After over a week of eating almost everything New York had to offer, I am back in uncharacteristically sunny Denmark, and the real world. The world where I do not have professional chefs providing my every meal and where eating five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day has transitioned back into rule rather than […]
Over the past few weeks, I have been making the transition from studying all hours of day and night combined with two part-time jobs, to a more leisurely life working a part-time job that currently involves sitting around a room complaining about the industrial conflict which currently prevents me from doing my job. It’s been […]
Frikadeller are a quintessential Danish tradition. They are so commonly eaten that supermarkets sell mixed packs of pork and beef mince for making them at home. Everyone has their own recipe, and different ideas on what makes them work. In the South of Denmark, some people add sparkling water to the mix instead of milk […]
This is a rich and complex winter salad, perfect for accompanying grilled meat. Jerusalem artichokes are neither artichokes, nor from Jerusalem, so they probably win the prize for the world’s most confusing vegetable name. In America, they are called sunchokes, but to be honest that sounds more like the name of Bond villain to me. […]
As befits early January, this recipe from Epicurious is both quick and healthy. I am still slowly developing a taste for fish after years of fear and loathing, and hake is my favourite so far. As a child, my mother always warned me that one day as a grown-up, I would be in a social […]
For my first Christmas season in Denmark, I have decided to embrace Danish Christmas biscuit culture. In Ireland, a tin of Danish butter cookies is standard at Christmas, but here the supermarkets fills with a myriad of miscellaneous brown and cream coloured biscuits with names I can’t pronounce by mid-November. I first tried Honninghjerter during […]
This is a recipe from Darina Allen’s ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’ which she advises to make when you have a ‘glut of onions’. I’m not really sure when you would find yourself with a glut of onions, I certainly never have, but did have a glut of leftover cooking red wine (an equally rare occurence) […]
This recipe was a joint effort from my Dad and I (or more accurately an effort by my dad which I hijacked) since I was up to my eyeballs job-hunting and studying. We made this while most of the country were glued to the All-Ireland Football final so for those of you familiar with stereotypes […]
Over the past month, I have been in a self-imposed study/job hunting hibernation. It turns out that finding a full-time job in a country where you do not speak the language, and do not live during a recession is not a walk in the park. The same goes for professional law exams. Shocking, I know. […]
Despite having visited Thailand, my knowledge of Thai food is exceptionally limited. I am a creature of habit, and from the first time I tried Pad Thai, I came to the conclusion that nothing could surpass it in my favour. When faced with a choice of Thai food, I will consistently return to Pad Thai […]
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