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Acehnese Chicken With Curry Leaves

As there was a combined Asian and Middle-Eastern grocery store that has finally opened in the small coastal town where I live, it made it a lot easier for me finding some non-western cooking ingredients that the "regular" grocery stores and supermarkets don't have. One of those things being curry leaves, which meant I could finally make Acehnese Chicken with Curry Leaves from the cookbook named Coconut & Sambal by Lara Lee. While this was perhaps a slightly more complicated and time-consuming recipe, it was still fairly easy to make. Even with A LOT of chili in it, it didn't taste too overpowering spicy hot, but I do enjoy when the food has a kick to it. I can admit I'm more used to Thai, Chinese, and Indian food, so I do enjoy trying something a bit different from time to time, and I'll probably make this one again some time.
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Chocolate Scones

As I had some dark chocolate I wanted to use up, I made chocolate scones based on a recipe from a cookbook called "Sjokolade" (Chocolate), but I'm unsure who the author is though. Chocolate and scones, what could go wrong? Not much really, as it was a fairly easy recipe to make, so I'll most certainly make it again some time. The only thing I did differently from the actual recipe was that the scones was supposed to be cut into squares, but I decided cutting them into those "pizza slice"-slices instead. Regardless of shape, they tasted good, which is the most important thing.
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Horseradish Salmon

I recently also tried a second salmon dish with horseradish from the "365 sunne middager på en halvtime" by Ingrid Espelid Hovig book, which I'll talk about today. This salmon was breaded before fried on the pan, but somehow I struggled a bit with the breading and getting the salmon breaded properly, but that's more on me rather than it being a crappy recipe. The end result was good though, and I really enjoyed the sauce with it.
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Salmon With Spinach and Horseradish Sour Cream

Sorry that I haven't been good at updating here lately, but I'll play a bit catch-up starting today, posting about some of the things I've made in the last couple of months. First off, salmon with spinach and horseradish sour cream, which I made from a Norwegian cookbook called "365 sunne middager på en halvtime" edited by Ingrid Espelid Hovig (roughly translated as "365 healthy dinners in less than 30 minutes). Obviously, based on the title of the cookbook, it's a dinner that's fairly quick to make, which is always a good thing. When I baked the salmon in the oven, I decided making it a bit more interesting flavour-wise by adding pink pepper. Overall, it was an okay dinner, and the flavour of the horseradish gave it a nice little kick without being overpowering.
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Indian Salmon Curry

As I love seafood and I had some salmon I wanted to use, I found a recipe for an Indian salmon curry in a Norwegian cookbook titled "Med smak av India - milde dufter og rike smaker fra Nord-India" by Naresh Mehra. Although the list of spices and such may have been a bit daunting to lots of white people, it was nontheless an easy recipe to follow with a rather tasty result. As it is autumn, almost winter, it's nice with some flavourful and comforting dinners when it's cold outside.
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Vegetable Soup

It's after all soup season, so why not make soup? Recently, I made the vegetable soup that's a nod to Waverly Hills Sanatorium from the cookbook Food To Die For by Amy Bruni. It's one of those recipes that's almost stupidly easy to make - just chopping a few veggies, measure a couple of things, and let it simmer on the stove for an hour. I think even a teenager could make it, perhaps with some supervision from a parent depending on the teen's skills. It's that easy. As it takes an hour on the stove, I can't say it's a quick weeknight dinner, but it's still an easy dish to make. It's tasty too, especially if it's a chilly night where you need to warm up a bit.
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Romanian Marble Pound Cake

When it comes to cakes, I can't deny I've got a weak spot for chocolate (alright, I like chocolate in general), so I couldn't quite resist making a marble pound cake I found in the cookbook named "From Dill To Dracula" by A. M. Ruggirello. The recipe itself was one of the easier ones in my opinion and although it was very much similar to other types of marble pound cake, it had lemon zest in it, which was a nice change. An added bonus for me, as I'm rather terrible when it comes to cake decorating, there's no need for frosting and/or other "fancy" stuff. At least it shows that cakes don't need to be a daunting project.
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