Sandwich & preparing for New Year’s Eve

I spent the last couple of days with April, a Danish friend of mine that I met back in Barcelona, as she was here for the holidays. We have been brainstorming a lot about the New Year’s Eve dinner. We will be celebrating New Year’s with 3 of her friends and the idea is just to prepare a nice meal and enjoy it together. After midnight we will probably be going out to watch some fireworks and maybe attend a party if we stumble upon one. The menu for now is as follows:

Starter:

– Salmon with fresh lime and fennel

(served with cava)

Main course:

– Roast beef with beetroot and green beans

– Homemade vegan mushroom/broccoli ravioli with green pesto

– Side salad

(served with red wine)

Dessert:

– Raw chocolate cake

– Kransekake (traditional danish cake made of rings of marzipan)

– Lime & Basil sorbet

– Banana & Ginger sorbet

(served with champagne)

I’m pretty excited about it! I’m in charge of the raw cake which I just finished and is now in the fridge, ready for tomorrow. It’s the first time I’m trying it but it looks pretty awesome (now let’s hope it also tastes good). I got the recipe in a new cookbook I got for my birthday: 250 pages of recipes only with chocolate: you can imagine how happy I was with it!

Me and April are also making the ravioli (as we prefer not eating the meat main dish): we tried them out yesterday and after a couple of tries we got the right proportions in dough and filling and we are pretty confident we can make it tomorrow.

To get a break from all the elaborated food we are planning and making these last days, here is a simple but fresh and filling sandwich I made a couple of days ago: pesto, a boiled (organic!) egg, cottage cheese, arugula & cucumber. Enjoy and happy 2014!

Muesli bun & Matilde Kakaomælk

 

I eventually, after some nervous waiting and hoping, got the good news of getting the job I applied for already when I was still in Barcelona, which I will start on the 6th of January. That was a huge relief, so the weekend started in a positive and relaxed way. Saturday morning, together with my boyfriend, after managing to print and scan the contract in the local library, we walked further up Nørrebrogade and ended up in Munch, bageri og kaffebar. You can choose your type of bread and then buy some butter, cheese, marmelade or pålægschokolade (which are these thin layers of dark or milk chocolate danes put on their bread). We each got a muesli bun with some butter and cheese and also drank a Matilde Kakaomælk. I felt happy as a little child when sipping from my chocolate milk and watching the busy Nørrebrogade (of course we had window seats!).

The rest of the day we wandered around the city, we explored some Vesterbro as well, which I also liked a lot, but I’m still very much in love and satisfied with my Nørrebro. In a 7-eleven on Istedgade I found this brand of fruit smoothies called Froosh. I had to take some pictures because the text on their bottles is original and hilarious (one was called: “more immunity than berlusconi”). I checked their website out and it turns out they are a scandinavian brand all about local production, fairtrade and no use of crappy ingredients (only fruit). Time to taste one!