Bruschettas and Charleston

As this is my first post on my own blog, I decided to write it in English. The name of the blog comes from my English nickname, Vee that my portuguese friends invented years ago. I'd like to think that they just wanted to give me a nice nickname but it was probably because they didn't know how to pronounce my real name. However, as I know that some of my Finnish friends find it annoying to be reading English, I'll definitely write in Finnish sometimes in the future (asianomaiset tunnistavat tästä ehkä itsensä ;)).

The aim of this blog is to share experiences, recipes and theme party tips. As I have lost all my cookbooks thanks to living in 8 different flats in the past 5 years, I want to keep this also as my private cookbook. In addition to lifestyle and cooking blog, this blog also pretends to be a travel blog. The aim is to write down experiences from every single new country I visit (or hopefully live in).

In the following I will give this half-naked chef's recipe for depressingly gloomy Tuesday evening. In Finnish.

Bruschettoja ja viiniä

Ainekset:

• maalaisleipää


• tomaattia


• sipulia


• valkosipulia


• Bruschetta aurinkokuivattu tomaattitahna


• naudanpaistileikkele


• Dijon-sinappia


• mozzarellaraastetta

Valmistus: Pilko sipulit ja tomaatit ja paista niitä hetki pannulla jotta ne hieman pehmenevät. Leikkaa maalaisleipä reilunkokoisiksi viipaleiksi ja paahda ne esim. leivanpaahtimessa. Levitä paahdetuille leipäviipaleille tomaattitahnaa sekä sipuli-tomaattisekoitusta. Lisää päälle 1-2 siivua naudanpaistia jonka päälle voi sipaista hieman Dijonin sinappia. Lopuksi leivän päälle kasataan pieni määrä mozzarellaraastetta ja voila! uuniin 225asteeseen muutamaksi minuutiksi kunnes juusto on sulanut.

Bruschettojen kanssa voi tarjota esim. viikonlopun jäljiltä jäänyttä punaviiniä ;)

Now at the end I will give you one piece of advice regarding theme parties. We threw a 1920's party on Saturday and... well how to put this nicely... it was a success :) Thanks everyone for showing up and especially for dressing up. It was great to see so many gangsters and flappers in one place. Anyway, we wanted to offer the guests something "authentic" so we after long and hard googling we decided to make some Planter's Punch:

"During 1920's, 'rum-running' became a 'legitimate' trade in the United States. Smugglers used station wagons, trucks and boats to heist rum from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Many rum-based drinks became popular, especially in the Southern regions. Even as far North as New York, people loved it. After studying the speakeasy menus of New York, the Museum of New York’s Sarah Henry said: “On every menu we looked at, the Planter’s Punch was offered.”

Recipe

• dark rum


• grenadine


• orange juice and pineapple juice


• club soda


• lemon or orange slice for garnish

The punch tasted good and the guests were very jolly all night ;)