THiS A Story about Breakfast While it would be great to have an elaborate dish for every meal, for practical reasons one of them needs to be simpler. Since I eat full meals at lunchtime and in the evening, breakfast is the one that gets simplified. This got me thinking: what is a good weekday
THiS Shio-Koji Experiments: Eggs and Pork After making the last batch of koji rice, I set some aside to make shio-koji. The recipe that I used is the following: * 90g fresh rice koji (used the white koji spores from fermentationculture.eu) * 13,6g salt * 200g water Kept it at room temperature for around 4 days and
THiS Fridge Tetris Sunday is usually the day I prepare at least 2-3 meals for the week, or at least parts of it. This means that there is going to be a collection of new containers entering my fridge. The problem? My fridge is quite small and already holds a decent amount of
THiS Motorizing a Coffee Grinder on the Cheap I may have decided to venture into the world of espresso, but grinding 7-20g by hand at this fine setting quickly becomes tiring. So what to do? I could buy a simple electric grinder for a few hundred euros, but I already have two hand grinders. So the second best
THiS Making Mämmi the Easy Way It was Easter a week ago, and continuing the series of Finnish foods, I decided to make some mämmi. For those unfamiliar, this is a traditional Easter dessert made mainly from rye malt and flour. Normally you do this in the oven for a la Though it wouldn't
THiS Organizing Herbs & Spices Like many people, I have run into the problem of where and how to store my herbs and spices. In the past I stored my spices in round brown glass bottles. Those are quite nice as they are cheap, you can see the current level without full exposure to sunlight
THiS Getting Egg Timings Right You've probably heard various guidelines for cooking the perfect soft boiled egg. Probably to put them in boiling water for about 7-8 minutes. The truth is, the time it takes is heavily influenced by the temperature and size of the egg. An M egg at room temperature might
THiS Reverse Engineering a Cocktail As cocktails are one of my hobbies, you get tasked to recreate a cocktail that someone had somewhere. The "easy" solution is normally to ask the bar what they are doing exactly. In my experience there is a good chance that they just give you the spec, though
THiS (Un)intended Kitchen Items and Uses I was in my kitchen and I caught the eye of the try square that I used earlier to divide the dough for biang biang noodles. Then I wondered what else there was in this kitchen that was not really common or used for a different purpose than originally intended.
THiS How to find Spots in a new City If you are slightly similar to me, you like also travel for food and like to explore it while travelling. Now the big question is how do you decide where to actually go? Over the years I accumulated a few tips and strategies that made this decision a bit simpler.
THiS Organizing Cooking Ideas Every week there is the same big question. What am I going to cook next week? As I really enjoy cooking, this makes it even more difficult: should I try something new, make some of my favorites or try to perfect a recipe/technique? There is also the factor of
THiS Cocktail Egg White Replacement While I enjoy a (whiskey) sour with an egg white, you then need to find a use for the yolks, cleanup gets harder and of course need some fresh eggs on hand. There are ready to buy egg white replacements, such as, Fee Brothers Foam, but it is easy to
THiS Karjalanpiirakat When I lived in Finland they were pretty much everywhere and good ones are really nice. Since they're not really common in other parts of the world, here's the recipe I've been making for a while now. Recipe I used the following recipe as
THiS Archive your Online Recipes! Here just a quick reminder to archive the online recipes or techniques that you are interested in. It now happened to me more than once, that websites just disappeared, videos were taken offline or recipes are now behind a paywall. Though most time you can still find a copy via
THiS Franzbrötchen + Korvapuusti So being from northern Germany Franzbrötchen are a staple here, but rarely you find good ones everywhere else. If you ever make a stop in Hamburg do yourself a favor and get one! Now when I was living in Finland you find something looking quite similar called korvapuusti, which is
THiS Featured New Things Incoming This blog exists basically since 2015 and it has been a while since I actually posted something. One of the reasons is that finding a topic to write about and then often when writing about food taking pictures that look fine on the internet takes more effort than it is
