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Pork loin baked in chicken creme with bacon
2007-09-28 00:12:00
This one is for Vladimir ;-)  The pork loin is an underestimated great piece from the pig. Most people, when they buy it in stores, will normally use it by cutting smaller beefs of it, marinate it in red wine and roast it in the oven, and then we have the ?other? recipes, like the ones I make. Servings: 10 2 pork loins 200 gr. of raw chicken filet or breast 3 eggs 3 dl. whipping cream Salt and pepper 2 garlic pieces Chieves (First of all, it´s important to notice that this recipe, will do a lot better if you leave the pork loins in white wine for a few days.) Take all the fat of the loins, and roast them lightly on a hot pan, making sure that the whole loin is roasted, otherwise the juice from the loin will go into the cream and spoil the structure. Take the chicken, and blend it well with with salt and pepper, garlic and chieves and add the eggs and blend it for 2 minuttes. Add the cream, and blend quickly and for no more than ½ seconds, otherwise the cream will separate and it w...
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The importance of a smiley
2007-09-20 11:21:00
Tuesday morning was my first day of work after I got back from holidays. I was ready to kick ass in the kitchen, bursting with new power, and new recipes to try out. Or so i thought. During the morning, our waiter called in: She was gonna be late (again, for the 6Th time), so I told her to be here a.s.a.p, or don’t show up anymore. She came 2 hours later After a small argument, I decided to give her a last chance, so we will have to see what happens on her next shift! On top of it all, all our expected groceries to be delivered, didn’t show up, so after calling around to a few places, I found out that nobody had ordered anything for the morning! My mood is now in a state of about to blow up! 11 o´clock the veterinary inspection showed up, and I was about to kill myself here. They show up between 1-3 times a year unexpected, to ensure that kitchen procedures are in accordance with the law. Last time they visited us, was om 31-5-07, and we only got the normal smiley, in...
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Who I visit, when surfing the net!
2007-08-27 07:24:00
I currently signed up at mybloglog, a place where you can add you blog, your posts gets there, people can join your community and stuff like that. Sorry, Im no nerdy, so its quite hard for me to explain, WHAT you can do exactly. Anyway, there have been a few persons passing by my blog, and ...
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Holiday trip 2007
2007-08-26 14:08:00
Its about time for me, to get some time of work, and take my annual trip to Spain, and this time for many more reason, than the normal holiday. My dad turns 60 on the 14Th of September, and asked me, to join them, and arrange and run a buffet in his honour, taking place on ...
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School kids still gets lousy and un-nutricious food
2007-08-26 13:56:00
The food, that most students in Copenhagen can buy in school, is no better than the fast-food you can buy at McDonalds. Actually the analysis made by Copenhaguens Food house, point out that a burger from McDonalds, sometimes is healthier. A normal burger from MacD contains 3 times as much salad as a carrot sandwich with ...
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Smoked salmon with peach chutney and salty herbs - Family chef, part 1
2007-08-24 00:07:00
So, I got this call from my mom in-law, who had decided to get some colleague’s over for a fancy dinner, to celebrate her 50 birthday, even it´s been overdue for like 2 months, but never-mind that. She calls, I come running! (good boy) *pad myself on the head* The good thing about this type of ...
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Several persons infected with shigella bacteria
2007-08-23 22:06:00
Investigations by the health and food department shows that the the source to a large number of Danes being ill with a stomach infection, was caused by contaminated baby-corn. At least 100 Danes have been infected, hereby 37 with severe infections. Since August, the health department has registered an increase in stomach infections caused by the bacteria ...
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Tuna mousse on salty salad and caviar - The birthday pick
2007-08-15 14:32:00
Back in july, we had a few friends over to celebrate one of the girls birthday. 25 years and still going strong. The day was perfect. No rain, sun was shining from an almost cloudfree sky, and we got the chance to give the poor girl cinnamon - Lots of cinnamon. She actually got tired of waiting for the darn cinnamon, that she even poured some on herself ! I promised her once, that whenever she wanted, she could ask me for anything to eat, and I would cook it for her, and she thought that, this ocation would be great. The menu ended up in Tuna mousse, grilled deer filet and chocopie with vanilla ice and berrietrifli. The tuna mousse might be the easiest recipe in the world, nevertheless one has to be carefull, because to much creme fraiche will spoil the recipe and make it to fluid, and if you dont use enough, it will be dry. I mix tuna in water (dried), peas and corn, salt, pepper, dill, parsley, a squeese of honey and then I add a non fat creme like creme fraiche, tasteless youghu...
