Recipe of the week: Red Pepper and Beetroot Soup -by Fika in London

This soup taste as good at it looks! It is a perfect warming and filling lunch or dinner for those ice cold winter days. And a great way to make the kids eat beetroot, a deep red, juicy vegetable, super-charged with powerful nutrients! We got in touch with our friends over at the cool and cosy Scandinavian restaurant Fika, to ask if they could share their favourite recipe (easy and extremely...

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What’s in season; Beetroot

So beetroot is in season? What to do with a bunch of muddy dark red vegetables? We have made pickled beetroot, for use in salads, as sides for meat and on top of rye cracker with paté. Pick your own at a Pick your own farm or buy fresh ones at your local farmers marked. Here's our easy recipe for Pickled Beetroot: Cooking time: 2 hours Ingredients 1kg beetroot 5 dl vinegar 100g sugar 2 tbsp...

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Recipe of the week: Pan-fried fillet of trout and beetroot salad

This weeks recipe, pan-fried fillet of trout served with warm beetroot salad is shared by the Scandinavian Dad, who is an excellent chef. This recipe brings back some childhood memories, from one of those many lakes and rivers you can find in Norway. I started fishing, and trout in particular, when I was still in primary (yes I was fishing on my own, no Health and Safety regulations where I grew...

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