baked artichokes

I am sorry that i havent posted that often but this opening for the installation on the upcoming sunday. I have been cooking a bit, but not enough. But while my mum was here i made these delicious stuffed/baked artichokes.

I started like i usually do, by cutting out the center, scooping out all the thistley middle stuff and putting in a big pot of salted boiling water. same preparation as the other ones i made seen here.

Once they are boiled, than i cut the bottoms off, and stuffed them with a mixture of

• olive oil
• lemon juice
• garlic
• salt/pepper
• touch of maple syrup
• the stem (peeled)

put into an oven at 375 F for 20 minutes and Enjoy with some friends.

Settings of Good Grub

Dan's Good Grub has been given yet another opportunity to share some great food, art and music to those in Copenhagen. This time replacing photos of food with different table settings where good food would be eaten.

On the 1st floor of the Urban Outfitters from June till July the gallery will showcase the settings that influenced the making of God Mad: Good Grub.

June 6th, is the opening party. From 12 -16 the upstairs will be filled wit bands, art and of course some Caramel Popcorn. It will be an event that you wont want to miss, so bring friends, have some popcorn, listen to the music and talk to dan.

We have three bands that are gonna play.

The Kites
http://www.myspace.com/thekitesofficial

Michael Wexler from Inlet Sound
http://www.myspace.com/inletsound

Cavio
http://www.myspace.com/caviomusic

the events page is
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121557651208716

Cheers
daniel

sweet and hot baked salmon

in my quest to try and eat more fish i went to the fish store by my place yesterday and bought some salmon. I decided that i was going to eat the salmon with some sunchokes and make it all really simple because i was tired from a long day.

I started by

• turning oven to 350 F.
• lining baking pan with parchment paper
• putting salmon on paper skin side up
• adding a sauce that i made
• baking for 20 minutes or until skin was nice and crispy

the sauce was made by mixing together

• tsp of hot sauce
• tsp of maple syrup
• tsp of lemon juice
• pinch of salt and pepper
• 2 tsp of olive oil

now enjoy with a side of sun chokes (Jerusalem artichoke)...except without the salami

cherry tomato pesto pasta

i was starving for something hearty but easy so i decided to make a really basic pasta. In my box of veggies that i get every week i have been getting these cherry tomatoes, that i think are delicious..however i just dont like raw tomatoes.

i started by

• boiling enough pasta for two people
• in another pan adding 2 tsp of olive oil
  
• turning to med-high heat
• cutting in half 6 cherry tomatoes
• once hot adding cherry tomatoes to pan
• stirring around for a few minutes while the tomatoes fry
• adding 2 tbs of pesto to the fried tomatoes
• continuing to stir and than add to a large pot of pasta
• stirring about
  

than i enjoyed it with some wine.

bacon sunchoke soup

I have been pretty bad at posting these past few days...and im sorry for that, but i have been busy. Im working on an art show at urban outfitters, writing an essay about the identity of nordic food, doing scientific experiments on cider that i (and friends) have brewed and finally my mum is town. Its been great, but busy. Last week the weather was cold so i made soup. this was it...seems out of place right now, but at the time it was not. at all so so delicous.

I started by

• adding 5 slices of organic bacon to a soup pot
• turning to med heat and letting bacon start to cook
• cutting up an onion and adding to bacon once fat is starting to melt
• cooking and stirring everyone once in while for 5 minutes
  
• adding 3 large carrots (peeled and cut)
• adding a large handful of sunchoke (peeled and cut up)
• adding 2 cloves of garlic (smashed and diced)
• adding 2 tsp of hot sauce
• adding 3 tsp of curry powder
• adding half a juice of lemon
  
• stirring for a few more minutes
• adding water and turning up heat
• adding beef bouillon cube and put lid on top
• once boiling, turn down temp to a simmer
  
• let simmer for 30-40 minutes
• use a blender to blend it

top it off with some sour cream, chives but i had some more bacon that was put in oven till crisp and chopped up... enjoy

cauliflower yellow bean dahlish things

I had some cauliflower the other day and decided to make this. I dunno, its kind of like dahl...but my version i guess. Hope you like..

I started by

• slicing up a few pieces of fatty organic bacon
  
• adding to a pot
  
• turning to med-high heat
  
• adding 1 onion (peeled and chopped up)
• stirring for a few minutes
• adding a clove of garlic (smashed and chopped)
• adding 1 tbs curry powder, 1 tsp hot sauce and 1 tsp of maple syrup
  
• stirring for another few minutes
• adding 1 L water
• turning to high
• adding a beef bouillon cube
• adding 2 large handfuls of yellow split peas
• once boiling turning down
• letting simmer for over an hour...till some water has evaporated
• adding 2 tomatoes (diced up)
  
• adding a large handful of cauliflower florets (smaller pieces pieces)

top with some red currants

Enjoy!!

bread in muffin

I made some bread the other day.

the recipe for the dough goes as follows

Bread recipe is a simple bread recipe. Start with

• 2 (8 g) packages of rapid rise yeast
• 1 cup of warm water
• 2 tsp maple syrup
  

Let sit for 5 min, till a creamy foam

Fill a big bowl with 7 cups of flour, than add

Combine:

• 2 tb, olive oil
• 3/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• yeast mixture
  

Knead for 7-10 min, till it has formed together. Than let sit and put in bowl with some olive oil and a damp rag on top. Let it sit till it doubles, around an hour. Punch down and let rise again.

