Cannelloni

We have gone past the magic date 17th of May and Exam period is officially done - hurrah! It also means that all the chocolate and basically all the other foods we once had in the cupboard are also done. After all the comfort eating it is rather lovely to get back to some sort of proper food. This next experiment came out of a serious trip into the deepest part of our cupboards: it turns out you can make quite a nice dish out of 4 lasagna plates, half a bag of spinach, an onion, chopped tomatoes, and some cheese.

• 4 lasagne plates.
• ca 200 gram of frozen spinach
• 1 onion
• Garlic
• Salt, pepper, chili.

Sauce:

• 1 can of chopped up tomatoes
• Chicken stock
• Chili

Chop up the spinach and onion, and fry lightly with oil and spicec.

Boil the pasta, be careful so they don't stick together. Cut them in half so you will get 8 cannellonis.
Place the spinach on the pasta and roll together, place in oven dish and sprinkle some grated cheese on top.
Grill in oven until golden.

Mix and heat up the tomato sauce and serve with the cannelloni.

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Dream a little dream

Baking SOS = consult my tiny little cookie-book. You might have heard it mentioned before. The title is '7 kinds' (of cookies), in English it has the rather unimaginative title of 'Swedish cakes and cookies'. Also, the title made me laugh, because I am pretty sure that at least some of the recipes mentioned in there are used in a lot of other places beside Sweden....you know, like the ones named English Fruitcake, or Swiss roll...hmm. Be that as it may: they are still tasty, and frankly, who cares about the title. It should just have been a bit funnier. Tiny bit.

Swiss Roll time! Leaving my confused musings on those finer points in life behind (waaay behind) lets explore the yummieness that is Swiss roll.

Dreamroll

• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 dl sugar
• 3/4 dl potato flour
• 2 tablespoons of cacao
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Filling

• 150 g butter
• 2 dl icing sugar
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar/ or essence
• 1 egg yolk

1. Put the oven on 250 degrees (200 degrees if you have a fan-assisted oven).
2. Whisk the egg and sugar into a fluffy mess.
3. Mix together flour, cacao, and baking powder - then stir that into the egg/sugar batter.
4. Fold up the edges on a baking paper, and cover with the batter.
5. Place in the middle in the oven, ca 5 minutes. It will be done very quickly, don't worry if it seems to rise unevenly, it will be more even when it is taken out.
6. Flip the cake onto a dampened (not drenched!) tea-towel, sprinkled with a bit of sugar.
7. Remove the baking paper and let cool.

Step 2
Stir the butter and icing sugar together and add the vanilla essence and the egg yolk.
Spread on the cake, roll together swiftly and let it rest in the fridge before you cut it.

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