Confiterte andelÄr

Etter intens oppfordring fra min venn Svein og artikkel i Under Dusken, har jeg nÄ innsett at jeg mÄ komme meg innom Lyche (restauranten pÄ Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem) for Ä spise middag. Etter stor suksess under UKA i hÞst har de nÄ tydeligvis oppdatert menyen og det er pÄ tide Ä ta den i Þyesyn (magesmak?) selv. Kanskje det er muligheter utover i uka?

I tillegg har jeg tenkt meg tilbake til Emilies her rett utenfor kontoret (og rett over veien for TrĂžndelag teater), som har treretters middag til 300kr hver dag mellom 16 og 18. Ikke dumt.

Men i dag blir det nok Persilleriet (som ligger vegg i vegg med Emilies) som har billig, mettende veggismat. Det beste rask-mat-stedet pÄ denne siden av byen.

Food + China = ?

I just read this article (sorry, it’s in Norwegian) about food in China and how those furthest up have all their food brought from organic farms. There are so many things to say about this, that party leaders get special treatment, that organic food is the best of the best in China (compared to Norway where almost nobody cares) and how more and more people want organic food because they now know that the food they eat is bad for them.

First I thought that the article was about party leaders getting special treatment, and maybe that was the point, but in the end of the article there were three paragraphs about dangerous food in China.

Og mens eliten holder selskap pÄ spesialmat, spÞr vanlige innbyggere seg fortsatt urolig om de kan stole pÄ den kinesiske melken. Seks smÄbarn dÞde og 300 0000 ble syke etter Ä ha fÄtt i seg melkepulver som inneholdt den kjemiske middelet melamin 2008.

Anabole steroider
Det siste halvÄret har alarmen gÄtt om store partier svinekjÞtt som inneholder clenbuterol. Det er et anabolt steroid laget for hester, og et preparat som for 20 Är siden ble brukt av Þsttyske kvinnelige sprintere. Stoffet gir raskt stÞrre muskler ogsÄ hos griser. KjÞttet blir magert, men de som spiser det risikerer hodesmerter, uvelhet og uregelmessig hjerterytme.

Bly og frysevĂŠske
I nudler er det tidligere i Är funnet spor av bly og rester av industrimaling. En giftig kjemisk bestanddel er funnet i bÞnnespirer, for Ä fÄ disse til Ä vokse ekstremt raskt. I vest-Kina dÞde elleve personer etter Ä ha fÄtt i seg eddik som inneholdt frysevÊske. Og ifÞlge en undersÞkelse har ti prosent av all ris som selges i Kina for hÞyt innhold av tungmetaller.

Some instances of people dying of the craziest things. It’s not that it is crazy that they died from it, it is crazy what farmers/industrialists put in the food they produce. Milk powder with melamin, steriods in swine, lead and traces of paint in bean shoots, anti freeze in vinegar, heavy metals in rice. What is this?! You don’t put things like these in food. Suddenly I understood what it means that something is organic in China. Not that they have used natural fertilizer or that the cows were happy (as in Norway), but that you won’t die of heavy metal poisoning from eating it.

To solve this problem, you don’t stop party leaders from eating organic, you have to do something about the system. And information seems to be a good way of doing it.

Crabs

Today I am going to a crab party. Don’t yell at me for the terrible name, that is what happens when biologists try to translate Norwegian into English 🙂 It would have been krabbefest in Norwegian. So for only 100 kr this will be my dinner tonight (pictures stolen from Google and Wikipedia, and don’t worry, I will not be eating that crab species). It is the biologists down at Trondheim Biologiske Stasjon, the marine biologists, who are inviting everyone. Looking forward to it!

Shrimp

Sushi! (I love sushi)

And crab of course.

So many good things happen to biologists 🙂

Salmon paté

I just thought I’d post my salmon patĂ© recipe. It is really my dad’s and when he makes it he calles it salmon mousse, but since there really aren’t any air in it, I have decided to call it patĂ© until someone tells me it can’t be a patĂ©…

It is super simple and that is also why everyone loves it. It only has two ingredients:

  • 200 g smoked salmon
  • 100 g unsalted butter

Recipe:

  1. Chop both butter and salmon into small cubes.
  2. Make it smooth with a mixer (stavmikser, for eksempel).
  3. Add chilli and lemon juice to your taste. I usually eat it naturelle. Some green, fresh spices would probably also suit it well, especially something with a kick like leek or another onion type.
  4. Eat with dry bread, rye crackers or something similar (but avoid salt crackers, the paté is salt enough).

