Flintstone open face sandwiches

Fred and Wilma Flintstone open face sandwiches :-)

I used white cheese for Fred's face, nori for his ear, eyebrows, nose, eyes, hair, and mouth. Boiled egg cut out white part into oval shape for his eyes. Bologna for his beard and paprika ham for his collar.

For Wilma I used cheddar cheese for her hair, nori for her nose, eye brows, eyes, and hair details. Salami for her lips. White cheese for her face.

Bunny face wrap sandwich

I had leftover flour tortilla and wanted to make something out of it, so I made bunny face wrap sandwich. Made with bologna, cheddar cheese, white cheese, nori for eyes and whiskers.

Turkey, vegetable, bread stuffing dumpling soup

Homemade turkey, vegetable, bread stuffing dumpling soup. My kids loves this soup. Norway is cold country and this is the soup to warm the soul. 

2 loaf bread cut into cubes
2 cups celery stalk with leaves cut into bite size
2 medium onion, chopped
2 cups of diced sweet chicken sausages
1 granny apples, cute into cubes
1 cup dried cranberries
tablespoons fresh sage, thymes, parsley, chives
other spices
dash of salt and pepper for taste
2 medium eggs, beaten
1/2 cup all purpose flour
6-7 cups chicken stock
In a hot skillet, melted 2 tablespoons butter, sauteed celery and onions for 6 minutes, then added sausage, stirred and cooked for another  6 minutes. Then transferred in a large mixing bowl. Added in diced bread cubes, diced apples, dried cranberries, herbs, and spices, salt, pepper. Added in beaten eggs and flour, mix well. Poured in stock, mixed and combined everything together until firm,  then covered, and set aside.

Homemade stock

 Reheated stock on medium heat, added in sauteed onions. Added diced celery, carrots, and thymes, cook until vegetable are soft. Let soup simmer for half hour. Meanwhile soup was simmering I rolled tablespoons of the dumpling mixture into balls, and dropped each dumplings into the simmering soup. Cooked dumplings for 4 minutes. Then stirred in 3 cups shredded cooked turkey meat, corn, peas, and season with salt and pepper, and herbs. Let soup simmer for 15-20 minutes. 

Thanksgiving Dinner!

 My son's school lunch on Thanksgiving day was a turkey sandwich.

This is a Thanksgiving Dinner in Norway. The Neang-Hansen way. It was difficult finding the ingredients for my turkey dinner because Norway don't celebrate Thanksgiving.  I made homemade French Sausage, Apple, Cranberry, herb stuffing, twice baked stuffed sweet potato topped with bacon, green bean and bacon casserole, homemade gravy, and fried turkey. I never tried fried a turkey before I usually roast my turkey. I wanted to try something different and the turkey came out delicious.
For dessert I made pecan tarts. They were yummy. Happy Thanksgiving!

Sauteed celery, onions, apples, French sausages, dried cranberries, parsley, chives, other herbs and seasoning

 Stuffing and twice baked sweet potatoes marshmallow muffins topped with crisped bacon

Green Bean and bacon casserole. 

Our 4.05 kilo turkey......

deep fried turkey

Pecan tarts.

Baked Creamy chicken and spinach won ton cups

Today's dinner was homemade baked creamy chicken and spinach won ton cups. This was delicious and popular with my kids. 

1 packaged wonton wraps
800 grams ground chicken seasoned with salt, pepper, seasoning sauce, garlic powder, paprika, and cayenne pepper.
3 cups frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
200 grams Philadelphia cream cheese
1 packaged dried rømme seasoning
1/2 cup chicken stock
dash nutmeg
shredded cheese

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large deep skillet, heated tablespoons olive oil, add in marinaded ground chicken, cook for 8-10 minutes until done, then add in spinach, cream cheese, knorr dried rømme seasoning, and stock, stir well. Add a dash of nutmeg and cook for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and set a side.

In a muffin pan, greased each with a little olive oil, lay wonton wrap in each muffin tin and bake in the oven  for 4 minutes until lightly brown.  

Remove from oven and spoon in chicken/spinach mixture in each wonton, place muffin pan back in the oven, bake for 4 minutes. Remove from oven. Let cool, transfer wonton on a plate and serve.