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No smoking starts tomorrow
2007-08-14 17:28:00
The war ends tomorrow. My kind is on the brink of extinction. The never-ending name-calling, the boo-ing, the typical -”Hey smart-ass, didn´t you see the NON SMOKING sign?”- All that should be part of the past tomorrow. I gotta be honest. I don´t mind non smokers, actually I think it´s great that they didn´t fall into the same trap I did, when I “joined” the smokers club, but i must also admit that this almost religious chase and nagging on smokers was beginning to be a royal pain in the butt! There I said it. I can understand they want to take away smoking in public places, such as government buildings and supermarkets and those places, and of course there is the rightful smoking and no smoking area at a restaurant. So far, so good! I even remember the place where I work at the moment, used to have a corner in the kitchen, where our phone, orderbook ans stuff was placed, and the owner and myself, used to have our coffee and smoke there, but because the...
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Thank you lord, part 1.
2007-08-14 15:01:00
WUHUU - The sentence or more likely the word, should be pronounced with a slight twist of Homer Simpson impersonation. I still can´t believe it. Since the news arrived to me yesterday, I had a hard time falling a sleep, i really can´t focus on what I´m doing, and my heart is beating twice the speed. Are you ready for the news? I’m sure you are. IM GONNA BE A DAD! - Its amazing that after trying for 1½ years, we are finally blessed with the opportunity to be parents. We were pregnant a years or 2 back, well…my girlfriend was, but she had a miscarriage in the 12 week, because the embryo was forming outside the uterus. Ever since then we have been trying and trying, and I now, that somebody must be thinking, that at least I was getting a lot of practice, and yeah, I sure damn was, but still, there was no sign that my “soldiers” were ready to battle it up. Now, I do believe that it might have been one of those psychological things, that when you think a l...
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Salmon carpaccio with pesto, onions and herbs - Fishy friday
2007-08-10 22:17:00
As I wrote in a prior post, I love fish. Ok…I can´t exactly say that I love the smell, but I love the variety, the endless cooking methods and spices you can mix with fish. We are trying out something new at home called “fishy friday”, because my girlfriend is not really into fish, but she would love to try and hopes that one day she will love it like I do. Salmon is something I normally would buy at the fish stand, we have every Thursday downtown center, because I know the fish is fresh and yes…the man is cheap aswell Smoked salmon is usually cheapest down at the supermarket, frozen down, bones out and sliced, or the homemade way, but at the moment I can´t find the time to do those small funny cooking things at home. I use 3 slices for each person, depending on the size of course, and i rub a little pesto over them, right before serving. Dice up a small red onion, and pour on top of the salmon, as you like. Red onions are preferred, because they are s...
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I´m still alive
2007-08-09 03:47:00
It´s been almost 2 months since I last wrote a post here, and i´ve got a few emails, regarding recipes, my blog and my life, and recently I´m beginning to think, I´m not doing my living in the right order. For the last 15 years I´ve been working hardly 5-6 days at the week, only capable ...
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Cod fillet with apple/tartar sauce
2007-06-17 01:39:00
The cod might be one of the most famous fishes in Denmark, and we love to eat it with new boiled potatoes and parsley sauce. That´s a danish traditional meal. I´m not gonna lie to you. I love, I mean it…I love the cod. What the heck. I love food generally, but I have a special ...
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The elderberry flower and juice
2007-06-13 00:36:00
About a year ago, when I first started blogging about food and my recipes, one of the most read posts I wrote was about the Elderberry flower and the way to make a great juice of it, to be used both as a drink in the summer, but also the part it can play when marinating ...
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Remember the sunblock.
2007-06-12 00:42:00
So, another summer rising up, and another year where I “forget” to put on my sunblocker. Result? Massive sunburn on arms, legs and bag! Did I learn something from this? Probably not, as I will surely forget it next year again. Remember your sunblock!
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Danish food administration gets new deal
2007-06-05 11:03:00
I must say that it´s about time, the food and veterinary administration got a new deal. The new deal is to give consumers an extra security, when buying meat, or when getting food delievered from a catering company. There has been a lot of “dead meat” around for the last 2-3 years, and it looked liked ...
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Summer, the tomatoes and bresaola.
2007-06-01 08:56:00
So, summer is here, the flowers are blooming, the birds start singing before the devils wakes up, tomatoes are sweet, and we´re all looking forward for the holidays, beach-going and lot´s of bbq´ing. I love the summer time. I fancy walking around, barefooted in the garden grass, cooking in the free and watching the moon, slowly passing down at nighttime, showing those beautiful red, yellow and orange colours. We always have a lot of people coming over in summertime for food, beers, gardening, and simply enjoy life and togetherness, but sometimes you don´t always remember that you´re about to have guests, and therefor you forget to shop This is where the following recipe came up, and is now actually served at my work as a starter. I opened my cooler, just to find beer, soda, tomatoes, cheese-spread, some dark bread, butter, pesto (always have that) and that was about it. In the fridge I was lucky to find a small piece of bresaola, and we did the following. We cut of the top ...
