Yesterday I put the chocolate chips my mom sent me to good use. I baked a big batch of chocolate chip cookies. Enough to fit into 4 boxes. Instead of a chewy cookie, I opted for a crunchy recipe. Personally, I prefer the crispy cookie over the chewy cookie.
Fredrik will be going off to the [...]

Last week I bought a piece of “picnicbog” also known as “skinkstek” which is known as leg of pork in English. I froze portions of it with various marinades and one of the marinades I used was the Lee Kum Kee char sui sauce.
Today I decided to make char sui fan which is just char [...]

Last night I made my first whole roast chicken. I was rather proud of myself and the results. First I stuffed the chicken with a mixture of onion, rosemary, salt and pepper. Then I rubbed the outside of the chicken with a mixture of olive oil, rosemary, herb salt and pepper. There were some leftover [...]

The intent for last night’s dinner was a seafood pasta. But instead I decided to keep the mussels out of the pasta. I cooked the mussels with white wine and lots of garlic. I used pangasius in the pasta and some of the “sauce” from the mussels. I stir fried asparagus and at some of [...]

I wanted to make some sort of dish with coconut milk and shrimp and I ended up with something that is more like Thai coconut soup. It actually turned out much better than I had originally expected.
I started by marinating shelled tiger shrimps with garlic, chilli pepper flakes, a bit of salt, some crushed lemon [...]

Tonight I tried to make teriyaki chicken from scratch. It turned out pretty well. I got the recipe for the teriyaki sauce from Japanese Cooking by Emi Kazuko. The original plan was to make chicken yakitori but then I thought about my incident with skewers this past summer and I decided against the skewering. I [...]

I made a new batch of bolognese today.
Here’s how I make my bolognese.
Ingredients can be varied depending on your taste.

300g ground beef
1 onion (chopped)
1 medium zucchini (grated)
4 small-medium sized carrots (grated)
6 cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 cartons of 500g crushed tomato
dried oregano, basil & mystery spice (I had no idea what it was but it smelled [...]