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Food, again
Jan. 11th, 2006 12:58 amMy God, I think I just fell in love with a TV chef. I was flipping through the TV guide, and I noticed, on the local PBS affiliate, a show called New Scandinavian Cooking. Now, not to knock on my ancestors (yes, I have Swedish ancestors, I'm not German through and through after all), but Scandinavia's not known for being the center of food innovation. You want polite, good-looking people in modern cities, Scandinavia's for you, but food, well... I was skeptical. Enter Tina Nordström. Now, the show's website informs me that her show that she used to have on primetime Swedish TV got 1.2 million viewers in a country of 9 million... holy crap. I can believe it, though, because she's just wonderful! She's beautiful, funny, knows her food, and isn't pretentious about her ingredients. I've got a bit of a crush, which is weird, but what can you do. I mean, the woman set up an outdoor kitchen (!) on her lushly foliaged balcony (!!) overlooking the sea (!!!), and I swear to you that kitchen came from Ikea -- how can I resist?
Also, the setting was fabulous! She was on Gotland, Sweden's large island in the middle of the Baltic. The city is gorgeous, all 14th century arches and alleyways, and I suddenly have a mad desire to live there. And I'll be honest, that desire is only enhanced by the event during which this episode was filmed: the Medltisdsveckan på Gotland, that is the say the Medieval Week on Gotland. For a whole week in early August, the city of Visby is transported back to its heyday, again a thriving Hanseatic city in 1361. I wanna go! Who's coming with me?
In other food news, I have created a cleaning agent. Seriously. That kaffir lime salsa? I don't know if maybe I used too much lime leaf, or maybe I just don't like the flavor, but just from smell I would swear to you I've cleaned a bathroom with that salsa before. I tasted it and it seems like what a bottle of mop liquid would taste like if you found it in Willy Wonka's edible room: edible, not bitter, but not really something you'd care to taste more than once. I am saddened. I'm also a little leery of trying the other kaffir lime recipes I've got churning in my head, but I guess it can't hurt to try them.
I did, however, make a fabulous salad tonight:
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Mixed baby greens with chopped tomato, green onion, garlic chips, and shredded chicken, dressed in a garlic-infused tri-vinaigrette. Mmmm.
Also, the setting was fabulous! She was on Gotland, Sweden's large island in the middle of the Baltic. The city is gorgeous, all 14th century arches and alleyways, and I suddenly have a mad desire to live there. And I'll be honest, that desire is only enhanced by the event during which this episode was filmed: the Medltisdsveckan på Gotland, that is the say the Medieval Week on Gotland. For a whole week in early August, the city of Visby is transported back to its heyday, again a thriving Hanseatic city in 1361. I wanna go! Who's coming with me?
In other food news, I have created a cleaning agent. Seriously. That kaffir lime salsa? I don't know if maybe I used too much lime leaf, or maybe I just don't like the flavor, but just from smell I would swear to you I've cleaned a bathroom with that salsa before. I tasted it and it seems like what a bottle of mop liquid would taste like if you found it in Willy Wonka's edible room: edible, not bitter, but not really something you'd care to taste more than once. I am saddened. I'm also a little leery of trying the other kaffir lime recipes I've got churning in my head, but I guess it can't hurt to try them.
I did, however, make a fabulous salad tonight:
( picture )
Mixed baby greens with chopped tomato, green onion, garlic chips, and shredded chicken, dressed in a garlic-infused tri-vinaigrette. Mmmm.
