Sometimes inspiration moves in mysterious ways and at other times it’s painfully obvious. In this case I went to the food festival EAT 2010 in Øksnehallen, where I caught Thomas Parry (the head pastry chef at Hotel d’Angleterre)  demonstrating some of his mad cooking skills. Among the many delicious things he guided his sugar-hungry audience through were some raspberry flavoured marshmallows. So I went home and pulled out ye olde Foodbeam recipe. The only changes needed were to remove one of the vanilla beans and to add a deciliter of mashed and deseeded raspberries after the gelatine. (But don’t forget to use pasteurised egg whites if you’re in Denmark). The result was a whole batch of fluffy and bouncy marshmallows with a delicate yet distinct raspberry and vanilla flavour. Nice! And the cocoa nibs on top added a nice dry chocolate twist to the classic. That and it made me feel even closer to Thomas. Do you think he would mind it if I called him Tom Tom?

Tags: cocoa nibs, EAT 2010, hindbær, hjemmelavede skumfiduser, marshmallows, raspberry, Thomas Parry, vanilla, vanille

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Now that I’m done venting my social observations from the symposium, I’d like to talk about one of the many great privileges we were handed in a bag. Literally. There were all sorts of goodies from our sponsors. One of them deserves a special mention, seeing as this company also took a fair bit of verbal beating on that day: Arla.

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Ok, so I went to see my fellow foodbloggers on Nordatlantens Brygge this weekend and what would you know, they kinda looked like me! They all had two legs, heads were intact and they had a language to match. But what I hadn’t expected was the general feeling that almost everyone (with a few very nice exceptions) seemed a bit wary of each other. And not in the way one would expect.

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And the last post of today is just me saying: Tomorrow I’m off to a one-day symposium with 83 of my peers in foodblogging. I can’t wait to talk to like-minded people about this admittedly crazy addiction to details and tricks in the kitchen. The next time you’ll be hearing from me, I’ll probably be sitting in front row seat at Prada trying to type faster and cleavererererrr than my neighbour just in case he or she has found the same family of puns to work with. Wauw, sorry, that was my fashion blogger alter ego “Sexy in the City”. No me, I’ll just be hogging all of the goodie bags in the corner.

If you want to read more of this historic event (it really is!) – read on here (Danish):

http://www.madbloggersymposium.dk/ or to those brilliant people among you who’ve already noticed a new feature on the right column (hint: there’s a tomato on it) – it’s a link to the same website.

Tags: Madbloggersymposium 2010

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As part of my anniversary bonanza (I kinda hate that word but nothing else seems to say “it’s party time and there’s free 80s cocktails for everyone” quite like bonanza) I’ll be splurting out a whopping three posts in one day so get seated, there’s more to come. Such as the bread companion above: Crispy-Chicken-Skin-Butter (yup – that’s what I choose to call this treat. Get used to it!).

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Tags: butter, chicken, chicken stock, havsalt, kyllingefond, sea salt, skin, smør, sprødt kyllingeskind

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Welcome to my 100th post! Yup, that’s what the countdown was for. Since I started posting odd tidbits back in July 2007 it has amounted to a whole lotta rambling about cooking and craziness. Today I’m celebrating my milestone with some great news and a wedding cake (or: a cake I made for a wedding – don’t expect any tiered white horrors with sugar flowers fit for a coffin).

But first, the news:

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Tags: dark chocolate, hasselnødder, hazelnuts, hindbær, mascarpone, mørk chokolade, passion fruit, passionsfrugt, raspberry

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