This is a post of food picspam

[maddeinin]

Hi. Remember when I used to post food pictures? Those were the days.

This is basically everything I've photographed since September or so, food-wise. Except for a mushroom salad that I've mislaid both photos and recipe for. (What the hell, self? It was a good salad, too.)

Comments

[jesshelga]

This is a lemon pie...The recipe is adapted from a Finnish mag, but I can translate it if someone wants it.

God. Yes.

Hooray for the return of Cloudberryquarkisms!

Lemon pie

[maddeinin]

for the crust
75 g (2½ oz/5 tbsp) butter
300 ml (1¼ cup) all-purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg

Cut first four ingredients together to make a crumbly paste-y mixture. Blend in the egg. Press into a smallish pie form (I think mine's about 20-22 cm) and bake at 200°C/400°F for 15 minutes. (The dough is quite dry and a bit crumbly but should keep its shape when you press it into the dish.) Let cool.

for the filling
80 g (scant 3 oz/6 tbsp) butter
350 ml (1½ cup) ground almonds
200 ml (7 fl oz) sugar
2 tbsp Cointreau
zest and juice from 2 large lemons
4 eggs

Whip the eggs until they're really fluffy. Melt the butter and stir in almonds and sugar. Add lemon and cointreau, then carefully fold in the eggs. Bake at 200°C/400°F for about 20 minutes, until the filling's set. Serve cool, dusted with icing sugar. The recipe says to serve it with ice cream or whipped cream, which sort of takes away the point, I think. Some sort of fruit or berry sauce/compote would be wonderful. Ooh! Strawberry-mint salsa. Yes

[jenlev]

Please teleport all of these meals to my house right away. Thanks, ;)

Seriously, this all looks marvelous.

[maddeinin]

Thanks. They're all, except the broccoli salad, looooong gone by now. In fact I'm thinking about making the lasagna again next week. Yum.

[jenlev]

Yum indeed. :)

[sainfoin_fields]

Gorgeous. Also, I had no idea until just now that cloudberries and quark are actual food items? DAMN YOU, TERROIR. I bet with a little work I could score some quark, though.

Anyway, I would love to see the potato broccoli salad, as that sounds like my dream salad (though I'd remove the bacon).

[maddeinin]

Heee. Well, they're both sort of vaguely East European/exotic and stuff, which is why I picked them

[curiouswombat]

Oh - drool - I think I'd just better lock myself out of the kitchen until I feel less hungry now...!

[maddeinin]

Heeee! That is a very nice compliment.

[spacedoutlooney]

Oh, yes, please post the broccoli potato salad recipe!

[maddeinin]

Broccoli Potato Salad

[spacedoutlooney]

Ooh, thank you! I looks yummy!