tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59363874997103006292024-12-18T22:18:32.502-05:00FOOD . TRAVELUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936387499710300629.post-55509842728984839612017-03-22T11:30:00.000-04:002017-06-22T16:14:58.472-04:00

Tarteletter are one of those homey grandmother style dishes that everyone likes eating during holidays and celebrations, but almost never any other time. Danish people love tarteletter. It is part of general pop culture and referred to in TV and movies all the time. Here are some clips from Danish TV. Check it out: That's some pretty weird stuff.  Tarteletter are baked puff

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Not far from Grenada near the Sierra Nevada Mountains lies Guadix, a town that is famous for its many cave houses. These houses look like a cross between hobbit houses and the Flintstone's residence, and hundreds of Cuevas can be found in Guadix and the surrounding countryside. People have been living in caves in this area for centuries, and it makes sense. The caves are a great way to

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It seems everyone is talking about hygge these days. It was one of the "new" words of the year in 2016. There are many interpretations of the word, but at this time of year, when your really getting sick of the weather, it means lets do something nice to make our lives seem less shit. That's why one crappy February day Mia and I made this nice and fancy little dessert for ourselves. Apple and

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Labskaus is considered the signature dish of Hamburg Germany. A mixture of canned corn beef, potatoes, onions, and beets are fried into a glowing pink mush and served with fried egg, herring and pickles. It tastes better than it looks and can be found on the menu of restaurants all over Hamburg. In general it could be considered the signature dish of the entire Schleswig-Holstein area

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Remember about 20 years ago before the "War on Urban Culture" began? Before the blueprint of what being urban, cool, and hip was distilled, marketed and replicated in every major city in the Western World? When a taco shop existed because it was in an Hispanic neighbourhood, and donut shops were where homeless people and drug dealers hung out? I'm not going to go on about urban

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Hot Turkey Sandwich Old School Diner Rundstück warm is a local dish from Hamburg, Germany. Slices of roast pork are layered on top of a rundstück, a type of crusty bun similar to a kaiser roll, and gravy is poured on top making a delicious mess. Some people say it is the original hamburger, but I think dishes like the hot turkey sandwiches, and beef manhatten that you get in

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" everybody says that Jeppe drinks, but nobody asks why Jeppe drinks " This is the most famous line from the 1722 play by Ludvig Holberg called "Jeppe På Bjerget" it's about an alcoholic farmer and the mess he makes of his life. It's a comedy. Every New Year's Eve Danish families will get together and sing special songs based on Jeppe På Bjerget. The words are quite difficult

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I grew up with milk in a bag. I assumed the whole world did. I was wrong. It turns out bagged milk is something unique to Ontario. Everyone else thinks it's funny and weird, maybe even gross, but I see it as normal, even preferable. This is the situation most Swedes will find themselves in when foreigners come across their food packaged in toothpaste tubes. Every supermarket in Sweden has

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One Morning I went to Jok Prince for breakfast. It's considered one of Bangkok's best congee shops. When I was finished I looked down the alleyway and decided it seemed quite interesting. Wandering down, I soon came across what looked like an abandoned cinema. I thought it seemed pretty cool that this theater was just sitting there hidden in the back of a maze of alleys, so I walked around

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Gubbröra is a delicious dish with a funny name that means "old man mix". It is very easy to make as long as you can source the two uniquely Swedish ingredients, Kalles Kaviar and Grebbstads Ansjovis. Both can be quite difficult to find outside Scandinavia, but apparently IKEA sells them in many of its stores. My version contains potatoes, which may not be part of the classic recipe, but

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Guys at Hav Rørvig is a small seaside town in Northern Sjælland, Denmark. It's famous as an area to go and relax at a sommerhus or campsite. It has a nice small harbour with sailboats and a fish shop that specializes in smoked fish and seafood. Not much commercial fishing actually goes on here anymore, but the Rørvig setting is the inspiration for a very summer like seafood salad

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No matter where you are in Denmark you're always close to the sea. With over 400 Islands a beach is never far away, and Whether you own, rent, or borrow a sommerhus, it's a relaxing time to enjoy friends and family and make lots of nice food. Hygge is a term that is getting a lot of press in the English world lately. It usually refers to candlelight and mulled wine. Sitting around watching

