Potatoes with mushrooms

When I have a walk in the morning I always bring home some mushrooms :)

Here are Suillus mushrooms.

I boiled them in salted water. I sauteed one onion on the skillet, added mushrooms, then added boiled potatoes and then a couple tbsp of Turkish yogurt. And fresh dill.

Good, so good! Simple and delicious!

Potato salad

I took this recipe. I didn't have any spinach. And I bought organic feta cheese and used 50 g of sundried tomatoes instead of Apetina product.

Good! I'll make it again soon :)

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Katia

Draniki

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Big harvest

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Katia

Simtalapis

When we lived in Belarus we used to visit Vilnius, Lithuania, very often. I liked to take this cake every time when we were there. Delicious, flavourful, sweet cake! I recommend it!

Now we don't go there and I cannot buy it again so I decided I must learn how to make it at home. I baked it once already. It was good and tasty but making dough took long time. So this time I decided to taste this cake with filo dough from a shop. It wasn't a good idea. Too dry. Too bland. I will make it again with dough from the scratch and will enjoy it with a cup of tea :)

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Katia

Mushrooms... again

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Katia

Waffles time

Saturday morning and our breakfast :)

Sourdough waffles with fruit and Turkish yogurt.

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Katia

Melon

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Katia

Mushrooms

I think I need to avoid picking up mushrooms next time :)

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Katia

Grapes

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Apples

I picked them up during my morning walk :) Late summer treasures!

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Katia

Pirozhki with cabbage and mushrooms

I have tried to make this dish a few times in my life. And every time it was a disaster :)

But this time I managed to bake them not only delicious but beautiful too... I think about making them again and taking photos of the process.

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Katia

Cottage cheese pancakes/Syrniki

I like this dish a lot, but it requires good cottage cheese. And it's a big problem here, in Finland...

This one wasn't good. But we ate them up with strawberry jam. The jam was delicious :)

Mushrooms

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Katia

Potato degustation

A few years ago I went to my parents' home for autumn vacation. It was September and it was time to harvest potatoes. My parents have a kitchen garden with many different kinds of vegetables. They have three sorts of potatoes: "white", "pink"and "violet". Nobody has ever known the real names for these sorts. I decided to find in what ways they differed.

I picked a few of each kind and cooked them in different pots. "White" was dense. "Pink"was starchy and fluffy. I don't remember exactly if "violet"potatoes were any special. My favourite one was "pink". It is good to use for mashed potatoes.

It was an amazing experience that I have been recalling very often ever since.

So when I saw many kinds of potatoes with real names on a local market I thought we needed to taste at least some of them... 

So here it is :)

Eight kinds of Finnish potatoes:

1. Challenger

2. Siikli

3. Jussi

4. Annabelle

5. Sunita

6. Solist

7. Puikuka

8. Colomba

We cooked them during 30 min. Each one has its own flavour and taste.

Challenger and Colomba didn't have any differences. Puikula was too old and too dry. Solist, Annabelle and Sunita were dense; for salad. Sunita is our favourite: not too sweet as Solist. Siikli and Jussi are the best for mached potatoes. They are very starchy and even break when being boiled. Siikli has the most adorable flavour like butter.

IMHO.

So it was very interesting :)

And we had a lot of cooked potatoes to eat for the next few days.

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Katia

From my balcony

Parsley, strawberries and the first tomato :) Sweet and juicy!

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Katia

Birthday lunch

I've learned so much about cooking this year. This baked chicken was something special! So juicy! I marinated it in teriyaki sauce during the night and put this chicken on a glass jar filled with water and baked it in the oven during 2 hours, 160° C.

My oven is not too high, and I had to put some foil on the top of the chicken for the last 30-40 min, so that it would not burn.

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Katia