Showing posts with label beetroot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beetroot. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Gnocchi with cabbage and a side of beetroot

The gnocchi are made from potato, flour and salt. You need to mash the potatoes thoroughly until very smooth. They are quite heavy so you don't need a lot.

I cooked the cabbage with onion, garlic and juniper berries and then added the cooked gnocchi. I'm no expert on cabbage so I don't know what this one is called but it was white but not as pale as white cabbage. I wasn't even sure it was edible at the time but I'm still alive so it must have been.

Incredibly good, try it!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Rack of lamb with homemade pommes frites

The local tradition is to cook lamb until hard as a shoe sole, but I am yet to submit. The rack was cooked with garlic and rosemary at 180 degrees for 16 minutes until pink in the centre (I was going to make a burlesque joke here but it's not very funny, excessively dirty and probably only works in Swedish so never mind).

They call the pommes frites "chips" here; not sure if this is a misunderstanding or reluctance to acknowledge that anything good can be French. Fries have an undeserved reputation for being fat and unhealthy. They are probably not particularly healthy but nor are they that bad, and if you make your own ones you don't need to add any fat at all, just cut them up, soak them, squeeze out the liquid and starch and bake in the oven for half an hour or so at as high a temperature as you dare.

The presentation is made up with beetroot from yesterday and some mozzarella because, well, why not?

Eat in front of your TV enjoying a recording of Liège-Bastogne-Liège or a cycle race of your choice.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Veal escalope with beetroot salad

Light, simple and delicious. Very little compares to fresh beetroot with a little oil and salt. The calf had a very happy, albeit short, upbringing.