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Nicoise is one of the great classics from the chef Escoffier, that you can still order at cafes and restaurants around the world. Even thought it is hundred years old. A real lunch salad that satiates very well. Nicoise is also an olive variety.
Classical French salads - list of recipes
http://www.kvalifood.com/page/classical-french-salads-list-of-recipes/uuid/eaea8ab2-4f7c-11e6-9996-0a0a52170120
A simple and filling salad that can be used both as a side dish and as a lunch in itself.
Other French salads: http://www.kvalifood.com/page/classical-french-salads-list-of-recipes/uuid/eaea8ab2-4f7c-11e6-9996-0a0a52170120
Syrup recipe: youtube.com/watch?v=s1O6pJDU5vs
Mango sherbet is one of my absolute favorites. If not THE favorite. When the mango's are in season, quite a few of them pass through my blender and ice cream maker.
Chutney is a great side dish for both spicy Indian dishes and slow cooked or braised dishes. And curries. The most famous version is probably mango chutney, but rhubarb chutney is at least as good, and a really good variation.
Is it oatmeal porridge, stewed strawberry or stewed rhubarb that is the main national Danish stew? I do not know. But at this time of year there is no doubt that it is rhubarb stew. It takes only 10 minutes to cook and packs a bunch of flavor.
The easiest rhubarb recipe that exists. At least of those I know. An unusual way to cook rhubarb, and one that can be used for many things. For example, I have used it as sour-sweet accessories for salmon tartare, yogurt, as a side for braised meat, in smaller pieces in a salad or on / in my homemade sorbet or in cakes etc. Only the imagination sets the limit.
You also get a good rhubarb syrup out of it which you can lighten up with a little water and use as lemonade, or in a rhubarb mojito.
A really nice recipe for lemonade / juice. This recipe is at least in the top 2 of the most simple recipes I know with rhubarb. Fifteen minutes from start to finish. Including the 10 minutes where it just stands and simmer. If you have lots of rhubarb in the garden, and a large freezer, then this is the a really good way to use them. Or pour it on a nice bottle and give it away as a gift.
the simple syrup: youtube.com/watch?v=s1O6pJDU5vs
The rhubarb sherbet can only be made in a very short period in the spring. Simply because the rhubarb season is so short. So you have to try it out while you can. For a Dane rhubarb is the taste of spring, and we look forward to it every year, as the leaves starts to populate the trees. The sherbet is a nice creamy, airy and tasty ice cream that is at least equal to everything you can get from fruits from anywhere in the world. Regardless of the season.
This is a very simple syrup that I use as the base for most of my sherbets. It is not much use in itself, but if you got it in you fridge, you can make a sherbet with a moments notice.
Explanation of my "secret sherbet method", and the recipe for raspberry sherbet: youtu.be/qO1w-CT-8vY
So, today I am sharing one of my secrets. the "sherbet method". A very easy way to make and experiment with new sherbets. Or to make the ones you know and love.
A basic sirup is needed, and the recipe for that can be found here: youtu.be/s1O6pJDU5vs
Sherbet is the most simple ice creams to make. It takes literally 5-10 minutes of work if you prepare a little bit in advance. Of course you can make sherbet without an ice cream maker, but they are so much better with one, so I strongly recommend them. Especially the type with built in compressor/freezer.
This is a very traditional Danish bread. In the 1600's a lot of half and partial penance and holy-days where combined into one day of prayer. "Bededag" (day of prayer). But the baker had that day of too, so he prepared some bread that could be easily roasted. Hveder (the Wheat). It is a recipe from mid 1800. So all danes knows this tradition and eats hveder on bededag. The fourth Friday after Easter.
The religious aspect does not play that big a role anymore for this tradition, but the bread has become its own tradition, and we still make and eat them on Bededag.
We also eat a very similar bun the rest of the year, but then it is called a "krydderbolle" (spice bun).
I also use this recipe for burgers and sandwiches. Which it is very suitable for.
You can often buy hummus in supermarkets and specialty stores. Most of those I do not care much about. So I have bribed and begged my middle eastern friends for their recipes. From those I have made a humus that suits my taste. The recipe looks simple, but it took a LOT of experimentation to find the right balance.
