Tag: Finnish ingredients
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Lapskoussi Vindication
The last time I tried to make lapskoussi, the carrots won. The town I live in claims the dish, so redemption was non-negotiable.
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Freezer Scrap Redemption
Everything failed eventually becomes bread pudding. The Hawaiian bread disasters, the Stealth Bread ends, the four-year-old carrot oat buns — they all lead here.
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Kermaviili | Cultured Sour Cream
Kermaviili is a cultured cream product sitting quietly at the center of Finnish home cooking without getting nearly enough credit for it. Nobody has ever been nervous about kermaviili. It’s the approachable member of the viili family.
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Mummo Goes to Kozy Shack
Finnish riisipuuro meets American pudding cup, mediated by British custard powder, in a slow cooker made in the USA. Multiple countries in one dessert.
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Piimä | Cultured Buttermilk
Piimä is a fermented milk drink — tangy, pourable, and thinner than yogurt. If you’ve had buttermilk in the US, you’ve had its distant American cousin. They’re not wrong, exactly. But they’re not entirely right, either.
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Vappu, From the Outside
I went looking for Vappu photos and didn’t have any. Sixteen years in Finland, and I’d never documented it. So I took some.
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Kuohukerma | Whipping Cream (Pasteurized)
Finland’s pasteurized heavy cream — the one that handles heat. Kermojen aatelia, the nobility of creams.
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Grahamjauho | Graham Flour / Whole Wheat Flour
The whole wheat flour a 19th-century American minister designed to suppress the urge to get frisky. Also the one sämpyläjauho is cosplaying as.
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Fusilli Alfredo
There are three ways to make alfredo. The Italian way uses three ingredients and decades of technique I don’t have. The American chain way uses flour, which is cheating. My way uses cream, butter, and cheese — just dairy being dairy. A Roman nonna would not approve. My son came back for seconds.
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Sämpyläjauho | Bread Roll Flour
Sämpyläjauho is a Finnish bread roll flour that looks like multigrain, sits next to whole grain flour on the shelf, and radiates wholesome energy. Read the ingredients label. It is refined white flour wearing a costume.