Hand Pies Recipe

This hand pie is savory and sweet, like Thanksgiving stuffing & cranberry sauce. The black beans add a much needed bite and give it another great fall flavor as well. Try these out for a burgeoning-September-weeknight meal and enjoy!

This filling recipe makes enough for about a dozen hand-sized hand pies.

What you need:

1 medium white/yellow onion, diced
1 cup diced yellow squash
1 corn cob, kernels shaved off
1 handful green beans, 1 inch pieces cut on a bias, ends trimmed
1 granny smith apple, diced small
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
salt, pepper, 1/2 tsp each cinnamon, cumin, paprika
2 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions

1. Put the onion, corn, oil, cinnamon, cumin, and paprika in a hot sauté pan and cook down until the onions are translucent, stirring to prevent burning.

2. Add the squash, apple, green beans, and black beans, and mix together. Cook on medium heat for 5-10 minutes and pour in about 1/4 cup water.

3. Let it cook down for 5 minutes, then mash it up a little with a potato masher or fork. Toss on some salt & pepper to taste.

4. Preheat the oven to 425°F. If you don’t already have the dough prepared, do so now. Spread out the dough into a rectangle, about 1/4 inch thick. Top half the dough with the filling, then fold the dough over and crimp the edges with your fingers. (Be gentle or the dough may break.) Slice a couple of holes in the top to let some of the air out during cooking.

5. Place the hand pies on a greased baking sheet. Bake until golden, about 20 minutes. Eat them while they’re still warm!
Enjoy!

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Beautiful country house in Skäne, Southen Sweden

There are some homes which are so simply inviting and intriguing at the same time and this Country House in Skäne is a prime example. While eclectic, even a tad off-beat, this modern dream home styled by Lotta Agaton exudes a distinct personality in a primary palette of black and white, with some wooden accent thrown around to break the monochrome theme that is so consistent with scandinavian design.

This is my absolute favorite part of this home, a quaint reading corner that is light and airy, featuring a plush white hammock with soft blanket and pillows and hangs dramatically from silver metal chain.
dining room features an elongated bleached wood table with various-style chairs While adversely, an inky black room is surprisingly not at all dreary. Instead, a ceiling trim of dripping white paint contributes a stark visual graphic to this space which seems to be a shoe and accessory nook–quite gripping design!

The design is fresh with unexpected breaks between vintage and contemporary furnishings, and quirky decor.  

The slightly sunken living room features two modern chairs set in front of a white block on casters, resting underneath a wiry globe pendant. Books and bric-a-brac top this coffee table, while the partition wall boasts some stirring photographic art which is magnificently exhibited throughout the dwelling.

dining room features an elongated bleached wood table with various-style chairs 

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Photos: Pia Ulin for Residence Magazine.

Bedside variations

Bedside tables come in handy whenever we need a glass of water in the middle of the night or a place to put the light to help us thru those great moments in our current reading. These are a few ways of organizing and styling your bedroom with cool and modern bedside furniture.

Scandinavian bedroom.

Scandinavian design emerged in the 1950s in the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. It is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality.

The idea that beautiful and functional everyday objects should not only be affordable to the wealthy, but to all, is a core theme in the development of modernism and functionalism. This is probably most completely realized in post-WWII Scandinavian design. The ideological background was the emergence of a particular Scandinavian form of social democracy in the 1950s, as well as the increased availability of new low-cost materials and methods for mass production. Scandinavian design often makes use of form-pressed wood, plastics, anodized or enameled aluminum or pressed steel.

The concept of Scandinavian design has been the subject of many scholarly debates, exhibitions and marketing agendas during the last 50 years, but many of the democratic design ideals that were the central theme of the movement survived and are reflected in contemporary Scandinavian and international design.