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Bitterballen are a classic Dutch bar snack that you will find in almost every bruin cafe in Amsterdam. Crispy on the outside, but with a liquid meaty center, bitterballen go perfectly with jenever or beer. Most places use beef flavoured with nutmeg for the filling, in the tradition of using leftovers many variations can be found including a curried version in the former Dutch colony

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If I visualized the perfect European bar, it would be an old and dark establishment half full of a motley crew of old sailors, brooding intellectuals, artsy girls, and incongruously affable loners, all whiling away the afternoon drinking pastis, schnapps, and other wonderfully strange and strong European liquors while listening to Nina Simone and Kraftwerk. No one cares about whats going on

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Fastelavn is the Danish version of the pre Lenten celebrations, such as Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday and Carnival, that are common all over the world at this time of year. In many ways it's a time for children. Costumes and candy make Fastelavn similar to Halloween, but instead of collecting candy by trick or treating, the treats are knocked out of a barrel in the same way as a piñata in a

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There are many types of gingerbread made around Christmas time in Europe. Personally I like the thin crisp type they make in Scandinavia, as opposed to the thicker chewy types you see in Germany and France. The main reason I wanted to bake pepparkakor this year was to pair it with blue cheese as an hors-d'oeuvre on the julbord. I discovered this gingersnap-blue cheese combo fairly recently

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This year I had the opportunity to make tourtière for my Danish family and friends for Christmas in Copenhagen. None had ever heard of it, and it was a nice addition to the traditional 2.Jul Dag buffet that we served. Tourtière is originally a Québecois dish, but has been enjoyed across Canada for generations. In my opinion it is Canada's most known and unique traditional dish. Unlike so

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I saw Brian was selling good looking fresh rosehips in Torvehallerne, so I decided to make some rosehip apple jam. Things have slowed down a bit at work, so I had an hour or so to spare, and I thought it would be nice as a garnish for our cheese plate at Un Mercato. I'd never used rosehips before so I looked up some recipes and decided to use Geoffrey Smeddle's recipe on Great British

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    It's gone full blown Autumn here in Copenhagen in the last week, so it's time to start making rustic manly things. Real Chef's love eating steak tartare, and doing shots of Fernet Branca while talking about eating steak tartare.     Chefs also like to sit around eating foie gras while talking about what wild game dishes there going to feature on their

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One of the things I always find funny about Oktoberfest is that it takes place in September. I've never been to Okroberfest, but Lidl the German supermarket always has special Oktoberfest food for sale during this time. Two things I bought this year were weisswurst and weisswurst mustard. Weißwurst is a traditional Bavarian sausage made from minced veal and pork,. and flavoured with parsley,

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The first time I walked around a Danish Bakery I saw some hindbærsnitter and thought, wow! pop tarts! Their so similar I find it hard to believe they weren't the inspiration for the famous toaster treats. Hindbærsnitter are one of the classic wienerbrød you'll  find in every konditori in Denmark, and a favourite amongst Danes Shairez and Steffan and the "world's biggest Pop-Tart"

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Khao San Road in Bangkok is one of the most unique streets you can visit on earth.  Thousands of people end up staying in this area every week, and to first time visitors it can be an exciting and mesmerizing experience of shops, bars, clubs, hotels and people, that can quickly overwhelm you with choices. It sucks you in and even though you have the best intentions, you can end up dazed,

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On August 24th 2014 Torvehallerne in Copenhagen hosted the "VM i Risotto", a world championship of risotto for it's second consecutive year. This year featured 8 selected participants - including me! Each of us had 30 minutes to prepare and present our individual risotto creations to a panel of judges, in front of an enthusiastic crowd of onlookers.       &

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If you do a Phad Thai image search you will be amazed at how many variations there are. Type "ผัดไทยกุ้งสด" the Thai script for phad thai into google images and again and you will see that even Thai people don't appear to have any definitive concept of what phad thai is. If you look up "authentic phad thai recipe", again various "experts" will tell you their version is "just like in Thailand

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I'm not sure if this is a post about a dish or a place, or an excuse to get all retro and instagrammy with my photos, so let's start with the place. Newlight Coffee House in Siam Square in Bangkok is not only a restaurant that I go to every time I'm in Thailand, but a place I try to take as many people to as I can possibly convince. I came across it one morning in 1999 waiting for MBK plaza to

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