Kaffekokarkokboken

This will be my last recipe as a curator of Sweden. It's been a blast! Thank you for all the kind feedback, for showing interest and for your patience with me ande my coffe maker cooking talk. The thing I'll miss the most though is our cat tweeting!

 

Since I live in Gothenburg - known for fish and shellfish - I would like to share this recipe as my final (English) one. It's a real "Paradrätt" or parade right as you might say.

 

 

1 evening

 

1 small red onion

Some selleri

1 garlic clove

2,5 dl cream

1 fish stock cube

1 filter thingy filled with mussels (about 15)

1,5 dl white wine

4 dl water

2 Norway lobster (is that the same as "Havskräftor"?)

Mixed fish pieces (I used salmon and some other fishies I don't remember)

1 handful of prawns

Saffron 

You should know by now that the coffee maker is an excellent little machine to cook food in. I've also tried some other appliances just for fun. One of the first one was the toaster. It was many, many years ago I heard that it works just fine to roast fish sticks in a toaster, haven't you heard that as well? Well it doesn't work just fine. Of all the thingies I've cooked with, the toaster is by far the worst one. When me and Dan were dating i borrowed his toaster when he was away somewhere. I wanted to try an experiment. Which kitchenware cooks fish sticks best of a toaster and a coffee maker. 

 

Clear winner:The coffee maker. 

 

The fish sticks fell into the toaster, you can't clean a toaster, everything after fish stick toaster cooking will smell like fish sticks. Eventually the toaster will start to smoke heavily and you'll have to throw it away. I still owe Dan a toaster. 

 

You can read about the toaster vs coffee maker challenger here (google translated).

 

Sometimes people accuse me for being ineffective because I  make food in a coffee maker. They obviously don't get the point at all. Of course I realize that it's more effective to cook on a stove or whatever. Kaffekokarkokboken is an experiment and me and Dan are doing this because we think it's a fun and creative project. And for those who still thinks we're ineffective take a closer look at this recipe. It's like a two birds with one stone recipe!

 

I call this dish for "Korvetti" in Swedish. It's a mix between the Swedish words for sausage and spaghetti. I guess the English name for the dish would be something like Sausaghetti. Hmm... The Swedish names for coffee maker cooked dishes never sounds as clever in English. 

 

Ha! I just googled sausaghetti and found this dish! All though it wasn't made in a coffee maker. 

 

This is how you cook your sausaghetti in a coffee maker.

 

1 hour

 

Sausage

Spaghetti

Oil

Salt

Butter

Ketchup

 

Divide the sausage into smaller pieces, break the spaghetti and fit in some of the spaghetti straws into the sausages. Put it in the coffee maker can, pour oil over it and also some salt. Add water in the coffee maker brewer and start your coffee maker. 

 

Depending on what type of spaghetti you have the cooking time can vary. My sausaghetti was done after approximately 45 minutes after I poured water in the brewer. Turn off your coffee maker.

 

Pour off the water and add butter onto the sausaghetti. Stir. Place the sausaghetti on a plate and add ketchup. 

 

Delish!

 

Aaaw, the “Äggatårta” (=egg cake) brings back so many beautiful memories. Many of the recipes I've published this week is traditional Swedish recipes and I don't remember any christmas, midsummer, wedding, easter or birthday without the Äggatårta. It's really a traditional dish where I come from and the higher Äggatårta the better.

May I present - the Äggatårta.

 

Oops, it's been a lot of sweet recipes now for a while but this is the last one (for now)! As I told you before I'm obsessed with caramel. Made lot's of different coffee maker made caramel types but this is the one I fancy the most. 

 

This recipe is "usually" called five minutes caramel, but if you make it in a coffee maker it's called one hour caramel.

 

It looks like this and it can be your's! It’s in Swedish, but I’m sure you’ll get it.

 

Ooops! I realized that I don't even have the ingredients for this recipe. You'll have to ask Maria (whom I did this recipe with) for that. I guess it's just an ordinary shortcrust. Anyway the ingredients aren't as important as looks and execution. And I'll tell you all about that in this blog post.

 

Sju sorters kakor (seven kinds of cookies) is as Swedish as moose hunting, lingonberries (<- coffee maker made recipe for lingonberry ice-cream), midsummer, clogs, semla (<- coffee maker made recipe for semla), the Skarsgård family, Prinsesstårta (<- coffee maker made recipe for prinsesstårta), Absolut Vodka, Astrid Lindgren IKEA, the word "lagom", snus, knäckebröd (<- coffee maker made recipe for knäckeböd), talking about the weather, meatballs (<- coffee maker made recipe for meatballs), fika, Systembolaget and royalties with dyslexia. 

 

I don't know anything about the history for Sju sorters kakor either, and once again I don't care. I know it's supposed to be seven kinds of different cookies that you have on your fika and then everybody is happy.

