Coke can chicken

Summer and barbeque season! YES! I found this recipe from a book I got but I guess this is a quite common bbq recipe in the states. Why I call my recipe a coke can chicken is just because I am using a coke can with my own mix in it, you can also use beer cans with beer in it as many other recipes so suggest.

You need one whole
chicken.

You need

1 chicken

1 empty coke can

Olive oil

1 smokey chipotle pepper

Sweet pepper powder

Salt

Pepper

Mix the ingredients in olive oil and rub it well all over the chicken, also inside.

Rub the seasoning well on
the chicken and place
the chicken in a
sitting position on the can.

The ingredients in the can:

Couple of whisks estragon

Couple of whisks rosemary

Couple of whisk of thyme

Couple of whisks of oregano

2 dl water

Liquid smoke according to your taste (I used 1 table spoonful)

1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar

3 cloves of garlic

Put all the ingredients in the empty coke can.

Place the chicken over the coke can and put the coke can chicken on the grill. In this way the chicken will get the moisture from the liquid in the coke can and all the flavors too. Grill the chicken about an hour or when the breast part of the chicken is 70 ˚C.

Serve the chicken with rice and granite apple sauce. For the sauce use 3 dl of yoghurt and add 1 clove of minced garlic in it. Take the seeds of the granite apple and mix it with the yoghurt. Add some pepper and salt according to your taste.

Bon app and enjoy the summer!

Mix the garlic and granite
apple with yoghurt.

Grill the chicken about an
hour.

Serve with granite apple
sauce and rice.

Focaccia

Serve with summery salads :)

Summer and Italian tastes. Here is a nice recipe :)

9 dl flour

3 dl water

Oil

Sea salt

Rosemary

25 g yeast

Olives

2 cloves of garlic

Mix the yeast in water with same temperature as your hands. Warmer temperature will kill the yeast. Add some salt and oil. Add flour in three parts kneading the dough all the time.

Cut the garlic and olives in pieces and mix it in the dough. Let it rest for 20 minutes in a square vessel.

Put holes in the dough with your finger. Put some rosemary in the holes. Pour quite a lot olive oil on the dough and then sprinkle the sea salt on it.

Let the focaccia to be in the oven for 30 minutes in 180 ˚C.

Bake the bread 30 minutes in the
oven.

Mix the garlic and olives in
the dough and place it in
a square vessel.

Put rosemary in the holes,
sprinkle salt and pour oil
on the dough.

Salmon tartar

Serve with Finnish crispbread.

Salmon tartar is one of my favorites. No explanations, here comes the recipe.

200 g cold smoked salmon

200 g warm smoked salmon

4 anchovies

1 red onion

0,5 dl of capers

3 dl sour cream or crème fraiche

Mince the salmon, anchovies, onion and capers. Add the sour cream with minced salmon mix. Serve with rye bread or the Finnish rye crispbread.

Use cold and warm smoked
salmon.

Mince all the incredients.

Olive pie

You can serve the pie also
cold and it's still tasty.

I made this pie for the Norwegian National Day or the Day of the Constitution. This day is celebrated widely in Norway and usually people eat Champagne breakfast on this day among other many different traditions that varies across the country.

Pie crust:

150 g butter

3 dl flour

2 tbs of water

Filling:

3 eggs

200 g spinach

3 dl of sour cream

150 g parmesan cheese

6 cloves of garlic

Salt

1-3 dl black and green olives

Pre-cook the crust.

Mix the flour and butter together. When it is smooth dough add the water and mix some more. Put the dough in the fridge for at least for an hour. After this spread the dough on a pie casserole that is about 30 cm wide. Put some whole on it with a fork. Pre-cook the crust in the oven for 15 minutes in 230 degrees.

Mix the eggs and sour cream. Add the grated parmesan and garlic. Cook the spinach for 1 minute and rinse under cold water 3 times. Rinse well and cut the spinach into small pieces, add it to the mix. Add the olives.

Pour the mix on the pre-cooked crust. Cook the pie in 220 degrees about 30 minutes.

Pour the filling on the crust.

Mix all the filling incredients.

Pavlova

Add the topping just
before serving Pavlova.

