Kristin's Cookbook Project

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.

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.

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.

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.