Stegt flæsk i persillesovs

This is danish cooking at its best. Especially nice after a night out. And it´s simple. Cook a whole lot of potatoes, small ones, so you can dip them in the sauce. Make a bechamel of butter, flour and milk. Add cream and creme fraiche to your liking. And chopped parsley, also as mush as you like. Salt and a bit of muscat.

Burgers

Jeps, it´s summer and time to throw some meat on the grill. No need for a recipe for these burgers, you just have to use meat that has as little fat in it as possible. If the meat has 16% fat, that is the amount it will shrink during grilling. The accessories are of course important, no need to eat unhealthy even if the menu says burgers. No burgers without salad, tomatoes, onions or whatever greens you prefer.



We are sorry about the longer break we have had from the blog, the reason is pregnancy related, which means exactly what you are thinking. Sigrid is looking forward to making a lot of delicious food again once the little gringo is out of the belly in august. Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures of burgermaking.

Sjakkruter

Today we have baked sjakkruter, or chezz cookies. These cookies we used to make at home back in the days. The recipe is found on the internet, while we are waiting to find grandmothers authentic one.

400 gr butter
150 gr sugar
600 gr flour
3 tablespoons of cocoa
11/2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar

Blend butter, sugar and flour well together with your hands. Cut the dough in two similar pieces. Put vanilla sugar in one of them, and cocoa in the other. Then split both of the pieces in two so you now have four similar sized pieces. Roll them up in four long rolls, and stack them on top of each other, a white and brown on the bottom, and a white and a brown opposite on top.

Now put these rolls in a cold place for a couple of hours.



Spread them on as many cooking plates you need (about four for this recipe), and cook them at 200° for 8 min.



Enjoy these cookies with a nice cup of espresso, or dip them in a caffe latte.

Salad with eggs and potatoes

Sometimes, when you eat too much of the christmas cookies you have made, it is time to toss a salad. This time we have made a salad of what we have lying around. Since salad is sometimes all about using the type of greens you like, we will only write the recipe for the french dressing that we have used for this.

FRENCH DRESSING

4 tablespoons of good virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon of honey
1 teaspoon of dijon mustard
sea salt (maldon) and freshly grounded pepper

The only rule we have, when we are not following a recipe for salads, is that we give a thought to which colors we use together, we like to use complementary colors, they are pleasing to the eye. And use f ex small pieces of mango, sharon or mandarins to get a sweeter taste to your salad. A sprinkle of seeds from sunflower or cashewnuts is a nice and healthy accessory aswell as is yesterdays potato leftovers.

Kolakaker

This evening, we are baking the second type of christmas cookies, Kolakaker, or Coke Cakes, if we can call them that in english and still remain politically correct. The recipe is as follows.



200 gr butter
200 gr sugar
1 table spoon of dark sirup
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
2 teaspoons of natron
300 gr flour

Mix margarine and sugar together, until it gets white. Add sirup. Mix flour with vanilla sugar and natron and toss that together with the rest.
Roll out to the shape of four long tubes and spread them out on a cooking plate with a distance between them. They swell while being cooked.



Cook them until they get a light tan in the owen prewarmed til 180°C. Cut them in pieces as shown in the picture below while they are still warm.
Enjoy:-)

Súkkulaðibitakökur

So December is here and time to make some Christmas cookies. We start out with Súkkulaðibitakökur or Chocolate chip cookies.

The recipe is as follows and comes from Óli's grandmother.

150 gr. Butter or 2/3rds of a cup
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
1 tea spoon Vanilla drops
1 1/2 cup Flour
1/2 tea spoon Natron
1/2 tea spoon Salt
1/2 cup chopped Almonds or Hazelnuts (I prefer Hazelnuts)
1 1/4 cup Chocolate

The butter, sugar and brown sugar whipped together.
Add the eggs and drops
Then flour, natron, salt (you might want to mix these separately)
And then of course the nuts and the chocolate.

The mix would look like this.


Use two spoons or your hands.

And spread them out on a plate as follows:


Bake the cookies in the oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes. Take the cookies out and cool them off before filling up a jar like this:



Be careful not to take the whole jar when you want a snack. Rather fill a small bowl, otherwise you WILL eat to much.

Enjoy

Ribbe

This blog is startet up in december, therefore, we cook off a pork roast. Pork roast is a common dish to serve in scandinavian homes on Christmas eve the 24th of december, and the proud cook does not (d)serve this without a crisp surface.