Chickpeas are cheap, healthy and can be used for a myriad of dishes. Unfortunately, they have to be soaked many hours before they can be cooked. Who of us remember to do that? So it usually ends with canned chickpeas, or with something else entirely. Fortunately, you can cook them in under an hour with a pressure cooker.
"Vegetarian meatballs" Yeah ok. It may be a description I have made up myself, but it is not entirely wrong. Falafel reminds me a lot of meatballs. I am very fond of dishes with chickpeas in general. But there is no doubt that this is among my top two ways to make them. Humus being the second favourite.
The dipping sauce I usually just wing: Yogurt, crushed black pepper, a dash of cumin or garam masala, chopped herbs (coriander, parsley), salt and very little garlic.
5:13 the cooking part starts
The last day in Lisbon I got grilled octopus. It was a nice dish, so I recreated it here. Octopus
is not something I've had so often, so it's fun to try when you come to a country where they eat a lot of it. And they did have some really good recipes.
Written recipe: http://www.kvalifood.com/page/portuguese-creme-tarts-pasteis-de-nata-lisbon-day-4-kvalilog-10/uuid/c6b75dba-e427-11e8-9a5e-06944f3d741b
One of the most traditional cakes from Lisbon is their cream tart. It's a very simple but incredibly tasteful cake. It's no wonder it has become popular throughout the world.
9:35 filleting the sea bash / fish
13:55 frying the sea bass - no editing
Another video from my inspiration tour to Lisbon. I visit R. Augusta (the pedestrian street), Tagide (restaurant), Praça do Comércio (the plaza by the water), Wine Tasting Room (for Portuguese wine), Comur (Who produce and sell canned fish. Mainly sardines).
I show how to cook the dish I eat at Tagide with sea bass and roasted aubergine. I show how to fillet the fish and how to fry it to avoid it becomming chewy.
I have visited places in Lisbon. Bairro Alto, Cantina Zé Avillez, Feira da Ladra and I cook Octopus with Sweet potato.
I spent my summer vacation in Portugal. A large part of it in Lisbon where I was looking for inspiration for new food to cook. It was a glorious trip and I will most likely end up doing 4-5 videos from there for the next couple of weeks.
1:44 prepping and cleaning the strawberries and serve with cream
2:55 strawberry lemonade recipe
Summer and strawberries is linked together. In Denmark we grow up with strawberries with whipping cream on as a dessert. A simple dish that any dane knows. If you have a garden full of strawberries, there are often so many strawberries at the same time that you simply can not eat them. Then it's good to know the recipe for strawberry juice that can be stored for later or just for drinking when it's hot.
In this kvalilog I make a 3-bean salad packed lunch for a trip to Superbooth in Berlin. Superbooth is the world's largest synthesizer festival. you arrive at the festival via a boat trip down the Spree.
this salad is one of the quickest and easiest dishes I know off, that also tastes good. I use it occasionally for boxed lunch because it is a lot of food in a little space. Which is practical when you are going to carry it along. However, the salad is equally good as an a side for lunch or dinner. Especially if you are a training hard and need as much protein as possible.
Music:
Max M - Die Spree (more sailing trip)
youtube.com/watch?v=pFOopyopiuI
Max M - Das Booth (more superbooth)
youtube.com/watch?v=0ss-VJuY61A
The video recipe: youtu.be/a19c054dUr4?t=323
Milk kefir is not something you usually make yourself, but it is incredibly easy. It works both at room temperature and in the refrigerator. The hardest thing is to get a hold of some kefir grains to start with. There you would have to know someone who knows someone. This is also a very simple recipe for a kefir smoothie.
Jump to the video recipe: youtu.be/oOC00WB47yU?t=136
Every year when the winter seems to drone on endlessly, asparagus is one of the first new vegetables that comes into season. It brings me into a good mood every year. The green asparagus is good to use in complex dishes, but the white asparagus can be eaten almost without doing nothing to them. For example cooked and served with melted butter and a slice of lemon. Or like in this recipe with Sauce Hollandaise and some of the other spring vegetables as garnish.
Just show me the recipe video: youtu.be/E2L8C6t3kkw?t=309
Pesto is one of the best ways to use herbs and you can make pesto of almost all the "fine" one-year herbs. Wild garlic pesto is probably my favorite. A powerful but smooth taste. The rams season is shorter than the shirt of a reality star, so there is no time to vaste when it's in season. This is also the first video I make as a "vlog" where I get out of the kitchen and meet the world. I'm chasing rams in the forests around Wannsee near Berlin.
