Soy based pudding

I suddenly got the craving for Taho a filipino drinck/dessert, this is one of my childhood memories from my trips to the Philippines, the pudding is called Douhua in chinese  which is more commonly used in savory dishes. My problem was that I did not have gypsum, so I tried to make itg with agar agar instead. The result was nice, but not as creamy as if I had used gypsum and it is a nice substitute for flan or caramel custard/pudding for people who are allergic to eggs or who are lactose intolerant.

Salvation army thrift shop find

Just before easter I found a wooden platter with norwegian "rosemaling" for 35 kroners around  $6-7.

The "rosemaling" technique is very nice and interesting, but it doesn't fit in my house, so I re painted and drew some lines and dots on it. 

Toasted peanuts with garlic

This simple snack bought from street vendors is one of the snacks I remeber from my first trip to the Philipines. Warm and toasty with garlic and salt sold in small paper bags.

Tulip baking cups

I can see from visit on this blog that the baking cups are the most interesting:)

and since I got the idea, I have found easier way to make them and make them nicer.
When I say got the idea, I mean to make homemade ones, because tulip baking cups already existed, but here in Norway they are quite expensive, about $ 12.00 one pack from wilton and on-line they are $ 3.99

I have used origami paper and baking paper 15x15 cm or 6x6 inches and cut the origamipaper so they will have decorative edges.

Made folds as in the picture, not all the way through the middle, you can but I did not.

wraped it around my mold,  a cup the size of the indentations of my cup cake tray

then pressd the folds

and folded them to the side

at the bottom you vil have little corners by the folds sticking up that you need to press dovn.

I usually stack them togheter between to cups so to press them into shape

I also make some of bakingpaper

and put them togeter

for extra decoration I tie a string or a ribbon around it.

Hope the instructions are understandable.

Here are some other that I made :)

Earlier posts about home made baking cups Here and Here

Fruit roll ups

I have not been able to find fruit roll ups in Norway, so when ever we are traveling I stack up on these sweets.

Kilawin/Ceviche

Kilawin is a Filipino dish thatt is very similar to Ceviche,
The difference beeing that in the Philippines they also use vinegar in the dish.

Kitchen garden

I have a small patch about 14 ft by 20 ft in my garden where I grow vegetables and herbs.

In Norway spring has arrived but it is a little bit chilli to plant anything outside at the moment, we stil have a few frost nights still

Gaufre de Liege/Waffles from Liege(belgian waffles)

I fell in love with these waffles on a trip to Brussel in the mid 90, but living in Norway these waffles was not easy to get hold of and the only place I knew where to get them was in Brussels. On a road trip to France many years ago I made my husband take a detour to Brussel just to buy waffles and we ended up having to spend the night, you might say it was the most expencive waffels I have eaten.

 I remeber trying to find recipes on the internet and that was not easy, at that time there was not that many sites with recepies and blogs back then. I did find some recipes, but I have forgotten them by now after all my tryings and failings. After all my attempts I have manage to come up with a decent recipe

500 g flour

1,5  dl luke warm milk

25 g yeast

4 eggs

1/4 tsp salt

5 ss vanilla extract/sugar

150 g room temperatured butter

400 g sanding sugar

mix all the engredients exept for the butter and saning sugar

cover the dough and let it rest for about 30 minutes.

Then knead in the butter and the sanding sugar.
Divide the dough into about 100 g buns

Let the dough rest for another 15 minutes and bake in a preheated waffle iron for about 3 minutes.

If you like this type of waffles I recomend you try this recipe.