I than divided it up into 2 tbs balls.

i added some of

• garlic (smashed, diced)
  
• maple syrup
• salt/pepper
• Parmesan cheese
• pesto

i than put them into the muffin cups, and baked in oven at 350 for 20ish minutes...till tops looked like this.

cucumber radish salad

When its cold outside i sometimes feel like i just need something fresh and tasty to get away from the weather.

So i started out by washing and slicing up a cucumber and a handful of radishes.

I made a sauce out of

• olive oil
• honey mustard
• white wine vinegar
• salt/pepper

got a bowl and added the cucumber, radish and sauce.

roasted....

At my work they are always making these 'home' fries with the burgers. They just smell delicious and as we cant eat them there i had to make some tastiers ones at home. This is all from that box of organic veggies that i get. I got these small potatoes and a couple big parsnips.

I started by

• washing a big handful of potatoes and peeling a parsnip.
• cutting up the roots into wedges.
• setting in bowl with ice water for 10 min.
• draining and turning oven to 400 F.
• smashing and chopping 2 cloves of garlic.
  
• adding a good dash of olive oil, salt, garlic to bowl with roots.
• mixing all up.
• putting on pan.
• putting in oven once it is HOT
• flipping after 15 min
• flipping again after another 15 min
• taking out when they are brown on outside
• enjoying with while watching the nucks game

mergez w. yam and eggplant

i dont usually use a fry pan with yams, but this time is an exception.

i start by

• turning a pan to med-high heat.
  
• adding a spicy mergez sausage to pan.
• peeling, dicing and adding a yam to pan.
• washing, dicing and adding an egg plant to pan.
  
• stirring for 5 min.
• adding touch of salt, pepper, olive oil and garlic.
  
• taking out sausage, slicing and re adding to pan.
• putting lid on.
  
• cooking for another 10 min. stirring every once in a while.

It worked out pretty great, and will definitely make it again with a few more spices and flavours.

root cakes

I made this the other day because i got a lot of vegetables from per. I had a bunch of root veggies and decided that i wanted to make a 'root cake' out of it.

I started by grating

• 1 decently large beetroot (peeled)
• 5 small potatoes (washed and scrubbed)
• 2 sweet potatoes (peeled)
• 1 parsnip (peeled)
  

and than a washed and finely sliced up a leek. Put it all in a bowl and it looked like this




now i added and mixed in

• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp of salt
• 2 tsp lius syrup
• 1 tsp of cayenne pepper
• 2 tbs of grated mozzarella
• 1 tbs of corn
• 1/2 cup of flower
  

once all mixted, stuff the mixture into muffin cups, as seen below




Put in oven at 350 for 40ish minutes. They will brown on the top and solidify. and be soo soo tasty. I ate it with some black beans that i made a few days ago.

mergez sausage pita

I went today to the butcher and got some mergez sausage. I dont know how to spell it, but its a spicy african sausage.

I started by

• frying up 2 sausages in a pan
• adding a eggplant, sliced up
• adding a red pepper, diced up

Let it all cook up for a few minutes. I added some maple syrup and a tsp of curry powder. I put the lid on and cooked it up for another 10 minutes...stirring occasionally. This is how it turned out.




I than added some of the mixture with a bit of

• creme fraiche
• mozzarrella cheese

and wrapped it up and put it on the fry pan to crisp it up a little.

frozen berry sauce

I was starving after a day of work yesterday and found out that i had basically no food, except some stuff in the freezer. I found a roll of pinwheel cookies so i decided to bake them up. With that i made a sauce out of some of the frozen berries i had. I had some mixed berries and some red currant berries in the freezer. Im not usually a fan of frozen stuff, but i was in dire need of it.

I started by adding

• large handful of frozen red currants
• handful of frozen mixed berries
• tbs of sugar
• 1 cup of water

to a pot and turn it to med heat. heat it till it starts to boil and simmer for a couple minutes till it thickens a bit.

Have them with some cookies... and Enjoy

stuffed onion

As i like to make one recipe based on the box of veggies i get, therefore i came up with this one. Its quite different and very tasty...and as per usual quite simple. I appologize before about all the sexual connotations, however as we all know, sex and food go well together...so maybe it makes sense

Get a medium sized onion, like size of your fist. (unless you have tiny or massive hands...than adjust accordinly). some delicious monastery styled sausages.

• Peel
• cut top and bottom off, so you can see the inner layers
• cut out a hole in center (big enough to fit the sausage into)
• stuff sausage into onion
• put on a sheet of tinfoil (big enough to wrap around onion)

now for the other flavouring i added

• a dash of hot sauce
• a dash of maple syrup (or substitute)
• a dash of vegetable oil
• a tiny dash of sesame oil
• some black sesame seeds

wrap it all up in the tinfoil and put in oven at 350 F for 45 min. Can unwrap at end so that it makes top golden brown.

As i said, its pretty simple...pretty hands on, but will definitely impress some people.