Take-away, part 3 – or Come home, Fine!

'Salad-pizza'; pizza with kebab, lettuce, chilipaste, some kind of sour cream dressing and two leaves of basil (the latter an attempt to insist on the Italian connection). An absolute must for lazy, perhaps even slightly hung-over, late sundays and a favorite of Fine's (and in fact also of M's but without the chili). Fine has been gone for over a month and is coming home from Paris this week.


We hope she's not too sad to see that this month's ration of salad pizza has been exhausted!

Tonight we have a glass of Poggio Valente 2006, which seem to be a little off, but after a bite of the spicy dish nothing could be detected.

Now, Fine, drool. We're  looking forward to sharing soon!

Careful – hot potato behind your back

Today M gets to choose and he doesn't need to consider for long. Homemade burgers with fries and guacamole.

We have made better fries before but suspect that it is the potato sort. Or perhaps too hot oil on the first cooking. In any event we have to cook them for a bit too long to get them cooked all the way through and the effect is that they are just a bit too dark on the outside. Maybe we will pre-boil them in water for a couple of minutes first next time.
In either case: cut the potato in the size you prefer. Heat up oil in sauté pan until sizzling around a match. Add potatoes – and let cook for about 5 min or until lightly tanned. Remember that they go in a second time. Don't add all the potatoes at once – but fry them in smaller portions. Remove and cool and give them a second bath before serving.

The potato bath (1st time).
T's kitchen is quite small and not at all suited for the ambitions we have. Tight coordination is required which leads to the following question from K: "Can I go behind your back with a hot potato?"

Guacamole for sensitive taste buds: Since the kids are to eat it, it has to be the simple version: just a bit of lemon, salt and pepper and spoonful of sour cream.

The Burger.... (for not so sensitive taste buds). Everyone gets to compose their own and the burger for grown-ups is put on a bun made with durum and whole-grain wheat, lots of lettuce and cucumber, guacamole, a slice of Primadonna cheese, red onions and then garlic, chili and some red jalapeños. And ketchup of course.

Some time ago T fell upon an article on Snooth describing which wines would go with McDonalds food. T filed it under utterly irrelevant, but now he looks at it again based on their recommendation we select a Catena Malbec from 2008. K is not excited about this, but agrees with reference to her adventurousness. In the end she concedes that it is actually quite good and we end up rating the meal as 8/10, the wine as 7/10, but in combination 8/10

The long road home

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Take-away, part 1 – Pizza

Yet another golf day for T and a late return home. Even the plans to go north were discarded due to the late hour and T picked up pizzas on the way home.
Danish pizza is oftentimes an abomination. They are overloaded with all kinds of toppings that are often foreign to the concept of pizza and they seem to adhere to the notion that you cannot have "too much of a good thing". Well, you can.
Some pizzerias are actually owned by Italians and while their menus also contain some Danish pizzas you can also find some that resemble the real thing, i.e. a thin, crisp crust, easy on the tomato sauce and cheese and one (or maybe two) toppings.
Tonight we visited La Fiorita in Nanesensgade and bought the Diavola. The topping was italian salame picante. And then some fresh chilli. Quite hot. Another pizza was almost the same, though T cannot recall the name, but in stead of fresh chillies a couple of anchovies were spread on the pizza. (8/10) and to this a bottle of Casanuova Chianti Classico Riserva from 2004 (8/10).
Wine/food matching 8.5/10