The salmon paté is perfect for an appetizer, snack for a party or if you are bringing something simple for a pot luck (at least a lunch or breakfast one). When I make it I never tell people how much butter is in it, I just smile as they tell me how much they love it. You should try making it sometime.

Fresh fish

Today I have done something I never do, I have gone to the fish marked and bought fresh fish. I think that if the fish marked would just be open when I end my day at the office, this would happen more often, but they don’t so I had to use my lunch brake to get some fish.

What I will do today is to bake my white fish in the oven. I will attempt to make sweet potato puree, which shouldn’t be too hard and maybe fry some fresh mushrooms ans see what else I can find at home. A nice and simple dish. I also bought some good cheese that I thought we’d eat with kiwi and apples for dessert.

If I make sure we have wine, Erik might bring the port, and then it will truly be a magnificent meal.

Happy Tuesday!

This recipe seems promising:

CARROT AND SWEET POTATO PUREE
(adapted from Giada de Laurentiis)

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium shallot, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
2 pounds carrots, peeled and sliced
2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch pieces
1 teaspoon salt, plus extra for seasoning
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus extra for seasoning
2 cups chicken (or vegetable) broth
2 cups water

Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a saucepan. Add the shallot and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant. Add the carrots, sweet potatoes, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cook for 5 minutes until slightly softened. Add the stock and water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the veggies are tender, about 25 minutes. Drain the veggies, saving the cooking liquid. Transfer them to a food processor, and puree until still slightly chunky, adding some of the cooking liquid, until you reach the consistency you like. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.

Friends, beer and food

One of my best friends is visiting from Oslo this weekend and we are doing Trondheim. Friday we played Settlers (a board game), ate carrot cake and drank port. It was a lovely night. I haven’t played Settlers in many years and it was great fun! Good friends and a quiet night is good for the soul. Before playing, Erik had gotten an invitation to a free three course dinner at Samfundet (it originally also included tickets to the show, but we decided three times was too much), so we had carpaccio of scallops, reindeer and panacotta for dinner that day…

Yesterday we went to see the show (revyen) again. This weekend is G-helg, which means that all the old students in Trondheim are invited to come to UKA. That means a lot of grey hair and many big spenders. Samfundet changed completely and there were almost no-one under 30 in the whole house before 24.00. But we had beer, ate hamburgers for dinner in our long dresses and ended up partying the whole night away.

Today I was pushed all the way up to Teisendammen (it’s quite a climb) by my boyfriend. He has decided that he wants to go skiing with me this winter, and to be able to keep up with him I need to do something with my running pace. So today he (almost walked) ran with me up all the hills and then down again. I’m also trying to learn how to get out to run, even though I have been partying the whole nigh away. It’s all in the head, I believe.

In half an hour I will be going out again. This time I’m going to Frati with the rest of the leaders in student politics in Trondheim. SiT is giving us a three course dinner and time to get to know each other better tonight. Looking forward to it!

I’ll be working three nights at Samfundet next week and I’ll be going to the David Guetta concert. So I think all free nights (especially Friday) will be spent at the office. 15th of May is getting ever closer…

Rain and fungi, part 1

About a month ago, I was fortunate enough to get my boyfriend back from the USA. We went to his cabin for a few days to escape from the world. It rained the whole time, but I go a couple of nice photos anyway. And I also found some fungi (mushroom) that we had for breakfast.

 

 

 

 

 

I was very pleased when I found these 🙂

Mmmm, breakfast.

Dagens mat:

Dobbeldekker med leverpostei og rĂždbetsalat til frokost.

Dobbeldekker med pesto, brie, salami og tomat til lĂžnsj.

FrĂžbrikke med gulost, paprika og salat (gitt av SAS) til 3-mat (eller 15-mat om du foretrekker 24-timers klokke).

Fiskesuppe med “scampi” (aka reker) og brĂžd (tilberedt av SiTĂž – Studentsamskipnaden i TromsĂž) til middag.

