany. Germany is a very large country compared to Denmark - in Germany, there lives about 80 million people and compared to the 6 million people in Denmark, it is a large country. Because Germany is so large, I think it is safe to say that Germany has its own food culture. Of course, because Denmark and Germany are located so close to each other we do share a few dishes, which people from both countries, would call traditional food in their own country. Actually, the Schweineschnitzel is from Austria. However, it is widely served in Germany. [Read more...]
I love easy and fast food and especially also the one that at the same time is very delicious - on this page I would like to share one of these dinner dishes with you. This recipe for a One-pot tomato basil pasta is just super easy to make and it has a wonderful taste. From start to finish this dish takes about 20 minutes to make and it requires a minimum amount of work from you - what more is there to ask for? [Read more...]
