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Bechamel sauce is a classic. One of Auguste Escoffiers "big" sauces. It is the most simple of the great sauces to make. In Denmark it is simply known as the white sauce, but it's basically the same. It is a basic recipe that can be used for everything from pasta to fish and as a base for other sauces. It can also be used as a base in onion sauce, cheese sauce (mornay), cream sauce, mushroom sauce, curry sauce (indienne), tomato sauce (aurore) and the Baltic Sauce.
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Hamburger patties (hakkebøf) with gravy is every Danes favorite dish. At least it is a close tie as the national dish along with the "frikadeller" meatballs. We take this dish very seriously, so I have made a very detailed explanation on how to do it "right".
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Video Recipe - A little egg, oil, acid, a bowl, and a whisk, is really all you need. But although I have whipped mayonnaise from scratch more times than I care to remember, it can still fail for me. When I do it in a blender on the other hand, it almost always succeeds. The taste and quality is the same too.
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Video Recipe - For me, the hardest thing to do for christmas eve was always the duck sauce. If you make it like a restaurant sauce, it will not have the correct consistency and taste the we danes know from christmas eve. So the trick is to find a balance both in the time it takes, and the ingredients you have to use. This recipe has a few variations both the traditional "everyday Christmas Eve" and the "fine dining Christmas Eve."
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There are many recipes of meat sauce for pasta. Most are based on the classic Italian bolognese. It's still one of the best recipes of, but there are many different versions of it online. So far as I could find out, so this version is very close to the "original".
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Video Recipe - A tomato sauce can easily become too complicated. You can actually make one that is *very* simple, quick and extremely tasty with just a few ingredients. This simple recipe has certainly become my absolute favorite tomato sauce.
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In french a stock is called "fond", from the word foundation. And a good stock IS the foundation of the french kitchen. It is the base of soups and sauces. It is the single ingredient that best distinguishes homemade food from what we get at restaurants. But most stock recipes are full of holes and implied methods. In this recipe I try very carefully to explain how to make a good stock, so you can raise the quality of your own food class or two. Death to the bouillon cubes :-)
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Video Recipe - Roux is the classic thickening and darkening agent, that is being used in many of the classic French sauces. It's actually just wheat flour which is browned in fat, but there is some technique to it too.
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As the Danish cuisine is partly inspired by the French, stocks and sauces form the base of many dishes. So most Danes love a good sauce. Unfortunately, there is not the same love for cooking a stock and spending a long time on it. This is a recipe for a "fake" sauce which you can make quickly, and which tastes like an *ok* gravy. But more importantly, each ingredient can be used to improve other sauces. So you can make a weak sauce much better. I also explain what each ingredient does for the sauce, and explain a lot about taste in the process.
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In his book "Ma Cuisine" Auguste Escoffier describes a variety of sauces. Together the form the backbone of the modern French-inspired cuisine. There was both basic sauces and derivative sauces. This is an overview of the basic sauces and recipes for them.
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A good tomato sauce can make all the difference. Whether it is for covering a pizza base or to put on a portion of pasta. You can find recipes online with oven roasted tomatoes, cheese and wine. A sauce does not those to be good. My recipe is simple, but there is also a few "secrets" hiding in it.
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Video Recipe - The easiest way to make mayonnaise is with a blender. But a hand whipped mayo is almost as easy, and it's a good technique to know. It is also easy to use hand-whipping technique in a stand mixer, and that is actually just as easy as blender mayonnaise. For large portions, it is actually easier. I also show how to save his mayonnaise if it becomes separated.
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The classic brown sauce must be made with a heavy dark stock with the right herbs. Then it will be good! A few stock cubes and a spoonful of sauce darkener just doesn't cut the mustard.
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Peanut sauce is not very well known in Denmark. It is an Asian recipe that is just as good on steamed vegetables on white meat. I use it mostly, however, as a dressing for cooked and steamed vegetables.
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If you've wondered what that wonderful sticky and heavy sauce that gets "dripped" on your plate when you are at the restaurant. Then it's probably a demi glace. It usually takes more than 24 hours to prepare, but the result ... oh la la. Very little sauce goes a long way. Luckily, it's excellent to make in advance and suitable for freezing. If you want to surprise your guests and really show who is "the king of food", then this is the way. And the 24 hours? For the most part it just takes care of itself.
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147 Sauce Remoulade
This is the classic remoulade from Escoffier. It is like a cold version of a bernaise. It is a great herbal mayonnaise sauce. Usable as a condiment or dipping sauce for raw vegetables, french fries, bread etc.
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Video Recipe - One of the most classic sauces. Often used for fish and chicken. It ss always a hit. And as it is made almost entirely of butter the consistency never fails. It can be a little tricky until you get the hang of it, but when you have learned to make it, it is one of the quickest and easiest sauces to make at all.
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This is a brown sauce on steroids. Apart from the fact that it takes 10 hours to prepare the stock, it takes almost as long to prepare the sauce finished afterwards. It is "the" classic brown sauce which is known from Escoffier's cookbooks. Restaurants use it rarely more because they found it too difficult. But I think it's all worth the effort. The best "brown sauce" I have tasted.
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