May 1st is my birthday. In the US, people usually take you out to enjoy your day.  In Sweden, you treat everyone else. As a girl who loves to cook, I seized the opportunity to try out some recipes from The French Laundry Cookbook, which I received for Christmas. The menu was: Salmon Tartare Cornets, [...]

Salmon Puttanesca After a couple weeks of low-carb eating, I was craving pasta!  I didn’t have penne on hand, but this whole-grain spaghetti worked fine…. and I think I used a higher concentration of olives and capers.  Olives actually fall into that “food quirk” category. I used to *hate* olives.  (I know, what kind of [...]

Chipotle Salmon, Apple Cucumber salsa, slaw and avocado This was *super*  yummy. Highly recommend it!  Make it gluten-free by omitting taco shells.

Eric Ripert’s Seared Cod with Spicy Mussel Aioli is a pricey dish with the cost of mussels…. My sauce also thickened a bit too much, but it still tasted wonderful.  I don’t, however, agree that this is a fast meal like the recipe says. Roasting your own red pepper and removing mussels from their shells [...]

Decided to a tasting of Chimay White and Blue. While we didn’t have tulip glasses, wine glasses worked out — Chimay says never drink their beer in a pilsner glass! Paired with Chicken Masala w/ peas….