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Found this recipe and modified a bit for a Saturday night. Get the ingredients from your local farmers market and you’re in for a treat.

What you’ll need:

-Penne Pasta
-Bacon
-Mushrooms
-Yellow Onion
-Olive Oil
-Garlic
-Black Pepper
-Avocados
-Parmesan Cheese

What to do:

Cut up the bacon and fry them crispy. Put them on the side on a plate on some on a napkin for a while. Saute the mushrooms and onions in garlic and olive oil. Add in some white wine if you feel like it. Add some black pepper.  Cook the pasta. When the pasta is almost done, mix in bacon with the mushrooms and onions and reheat. Add black pepper to taste. Serve with lots of parmesan cheese. Enjoy!

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I’ve made this a few times now and it’s been well received, so here’s the recipe for those who want it.

Pasta Sauce with Shrimp & Sundried Tomatoes

What you need:

Shrimp – peeled, deveined and uncooked
Sundried Tomatoes in oil
Fresh Basil
Cilantro
Garlic
Fish Bullion (This has been impossible for me to find here in the US of A. I’ve had to use vegetable bullion sometimes)
Heavy Cream

Instructions:

Dice the garlic into tiny little bits. Use the oil from the sun dried tomatoes to cook the garlic in a large skillet. Slice the sun dried tomatoes into smaller bits and put in the skillet with the garlic.

In the meantime, in a separate pan, broil the shrimp until done.

Add heavy cream & bullion to the skillet with the sun dried tomatoes and garlic. Let it sit for a bit, then add cilantro and basil (save some basil for decoration later). The sauce should be a light red/brown color by now. Add more basil if needed. Cilantro gives it a little bit stronger taste, so don’t use too much if you’re Swedish.

Add salt and pepper to taste, then add in the shrimp you’ve broiled and lower the heat on the skillet. (I sometimes have to add some flour at this point to make the sauce thicker).

Serve with Angel Hair pasta and a nice bottle of wine.

Enjoy

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I may be hunted down and shot for posting this. It’s a Swedish National secret that’s been guarded for years at an unknown location in Sweden. If I don’t post any more after this post, you’ll know what happened.

Here’s what you’ll need.

Ground Beef. Good quality. Not the 80/20 crap.
Tomatoes. Fresh.
Shredded Cheese.
Sliced Olives.
Corn.
Taco Shells.
Taco Sauce.
Chili Seasoning Mix.
Taco Seasoning Mix.
Sour Cream
A Swedish Person
Optional: Lettuce
Optional: Diced Onions

Instructions: Brown ground beef. Add some water and the taco seasoning mix and chili seasoning mix to taste. Leave it on low to medium while you set up the rest of the ingredients and put them in nice little bowls with spoons. Heat up the Taco Shells in the microwave. Heating them in the oven takes too much time and makes them too crispy so they’ll break.

Secret Ingredient: Have a Swedish person do the above

Note: If you use anything stronger than Mild Taco / Chili Seasoning, the Swedish person might pass out

Edit: The importance of how you dice the tomatoes can not be understated. Use the sharpest knife you have.

Coming up next: Swedish Frozen Pizza

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I just made a batch of this to put in the freezer, and it turned out great, so figured I’d post the “recipe” here. Recipe within quotes, because I never use the same amount of ingredients and often add or remove ingredients. Farfar = Grandpa in Swedish, hence the name of it, because Dad gave me his basic ingredients and I added to that.

What you need:

Yellow Onion
Ground Beef
Beef Bouillon
Heavy Cream
Flour
Soy Sauce
Ketchup
Garlic (Fresh)
Oregano

Start by dicing the onion and throw it in a small pan. Saute meat in a large pan until fully cooked. Add diced onions and mix together. Add chopped garlic. Lower to medium to high heat and add the heavy cream. Then add beef bouillon, soy sauce and ketchup (more than you think, this is what gets the sauce a dark brown to red color) and stir. Let it cook for a bit, then add some flour to thicken the sauce. I have no idea how much, I just wing it. Once the sauce is somewhat thick, top it off with Oregano and let it sit on low heat for a while. It should look something like this when done:

Yum.

Quick & easy, serve with spaghetti and a side salad.

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