Swap of Recipes!

[Rosamunda]

icing sugar (how to make it from the stuff you get here) etc etc.

Last year I bought Royal Icing from Behnfords (OK not cheap but it's only once a year) and this year I will probably get it from Tiimari which has a big selection of cake deco stuff now. The marzipan I found in Prisma or Citymarket and I think I got the candied peel and the dried fruit from the usual supermarkets and/or Hakaniemi and/or an organics shop. Those packs of Free Trade sultanas (kultarusina) are good (I think even Lidl sells them now), but currants (Korintti) are harder to find and they only seem to come in tiny tiny packs, so I sometimes bring those back from the UK (I use them in hot cross buns as well). I think that "weigh and pay" place near Kamppi (on Freda 55) is probably a good place to find mixed dried fruit.

http://www.punnitse.fi/Makuja%20ja%20ar ... a%20marjat

http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/i_fruitd.htm

[lipko]

Okay, Finland made an intellectual frigid housewife of me so some low budget recipes:
*pancakes with no eggs and milk (ie. passover):
fine flour+water+sugar+salt: fry them in a pan.
*pancakes with eggs and milk:
same as above, but with these luxury ingredients
*mashed potatoes:
potatoes, margarine,milk, salt: make it somehow...
*caramelized mashed potatoes: same as mashed potatoes, but you caramelize it (ie. smoke it)
*mashed potatoes and broccolis: same amount of broccolis and potatoes, prepare the same way as mashed potatoes (this is actually yummy)
*broccoli cream soup: look it up on the internet
*stewed onions and vegetable mix (the 35 cent/400 g stuff):
stew these on margarine, add "barbecue" spice mix
*fried eggs:
eggs: fry them in a pan.
*tocsni (some Hungarian food (or not)):
garlic, potatoes, eggs, flour, salt, pepper, a little onion: rasp everything them mix them: fry them in pan

The principle: every meals originate in the same meal: meat and potatoes. It's just a matter of imagination: the roles can vary.
mashed potatoes and stewed vegetables: potatoes = potatoes, vegetables = meat
omelette: flour = potatoes, eggs = meat
pancake: pancake = potatoes, spice/jam/nesquick = meat
pasta with potatoes: pasta = potatoes, potatoes = meat
näkkileipä + margarine, näkkileipä = potatoes, margarine = meat