Rams are also known as ramsons, buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, or bear's garlic.
It is an unusual but underrated side dish here in Denmark. It is reminiscent of boiled rice, but is made from semolina, which in itself does not taste of much. This makes it suitable for adding all sorts of deliciousness. Personally I prefer it like this. It is served cold and is therefore very suitable for making in advance, and it can be served straight from the fridge.
The regular large Chinese-inspired spring/egg rolls we typically eat in Denmark are just fine, but they can not measure up with the Vietnamese. It is small, juicy and crispy at the same time. The filling tastes like a mix of meatballs and fish cakes, and the dipping sauce is filled with acid, sweetness and umami. It is also gluten free, for those who do not like glutens.
Most people knows the spring roll. A fried pancake filled with force meat and cabbage. It is good. But surprisingly, the Vietnamese spring roll is at least as good. Even thoigh it is the diametrical opposition of the spring roll. Rice paper instead of pancake. Raw instead of deep fried. Raw vegetables and a light meat filling instead of roasted force meat.
It is the perfect starter or a nice "light" breakfast. It's also a good way to cheat the kids to eat some vegetables. The rolls can be varied with just about any filling that suits your taste. Yet another of my favorite Asian dishes.
Gateau marcel is a chocolate mousse where a portion of it being baked and the other part continues life as a chocolate mousse. So from the same dough you get both the bottom and topping. It's the only cake I can remember where that happens. So it's easy to make and it only tastes of the chocolate you're using. Use a really good chocolate. The cake is worth it.
I have changed the quantities a little bit from the original recipe, and then I have added a little grated orange peel as well.
Pho is the Vietnamese version of the classical chicken meat soup. The difference is that it is more used as a "pho principle" than as a single recipe. The basic soup itself is very simple, but the content can be varied indefinitely.
When you do something often, it's important that it's easy to do, and if you are only to use a stock for soup, this is a good shortcut. The simplest stock you can make is this, and it contains only chicken and water. Usually, there are meat, bones, vegetables and herbs in a stock. But with soups, you will put vegetables and herbs in soup itself, so it does not have to be in the stock too.
I know I've got a lot of recipes and videos with stocks, but for me it's an essential element of the food I'm making. In the winter, I typically make a batch every week for soup and sauces, and I do not always want to peel and clean a lot of vegetables for it. Then I just use this recipe.
My favorite sauce from the Asian cuisine I also have copied from my local Vietnamese restaurant. Normally I get it with crispy chicken or duck. It is another recipe that is very suitable for a busy week. It takes 5 minutes to make and taste absolutely awesome. Of course it is best with fresh vegetables that have been cooked for just a few minutes, until they are "al dente", but it is almost as good with frozen vegetables.
Crispy chicken is some of the best meat you can eat. I should know, as I do it often. Especially when there is a busy week ahead and I prepare food for several days for Asian dishes. Then it only takes 10 minutes to prepare the meat on the day itself.
When ordering an Asian dish with crispy chicken, it is usually the breast you get. But in fact, the thigh is even better to fry. You use almost the same technique for thighs and breasts, but there is still a slight difference, so I will make two different recipes.
One of the things we all have a bad conscience about, is eating too little vegetable. When you finally remember to buy the vegetables, you get overly optimistic and buy too much. Then they just lie in the fridge and become soggy. My way of solving that, is by preparing a lot of vegetables at the same time, for example, on Sundays, so I have enough for a whole week, or at least for several days. It makes it much easier to just take out a serving of vegetables and use in a soup, or in a stir fry or other Asian dishes. In this video I describe what I do and why.
When you know you have a busy week coming, it's a good idea to prepare in advance so that the individual dishes can be simple and quick. I usually cook chicken dishes in those weeks. Therefore, I prepare enough chicken for as many meals as I need.
I often make the same kind of food for a week at a time. Asian, Indian, French, etc. Chicken prepared in this way is especially suitable for Asian week.
There are 4 servings per chicken, so it's just a matter of multiplying how many meals you need. If you are four in the family then it is a chicken a day.
