In Season Recipes

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Hi to all the lovely ladies on this great thread!

Been a while since my last post, I have been busy enjoying the Italian and Icelandic summer.  We travelled a lot in Italy Milan-Parma-Rimini-Toscany-Garda-Milan in 14 days.

Travelling with 2 kids made us skip the big cities but we enjoyed the country side to the fullest.  Of course we tasted a lot of great food and even better vines.

Here are some pics 

 Hope you are all well.  Kind regards, Idun

TY Idun for sharing. Very Lovley

Thanks girls.  The Italian cuisine is wonderful, my younger one had a simple taste though, lots of gelatos and pizza margaritas 

Anyway, I wanted to share with you this tasty dish I had at a friends house last week.  Going from Italian cuisine straight to Japanese :-)

Japanese chicken salad

4 chicken breasts, skinless, cut in strips and stir fried in oil.  One bottle of  Sweet hot chilli sauce added and cooked until chicken is readily cooked.

Sauce for salad:

½ cup oil

¼ cup balsamic vinegar

2 tbsp sugar or sweetener of choice

2 tbsp soy sauce

Cooked together for app. 1 minute, chilled and stirred occasionally so oil will be sufficiently combined to the mixture.  

1 bag instant noodles – spices excluded.

1-2 tbsp Sesame seeds

Break the noodles to small pieces  and dry roast them on pan until crisp.  When they are almost done add the sesame seeds.  Cool.

Salad of your choice

Cherry tomatoes

1 mango

1 small read onion

1/2 jar feta cheese

Finally combine all the ingredients in a bowl.  First salad, tomatoes, mango and onion.  Then the noodles/sesame, pour the balsam sauce over and finish with the chicken.

Enjoy :-)

Hello everyone great pictures!  The garden is going full guns, I am living on creamed cucumbers!  I use some sour cream, some yogurt, a little red wine vinegar, dill leaves, shallots or sweet onions, a little maple syrup, mix well and ad pour over cucumbers, I add tomatoes when we eat but the cucumbers are good for a couple of days, we had Harvard beets, cook beets, drain add some butter, make a slurry of vinegar, corn starch, salt pepper, and sweetener, we use maple but you can use any sweetener, add to beets, heat until thickened.

We had our first sweet corn it is so good!  I love the garden season!  We have had lots of beans, they are slowing down, I canned 3 bean salad this year it is pretty good, a little sweet, next year I will cut back the sugar a bit.  I made some blueberry mojito jam it is good, blueberries, lime zest and juice, sugar, and pectin!