Category Archives: Recipes

New and classical dishes – explore the in-depth history and perfect recipes for some of the world’s most iconic dishes… As well as a few bonkers experiments from Johan’s test kitchen.

Chicken Pad Thai: A Stir Fry Classic!

Chicken Pad Thai

Hello friends, Johan the food snob here with another installment in the “Let’s try to do things a little more authentically!” series. Let me ask you this: Have you ever wanted to really piss off a Thai person? No? Well, I don’t see why you would want to, but you may still have done so […]

Steak 101: Steak Au Poivre + ten tips for a perfect steak!

Cooking the perfect steak

I think you should do a post on cooking steak, my lovely, little friend Tina sulked at me one day after an, in her mind, pretty horrible experience in which she had tried to cook a steak dinner for her boyfriend and a mutual friend and, in her mind, had failed miserably. “Well, I might,” I […]

Spicy Lamb Pizza – Easter Lamb Reinvented!

spicy lamb pizza

Well, it’s been a quiet week here in Johan-land. First and foremost, I’ve been taken my first time off in 2014 and secondly I’ve been spending a few packed days in the comforting company of friends and family. Aside from being an important religious holiday, to most Danes Easter means exactly two things: an extended […]

Urban foraging: Wild garlic pesto

Wild garlic pesto

Sometimes, unique flavors are found in the most unlikely of places. Living right in the hustle and bustle of downtown Kolding, Denmark an urban area with a population of about 75,000, you don’t exactly expect to find unique flavors growing wildly just around the corner. But somehow amongst the noise, vibration and chaos of pedestrians, […]

Simple Pleasures: (Almost) Authentic Spaghetti Carbonara

Spaghetti Carbonara

All throughout the week, I had this great plan of cooking something nice for myself Friday evening when I got home from work. Something comforting, rich and intensely flavorful, maybe a little elaborate. Unfortunately, I made it home quite late Friday evening. Now, I would love to say that this was because I spent my […]