happy music and one pan garlic chicken

… for me is the happiest of all music is ABBA. I belong to the ABBA generation … at the end of the ’70s was I working on a very little cruise liner (M/S Lindblad Explorer) that took me to …

budget dinner for one – shakshuka

Shakshuka is an exciting breakfast dish with tomato and eggs from the Middle East – great for lunch, brunch or dinner. Here I  have simplified the moderate all-in-one dish, normally I would soak up the good sauce with a piece …

sunday delicious quicky – chicken livers with spinach (martin blunos)

I just love chicken liver, probably once every week. Normally I do the same recipe every time because it’s quick and SO tasty: Marc Vetri’s pasta with chicken liver. So yesterday I decided to try something new …. a recipe where …

quick fix – asian salmon salad

The heatwave is here for another week, but they have promised slightly cooler?????!!! This is now nearly 4 weeks of blistering sunshine. It has never been this hot in Sweden … going back over 100 years. We are not built …

four fresh products dinner – bacon wrapped lamb burger with feta cheese.

Everything I used for this dish came out of my freezer except the feta cheese, the lemon, egg and the Crème fraîche. I freeze most fresh meat in portion-size for me as a lonely diner. Even the bacon – freeze the …

vegetarian conversation: pasta with fresh vegetables and add-on chicken

The dish takes about 40 min to make from scratch, so not a quick fix. But what a fantastic dish and so colorful. I got the recipe from one of morning TV programs; news mixed with fashion, culture, flowers, wine, and cooking. …

leftovers & cupboard – chorizo topped baked salmon

Time again to start working on my freezer, have far too much of everything. Honestly, I think I could eat comfortably for 6 months on it. It is all down to that the is no single package of meat, chicken …

speedy pasta – pasta with bacon, spinach & arugula

When I accompanied my friend to her hospital appointment last week, there were some really old and well-read magazines … and in of them, this dish was screaming out to me. And the day after I enjoyed it for dinner …

gone italian again – risotto with spicy sausage

“First we eat, then we do everything else.” M.F.K. Fisher This is a perfect Quick Fix dish … it takes about 15 min to prepare and after that, you will time for whatever you fancy. It is only a couple of years …

easy and tasty – marc vetri’s pasta with chicken liver

Never heard about Marc Vetri before I came across this recipe, but he is one of the big and serious names over there in the big country, USA when it comes to restaurants and great food.  I was visiting Philadelphia 1977 …

frezzer attack dinner – maple mustrad chiken

I wish I would be able to always use fresh ingredients for my everyday dinner, I could .. but I couldn’t afford it. To shop for a single person isn’t the easiest neither when everything is in packs for 4 or …

a bit of heaven ???!!!!- caesar jacket

“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.” Oprah Winfrey I couldn’t call this a “quick fix” dish … at least not when there is a camera involved. I’m a big fan …

at least once a month – mint and lemon glazed lamb chops

Still working through my overloaded freezer … this is a dish I do a couple of times per month the whole year around. Lamb is without a doubt my favourite meat.  I eat it in all forms, style and shape. …

only one fresh ingredients dinner – seared salmon with spinach

Sweden has the highest rate of single living people in the world and still there is no food packaging done for single households, that means that most of the time we have to buy for two … but most of them …

the first summer salad – pasta spinach salad with chicken.

“You don’t win friends with salad.” Homer Simpson This is a recipe that I found on FB last year already, but haven’t come around to try. So today I have been tied up with the laundry … there was time …