Deboning chicken thighs is a very handy technique to know. It makes it much easier to fry the thigh on a pan. You can fill the thigh with eg mince meat, chopped mushrooms or herbs. The bone can be cooked for a long time for a stock without destroying the meat. Making for a stronger stock. I myself use it mostly to make crispy Asian chicken thigh. It is also nice when chicken thigh sous vide, that you do not have to have the bone in the vacuum bag.
It's a recipe I have copied from my local Vietnamese restaurant, where I've been coming for many years. It i suitable most meals and is incredibly easy to make. 15 minutes from start to finish if you are a little efficient. It has a really good strong taste and satiates well.
Normally, white potato salad is made with mayonnaise, but I prefer a white sauce made with yoghurt and cream. It is easy to make and equally well suited for everyday dining and parties, red meat or barbecue sausages. Also, you often have all the ingredients in the fridge, so it's faster than ordering a pizza.
Green potato salad is a good recipe if you are note able to make a gravy to go with your potatoes, or if it has to be quick meal. Oh yeah, it is also a good dish simply because it taste fantastic. You can also make it in as large portions as you have pots for cooking potatoes, and the potatoes can even be cooked the day before and put in the fridge, so it's great for parties. The recipe can be varied indefinitely depending on which seasoning and herbs you like.
Vinaigrette is a very simple dressing. It is one of the recipes you must be able to make. It can be used for: tomato salad, lettuce salad, potato salad, pasta salad, bean salad and any salad you can think of. OK, maybe not fruit salad, but it can be varied indefinitely with spices, herbs and other condiments.
Sauce Remoulade is a very ersatile sauce. It can be used for everything from fish, burgers, dipping sauce for fries on red steaks and as dip for chips and vegetables, if you just stir it up with a little yogurt. In short, everywhere you can use a hollandaise or bearnaise.
I have family members who do not tolerate gluten. So I have experimented with making a good gluten-free bread. Indeed, I've managed to make one good enough that I no longer bake two different kinds of bread when I make bread for the gluten-affected. I can easily eat the gluten-free bread myself. It's not as good as "The World's Best Bread" with wheat flour, but it's still better than just about any bread you can buy in supermarkets or at regular bakeries.
I have gotten into the bad habit of making a portion of these, that I keep in a big glass jar. That way there is always something to put my cheese or Rillette onto. They taste amazing. They are made of grains and seeds, so they are also good if you know someone who can not tolerate gluten, milk, eggs, etc. Or for people who do not eat carbohydrates. In that case you should probably leave out the fig-mustard I'm using in the picture though :-)
Marble Cake is one of the classic variations of pound cake. It is in fact, the same recipe just with a little cocoa in it. This is a recipe for "half a marble cake" so to speak. Instead of 7 oz of each ingredient that you typically use for a cake in spring form, I use 3½ oz. It yields a small cake, so I also use a small spring form for it.
This is an even better version of potato chips. They fry better. They taste better. Just slightly acidic and mildly salted all the way through. It is basically the same recipe as regular potato chips. The only difference is that they are fermented before cooking. Basically like homemade saukraut is made
These are harder to pronounce than to make. Probably the most simple pancake recipe in the world. You only need 2 ingredients, and there is no compromise on flavor. 15 minutes and you got a big stack of pancakes for breakfast.
Garam Masala is a spice mix. Made up of a lot of regular spices mixed together. Actually it is Indian/Pakistani but it can easily be used in other cuisines as well. Many of the same spices are used in Arabic and Mexican cuisine as well. So it is a very practical thing to have in the cupboard as it goes well with a range from foods from Chicken Tikka Masala to tacos ans burritos.
There is no doubt that potato chips are easiest to just buy. But the uniformity of the factory made I find unattractive. So when it is gin-tonic Friday in the small home, it is time to bring out the homemade chips. And the homemade guacamole. And salsa fresca.
Foie gras terrine or as the French are saying "Terrine de foie gras" is a classic. It is just the fat liver of a duck or a goose where you add salt, pepper and a little alcohol. But the traditional method is difficult to do correctly, and too much of the fat melts of and is wasted.
So I find that this is the perfect recipe to make using sous vide.
Rearding animal welfare I recommend this article: http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/the-physiology-of-foie-why-foie-gras-is-not-u.html
Peanut-date-balls have a taste that is similar to snickers. But not as sweet. It is a really good recipe to make with the kids. It is easy and quick enough that they don't lose their interest along the way. And they love how it tastes.