Eksotisk miks + hasselnÞtter + bananchips til kveldsmat. (Det er fem timer mellom frokost og lÞnsj og mellom lÞnsj og middag sÄ dette skal bli mulepose den neste uka.)

Frokost og lĂžnsj er dekket av ForBio, men ikke middag (og vi har ingen mulighet til Ă„ lage den selv), sĂ„ en vis mann sa at jeg fikk se pĂ„ det som ferie og kose meg med Ă„ spise pĂ„ restaurant hver dag… Men det hjelper nok pĂ„ Ă„ spise billigmiddag til 45 kr hos SiTĂž innimellom for Ă„ holde kostnadene nede.

Det er lange dager, men ingenting pÄ kveldene. Jeg tenkte jeg skulle vÊre flink og jogge, men det blir fort mÞrkt her og det er faktisk bÄde kaldt og hÞst. Nesten alle trÊrne er gule og det er nÞdvendig med bÄde noe pÄ hodet, rundt halsen og pÄ hendene. HÞst, ja. Kanskje jeg skal ta med meg kameraet mitt pÄ tur en dag?

Middag denne uka?

PÄ internett sÄ ser jeg for det meste enten pÄ mote eller mat. Jeg er veldig glad i dinmat som bÄde Adressa og Aftenposten har pÄ nettsidene sine. Oppskriftene er ofte spennende og annerledes og de er fine Ä fÞlge. Jeg har fÄtt inspirasjon derfra fÞr (gulrotsuppa for eksempel) og nÄ har jeg fnnet tre spennende oppskrifter fra denne ukas middagsforslag. Trenger du noe nytt og annerledes denne uka ville jeg prÞvd en av disse tre:

Soppfylte pannekaker

Det er strengt tatt bare vanlige pannekaker fylt med soppstuing og gratinert i ovnen. Fantastisk, spesielt om du er en ivrig sopplukker slik som jeg.

Innbakt biff

Biff og spennende krydder bakt inn i butter deig. Å bake noe inn i butter deig funker ogsĂ„ veldig bra bĂ„de med hvitt kjĂžtt og fisk. Anbefales!

Tyrkisk linsesuppe

En litt sterkere tomatsuppe med linser i.

Ikke at jeg selv kommer til Ă„ spise sĂ„ mye middag hjemme denne uka. Det blir lang dag pĂ„ kontoret i dag og jeg har med salat laget av avokado, tomat og spinat (og bittelitt brie i terninger) for Ă„ holde meg med selskap. I morgen skal Erik og jeg pĂ„ Skydsstasjonen, en veldig bra restaurant pĂ„ Bakklandet, og mimre og vĂŠre romantiske. Fredag reiser jeg til Ås utenfor Oslo pĂ„ helgemĂžte og da er menyen satt allerede. Om litt over en uke reiser jeg til TromsĂž. SĂ„ det blir ikke mye kokkelering for min del i september.

New and old fandoms

Since I still haven’t shined my apartment since arriving 1,5 weeks ago, my camera is stuck in it’s bag in the corner of my bedroom. I therefore have no pictures of all the wonderful food I have been eating. But I thought I might give you some ideas to spice up your dinners.

  • Buy fresh asparagus. Fry it in a pan and season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Works with anything. Especially bacon. As long as you break off the ends, you really don’t need to peal them.
  • Mix ground parmesan and soy sauce with your frozen spinach and warm it in a frying pan. Gives your food an exotic taste. Put it on pasta or pack it in some butter dough with a chicken filĂ©t.
  • Cut tomatoes and avocado in cubes and mix with balsamic vinegar and sea salt. Serve cold as a side dish. Put some red onions in it if you like.
  • Slice fresh chili and fry it with small cubes of courgette/zuccini (squash pĂ„  norsk) and frozen spinach.
  • Slice sweet potato, potato, chili and red onion and bake it in the oven with butter, sea salt and freshly ground pepper. If you like, put peppers (paprika), zuccini or eggplant in it as well.
  • Mix bacon, avocado, tomato, kalmata olives (the purple ones) and parmesan with your pasta.
  • Try red pesto between your ham and the slice of bread for breakfast.
  • Put fresh coriander in your tomato sauce.
Soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, fresh chili, fresh garlic, sour cream and fresh coriander will revolutionize your kitchen.

