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Salmon with pasta in a cream sauce

Pasta and salmon are such a perfect combination and we’ve gone through a number of different iterations during the last 25 years or so.

We started with a simple cream sauce with smoked salmon, then I added a courgette cut into matchsticks so my small child would eat some vegetable. This became version 1 and my small child’s absolute favourite dinner and at some point I had to stop cooking this for myself as I simply had enough of it 😅
Since said small child has become a hungry teenager and now a hungry young adult, I’ve gone back and played with this meal. There is version 1.5 with a lemon sauce and cold hot smoked salmon. And then I replaced the smoked salmon with oven baked honey mustard salmon (version 2), then back to hot smoked salmon which I now warm up in the oven, definitely recommended. And the courgette is cut into thick slices, no more hiding! The pasta twirls have been replaced by linguine or tagliatelle, sometimes spinach pasta. That is version 3.

Version 1:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/AmIWh0q48/pasta-with-smoked-salmon-in-a-creme-frai/

Version 1.5 with lemon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/gDdxFxiRT/fresh-pasta-with-hot-smoked-salmon-in-a-/

Version 2 with honey mustard salmon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/v6BoAvjT4/honey-mustard-salmon-oven-dish/

Version 3 with hot smoked salmon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/V11FBpOJS/salmon-with-pasta-in-a-cream-sauce/

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Hacker News Mar 7

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/

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Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.

Ars Technica

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Sylke’s home cooking Feb 19

No fuss meal: potato salad with hot smoked salmon and green beans

Today’s lunch was kind of a very cut back Salade Niçoise, just the marinated potatoes, green beans, and a piece of smoked fish - and therefore it was quite a bit less work than the full French salad. Or was that because my husband cut all of the potatoes? 😅

Also since I have learnt the trick how to make raw onions palatable for me (marinating them for 15 minutes) I’m a happy bunny anyway. All of this was very yummy and serving the hot smoked salmon heated up in the oven made it even better!

https://www.copymethat.com/r/83BIh41o7/marinated-potato-salad/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/ylr7TYpxY/boiled-green-beans/

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Sylke’s home cooking Feb 14

Comfort food: fish fingers and curry chickpea salad in tortilla wraps

I‘ve made this salad in wraps several times already but never with fish fingers - and also not with these peculiar mini corn tortillas that came all the way from Mexico. I believe that unlike the other (big) wraps I normally buy these really needed to be fried to be fully cooked. They tasted good and made the whole thing slightly different to eat which sometimes changes a meal completely and makes you feel like you are eating something new.

https://www.copymethat.com/r/wSDcWaE5Y/curry-chickpea-salad-in-a-wrap/

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Sylke’s home cooking Jan 27

My tastebuds are ruined for certain European dishes. Yesterday I cooked a dish with rice, brown lentils, aubergine, fennel and cashew nuts from a recipe that sounded nice - and it turned into a gooey mess that didn’t even have enough water for the rice to cook through! On top of that it was severely lacking in the taste department despite using curry powder, paprika, cinnamon, fresh minced garlic and lemon juice as per the recipe. At least it still looked somewhat appealing with the cherry tomatoes and the chopped herbs. We made the best of it by applying hot sauce.

Half of it was leftover but there were no more tomatoes, so I decided to turn this thing into a biryani style rice dish. On a whim I mixed in tandoori powder, cayenne pepper and natural yogurt, heated it up once more and then stored it overnight on our ice cold balcony. Today we ate it (again with chopped herbs and hot sauces) and the overall taste profile was much, much better.

I’m not going to link to the recipe 😅 If I ever feel like trying this one again, I’ll cook the rice separately and make my own recipe out of it, the basic ingredients were fine.

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Sylke’s home cooking Jan 19

Free-style frittata

I think my child forgot about one of his all-time favourite dishes when he wrote me a list for MY birthday with dishes that HE would like to eat again - but I know about this one anyway 😇

This one takes a fair amount of preparation and baking time but it’s always so worth it!

https://www.copymethat.com/r/ZFsWet3Ol/frittata-with-tomatoes-peppers-and-feta-/

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Sylke’s home cooking Jan 7

Christmas Dinner

On Christmas Eve we had a very traditional German meal of roast goose, red cabbage and a choice of dumplings or simple boiled potatoes at my nephew’s place. My husband and I contributed by preparing the red cabbage using my late mother’s recipe.

We cut two heavy cabbage heads into thin ribbons a couple of days before and cooked them so that they could soak up all the great flavours over the coming days. Luckily it was cold enough to store the two big saucepans on the balcony. One of them was taken along and the second one was for our own use over the following days.

I had another red cabbage which we also cooked on the weekend after Christmas and the result is now in our freezer 😋

https://www.copymethat.com/r/dNPvsJKBp/omas-red-cabbage-omas-rotkohl/

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