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Rolling the cheese in Cloucestershire
2007-06-01 00:41:00
At the command (given by the M.C.) of …….. ‘ONE to be ready!’ ‘Two to be steady!’ ‘Three to prepare!’ ….. …….. the guest ‘roller’ releases the cheese, which rolls down the hill at great speed, The M.C. continues ….. …. ‘and FOUR to be off!’ At this point the competitors hurl themselves down the slope after the cheese. The first person to arrive at the foot of the hill wins the cheese. Those who come second or third receive a small cash prize. I read about this event in a local newspaper, only a few days ago, and thought I shared it with you. I´m talking about the Cheese rolling event at Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire! At first, I didn´t believe what I was reading until I went on to their homepage, where you can see a lot of pictures, information and the winners from past and present. People from all over the world comes to participate in the event, that´s been held sinc...
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Back to work
2007-05-29 17:18:00
Will finally get back to work, after back troubles. Really looking forward to be cooking again.
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Salmon carpaccio with herbs, pesto and onions
2007-05-29 00:57:00
When I was a kid, I grew up with fish, veal liver, swine hearts and other kind of foods, that would make a teenager of today, wrinkle his nose and say: Gimme a burger, ´cause I know what that is Well, I guess we can´t blame them, because in this modern society it seems more important to ...
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Peach, garlic and chili soup with shrimps or chicken
2007-05-28 00:56:00
I love hot stuff. When I was a kid, there was nothing better, that when my dad was in the kitchen preparing his special curry soup. Man, I miss those days. Now, 25 years later, it´s me in the kitchen, preparing new recipes, using friends and family as tasters and judges, and so far none of ...
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When stupidity calls upon you!
2007-05-27 18:19:00
Back again! Yes sir! Around 80 days ago, I did the most stupid thing a man can do. (except for that getting married thing), and that was to push the “delete” button, without making a backup first, and resulting in my all site being completely flushed down the pipe. Since that day, I´ve been playing around, using ...
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Kids Chocolate cake
2006-12-02 16:11:06
In the schools in Denmark, we have what we call “the hour of the class”, where there is no teaching, but maybe some singing, playing, watching a movie and eating something sweet like a cake, cookies or plain sweets. This chocolate cake is a sure winner, contains no nuts or things that kids normaly don´t wanna eat, and can easely be modified, so it could be used as an “adult” cake. Servings: 40-50 pieces 500 gr. butter 700 gr. sugar 8 eggs 1 kg. flour 8 teaspoons baking powder 6 teaspoons vanilla sugar 6 dl. milk 2 dl. cacao Mix the butter and sugar well, so it no longer contains the “granualted” consistens. Add the eggs 1 by 1, and mix well. Mix the flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar and cacao and add the mix and the milk, little by little. Put the mix in a oven tray, covered with baking paper and bake the cake in the oven at 150 degrees for 1 hour. Tags: Food, recipe, cake, chokolate, kids, baking
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Turkey roll with serrano ham
2006-12-02 16:11:06
Servings: 6 1 turkey breast aprox. 400-500 gr. 3 eggs ½ l. whipping cream Salt and pepper 10 pcs. sundried tomatoes Pistacho kernels 10 pieces of serrano ham (well cured) This might be one of the easiest recipes to date for a great starter, and it has so many posibilities for use. Cut the turkeybreast into smaller pieces and blend it with salt and pepper, but remember that the serrano ham is quite salty, so don´t use to much salt in the mix. Add the sundried tomatos and pistachos. Add the eggs one by one, let it blend for a few minuttes, and finally add the whipping cream, blending it a minutte more or so, to get the adequate consistens. Place a large piece of food film on the table, place the serrano ham on it, and add the turkey cream nicely over the ham, and make a roll, tighting the roll firmly, so all eventually air blobs are gone. Wrap the roll in foil and bake the roll at 145 degrees for 35-45 minuttes. Serve the roll cold in slices of 1 cm. each, eventually as the pictures...
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Cod fillet menuiere with apple/tartar sauce compot
2006-12-02 16:11:06
Don´t you just love fish? I don´t think there is a day passing by where I don´t think of fish. Recipes, the game of catching a fish, the fight and struggle when catching a salmon. These things makes the winter great here in scandinavia, and I dare to say, that we spend a lot of time in the sea during the autumn and winter, specially to catch the lovely flatfish or the cod. This recipe works great as a lunch snack or in greater amount on a buffet.   Servings: 4 4 spoons of breadcrumbs Oil / Butter Curry, sugar, salt and pepper Handfull of parsley 1,5 dl. tartar sauce 3 dl. creme fraiche 2 apples 4 cod fillets  4 spoons of flour  1 onion Cut the apples and the onion in fine brunoise and mix it with the tartar sauce and creme fraiche, and spice it up with the curry, sugar, salt and pepper, and add some of the parsley chopped nicely. Put the sauce in the cooler while frying the fish. Dry the cod fillets and turn them in a mix of flour, salt and pepper, and fry them in a mix of oil and...