A meeting of 2CV friends

Hurray! I have finally managed to find some pictures from my trip down south to France. These are from the meeting of 2CV friends itself, which was in Salbris. I have more pictures, but here are some to show you just how it was.

My brother’s car.

Many people upgraded while in Salbris. You see, all the car part dealers were there 🙂

We were two that needed to change the ignition system and lots of people who hang with us and talked and helped. Fun!

Sometimes it helps to be two.

Morten and Jan Erik were helping me. They are wonderful. Me in my 2CV shirt and Citröen caps.

A bit of adjustment to get the ignition right.

Lots of people were selling food. This guy made sausages…

These guys sold something that looked like sausage but definitely wasn’t. We never could find out what it was. And that was mostly because no-one could speak even the tiniest bit of English and nobody had bothered putting up signs in English. It was like they pretended it was only for French people and ignored the rest of us.

Most of our eating was done standing because none of the places selling food had brought anything to sit on.

 

 

Fresh out of military service.

Ice cream!

I had my first ever macaroons there. Terribly sweet, but good. But I needed two days to finish them all…

And then we went to a wine tasting 🙂

I want a castle like this (as long as you give me the money to keep it as well)!

Dad knows really much about wine and we learned a lot.

Eager tasters and listeners.

We were in the wine district Poille Fumé, which is very close to Sancerre and Burgundy. They mostly make white wines and rosé wines there and it is a quite small wine area almost in the middle of France.

 

It was terribly hot while we were there, but that was normal, I think.

This will be white wine, someday.

🙂 TRAKTOR! This day ended with an epic feast at our hotel, lots of wonderful wine from Poilly FumĂ© and Burgundy and the most wonderful goose patĂ© and steak. It was heaven.

When we came back, the whole Norwegian camp had a BBQ.

 

 

 

We must have had 15 tables lined up.

 

After driving our cars, this is what we did second most during the two weeks we were on the road; reading. That is definitely what summers are for.

 

This is from the championship. The team is to take the 2CV apart, get all the parts through a whole and build the car again and then drive it two meters. The Fins won over the Portugese and spent about an hour doing this. It was really fun watching.

They had one car each, naturally.

This guy hand painted cars. They were really nice. Lots of people sold gadgets and things. I didn’t buy that many things, but it was fun just looking as well. (I mostly bought car parts…)

I have many more pictures, from the trip down, from Paris and more from the meeting in Salbris also. I have wonderful amounts of pictures of 2CVs, but all in good time.

I’m not only back in Trondheim, but I have started working on my thesis again as well, so the days are getting more and more busy. And the first thing I will do after starting working is going back to Oslo for almost a week… This September is going to fly by! I love the autumn 🙂

Food in the US

So, much of the trip consisted of food and eating. As it usually does when you are on holiday and actually need a holiday (don’t have the energy to run around like a crazy tourist all the time).

Erik had bought real champagne to welcome me to the united states.

And our favorite brand of port 😉 We had to order glasses from room service 😉

My first ever room service ordered meal. It was good!

Dinner at the Cheese Cake Factory. The fries are sweet potato. Really good! I had a white pizza.

We bought salad and champagne to have lunch in the park.

Breakfast on the roof of our building in NYC. Manhattan in the background. We had quesedillas and beans (dinner the day before) and asparagus for breakfast. And lovely orange juice.

Watermelon salad with feta and basil at the Rabbithole in Brooklyn

And lentil, artichoke, parmesan and apple salad at the same place

Wonderful chocolate from the local chocolate factory. They hand made and hand wrapped everything.

Cupcake with bacon! We went to the Brooklyn sunday flea marked and they had all sorts of wonderful things 🙂

Lobster roll aka lobster in a hot dog roll for breakfast

This is the most wonderful thing I have ever tasted! It is actually just frozen raspberry on a stick. It tasted delicious!

We also had dinner at a French restaurant where we had escargon (snails) and wonderful classic French cooking (and cocktails!). In NYC we had steak at a Michelin recommended restaurant and I had more sushi than I could finish on Manhattan. And we learned that two Norwegians eat one American portion. The food was cheap and really good, I recommend going!

 

 

 

 

Squash!

You should eat squash this week.

