How to make homemade Danish remoulade? This is the question I would like to answer on page here. I have made some thorough research on the subject and would like to share the results here. I hope that you be just as happy about this recipe as I am - It is simple fantastic! [Read more...]
Sun-dried tomato Parmesan pesto is just fantastic for your breakfast bread or as spreading in your lunch sandwich. Of course, there are many other great things that you can use this homemade sun dried tomato pesto for - the two above examples are just what I typically like. [Read more...]
Lemon curd is kind of dessert spreading or topping for your favorite food. Lemon curd is, as the name applies, normally made from citrus fruit like lemons, oranges and lime. However, it is also sometimes made from other fruit and different berries like straw- and raspberries.
In this recipe we have used lemons which gives a fresh and very delicious taste. The taste is a great balance between [Read more...]
This is a simple and very easy recipe for homemade mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is sometimes also just known as mayo and is often used as a condiment or as spread in a sandwich. This homemade mayo only contains 4 different ingredients, it is easy to make and we think that the taste is so much better compared to the mayonnaise you can find at the grocery store - especially, if you are used to eat the [Read more...]
Nutella is just fantastic and we both love it! However, Nutella, or chocolate spread in general, are real energy bombs - they are packed with sugar and many different artificial additives. This recipe for chocolate spread is a great, and way healthier, alternative to the processed products you can find at the grocery stores. A chocolate spread can be used for many things. We love to use it as spread on [Read more...]
Homemade jam is just wonderful. The taste is just way more rich and delicious compared to the processed jam you can buy at the grocery store. In a homemade jam it's also easier to reduce the amount of sugar so that the jam actually taste of the fruit and berries it's made off. The processed jam we can buy at the grocery stores in Denmark has a sugar content of about 45-50%. However, we have been told that the sugar content in jam is some places up to 60% - that's a lot of sugar! Sugar is a great ingredient to preserve the jam, give it sweetness and it's a lot cheaper compared [Read more...]
We love making food from the ground and with very simple ingredients - this way we exactly know what the food consist off and that's a feeling we like. This recipe for almond butter is a great example for some food that's super easy to make and only made from one ingredient, almonds!
Almond butter can both be raw or roasted which indicates whether the almonds are raw or have been roasted prior to grinding. As said, almond butter are very easy to make; you simply roast some almonds on a frying pan and then blend them in a food processor for about 5-10 minutes. This way you extract all the great oil from the almonds and turn them into a smooth and delicious butter, which is ready to be smeared on some bread - it's just wonderful. Almonds are known to be a great source of vitamin E, dietary fibers and essential minerals like magnesium, copper and calcium.
Almond butter can be used for many things. We personally love to use it as smeared on some freshly baked bread or this great Paleo bread. It's also great as dipping for snacks like carrot and cucumber sticks. Or maybe simply just eat the butter directly from the jar :-)
A good barbecue sauce / marinade can be used for so many different occasions and it's especially perfect to marinate your meat in before you cook it on the grill. This recipe for barbecue sauce is very easy to make and it can be used for almost all kinds of meat. [Read more...]
Pesto is just super delicious as spread on some freshly baked bread. This recipe for sun-dried tomato pesto is just really easy to make and it has a wonderful taste. We normally serve our homemade pesto together with a slice of bread. We have also served it as a part of a tapas dinner. [Read more...]
Homemade jam is just great! We love to make our own jam, it is just way more delicious compared to the processed products you can find at the super market. Processed jam is typically packed with sugar and additives that enhances flavor and preserve it. However, we do not believe all these additives are necessary. This recipe for homemade strawberry and raspberry jam only consist of [Read more...]
In Denmark the late summer and the beginning of the fall is the perfect season to find fruits and berries in the nature. There is just something special about walking in the nature, finding and picking fresh fruit and berries and turning them into delicious and tasteful food in the kitchen. For us it has become a tradition that this time of the year we go to the forest several times to pick all kinds of different ingredients. We normally start out in the late summer or start fall by picking our own apples which we use to make our delicious apple pie.
When the elderflowers start to be ready we make some refreshing elderflower juice and later when the elderberries are ripe we make elderberry juice - both are super delicious. We spent a lot of time outside and we love to use the nature to find great ingredients and turn them into a delicious cake, jam, juice or maybe smoothies.
In Denmark, and the Nordic countries in general, the rose hips are ripe in the months from June to July. The most common wild rose in Denmark is the Rosa rugosa specie which is originally from Asia. The roses are mostly found near beaches and in forests - it's from this rose that we pick our rose hips.
The rose hips have a spherical shape with a soft shell of fruit meat and an inner core of white and hard seeds. We have once heard that some people call the rose hips a kind of superfood because of its many great vitamins and nutrition. The rose hips contain large amounts of C-vitamin and the rose hips from Denmark are especially good because of the relatively cold climate. A cold climate normally means that the rose hips will contains more C-vitamin. In Denmark some people eat dried and powdered rose hips which are said to be able to relieve arthritis pain.
Once you have found some fresh and fine rose hips you are able to make some delicious jam. This recipe for rose hip jam with apples is super delicious and relatively easy to make. It only takes a bit of time to clean the rose hips - it's only the shells of the rose hips that we want. All the white and hard seeds must be removed. So for this step you need a bit of patient. Grab yourself a chair and go out in the sun and clean the rose hips - then the time doesn't feel that long.
When the rose hips are cleaned they most be mixed together and boiled with apples, water and some sugar - and that's it! We can recommend serving this jam as topping for a piece of this stone age bread (Paleo bread) with a slice of cheese, or as topping for these overnight buns with pumpkin seeds.
Hummus is originally from the middle east cuisine where it has been used as a starter or just as a snack for many years. In the recent years hummus has become pretty famous in Denmark. Hummus is a kind of dipping or spread for bread and is based on the six ground ingredients chickpeas, olive oil, tahini, garlic, lemon juice and salt - super simply and still it has a wonderful taste. This recipe for hummus is fairly easy to make. We have used this recipe many times and served the it for both friends and family, each time with great success. We normally use the hummus as spread on this braided bread or on this healthy bread made by 6 different kinds of grains, nuts and seeds. If you haven't tried making your own homemade hummus before you should differently try this one out. [Read more...]
As we have mentioned in many of our previous recipes/blog posts - we love homemade bread and buns and this is what we usually have for breakfast on the weekends. In our opinion the perfect weekend breakfast is a freshly baked bun with some homemade jam.
Many people think that homemade jam is a difficult and time consuming process - this is not true! Making your own jam is very simple and takes about 45 minutes. If you buy jam from the grocery store it is packed with additives. The great thing about this recipe for homemade strawberry and rhubarb jam is that it only requires four different ingredients, that is rhubarb, strawberries, sugar and a vanilla bean - it is that simple! And we love simple things! [Read more...]
Pesto can be used for a lot of different stuff and it is actually really easy to make. The base ingredients in pesto are herbs, parmesan cheese and olive oil, it is simple and can be twisted in the exact way you like. If you prefer a more smooth pesto you just add extra olive oil or if you want a stronger taste you just add extra herbs. The recipe I use for basil pesto gives you 2 small jars of really smooth and tasteful pesto. I never buy pesto from the grocery store - it is just too simple to make yourself and the taste, and the fact that it does not have any additives, is just must better.
Normally pesto is made based on pine nuts but they are quite expensive – This version of pesto is made using cashew nuts which has almost the same taste and consistency. Of cause you can just swap the cashew nuts with pine nuts if you feel like. As said, pesto can be used in many different recipes or simply just as a dipping for snacks. It is perfect as spreads for normal bread or maybe some bread, or as sauce you can mix in your pasta salad.
