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.

Coming up: Fresh herbs with attitude from Growing Home!

Growing Home Herbs

Now, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: It’s spring time and I’m in love! The subject of my infatuation is not a pretty, young girl, though, it’s a myriad of fresh herbs from my friends over at growinghome.dk ! The object of my infatuation. Fresh spring herbs! A few weeks ago, I was […]

Danish Classics: Mørbradgryde (Pork Tenderloin in Cream Sauce)

You know, it occurred to me the other day: I’m a Dane with a food blog, and a relatively large audience, many of whom are not from Denmark. Over the course of almost 65 posts, I’ve covered a lot of dishes, cuisines, tastes and culinary impressions… None of them traditionally Danish! Danish cuisine? How about […]

Slow-cooked Chili Con Carne: The basics, the history, the recipe!

Chili Con Carne

It should come as no surprise by now to regular readers that I like to experiment in my cooking. Hardly anything I do ever comes out the exact same way twice which is another reason I started adding recipes and procedures to this blog. At least that way, if something turns out right, I can […]

Pot Roast: An ode to simplicity, tough cuts of beef and time

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This past weekend, I visited my dad to celebrate his 62nd birthday. I’ve already talked about my dad and our love for cooking in this post and, consequently, I was very excited to see what he had come up with for his birthday menu. Was it something new? Something old? Something complicated or something easy? […]

Simple Pleasures: Lumpfish roe, Poor Man’s Caviar

lumpfish roe

Over the last couple of years, an exciting trend has been spreading amongst people in the foodie world. So-called locavores have emerged. That is, people who strive to eat locally produced foods and usually also strive for fresh and seasonal items in their diets. Funny, isn’t it? Only in a world that has been moving too […]