Tag Archives: dessert

Over the top: Pear and Sauternes Sorbet

Pear and Sauternes Sorbet

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. I agree in some cases. In other cases, gluttony is the mother of invention. Take my newest original dessert for example: I was busying myself the night before New Year’s poaching some pears in about half a bottle of Sauternes wine for a dessert serving in […]

New Years 2013: The menu, part 2 – pictures and notes

leg of wild boar

Dearest friends, I hope you have all had the happiest of New Years and have made it through to 2014 safe, unharmed and relatively hangover-free. I also hope your New Year’s Eves were full of love, friends, good food, drink and great company. I know mine was, and as promised here now is the long-awaited […]

Strange obsessions: vintage cookbooks

Gastronomie Pratique

… Or how to make ice cream without a freezer, electricity or ice! I think I’ve mentioned at some point that I don’t really care much for cookbooks, that I don’t own a lot of them, but that the few I do own, I absolutely treasure! This holds especially true for my small, but growing collection […]

Hot desserts: Grilled pineapple with ghost chili and rum recipe

grilled pineapple with ghost chili

If you’ve followed recent posts, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of a ghost chili streak going on here on johanjohansen.dk over this past week. I’ve had a ton of fun using ghost chili into all sorts of imaginable (and some quite unimaginable) applications and it’s made for a couple of apparently […]

Hot & Sweet: Ghost Chili and Spiced Rum Syrup

ghost chili syrup

I’ve been having a lot of fun doing ghost chili related recipes lately, and apparently it has been gathering some attention. My ghost chili and mango hot sauce recipe was the first post on this blog to hit 100 views in under six hours (by the way, thank you for that, dear readers) and people […]