Minute steaks with tomato and corn mix - Tomatbiff med majsröra

MINUTE STEAKS WITH TOMATO AND CORN MIX
Tomatbiff med majsröra

The minute steaks are braised in the tomato juice until they’re tender and delicious. A tasty vegetable mix is a good accompaniment.

4 servings

4 minute steaks

¼ cup flour
salt, pepper
2 to 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
¾ cup meat bouillon
4 to 5 tablespoons mild chili sauce
a few drops tabasco (optional)

Corn mix:

½ onion
2 tomatoes
½ green bell pepper
2 tablespoons oil
1 can corn off the cob, 12 oz
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 crushed garlic clove
salt, pepper

Coat the steaks with flour and sprinkle with some salt and pepper. Melt the fat in a frying pan and brown the meat on both sides. Add bouillon, chili sauce and optional tabasco. Cover with a lid and simmer for about 30 minutes. Turn the meat after half the time.

Finely chop the onion for the corn mix. Cut tomatoes and bell pepper in pieces. Heat up the oil and sizzle onion and sweet pepper until tender. Blend in tomatoes, corn, vinegar and garlic and simmer slowly for a minute or so.

Flavour to taste with salt and pepper and serve the mix with the steaks.

Enjoy!

Bella

Quick and easy veggie omelet - Snabbomelett med grönsaker

QUICK AND EASY VEGGIE OMELET
Snabbomelett med grönsaker

A veggie omelet with cheese is excellent for lunch or supper, if you’re in need of something that doesn’t take forever to make.

4 servings

8 eggs

1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
black pepper
6 oz fresh broccoli
(or frozen and thawed)
1 middle-sized zucchini
1 piece leek, approx 4 inches
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons cooking oil
8 cherry tomatoes or 2 normal-sized
tomatoes in wedges
2/3 cup grated cheese, e.g. Cheddar
or Jarlsberg
1 tablespoon chopped parsley or dill

Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper with a fork. Cut the broccoli in pieces, slice the zucchini and shred the leek. Heat butter or margarine and oil in a large frying pan and sizzle the broccoli on low heat while stirring for about 5 minutes. Add zucchini and leek and sauté on low heat while stirring for about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and pour the egg batter over it all. Stir lightly with a fork.

Sprinkle with cheese, cover with a lid and bake the omelet on low heat until set and the cheese has melted, approx 10 minutes. Loosen it gently with a spatula and slide it onto a serving plate. Sprinkle with parsley and serve with a salad and/or bread.

Enjoy!

Bella

Wheat swirls - Vetesnurror

WHEAT SWIRLS
Vetesnurror

Golden yellow wheat swirls with a delicious nut filling. You can pimp the glazing by flavouring it with coffee.

48 swirls

5 oz butter or margarine

2 cups milk
1 ¾ oz fresh yeast
good ¾ cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
5 ¼ to 6 cups flour

Filling:

3½ oz hazelnuts
5 oz soft butter or margarine
2/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar

Glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons strong coffee

Melt the fat in a saucepan. Add the milk and heat to 37°C, body heat. Crumble the yeast in a mixing bowl and stir it with some of the liquid. Add remaining liquid, salt and then the flour, little by little. Work the dough until pliable and no longer sticking to the bowl. Cover and leave to prove for about 30 minutes.

Turn the dough up onto a floured work surface and knead until smooth. Divide it in 4 parts and roll each part out to an oblong cake.

Grind the nuts for the filling and mix them with fat, sugar and vanilla sugar. Spread the filling over the 4 cakes and roll them up. Cut each roll in 12 pieces and put them, cut side up, in paper tins. Cover and leave to prove for about 30 minutes.

Bake in the middle of the oven at 390F for about 10 minutes.

Stir powdered sugar and coffee until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the buns and let set. Serve and enjoy!

Bella

Warm cheese-and-ham sandwiches - Varma ost- och skinksmörgåsar

WARM CHEESE-AND-HAM SANDWICHES
Varma ost- och skinksmörgåsar

A warm sandwich is good with a cup of tea or a glass of juice (or milk for me, please!). These are made with cheese, ham and mustard butter.