 I have been afraid of making anything of meringue but if you fail first you can always try another time :D

Meringue pie:

4 egg whites

¼ tea spoons salt

4 dl of sugar

2 tea spoons of maizena

1 teaspoon of white wine vinegraitte

Topping:

2-3 dl of vanilla custard (from the grocery store)

3 dl of cream

Sugar

Passion fruit

300 g berries

Heat the oven to 250 celsius degrees (or 225 celsius degrees) . Whip the egg whites into white firm foam with salt. Add the sugar while still mixing the foam. Add maizena and vinaigrette. Pour the meringue foam on baking paper and form it into a cake like circle that is 3 cm thick and 26 cm wide.

Put the meringue foam into the oven and decrease the temperature to 100 celsius degrees. Let the meringue to be in the oven about an hour (or 1,5 hrs if you had the heat first at 225 celsius degrees). Turn of the oven and let the meringue to be there until it is cold. If you leave the meringue in an airy place it will last quite a long time.

Making the topping. Whip the cream and taste it with sugar. Mix it together with vanilla custard and pour on top the meringue. Add the berries and passion fruits. Note! Add the topping and the berries just before serving Pavlova.

Mix the egg whites into a
white firm foam and make
it as cake like circle.

Crispy on outside,
soft inside.

Scrambled eggs

Good scrambled eggs for any type of party never fails. This recipe gives you tasty scrambled eggs that are not dry or clumpy. Did you know that many hotels use egg powder when making scrambled eggs?

You need to count 1-2 eggs per person and 1 table spoonful of cream or milk per egg. Try also with crème fraiche instead of cream!

Eggs

Cream or milk

Butter

Salt

Pepper

Mix the eggs and cream together and cook the eggs on a pan for 20-30 minutes on a really low fire stiring the mix all the time. The whole point here is that you don’t get any clumps but a smooth nice scrambled eggs. If you have too hot pan the eggs will get clumpy right away.

In the end of the cooking time the scrambled eggs should be a smooth mass and there should be tiny amount of liquid left. In the end add some butter to add a really nice taste. Season with salt and pepper. Decorate with chive.

Stir fried noodles - japchae

Soak the shitake in water and
cut the vegetables (not spinach).

Spring is here! I know I should cook fresh and crispy food for the celebration of spring but I decided to cook Korean food called japchae, stir fried noodles.

This recipe is for 4-6 people:

200 g noodles (1 or 2 packages)

250 g fresh spinach

2 carrots

1 large onion

8 white mushrooms

8 green onions

1 chili

8 shiitake mushrooms

6 cloves of garlic

300 g chicken

Soy sauce

Sesame oil

Sugar

Pepper

Sesame seeds

Let the dried shiitake mushrooms to soak in water for couple of hours and squeeze the water out from them. Cook the noodles according to the package’s instructions.

Cook the spinach
for 1 minute.

Cut the vegetables (not the spinach), mushrooms and the meat in to slices. Drain the noodles and put in to a large bowl. Cut them with scissors in to small pieces. Pour 2 tbs of soy sauce and sesame oil on the noodles and mix it well.

Boil the spinach for 1 minute in the same water you boiled the noodles. Take the spinach out from the casserole and rinse it 3 times before carefully squeezing the water out from them. Cut the spinach into small pieces and mix 1 tbs of soy sauce and sesame oil in it before putting it on the noodles.

Cook the vegetables
on olive oil.

Cook the carrots on a pan with olive oil for 2 minutes and add it on noodles in the large bowl of noodles. Then cook the thinly sliced onion until translucent before adding them as well on noodles. Cook the white mushrooms for few minutes and add them on noodles. Cook the green onions and chili for 1 minute and add them on the noodles.

Cook the chicken until golden brown, add the sliced shiitake mushrooms and cook some more. Add the minced garlic with soy sauce and sugar and cook for less than a minute. Add the mix in to the bowl with noodles, vegetables and mushrooms. Pour 4 tbs of soy sauce, 6 tbs of sugar, 4 tbs of sesame oil and pepper on the mix. Stir the mix well and add the sesame seeds. 

Cook the meat golden brown
before adding shitake.

Mix everything well before serving.

Enjoy!