Honey and ginger cookies

This cookie smells the best when its still in the oven. It's so good it could substitute gingerbread at Christmas.

Ingredients

• 20 dkg of flour
• 10 dkg of sugar
• 10 dkg of butter
• 2 coffe-spoons of baking powder
• 3 tablespoons of honey
• a piece of ginger root
• ground cinnamon
• ground clove
• juice and zest of a quarter of a lemon

Mix the flour with the baking powder and the spices. Grate the ginger, the zest of the lemon and add it to the mixture along with the lemon juice. Crumble the butter with the mixture and when its done, add the honey and finish making the dough. Its gonna be a soft dough. Make little balls of it and press them onto the oven pan covered with baking paper. Bake it for 15 minutes, until golden, at 190 degrees Celsius. 

Pumpkin roasted with chorizo and thyme

 

This recipe is one of my favourite pumpkin dishes. It combines sweet, sour and spicy flavours. The typical throw everything together into the oven kind of food. You can change the amount of the ingredients according to taste. The pumpkin can be replaced with normal or sweet potatoes.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin
• onions
• sausage
• tomatoes
• garlic
• thyme
• salt, pepper

Add the diced pumpkin, the sliced sausage, the chopped onions and tomatoes along with the garlic into a bundle made of tin foil. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on it, add the thyme and some olive oil and mix the whole thing. Close the bundle and steam it for half an hour at 200 degrees Celsius.