Vietnamese Pancake

During the weekend was my son's 6th birthday. I have been busy in the kitchen. I've made homemade pork spring rolls and Vietnamese pancakes. I will post my recipe later this week.

Kung Fu sandwich

My son's lunch for tomorrow is Kung Fu sandwich with leftover mini chicken meatballs and salad.

Homemade mini chicken meatballs and homemade tomato sauce

Today for dinner I made homemade mini chicken meatballs, homemade tomato sauce, served over fresh homemade pasta. My kids loved it especially my youngest 1 1/2 year old daughter. She kept screaming every time she didn't have any pasta in her little mouth. I was surprised myself because she is picky with her food. My husband wanted seconds but I had to lie to him and said I didn't make so much. Leftover is in a sealed container and put away so my husband has no idea where it is. Only I do.

Mini Chicken meatballs
800 grams fresh ground chicken
1/2 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons minced onion
2 clove garlic, minced
salt & pepper for taste
1/2 tablespoon lemon pepper
tablespoon seasoning sauce
tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt


In a large bowl combine all ingredients well and form meat into small balls and set a side.

4 tablespoons olive oil.

Heat a sauce pan on medium/high heat. Add 4 tablespoons olive oil. When oil is hot cook mini chicken meatballs until golden about 4-6 minutes, repeat.

Place meatballs on a line paper towel to get rid of excess oil. Set a side.

With the same sauce pan that I cooked my chicken meatballs in, with the leftover olive oil, on high heat, I added in 1 onion minced. Stirred, sauteed for 8 minutes. I added in 2 tablespoons red wine, cooked and stirred for another 4 minutes. Then added in 2 clove minced garlic, stirred, cooked for another couple minutes until golden brown. Added 1 cup diced tomatoes, a can of whole plum tomatoes, tablespoons tomato puree, 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, seasoned with salt and pepper, and other seasoning. Sauce was a little thick so I added in about 1/3 cup pasta water. Added in mini chicken meatballs. Stirred, lowered heat, covered, and let simmer for 10 minutes. Served over fresh cooked pasta.

Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas

The other day for lunch I made whole wheat tortilla buffalo chicken wraps. It was yummy and I made my own whole wheat flour tortillas.

Buffalo ground chicken:
 http://sorieyahomemadecooking.blogspot.no/2012/09/quick-and-simple-buffalo-chicken-tacos.html

Wheat flour tortillas
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups whole wheat bread flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melange (Melange is almost like shortning (www.melange.no). I couldn't find shortning in the Norwegian grocery stores and I didn't want to take a drive to Sweden just to buy shortning so I just used melange).
1 1/2 cups hot water

In a large mixing bowl, combined flour, wheat flour, baking powder, and salt combined well with a whisk. Then I added in melange with a fork break into small pieces. Then I added in hot water, stirred until dough became thick, knead with my hands until dough was smooth and not too sticky.

I separated my dough into balls about 2 inches diameter. Let dough balls rest on the table for 8 minutes, covered with a clean kitchen towel. On a flour surfaced I roll each balls into an 10 inch circle with a rolling pin and flat as can be but not too too thin.

In a skillet on low/medium heat, cooked each tortillas for about 1-3 minutes on both side just until it was cooked through/lightly brown.

I stacked tortillas under a clean towel to keep them warm and kept cooking the rest. I filled in my wheat tortillas with buffalo ground chicken, crumbled blue cheese, crisped lettuce, and shredded Jarlsberg cheese served with a side of homemade blue cheese dipping sauce.

Mini chicken meatball bread bowl

Yay, it's finally Friday! Dennis lunch for school is my homemade mini chicken meatball bread bowl with a little teddy smile and a little of mommy's homemade chocolate peanut butter fudge. I will post recipe later because I need some peace and quit around here which I'm not getting with 3 very loud energetic kids. It's going to be a very hectic weeks to come.

My Halloween cupcakes

I made homemade mini spider chocolate cupcakes with Oreo cookie topping, marshmallows, and black licorice and eye ball cupcakes. Friday treats for my kids.