On Demand

People some times ask me for recipes for things they have eaten here, and I am happy to give out those recipes, unfortunately if I am not planning to eat that dish for dinner, I will not make pictures of it. So here are a couple of recipes that people have asked for, but for now, without pictures.

Salmon Burgers

This recipe is for Keren, and she is from Israel, so this dish is actually Kosher (according to her that is, I wouldn't have any idea).

You need for 4 burgers:
a slice of bread per person (or a burger bun, but we normally have open faced sandwhiches that we eat with a knife and fork)
about 200 grams of salmon without skin and bones. In general salmon is sold in pieces, and I find that one piece is enough for two people, so two pieces of salmon.
2 teaspoons of potato starch (or other starch if you don't have it)
cream
1/2 onion finely chopped (or chives or leek or spring onions)
salt, pepper
1 carrot
1/2 apple
lettuce
lemon wedges
mayonaise

Use a stick mixer to mash the salmon (or you can use a teaspoon and scrape it), add a little of the cream to make it go around more smoothly. Add the starch and stir in so much cream that the batter is soft, but not too soft. You should be able to make cakes out of it. Then add the onion, salt and pepper to taste. Make four burgers out of the meat that you fry in a mixture of butter and oil till they are dark brown. In the mean time shred the carrot and the apple and mix it with as little mayonaise as you need to make it hold together (you might want to add a bit of Dijon mustard to that mayonaise). On the bread put first some lettuce, then a spoon of the carrot salad, then the burger which you top with a lemon wedge. That's it. For it you might want some

Cucomber Salat

Cook up 1 deciliter of vinegar, 1 deciliter of sugar and 1 deciliter of water. Slice the cucomber in about 1/2 cm thick slices, put them in a bowl and pour the hot liquid over. Ready to be eaten when cool.

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The next two recipes are for Cristina from Romania who stayed with us for a month last summer, and obviously thought that I could only make one dessert: Pavlova (when you have Bearnaise or Hollandaise sauce, you end up with a lot of egg whites, and we have those sauces quite often in the summer both for fish and barbeques). So I guess she was quite surprised when she came to dinner here the other day and got something else for dessert! She got

Lime Ice Cream

And to make it you will need:
4 eggs
250 grams of sugar
6 deciliters of cream
shredded peel and juice from two limes (may be even three if they don't have much juice)

Whip the eggs and the sugar together til you can write ole in the mix. Whip the cream till it's thick also, then mix the two together with the peel and juice of the lime. Pour it into a container that you have lined with cling film and freeze. This is actually called a parfait, which means that you don't need to stir in it while it freezes. Just take it out about 15 minutes before you want to use it. And with this you can serve

Lime and Cardamom Slices

You need:
220 grams of butter
75 grams of powder sugar
60 grams of grounded almonds
250 grams of wheat flour
2 teaspoons of ground cardamom. You can buy that already grounded, but last time I bought cardamom I actually bought it whole and grounded it myself, and the difference in taste was enormous, so I suggest you do that.
The shredded peel and juice of 2-3 limes.

Mix the butter and sugar together till it turns white, add the other ingredients and devide it in two parts and form each part into a sausage. The thinkness of the sausage will be the diameter of the cookies, and I like them small - 2-3 cm. Wrap them in baking paper and put them in the fridge over night. Next day you slice the sausages in about 1/2 cm thick slices and put them on a baking paper. Bake at 180 center grades till they are light brown.