22 Dec Triple-cooked Chips: How To Make Perfect French Fries
Triple-cooked chips is the perfect obsession I thought I'd never have. Wait, allow me to explain...
14 Dec Beginner’s Guide to BBQ, Part 3: Perfect Pulled Pork
Ever wanted to produce top class, succulent, perfectly spicy, smoky pulled pork in the comfort of your own back yard? Ever felt confused or scared by the process or held back by lack of special equipment? Then this post is for you! Pulled Pork…It's finger-licking good! This is the big one. The climax in the Beginner’s Guide...
25 Nov Review: 2011 Gardarèm by Marrenon – World’s Best Syrah?
Gardarèm, they say, is ancient Gallic for "We keep". It's also the name of the, supposedly, best Syrah in the world. Most importantly, though, it is the culmination of a journey for your's truly. It’s no secret. I’ve drunk a lot of wine throughout the years… Much of it good, some of it bad, if I’m...
10 Nov Beginner’s Guide to BBQ, Part 2: Perfect Dry Rub Recipe
I’m gonna venture a guess here. And a controversial one at that, maybe, but here goes nothing: The most important factor in BBQ is not so much the type or quality of meat used, it’s the type and quality of the dry rub! Sure, a well-picked cut of meat of the right quality goes a...
04 Nov Johan Unscripted: Naga Morich Chili Tasting Video
Here’s a question for you: What’s the stupidest dare, you’ve ever acted on? When my friends Philip and Daniel challenged me to do a Naga Morich chili tasting, I was skeptical to say the least. A close cousin of the (in)famous Ghost Chili, the Naga Morich is widely considered to be if not the hottest pepper...
15 Oct Beginner’s Guide to BBQ, Part 1: BBQ Basics
For about as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with BBQ. But it is only since last year’s summer roadtrip of the Southern United States that the fascination has been bordering on the obsessive. For more than a year since my return now, I’ve been experimenting, tinkering, taking notes, mixing and matching, subjecting...
18 Sep Tasting Whiskey: Trolden Distillery Old No. 2 – Danish Whiskey Review
I’ve got a question for you… What compels an individual of reasonably sound wit and intellect to set up a whiskey production from scratch in a Danish seaside town of some 65,000 souls? Fortune? Fame? Recognition? Momentary loss of sanity? Since my beloved local brewery announced, some three years ago, the intend to craft a...
10 Sep Simple Pleasures: The Best Caprese Salad
Italian is the language of love. Take this week’s focus dish, for example. Tomato salad? Sounds pretty good, I guess, nice and familiar, not the least bit frightening. Take the Italian name for the dish, then, Insalata Caprese… Sounds, exotic, intriguing, tempting, doesn’t it? Like a dish you’d marry… Or at the very least make...
05 Sep Johan Unscripted: Westvleteren 12 Review – The World’s Best Beer?
It’s Friday night in Denmark and not a particularly fine one at that. It’s cold, it’s rainy, it’s windy. But it doesn’t matter. For Johan the food blogger, today was a good day. Today was the day I finally got to taste one of the most iconic beers in the history of brewing. Today was my...
31 Aug Johan Unscripted: Tasting Danish Whisky – Trolden Distillery Old No. 2
We've done a few videos in the Unscripted series now, all of which can be viewed on my Youtube channel. It's a pretty simple concept, really, I plop myself down with a camera and a topic or task. I hit record and just roll with it for as long as I can, never pausing, never...