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Replacing a Kitchen Scale

When I started university, I remember getting a kitchen scale as I no longer could the one from home. Now, after nearly a decade of heavy use, being more than once covered in water or flour, it starts to slowly no longer function predictably. Which, one could argue, is the

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Food Resume 2025

2025 came to an end quite a while ago now. It was an eventful year, with a lot of food. Looking through my notes and pictures, there were many highlights, although with also good amount of mediocrity in between. Most of the recommendations for places here should be taken with

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A Note about Ebook Readers

A while back I caved and bought and ebook reader. The reason for me not trying it earlier are twofold. First, most of my books are cookbooks, and they are often quite niche. These are often only available in print. Second, the price difference between a printed version and a

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Taking Things Apart and Fixing Them

At the start of the week, I noticed that the shower head on my coffee machine wasn't working properly. This was unfortunate for the wasted coffee from the already prepared coffee puck, but I then switched to a V60 filter for the week. Over the weekend, I diagnosed

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Two Policies to Unlock the Treasury — Having Fun with TPM Policies

Imagine that you have access to the castle's treasury, but only once the king and the treasurer have approved your request and confirmed that the castle is secure. This might involve having two locks on the door, with the keys only being given out by trusted personnel once

Introduction to Terminology around Attestation in Trusted and Confidential Computing

In my master's thesis, I compiled a glossary of terms related to attestation, with a focus on Trusted and Confidential Computing. Although much of the literature and projects predate the development of a common terminology, we now have definitions for most concepts, allowing us to discuss them using

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Brutalisten, Stockholm

I was surprised to hear that one of my favourite restaurants in Stockholm is closing at the end of 2025, as I planned to go back for the next summer season. If you are up for an food adventure and have the chance to go, go now! Let me introduce

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The Microwave

After thinking again about which tools I use most frequently. In this case, it was the microwave. It sometimes gets a bad reputation for reheating low-quality prepackaged food, but in my nearly daily usage, this has never really been the case. It solves my breakfast problem and is used

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When Advertising Works

Similar to the childhood recipes, when reading All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh, I wondered how social media and the advertising that comes with it influence my day-to-day life. While one would like to think that we are impermeable to adverts, at least sometimes I'm not. The

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Out-Of-Place Ingredients: Möhrenauflauf Edition

Sometimes, when browsing a cookbook, you may wonder what the purpose of an ingredient in a recipe is. This recently happened when I was looking through "Belorussische Küche", a book published in 1988 by Verlag der Frau Leipzig that I acquired somewhat randomly over time. The recipe is

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Gemüse-Salagne (Chard Vegetable Lasagne)

As a follow-up to my last post about childhood recipes, I'm kicking things off with probably the recipe I request most when I go back home: Gemüse-Salagne. Since we are not optimising for SEO here, the recipe follows now immediately. Recipe Ingredients * 100-120g onions * 270g

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Keeping Family and Childhood Recipes Alive

I'm currently reading All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh, and one passage in particular has got me thinking. Where do my childhood recipes come from, and what are they actually? My daily cooking looks very different to that of my parents, and even more so to that of my

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Small Updates - Fridge Tetris, Coffee Grinder & Finding Spots

These topics do not warrant their own posts, but I thought I would provide some brief updates to previous ones. First, my Fridge Tetris got slightly easier with the addition of another fridge. That doesn't mean this one isn't also filling up with ingredients, whether they&

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A Decade of THSOn

Looking back, it's crazy to think that this blog is 10 years old today. Although there was a five-year gap, it is still going, and this year has been the most active yet. The content is simply what I deem worthy of sharing over time. Most of

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Doing the Dishes

I was thinking. How many hours do I spend doing the dishes each month? Even if it's only 20 minutes a day, that's still easily ten hours a month. I'm sure it's more than that. Tracking it accurately over a month or

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Cocktail Bars

As some of you might have guessed, cocktails are one of my hobbies. Whether it's making them or travelling around the world and trying new and familiar creations in different places, is what makes it intresting. As I am sometimes asked for recommendations, here are some of them.

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Useful Tools for the Kitchen

Having fancy tools such as wireless thermometers that calculate the time it will take to reach a desired temperature is pretty awesome. However, these have not made my day-to-day cooking simpler or better. You don't need much to cook: a knife, a chopping surface and something

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Go-To Recipes

After writing the post about chasing the new, I thought about which recipes or concepts have remained in my regular cooking repertoire over the years. Many of them are weeknight meals, which is one of the reasons they are made more often. Also, the original sources are often only used

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The Cocktail Cherry

A few days ago, I finally ran out of the jar of cocktail cherries that I bought at the start of 2024. I tend to follow Dave Arnold's philosophy on garnishes, adding them sparingly only when it's truly called for. That said, a few cocktails, including

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Chasing the New

The new potato season has started, so I have started cooking with potatoes again. Naturally, I made some Kartoffelbrei (mashed potatoes) and Kartoffelpuffer (potato pancakes), two staples of my childhood. This got me thinking. I like to try new things and discover new tastes, one of the reasons I have

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Fermented Potato Bread continued

After more than three weeks, I now have a new batch of fermented potatoes ready to use. This is my finalised potato bread recipe, developed through experimentation and me trying to replicate the one from Amass. The main difference is the addition of yeast to the dough to give it

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Potato and Onion Bread

While the next experiments with fermented potato bread are underway, here is a simple recipe for potato and onion bread. If you've known me for a while, you might have seen me bring this to various occasions before. Despite being simple, it normally disappears pretty quickly. Recipe Ingredients

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Food related Books

Browse my bookshelf and you'll mostly find cookbooks. I frequently turn to these for inspiration, to find specific recipes, or simply because I enjoy reading them. Though if you look closely, you will also find some normal books. They're not cookbooks, but are more about food

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A Kitchen Timer

I like having a dedicated timer in the kitchen. While you could easily use a phone, it's annoying to have to deal with it when your hands are wet or dirty. Pressing a button to start a timer is also much more convenient than fiddling with a phone.

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Sourcing Ingredients: a fun Journey and Balancing Act

Moving to a new place also means finding new suppliers for different ingredients. This is always difficult because you got used to where to buy what, and the weekly routine, at least for me, is based on when and where I buy ingredients. However, it is also an opportunity to