As I am working at the office 12 hours a day, and have been for almost four weeks now, and still haven’t gotten my camera back, there is not much blogging about food. Things that have happened:

– Penne with peppers (paprika), tomato, chicken and feta cheese. Spice the chicken with ground paprika and garlic, use soft (preferably Turkish) feta cheese. Add all to a bowl and pour some Balsamico vinegar over. Balsamico + peppers + tomato + feta cheese is a killer combo.

– I was inspired by these pictures:

Squash rolls with feta cheese.

Oved baked and filled with minced meat and cheese.

I tried to make the rolls, but you should probably roast the squash first and put the cheese in afterwords, while i made sandwiches of squash and feta cheese. It was good though. Next project is the squash boat. It must be good for BBQ.

– Yesterday we talked about vegetable subscriptions and using new and different veggies. I want to start using different greens, but firstly I don’t really know what they look like or what I can do with them. But that is what the internet and good friends are for 😉

Where do you get your food inspiration from?

Eksperter i Team

Jeg har jo hatt Eksperter i Team dette semesteret og har hatt mye om folkehelsearbeid. IgĂ„r hadde alle gruppene i landsbyen min presentasjon av prosjektene sine og jeg tenkte jeg skulle vise dere ett av resultatene (mitt eget resultat er en kjempelag rapport og ikke sĂ„ veldig spennende). Det passer nemlig veldig bra inn for alle oss matnerder…

Oppgaven deres handlet om hvordan man kan bruke kortreist, lokal og nÊringsrik mat for Ä bedre kostholdet og dermed folkehelsa. De laget en brosjyre som jeg har bilder av under. Den er kjempefin og jeg gleder meg til Ä teste ut noen av oppskriftene! (men det er ikke alle jeg vet hvordan ser ut, sÄ det blir spennende)

Tenker du pÄ hvilke grÞnnsaker du bruker og pÄ nÊringsverdien i dem? Kanskje du skulle prÞvd noen av disse?

Ostesnitsel

Det er tusen mÄter Ä spise ostesnitsel (schnitzel) pÄ og jeg jobber meg sakte gjennom dem alle sammen.

Her kommer “Tusen mĂ„ter Ă„ bruke ostesnitsel fra Firstprice” del 5: ostesnitsel i pitabrĂžd.

  1. pitabrĂžd varmet i brĂždrister,
  2. snitsel stekt i stekepanne,
  3. fersk tomat skÄret i mellomtykke skiver,
  4. remulade,
  5. fersk spinat.

Det blir som falafel i pita, bare med ostesnitsel i stedet for. Det var ordentlig godt, men det var remuladen som gjorde den store forskjellen. Det var egentlig akkurat som Ä spise burger. Det kan jo alltids sprites opp med guacamole, aioli, chillisaus, hummus eller noe annet som du liker. Det jeg liker best ved det er at det er raskt, billig, godt og sunt.

Det er kanskje rart Ä velge ostesnitsel, men jeg trenger litt variasjon i kosten og jeg kan ikke spise laksefilét eller svinekotelett hver dag (to vanlige gjengangere mÄ jeg innrÞmme). SÄ da mÄ man prÞve se pÄ noe nytt og se hvordan det gÄr. Jeg anbefaler deg absolutt Ä prÞve det.

Takk til mine sponsorer: Petter (remulade), Ola (spinat) og Norges Speiderforbund (tomat) 😉

English: a really simple dinner involving super cheap schnitzel. All you need is pita bread, tomato, spinach, mayo and the schnitzel itself. Voila!

SmÄmat

To forslag til smÄmat om du trenger litt mat:

PitabrĂžd med fyll

varm et pitabrÞd i brÞdristeren (helst til det blÄser seg opp), skjÊr det nesten helst rundt. SmÞr pÄ et tynt lag honning. Legg pÄ et lag gulost og et lag salami (ca to skiver) og sÄ litt salat av noe slag pÄ toppen. Lukk pitabrÞdet og nyt!

Appelsin- og gulrotsuppe

Oppskriften finner du her, jeg har tatt den fra DinMat pÄ Aftenposten.no. Det er strengt tatt bare grÞnnsaksuppe med gulrot og lÞk og sÄ putter du litt fersk ingefÊr og appelsinjus i og da blir det en veldig mye mer spennende suppe. Rask Ä lage og billige ingredienser. Anbefales!