Weekend special

Starter – Artichoke and mozzarella salad

• Mozzarella
• Artichoke hearts
• Lamb’s lettuce
• Olive oil
• Vinegar
• Chilli, finely chopped
• Lemon zest
• Garlic, grated

Buy a really nice mozzarella and tear it to pieces, half the artichoke hearts and place it on a plate together with lamb’s lettuce. Splash olive oil and vinegar over the plate and finally add chopped chilli, lemon zest and grated garlic.

Main course – Veal with beluga lentils and sun-dried tomatoes

• 400-500 g fillet of Veal
• Butter
• 1 Lemon, zest
• 1/2 Lemon, juice
• Salt
• Pepper
• 4 dl Beluga lentils
• 1 Garlic clove
• twig of fresh Thyme
• 100 g salted Pork belly/Bacon
• Chicken broth
• 300 g Cherry tomatoes, dried

Start with the tomatoes, half them and put them on baking paper with salt, pepper, fresh thyme, slices of garlic and a bit of sugar in the oven for 1 hour on 150 degrees Celsius.

Fry the veal with butter in a pan until it gets a bit of a colour. Place aluminium foil with baking paper on top, place the meat and squeeze the lemon juice over it and the lemon zest. Wrap the meat and bake it in the oven (150 degrees Celsius) until the meat has a temperature of 55 degrees Celsius.

Add salt and pepper and cut the meat in four pieces, for serving.

Boil the lentils in chicken broth with a crushed garlic clove, a twig of fresh Thyme and salt. Cut the salted pork belly into small pieces and fry them in a pan. Remove the garlic clove and the Thyme twig from the lentils and add the fried salted pork.

Jerusalem artichoke sauce

• 200 g Jerusalem artichokes
• 2 dl Milk
• 1 dl Cream
• 0,5 dl Water
• Chicken broth
• Salt
• White pepper
• 1 Lemon, the juice

Peel and cut the artichokes in small pieces. Boil them with milk, cream, water and chicken broth until the artichokes are done. Mix and strain. Shortly before serving bring the sauce to boil and add the lemon juice. Is the sauce to thick, add more milk. When warm mix to get a nice foam.

Put the lentils on to a plate, lean the veal on to the lentils, place the dried tomatoes on top and add your Jerusalem artichoke foam.

Dessert – Mint mud cake and cherry sorbet

Mint mud cake

• 2 Eggs
• 3 dl Sugar
• 150 g Butter
• 1,5 dl Wheat flour
• 3 tbsp Cacao
• 1 Mint chocolate bar ( 100 g)

Set the oven on 175 degrees Celsius. Melt the butter and the chocolate. Blend everything together, butter a baking tin with a detachable brim and sprinkle it with coconut.

Bake it for approximately 30 minutes, it should still be “muddy” in the middle.

Cheery sorbet

• 400 g Cherries
• 1 dl dry White wine
• 2 dl Water
• 1 dl Sugar
• 1/2 Lemon, the juice

Remove the pips from the cherries and mix them. Blend the mixture with the rest of the ingredients in a casserole. Bring it to boil and simmer shortly to make the sugar melt. Let it cool off and use an ice-cream maker for 20-40 minutes.

Enjoy!

Something for the weekend!?

Prime rib with parsnip and lemon marinated red onions

Prime rib (högrev/Hochrippe)

• 1 kg Prime rib
• 1 Carrot
• 1 Onion
• 2-3 Garlic cloves
• 1-2 tbsp Tomato paste
• 4-5 dl Red wine
• 1 l Beef stock
• 2-3 Bay leaves
• fresh Estragon
• Salt
• White pepper

Peel and cut carrot, onion and garlic into small pieces/ cubes. Put a large pot on the stove and fry the veggies together with the meat until everything has got a bit of colour. Add the tomato paste, the red wine and the beef stock. Bring it all to a boil and skim. Let it simmer for about 4 hours.

