Bread without an oven?

Making bread is complicated and time consuming, at least that's what I think. That's why I was so happy to find this recipe for a bread you make on the stove. It seemed easy to put together and it was!

Here is how to make it..

I named it "Pan Bread"

INGREDIENTS for 6 breads

25 gram butter

250 ml milk

1/4 packet yeast 

1 tsp salt

2 tsp syrup

600 ml plain flour

HOW TO MAKE IT

1. Melt the butter and stir the milk in and heat the mixture to body temperature. Then add the yeast and whisk it so that the yeast dissolves.

2. Add salt, syrup and flour. Knead it to a dough. 

3. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes under a baking towel. 

4. Preheat the frying pan on medium heat. Do not add any oil or butter to the cooking. 

5. Bake them out round with a baking roller. Then put them in the pan. If you don't want them to puff 

 up, take a fork and make little holes over the entire bread. 

It's really tasty. I just put some butter on and ate it like that, but I was thinking that you could use it to make wraps or something like that.

/Amanda

A healthy snack, under 100 calories

Grilled seaweed are the perfect snack! It is tasty (the most important quality in a snack), it contains a lot of essential nutrients and it is low in calories and fat. Also seaweed has a lot of fibers. The entire bag of Grilled Seaweed Super Crisp contains 80 calories, 0 grams of fat and 25 grams of fiber. Perfect for those lazy days when you don't even bother to change out of your jammies and the only thing you do is to watch eight hours of your favorite series. You could eat three bags of Grilled Seaweed before you came up in the same amount of calories as there is in a small bag of chips. Amazing!

Grilled Seaweed Super Crisp

The only bad thing with the Grilled Seaweed is that it is probably not available in your local food store. Go and look in the closest Thai or Chinese food store, they usually sell them there. 

/Amanda

Mmm... Smoked Salmon On Toast With Raw Leeks

I love to cook! To make something a bit more complicated so you have to follow a recipe to the last detail or to just use your imagination, take what you have in the fridge and improvise. But sometimes the easiest things are also the best. My lunch today was one like that and also one of my favorites; toast with cream cheese and smoked salmon with raw leeks on top. The people I live with thought I was a bit strange for eating raw leeks. Maybe it is something Swedish? Anyway, try it! This sandwich is perfect as it is or with a nice hot soup to warm you up after a day out!

Hope you all give yourself a treat this weekend and celebrate cause it's FRIDAY!

//Frida

Toast with cream cheese, smoked salmon and raw leeks. 

Photo: Frida Hansson

Heaven in a yellow plastic container...

Messmör is my all time favorite spreading. It's so good! I've missed it since I moved here to London a month and a half ago, and did not come up with the idea to go to a Swedish store and buy it until just now. Messmör is a Swedish dairy product that taste kind of sweat. It is hard to describe the taste of it. The only word I have for it is... well, GOOD! Since it is a Swedish product it is probably not available at your local London food store. If you want to try it my tip is to go to a Swedish store. In London there are a couple.

Scandinavian Kitchen lies about 250 meters from Oxford Circus. It is both a cafe and a shop.

Totally Swedish is a chain of food stores. There are two here in London.

Messmör

If you buy it you need to try thees three Messmörs sandwiches. 

1. Simply take a slice of bread, spread some butter on it and then some Messmör.

2. A little more advanced. Take bread and spread some butter on it. Put some Messmör on the bread and then a slice of cheese. Done!

3. Might seem weird, but Messmör is really good to eat with banana. Just put a layer on top of a banana and eat it with a spoon. 

/Amanda