Crispy salad

You need:

• Green beans
• Red onion
• Chopped almonds
• White cheese

Jerusalem Chokes with Tiger Shrimps or scallops

This recipe is a winter favorite.

For 4 persons

• 400 g of peeled jerusalem chokes
• 2 small chopped onions
• 1 leek
• 1 peeled apple
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 1/2 liter of chicken bouillon
• 1/2 liter of milk
• Grated muscat nut
• 100 g of tiger shrimps or scallops
• 10 g of butter

How to cook

Fry the jerusalem chokes, onions, leek and apple in the oil. Add the bouillon and let it all boil under a low fire till the vegetables are soft. Add the milk og mix the soup with a hand mixer. Add salt, pepper and muscat nut.

Fry the shrimps or the scallop on a hot pan with butter, garlic and a bit of chili peppers. Add them to the plate of soup. As a final touch pour a bit of truffel oil on top of the dish.

Marinated Beef Tenderloin with veggies

This dish I cooked for New Years Eve and all the guests loved it. Maybe it was also due to the fact that the beef tenderloin was extremely tender. Yummie!

Marinated Beef Tenderloin for 6 persons

• About 1,2 kg beef tenderloin
• Fresh pepper
• 1 dl cognac
• 3 large pieces of orange peel and juice from half an orange
• 1 tablespoon of pepper corn
• 25 g of butter
• 1 teaspoon of coarse salt
• 2 dl of water

How to cook it

Take the piece of meat and if any fat cut if off. Put pepper on it. Place the meat in a large plastic bag suitable for food products together with cognac, orange peel, orange skin and pepper corn. Close the bag and let the meat marinate for about 2 hours in the fridge. Turn it once in a while. Turn on the oven on 100 degrees. Take up the meat from the marinade (safe it for the sauce) and dry the meat with a kitchen towel. Put the butter in a pan and heat it up till it is golden. Add coarse salt to the meat and fry it in the pan on each side (around 3 minutes on each side). Add the water to a deep oven pan and place it in the oven. Put the meat on a roast right above the deep oven pan. If eventually the deep oven pan dries out add more water. Take out the meat after approx. 1 hour. The meat should be around 58 degrees.

Vegetables

• 25 g of butter
• 5 red onion cut in quarts
• 300 g of sugar snaps
• 1 sharon fruit cut in quarts
• 1 teaspoon of coarse salt
• Fresh pepper

How to cook them

Melt the butter in a pan with a high fire but without the butter turns brown. Fry first the onions for about 2 min. Add the sugar snaps and fry them for 1 min. Add the sharon fruit, salt and pepper. Decorate the vegetables with grated orange peel on top. Serve with meat and potatoes. Since it was new years eve I chose to make pommes anna. However, they are very time consuming as they need to rest in the fridge for about a day. In addition to this, they contain a lot of butter. More simple potatoes can therefore replace the pommes anna.

Here is a picture of the finished meal I prepared for the NYE dinner.

A Touch of Food to the Blog

I am a food lover. I love to cook and to get new inspiration for new recipes to try at home. So from now on I’m gonna blog my favorite recipes. Some of them are from other cook books and others are self-made or inherited from my mom. Bon appétit!

Buddha Bar Vol.9

I’ve always loved Buddha Bar but Vol.9 has definitely become one of my favorites. It has such a beautiful sound that makes me drift away and just focus on the moment – not the past, nor the future – just now. The chillout song Sleep is simply incredible.

I cannot express how much I hate Singstar!

Singstar. The absolute, unequivocal worst that karaoke has to offer. Why is it that people from the moment they get the microphone in their hand think they are some sort of vocal gift sent from God. It’s absolutely awful to listen to. The worst song that the Singstar repertoire has to offer must be “The Final Countdown”. As much respect I have for Europe’s own interpretation of this song, I think I’m just about to puke a bit in my mouth if I hear this song one more time tonight. Read my face expression – YOU SUCK!!! The only thing I could ever think of that would be worse than this would be the sound of fingernails scraping down a blackboard while Paris Hilton sings “Stars are Blind” in front of 100 construction workers running their pneumatic drills.

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

There’s no doubt about it. Men and women are wired differently.

Hello world!

So I was all alone tonight, which gave me too much time to think.The usual existentialistic questions as who am I? and what is my vocation in this life? came to my mind during watching tv on prime-time. When you think too much things like this happen – another insignificant and self-absorbed blog is born. And this one is surely no exception! So welcome to my blog. You might find it boring and unoriginal  - in fact you might never read it – but I also really don’t care. This blog is mostly for myself. This is where I write about what ispires me, enrages me, the things I feel passionate about and all the rest of my life. Hopefully, blogging will help me answering all my questions.