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This is a brown sauce on steroids. Apart from the fact that it takes 10 hours to prepare the stock, it takes almost as long to prepare the sauce finished afterwards. It is "the" classic brown sauce which is known from Escoffier's cookbooks. Restaurants use it rarely more because they found it too difficult. But I think it's all worth the effort. The best "brown sauce" I have tasted.
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When I cook fried vegetables, make Spanish omelettes, hash from leftovers, etc. I love to add small pieces of chorizo to them. It provides an incredible amount of flavor with small amounts of meat. But chorizo is a very expensive sausage to use in frying. Therefore it is a good candidate for making your own spicy chorizo stuffing, that you can just put into a box in the fridge and use as needed.
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Danish liver pâté is basically a simple saucage mix that is made from pork liver and fat. It is then cooked in a pan in a water bath, inside the oven. It is also possible to make it if you use a food processor instead of a mincer.
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A lovely strong and creamy soup. One of my absolute favorites.
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Beef and veal prime rib is a beautiful piece of meat. The red marbled meat sitting on the cut ribs. It's not a cut we usually see at the butcher her in Denmark, but he can make it for you if you ask. Otherwise, go to the closest halal butcher, they will most likely have it. I usually roast it whole, and usually in my grill, where it will get a mild smoky taste of rosemary. The eyes lighting up around the table when the big piece of meat is served is worth it alone.
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American style omelette was not something we ate very often at home when I was a kid. But in many ways it is the best way to eat eggs. Unlike scrambled egg, it will be browned and get more flavor. It is a delicious little stuffed egg pocket of flavour.
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Video Recipe - This is one of my best basic recipes. I use it both to make creamy winter soups and "creamed / puréed" root vegetable (mash). The only difference between the soup and the mash is the amount of butter and water. You can even change the vegetables following very simple rules, so the recipe can be varied endlessly.
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Though I live in Denmark I visit Berlin very often. One of my favourite places there is the street restaurant Rogacki. It's very noisy, you stand up and eat and the food is made right next to you. It is a wonderful place! One of my favourites there is "Garnelen mit pinienkernen". I have tried to copy it here, and I believe I am pretty close.
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Fillet of beef is the same piece of meat you cut in slices for ribeye steaks. A tender and marbled piece of meat, with a lot of flavor. I slow roast it at a low temperature so that it becomes red all the way through and you can chew it with your eyebrows.
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What recipe to use depends on how long time you have to make your pizza dough. So here's an overview of how to get the best pizza dough in respect to the time you have available. The longer you time you have, the better the crust. But you can certainly make a good dough, even in a short amount of time.
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In his book "Ma Cuisine" Auguste Escoffier describes a variety of sauces. Together the form the backbone of the modern French-inspired cuisine. There was both basic sauces and derivative sauces. This is an overview of the basic sauces and recipes for them.
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A simple and very very delicious accompaniments are French peas. If you just add a a bit of stock and reduce it they are even better. Strong in flavor and a perfect accessory, but it is also a dish in his own right.
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Lamb kleftiko (lamb kleptomaniac) Is an ancient Greek dish. It is usually the one we think of as "roast leg of lamb." Rumor has it that it was made by thieving greek bandits by digging a stolen lamb into a hole in the ground filled with red-hot stones. The lamb was then covered up and they could pick up the roasted meat day. The owner of the lamb would not be able to smell it cooking due to the burial, and you the thieves would get away with it.
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Video Recipe - A real autumn and winter classic. You have to start early, but most of the time spent is only simmering, and it takes care of itself. A stew is good basic recipe to have in your arsenal for all those "cheap" beef cuts. It may look complicated, and has quite a list of ingredients, but you use a lot of classic techniques, so this is one of those dishes you become a better cook by, and it is easy to vary.
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"Vegetarian meatballs" Yeah ok. It may be a description I have made up myself, but it is not entirely wrong. Falafel reminds me a lot of meatballs. I am very fond of dishes with chickpeas in general. But there is no doubt that this is among my top two ways to make them. Humus being the second favourite.
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Video Recipe - One of the most classic sauces. Often used for fish and chicken. It ss always a hit. And as it is made almost entirely of butter the consistency never fails. It can be a little tricky until you get the hang of it, but when you have learned to make it, it is one of the quickest and easiest sauces to make at all.
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If you've wondered what that wonderful sticky and heavy sauce that gets "dripped" on your plate when you are at the restaurant. Then it's probably a demi glace. It usually takes more than 24 hours to prepare, but the result ... oh la la. Very little sauce goes a long way. Luckily, it's excellent to make in advance and suitable for freezing. If you want to surprise your guests and really show who is "the king of food", then this is the way. And the 24 hours? For the most part it just takes care of itself.
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Video Recipe - For me, the hardest thing to do for christmas eve was always the duck sauce. If you make it like a restaurant sauce, it will not have the correct consistency and taste the we danes know from christmas eve. So the trick is to find a balance both in the time it takes, and the ingredients you have to use. This recipe has a few variations both the traditional "everyday Christmas Eve" and the "fine dining Christmas Eve."
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