Hyper Munch Food Pics

Tagliatelle and sauce with beef, sunflower seeds, roasted sweet pepper and sun dried tomatoes.

Homemade Intian cuisine (bread I bought, though). In salad, there's carrots, root celery, fennel, dried apricots and lime juice. Far back there's button mushrooms with peas, fresh cheese and spicy green sauce. In the foreground, there's chicken with tasty yoghurt and cream sauce thickened with crushed pistachio

Having lunch at restaurant Metropol, Turku. Main main course was liver, which is not exactly my thing. Luckily, there was other options, too. I had pizza and lasagna, which was quite nice.

Chicken-veggie (root celery, zucchini, fennel, carrots)  casserole with smashed potatoes and cheddar sauce. Salad with cheese, sunflower seeds, spinach, and pomegranate - and some coleslaw. 

Somewhat nontraditional xmas dinner for one: Traditional mashed rutabaga, roasted lamb, potatoes, carrots, red wine (El Tesoro Monastrell Shiraz). Simple but luxurious.

Pastry was introduced first time in Vaasa, Finland, at the beginning of 1900’s. Don’t know why it’s named bebe (french ‘bébé’, baby).

Saturday's dinner: Parsnip in cream, pea shoots, rye pita, chicken fillets, garlic cream cheese.

Secret garden is the wine which tastes more sweet cider than a wine. Maybe that’s why I liked it, even though I dislike most of the light sweet wines. You could imagine wine would be crisp because of rhubarb, but it’s not. How ever, you also can taste rhubarb in it.  Pretty colour, isn’t it? 

It’s not truly Indian food, but it’s still good! Sauce is garam masala based and there’s some chicken, cream, tomato,  spinach,  Finnish squeaky cheese, sweet pepper and  jerusalem artichoke in it. You surely can get also water chestnuts in Finland almost everywhere, but I prefer using jerusalem artichoke.  Both sprouts and naan bread are from grocery store. --- Yogurt brand used in portion is the one Finns tend to call the name “partasetä” aka “Old bearded uncle/chap”. Name is so common, that I’ve even heard people using word “bearded” as synonym for fatty Turkish or Greek yogurt; if there’s pic of church or cow in container, we have then “bearded church yogurt” or “bearded cow yougurt”, which sounds quite funny.  Basicly “partasetä” caused a small scandal, when a old chap in photo got to know, that a) he had begun an yogurt mannequin without nobody telling or paying him and b) that he was represented as Turk, even if he’s Greek. Both are good reasons to be angry, for Greece and Turkey are traditionally lil bit like cat and dog. 

I visited home and made some quinoa porridge for breakfast. There’s some quinoa, apple, honey, butter and little bit cream in it. Quite nice, in fact.  (Little ant keeping me company is made of lace making bobbin and iron wire. Lace making has been typical old form of handcraft in town I was born. My grandpa made lace till heart disease made it impossible.  Old document video considering the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mugoptnb0ME )

We needed something light and quick. There’s goatweed from Tapio’s yard, cherry tomatoes, surimi, cucumber, brie and mayo with tortilla. 

Quick pasta with cream and goatweed and chicken with goat cheese and devil’s jam. 

Quail eggs bought from local food happening Reko, before and after eating. Isn’t the blue/green inner part of egg shells pretty?  

Restaurant day is a Finnish innovation. Basic idea is that law gives everyone the possibility to sell food you have made, if you don’t do it often, as a real business.  Our comic society in Turku has participated in Restaurant day several times. There’s some pics I took last time. Of course we also had a food themed comic content, as you can see.  Our theme was horror, so food was served in shape of pentagram. We had as  pulled chicken or pulled eggplant with flat bread and sauces as an main course. Starter was soup made of goatweed and beans. Dessert was vegan cake, two different options.  (Skeleton is asking to have some meat on his bones, and gets annoyed when he gets exactly what he asked.) 

Greetings from Stockholm-Turku ship; wine was quite nice.

Having some dinner with my lil bro. Maneerat is on of the best if not greatest thai restaurant in Turku. They have lunch, but be prepared to wait, for Maneerat is very small and very popular. During weekends, booking the table is good idea. My brother ate red chicken curry he liked quite a much, I had chicken and green papaya salad, which was tasty, also. http://www.ravintolamaneerat.fi/menu

French waffle in Stockholm. I like this type of stuff. Very crispy, not too sweet.