À la Dankertier

I've never been a big fan of green salad, until I tried this fantastic one many years ago in a spanish/mexican restaurant in Dresden. It came in a tortilla-bowl. Of course I could just guess what they put in, but the result came pretty close. I varied it alot, made it simpler or more fancy, but for Sophie I made almost the classic, which always looks amazing. While boiling an egg prepare the base. Make a nice green salad, with lettuce (or maché), cucumber, tomato, peppers . Add a nice Caesar salad or simple garlic dressing and some croutons (I bought a ready made set for Caesar salad. It's the perfect amount for two, and the real Parmesan fits perfectly in, too!). Finally fry a few slices of bacon (mhhh..), slice the hard boiled egg and decorate the salad with both nicely. As a variation you can simply fry bacon cubes and add it to the base, or if you like the taste as much as me, just do the cubes and the slices ;). And if you don't have an egg or the time, just ...

Many of you were there when I had the pleasure to bring cake for our Friday fika the last time. This was also celebrating my one year anniversary in Göteborg, a month ago. A lot of people really enjoyed the cake and I decided to post here the recipes! Lets then begin by the recipe for the lemon cake (my mother's!!!). Preheat the oven at 175C. Mix together 100 ml of oil 250 ml of sugar 2 eggs 375 ml of flour 2 tea spoons of baking powder a big pinch of salt 125 ml of chopped nuts (if wanted) the zest of one lemon 125 ml of milk Pour in a buttered bread form (or mold, depending of your nationality ;). Put in the oven for an hour. When it comes out, brush with the juice of the lemon, mixed with 50 ml of sugar. This is always a hit!!!

Sooooooo.... This time, it was so good that we did not manage to take a picture before everything was gone ;). Tonight, we decided to cook for each other, I was doing the appetizer and André is doing the main course. I decided to do a simple, but OMG delicious tuna and salmon tartar. I cut in small cubes (between 5 and 10 mm sides) more or less 200 g of fresh fish (freshness is an important factor here). I add a big spoon of mayonnaise (the good one I brought back from Canada!!!), a spoon of soya sauce , a little bit of oil (just so the texture is right) and some chili (I have that rooster asiatic sauce, but anything that gives a punch would do the trick!). Today we just went to the grocery shop, so we have a leek in the fridge and I decided to add also one table spoon of finely chop leek instead of adding regular onion. I mixed everything and put in the fridge to rest for a few moments. Meanwhile, I prepare a simple salad with 2 handles of mache salad . For the dressing, I us...

Weekends are special right now (one could argue they always are... but I mean culinary-wise). We are working like crazy during the week, eating good, but fast prepared stuff. During the weekend, we take the time to impress each other with amazing food. In Quebec we have a very popular chef whose name is Ricardo. I personally tried many of his recipe and always found them delicious (even though sometimes he pushes a little on the fresh stuff... not everyone has a farmers' marker in their back yard!!!). It's then no surprise that when I decided to cook Paella I found a good recipe on his website. The original recipe is here . But I also decided to copy my version :). I fried a little piece of chicken (maybe the equivalent of a small breast) that I cut before in bite size portions. I salted and grounded some pepper and waited until brown. I put aside and add 1 yellow bell pepper and 1 big onion , diced. I also add 3 pieces garlic , finely chopped (we loooooooove garlic!) a...

Yesteray morning we were both checking for recipes. Sophie had her first go. I found one in an app I downloaded a long time ago. It's a Jamie Oliver cook book app. Extremely neat with a lot of features a real book will never have: Step-by-step description (with pictures), some steps with helpful videos linked, shopping list export, search, and so on. I hope there will come more like this, if so, I'll never buy another real book ;) But, of course, it wouldn't be me, if I won't vary the recipe. So here is my solution: I used 1.5 big Ciabatta buns (maybe a little too much) and cut it in quarters. I mixed 1 egg , 1 vanilla pod and 30ml of cream (matläggningsgrädde ;) ) and a teaspoon of sugar and let the chiabatta soak for a few minutes from all sites. Instead of Seville marmalade (I guessed it's orange marmalade) I used two table spoons breakfast mix marmalade (apricot, orange,...) we bought once for camping. Put it in a pan on medium heat and add zest and j...