Photos: Geir Egil Bergjord
My first trip to Italy was an eye-opening revelation. I experienced food in a whole new way, without any fancy tricks. One of the first dishes I was served was pork loin stuffed with yellow peppers and spinach, slow roasted in the oven. Here is my version of the same dish, cooked on the grill.
Continue reading Flashback Fridays: It´s Pork Season. It´s Always Pork Season.
Photos: Mette Randem
Quesadillas are simply tortillas (therefore “-dillas”) filled with cheese (therefore “queso”), but there are any number of twists used to “spice up” this wonderful dish. Today´s recipe is a favorite and was on the menu at my first restaurant – thirty years ago this year. We made the quesadillas in the kitchen, but they are even better hot off the grill.
Photo: Aina Hole
Some of the greatest dishes ever created 1) didn´t involve a chef, and 2) did involve the amazing combination of a few really good local ingredients, a severe lack of money and the amazing creativity of human beings (usually women).
Continue reading Pappa al Pomodoro does not mean Dad Was A Tomato
Photos: Geir Egil Bergjord
Today´s recipe is from my first book about grilling. The Norwegian title is “Far lukter svidd” (Gyldendal, 2002) which roughly translates to “Dad´s on Fire”. For me the title sums up the classic backyard grill seance gone horribly bad. The food world is notorious for its jaw-dropping lack of humor, so I felt obligated to find a title that would allow readers to multi-task: make some good food whilst smiling. Your average culigastronomophile probably won´t get it, but the rest of us do.
To av sommerens kjekkeste aktiviteter er grilling og båtliv (og med båtliv følger selvfølgelig fisking og fangst av sjømat). Problemet er at mye av sjømaten vi har her i sjømats-paradiset, er på sitt beste om vinteren. Derfor er det naturlig at vi begynner å fiske og fange cirka et halvt år senere enn vanlig. Det som også er viktig er at mye av denne maten smaker best rett fra grillen. Så, istedenfor å bare grille i juni, juli og august, så må vi fortsette å grille rett gjennom høsten og vinteren for å få med oss favorittene torsk, kamskjell, sjøkreps og co.
Derfor vil jeg dele en liten grill-og-sjømat historie fra min bok “Grillkongen Craig” (Versal, 2006). Ha en fin Flashback Friday.
Continue reading Flashback Fridays: To sommeraktiviteter flyttes nå til vinteren
Photo: Aina Hole
I have been in the blog business for nearly one month. I have received good help in getting started and I have learned a lot by studying other people´s blogs. Some are very good while others are not my particular cup of tea.
Any American reading today´s blog will have something to say about a guy offering a recipe for iced tea. The American (as in USA-American) south is the world headquarters for iced tea. No other nation, and for that matter planet, can lay claim to this title. Southerners invented the stuff (at least I think so), and they are the most iced tea-drinking people anywhere.
Period.
Continue reading Flashback Fridays “Are You Mad?” (as in crazy or insane, not as in angry or worse)