8 sandwiches

8 hamburger buns

Mustard butter:

3½ oz butter or margarine
2 tablespoons mustard
2 teaspoons grated horseradish
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon poppyseeds (optional)

8 slices smoked ham

8 slices cheese, strong if you like that

Split the hamburger buns. Stir together fat, mustard, horseradish, onion and optional poppyseeds and stir until smooth. Spread the mustard butter on the bread halves.

Put 1 slice ham and 1 slice cheese on 8 of the bread halves and then top with the other halves. Wrap the sandwiches up in aluminum foil and put them on a baking plate. Bake in the oven at 390F for about 20 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the sandwiches are heated through.

Serve with a salad of iceberg lettuce, shredded red bell pepper and split blue grapes.

Enjoy!

Bella

Oven-baked strawberries - Ugnsbakade jordgubbar

OVEN-BAKED STRAWBERRIES
Ugnsbakade jordgubbar

A lovely summer dessert to make when there’s plenty of strawberries. In the winter you can use frozen berries.

4 servings

4 cups fresh strawberries

or 1 lb frozen berries
1 piece of vanilla stick
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 cup white wine
1½ tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
¼ cup flour
2 eggs
1 to 2 tablespoons chopped Almonds

Trim the strawberries and put them in an oven-proof dish. Scrape out the seeds from the vanilla stick and mix them with powdered sugar, wine and lemon juice, pour it over the berries and marinate them for about 30 minutes.

Pour the marinade in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Mix fat and flour and beat it into the marinade. Boil for a few minutes until it thickens. Beat the egg yolks into the sauce. Beat the egg whites stiff and turn them into the crème. Pour the crème over the strawberries and sprinkle with almonds.

Bake in the upper part of the oven at 480F for about 10 minutes. Serve and enjoy!

You can substitute the white wine with cider or elderberry drink.

Enjoy!

Bella

Summery Swiss roll - Sommarrulltårta

SUMMERY SWISS ROLL
Sommarrulltårta

The strawberry is the summer berry no 1 here in Sweden. Fill your Swiss roll with mashed strawberries, slice it and enjoy the summer.

1 Swiss roll, 18 to 20 slices

3 eggs

¾ cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/3 cup potato starch
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 cups fresh strawberries
1 tablespoon sugar

Beat eggs and sugar white and fluffy. Mix flour, potato starch, vanilla sugar and baking powder in a bowl, then gently stir this into the egg batter. Pour in a roasting pan dressed with baking paper, approx 16 x 12 inches, and bake in the middle of the oven at 390 to 440F for about 8 minutes. Sprinkle the surface with sugar and unmould onto waxed paper. Pull off the baking paper.

Mash the strawberries and flavour with sugar. Divide the strawberry mash over the cake and roll it up from the long side. Leave it wrapped in the waxed paper until serving.

Enjoy!

Bella

Quick and easy goulash - Snabblagad gulasch

QUICK AND EASY GOULASH
Snabblagad gulasch

This goulash is made in approx 30 minutes. The time might vary depending on the tenderness of the meat. This is ideal when you have to get dinner on the table in a hurry.

4 servings

1 1/3 lbs boneless beef, e.g.

thick flank or rump steak
½ onion
½ red bell pepper
½ green bell pepper
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 ¾ cups meat bouillon
4 tablespoons red wine
1 tablespoon vinegar
½ teaspoon salt
½ to 1 tablespoon paprika
½ teaspoon dried marjoram
½ teaspoon caraway
white pepper

Thinly shred the meat. Chop onion and bell peppers. Melt the fat in a frying pot or large frying pan and sizzle the onion for a couple of minutes. Add the shredded meat and brown all around until coloured. Sprinkle with flour, stir and dilute with bouillon. Add sweet peppers, wine, vinegar, salt and spices.

Simmer slowly for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Flavour to taste and adjust if necessary. Serve and enjoy!

Bella