Take out the meat and let it cool off, keep the fluid boiling and reduce it to 4-5 decilitre. Add 1-2 tbsp butter and possibly Maizena in case it needs a thickener.

Cut the meat in 4 pieces and heat them up in the sauce.

Lemon marinated red onion

• 1 Red onion
• 1 Lemon, the juice

Peel and slice the red onion in thin slices. Put the slices in a bowl and squeeze lemon juice over them. Stir and leave for 20-30 minutes.

Parsnip

Peel the parsnips, 1-2 per person depending on the parsnips size, and cut them lengthwise. Fry them in a pan in olive oil until they have a bit of colour, it is best when they still are “al dente”. Add salt and white pepper.

Serve together with kalamata olives and fresh estragon.

We’re making meatballs

Meatballs with mashed potatoes, cream sauce, pressed and pickled cucumber and lingonberry jam was served to us by our grandmothers and mothers. And I guess it will always be a favorite. Forget the ones from IKEA. This is the real thing!

Meatballs

• 500 g minced Beef
• 2 Egg
• 1 tbsp Mustard
• 1 bread Roll, only the content (or other fresh white bread)
• 0,5-1 decilitre Milk or Cream
• 1 Onion, finely chopped
• 5-6 Cloves
• 5-6 Pimentos
• Salt
• Black pepper

Blend everything together, crush the pimento and the clove in a mortar, let the mixture draw for a few minutes. Form the meatballs with wet hands and fry them in a pan with butter.

Mashed potatoes

• 8-10 Potatoes
• 1 decilitre Yoghurt
• 1-2 decilitre Milk
• a knob of Butter
• Nutmeg
• Salt
• Black pepper

Boil the potatoes, when they’re done pull out the water and mash the potatoes. Use an electric mixer, add a knob of butter, nutmeg and yoghurt and mix. Gradually add the milk until you get preferred consistency. Spice it with salt and black pepper.

Pressed and pickled cucumber

• 1 Cucumber
• 1-2 teaspoons Salt
• 1 decilitre Water
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 2 tbsp Vinegar essence
• Parsley

Slice the cucumber thinly, put it in a bowl with the salt. Put a lid (or a plate) on top of the cucumbers and add a weight to press it down. Leave it for 30 minutes. Blend water, sugar and vinegar essence.

Pour out the water from the pressed cucumber and put the cucumber in a glass jar, add chopped parsley and pour the fluid into the jar. Leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours before you eat it.

Brown sauce

• Cream
• Beef broth
• Soy sauce
• Sauce thickener
• Salt
• Black pepper

Make the sauce in the pan where you fried the meatballs without washing it in between. Add the ingredients depending of your own taste, you can of course exchange the cream for milk. Stir everything until you have a nice consistency and a tasty sauce.

The lingonberry jam is bought in Sweden and not homemade.

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Chanterelle sandwich

As a starter we made a very easy but oh so delicious chanterelle sandwich.

Clean the chanterelle and put them in a heated pan, fry them until most of the fluid is gone then add butter, half an onion finely chopped, salt and black pepper.

Finally pour 4 tbsp double cream into the pan and let it simmer for a couple of minutes.

Put the fried chanterelles on top of a slice of really tasty bread. Sprinkle chopped chives on top.

Chocolate fondant with rasberry sauce

A really easy dessert to make.

We use the following ingredients:

• 100 g Chocolate, 70 % cacao or more
• 100 g Butter
• 40 g Sugar
• 27 g Flour
• 2 Eggs
• 2 Eggyolks

Whisk sugar and butter together, add the two eggs and then the eggyolks. Melt the chocolate carefully over a water-bath. Pour the melted chocolate over the sugar-butter-eggs and add the flour. Pour the thick and fluffy mixture in four small tins and put them for 6 minutes in the owen at 200 degrees Celsius.

Serve with rasberries mixed with a small amount of sugar, if necessary, and fresh mint leaves.