26 Sep 2011

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Orange and Almond Cake (plus bonus celebrity)

(Pretty cake sign in the background courtesy of Simone)

It’s like ra-i-ain on your wedding day

It’s a free ri-hi-de when you’ve already paid

It’s arri-i-ving at the cake competition

When they announce the win-nerrr.

That’s what happened and I feel only Alanis would understand.

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18 Jul 2011

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Honeydew Melon Cocktail

Do you ever use a melon-baller? Well I do. It’s this fantastic thingamajig that makes the most pleasing little balls for your salad. The best thing is that you release whatever you’re carving from its original shape and render it open to reinterpretation – to the extent that when I served a melon/cucumber ball salad with chopped coriander last Friday, someone thought I had discovered a freakishly round kind of miniature potato. Anyhoot, the bad thing is, that you only get 20 odd balls from one whole melon (in this case a honeydew melon), leaving you with a good chunk of oddly shaped fruit leftovers to deal with afterwards. That’s when I got this brilliant idea:

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2 Jun 2011

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Danish Delights: Rødgrød med fløde [roygroy ma flyrr]

I must be the last person in Denmark, who hasn’t understood that we live in dangerous times. While I was in Utrecht last week, there had been some cases of killer cucumbers in Germany (infested with e-coli bacteria) which made every single vegetable and piece of fruit coming from either Germany or Spain (that part I didn’t quite catch) seem very ominous. Suddenly all of our good intentions concerning a proper green-filled diet had been turned into a game of Russian roulette.

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17 May 2011

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Fluffy Plum Sorbet

Looking out into our courtyard here on Østerbro (the north-eastern part of Copenhagen) all I can see is green, green, green. The pre-summer rain has really made the leaves drunk and full of themselves, but now it’s time for something PINK! Before I continue, those people religiously insisting on seasonal recipes (you know who you are) – stick a finger into each ear and start tra-la-laing, because I’m going to say something naughty:

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25 Jan 2010

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Blueberry Everything, part II: American Pancakes & Spiked Jam

Fifty-odd years after my last post I think it’s about bloody time I finish what I started in my blueberry post of yesteryear. Because that certainly wasn’t all. On the next day, still at the summerhouse in Småland, Sweden, we couldn’t help it. We just had to go out for at liiittle more picking. And again, the bug caught us and we picked at the speed of lightening (or Superman or whatever you can relate to that is really really fast). So before we knew it, there were about 750 grams of tiny delicious berries in our bowl. And this is what I did to them: 

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6 Jul 2009

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Pimp My Salad


In many ways the BYO food-party is a great invention. It’s economic, eclectic and sometimes it’s even exciting. But, and here’s the catch, far too often “I’ll bring a salad” really does just mean that someone will bring a salad. Salad. As in lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and maybe even some tinned corn. Yawn! There’s just no excuse for that.

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