Mom’s Lifesavers Book Review of Celebrity Chef, Tina Nordstrom’s new Cookbook.
Tina Nordstrom’s Scandinavian Cooking: Simple Recipes for Home-Style Scandinavian Cuisine
We received a review copy of this amazing book to help facilitate this review, all opinion are completely my own.
My parents are from Europe. I grew up with a unique introduction to comfort food that included meat and potatoes, EVERY NIGHT. I have longed for some recipes that I grew up with. Along came an opportunity to review celebrity chef, Tina Nordstrom’s amazing cookbook.
I LOVE it SO MUCH!
Tina Nordström has filled this book with so many delicious looking recipes, it’s going to be many months of fantastic cuisine at my house. Hubby is psyched. I’ve been searching for a cookbook that brings together my nostalgic memories of visiting my family abroad and eating with them. The recipes are all pretty much using ingredients I can find here, I’ve just substituted a few ingredients; like certain mushrooms we can’t get here right now.
My favorite recipes so far? Mashed Potatoes with Lemon (yum!), Chanterelle and Ground Beef Pie, and the Chocolate and Ginger Mousse. All seem really complicated, but really easy! If you want a cookbook filled with recipes for all abilities AND great photos to compliment the recipes, you’re in luck!
Tina Nordstrom’s Scandinavian Cooking – A Mom’s Lifesavers Favorite!
About the Cookbook
Tina Nordström’s Scandinavian Cooking is 384 pages of culinary delight. Here’s a small taste of her homemade recipes:
- Cream-marinated red currant salad
- Asparagus risotto with marjoram
- Tina’s Potatoes au gratin
- White chocolate mousse
- Carrot Cake with Cardamom and Walnuts (YUM!)
Tina opens the door into her kitchen and shares no fewer than two hundred of her favorite dishes. She also provides plenty of tips, shortcuts, and suggestions. This is tried and true and we can vouch for how lovely and usable this book is. We adore it!
Suggested Retail Price: 29.95
You can find it here on Amazon – there is even a Kindle Version as well as Barnes & Noble
A tangy twist your mashed potatoes! We LOVE it!
Mashed Potatoes with Lemon
Tasty with baked fish or grilled pork tenderloin.
Ingredients:
- 1 batch of basic mashed potato recipe
- 1 lemon, zest plus 1/2 lemon juice
- 1 bunch of dill, chopped (approx. 1 oz.)
What to do:
Stir the lemon zest, lemon juice and dill into the mashed potatoes. Season with salt and pepper.
About Tina Nordström
Sweden’s very own master chef, Tina Nordstrom is so into going with the flow in the kitchen. There are no “dos” and “don’ts” that take the fun out of cooking. Perfectionism isn’t a word that exists in Tina’s kitchen, we like that. We really do!
Tina Nordström became Sweden’s first female celebrity chef in 2001 after qualifying as a finalist in the prestigious Swedish Chef of the Year competition. She won the silver medal at the Culinary Olympics with her delicious recipes and free-spirited approach to cooking. She is a food columnist for the Swedish magazine Gourmet and the author of several cookbooks. She has hosted fourteen seasons of cooking shows on TV, including PBS’s New Scandinavian Cooking. She resides in Helsingborg, Sweden.
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