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The next food level
2006-12-02 16:11:06
As you may know, I´ve been working at a holiday center in northern denmark, now for almost a year, and changes are due to come, if we wish to keep on being the Nr. 1 resort, that people go to on vacations. On an averege day we have aprox. 1000 people staying ovenite, and only capacity to feed 200 at the time in our 2 restaurants there. 1 is the Salina restaurant, wich is a italian style with pizza, pizzabuffet, carvary Buffet on saturdays, and a special bath/buffet on sundays. The other restaurant is The Brasserie with modern style open kitchen, and a great variaty of starters, main dishes and thrilling desserts.  From the beginning of the new year, there will be some really big changes to the concept, starting from the new opening on the 14 of January. The Salina restaurant will be transformed into an “all included” with two seatings a night with all you can eat and drink, with a great variaty of pasta and pizzas, healthy food and kid meals. The Brasserie will remove th...
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Fish for the non fish eater
2006-12-02 16:11:06
I grew up learning that you have to try everything at least once, and that there is no such thing as a “no thank you”, when it comes to food, you´ve never tasted before. Be a man. Taste it, and if you don´t like it, be honest and say it. My girlfriend is NO exception, and there a plenty of things that she doesn´t eat, but  she is at least mature enough to taste it, and in most cases she likes what I serve. Yesterday was one of my “let´s be romantic with dinner and movie nights”, you know, just to make up for some lost time and a way of saying that I´m sorry for being such a workaholic. My idea was to make wholegrilled plaice with buttersauce and boiled potatoes, but let´s be honest and realize that it´s very difficult to serve a whole fish to a non fish eater, and even worse when that person has to take out the bones herself , so i ended up by taken the fillets from the bones, and having 4 fillets pr. person. I made a fish stock from the bones (remember that...
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Salmon carpaccio with pesto and herbs
2006-12-02 16:11:06
One of the things I always keep in my refrigirator is a pack of smoked norwegian salmon, either sliced or as a whole side, because it can be used for many different things, and here in Denmark we love the salmon, almost as much as the National football Team Normally we the danes, eat the salmon on a slice of white bread with shrimps or a cold sauce made of brown sugar, olive oil, dill and mustard. Another way is wrappiSang a slice of smoked salmon  into a fillet of cod and fry on the pan, or using it in bits in a fish terrine. My favourite is to take a few slices of salmon, and put some pesto over it, just enough to cover the slices gently. Cut a red onion in small brunoise ad put on top with some mixed herbs like parsley, thyme, dill and chives. Serve it with some fiber rich bread and butter. Tags: Salmon, Recipe, Food, Cooking
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Peach, chili and garlic soup with chicken
2006-12-02 16:11:06
I love it. The taste when something new and created “out of the box” ends up with a delightfull result. I always have a few rules in my kitchen, and one of them is that I never make a starter to spicy, that could ruin the tongues taste nerves and eventually effect the taste of the main course, but as we all know, rules are meant to be broken This soup combines the thrilling taste of chili and the gracious sweet taste of the peach, and it doesn´t take a great cook to combine these to very different flavours, making sure that it ain´t to spicy ot to sweet. Servings: 4 1 can of peaches in sweet juice 1 teaspoon of dried chili 3 cloves of garlic ½ liter of chicken stock or water Salt and pepper Butter or oil If you use water instead of the chicken stock, also add a dice of chicken bouillon First thing to do, is drying the peaches and saving the syrup. Heat the oil in a casserole and gently fry the peeled garlic and chili. Add the peaches (leave 1 for garnish) and fry it ...
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Elderberry flower juice, part 1.
2006-12-02 16:11:06
This was actually one of the first post I ever wrote, after I started blogging, but as I wrote earlier, something went wrong for my host, and everything was lost, so I´m starting all over again. The elderberries are found in almost every corner of denmark, and especially where we are still able to keep our green areas, and thank god, we still hae a few left. When we took over our new house 2 years back, I noticed that one of the trees in the garden was as elderberry bush/tree. Both flowers and berries can be made into elderberry wine, and in Hungary an elderberry brandy is produced (requiring 50 kg of fruit to produce 1 litre of brandy). The alcoholic drink sambuca is made by infusing Elderberries and anise into alcohol. The berries are best not eaten raw as they are mildly poisonous, causing vomiting (particularly if eaten unripe). The mild cyanide toxicity is destroyed by cooking. The berries can also be made into jam, pies or Pontack sauce. The flowers are to be picked in the lat...
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