 

These are my seven cookies I want to invite you for on a fika.

 

Shit. This recipe is so much more fun in Swedish. Now you have to learn the Swedish names for the different cookies. You learned the word Smörgåsbord so you'll manage. Cookie = kaka. 

 

Mögelkaka: Mold cookie

Kattbajskaka: Cat poop cookie

Pacmankaka: Pac man cookie

Finska finnar (Finska pinnar is a traditional cookie): Finnish pimples

Kondylomkaka: Condyloma cookie

Mardrömmar (Drömmar is also a traditional one): Nightmares (drömmar= dreams)

Moderkaka: Placenta

30 minutes/cookie

 

Mix all the different cookie ingredients. Prepare the cookies as they should be prepared (see below) and put them on the coffee maker heater. Let them coffee maker bake until they are baked properly. Don't forget to turn off your coffee maker when you are done baking!

 

 

Let's start with the preparations of the Mögelkaka.

 

The ingredients are oatmeal, sugar and butter. Mix them together and add just a few drops of blue caramel color. Stir a little and tadaaa! It looks just like mold. 

 

A Semla is a great little thing. Unfortunately we only eat in once a year and that's on the Fat Tuesday. Or no we don't. You're supposed to eat the Semla only on the Fat Tuesday but it seems like every day from christmas to easter is Fat Tuesdays because we Swede's obviously can't settle for just eating the Semla once a year. And the bakeries are well aware of that...

 

So the Semla history? I don't know anything about it (didn't some old Swedish king die from eating only Semlas?). I could just google it but I don't care. It's not important. Now I'll tell you what's important with the Semla. And that's how you bake it on a coffee maker. 

 

Oh! I modified the Semla into Semlapraliner (like baby Semlas). So now you can eat lots of Semlas instead of just one at a time. Because let's face it... You only need to eat one normal sized Semla. They are quite filling and you feel disgusted after eating them. But they are great!

 

 

1 hour (+ dough making)

 

A dough (I baked this (and lots of other stuff as well) together with my friend and bake pro Maria so I let her take care of the dough)

Whipped cream

Sugar

Vanilla sugar

Almond icing (is that the correct word for mandelmassa?)

Powder sugar

 

Make the dough like Maria did. 

Start the coffee maker. Split the dough into small pieces and form them into little buns. Bake them on the heater for approximately 40 minutes (depending on the size). Twist and turn so they get baked thoroughly.

 

Mix sugar, vanilla and cream and whip it hard so it gets really fluffy. Cut the tip of the baked bun off and spread a wide layer of almond icing on the bottom. OOOooh! You can even add some almond icing in the whipped sugar cream if you fancy almond icing as much as I do. Add sugar (and almond icing) cream and put the little lid on top. Cover it with powder sugar.

 

And the fika is ready!

 

 

I wanted a dessert tip and @chrismada9 got the great idea that I should cook coffee maker made lingonberry ice-cream. The last two days I've been talking crazy much about lingonberry (this ice-cream recipe was a bit delayed due to the cheese fondue recipe). The ones who follow the @sweden -account definetly like lingon, that's for sure. 

 

Usually I'm not that fond of lingon, except with meatballs. Now that's a perfect match! But I never eat lingon in or with much else.

 

Unltil now! Lingonberry ice-cream is delicious! 

 

 

6 hours

 

2,5 dl cream

2-3 egg yolks (the yolks I had was pretty small so I used 3)

3/4 dl sugar

1 tsp vanilla sugar

1-1,5 dl lingonberries (not sure of this word but I used "preserved raw" ones or "rårörda" like we say in Sweden)

A couple of meringues

Basil leaves (well that was the only green "piff" I had so I took it)

 

Start your coffee maker. Pour cream in the coffee maker can and heat it for almost an hour, it should get really warm. Give it a good whip every now and then, you know how easily cream burn.

 

Meanwhile mix eggs, sugar and vanilla together so it get's fluffy. Pour the egg fluff with the warm cream in the can and put it back on the heater. Now this mixture shall coffee maker stir cook for a while until it thickens a bit, about 45 minutes. Turn off your coffee maker.

 

Before you add lingonberries and meringues just let it cool for a while.

 

Thereafter add lingonberries and meringues into the mixture and pour the ice-cream into forms. Place them in your freezer, stir every 30 minutes, until they get a nice ice-creamy consistency. 

 

Eat and enjoy!

 

Yesterday evening was a beautiful night in Gothenburg so me and Dan decided to have a coffee maker made romantic dinner together. Or we did a romantic dish anyway, I don't know how romantic the dinner was since none of us were hungry when the food finally was ready and I was organizing food/tweeting/watching tv all the time and Dan took pictures of food and a coffee maker. I think that's more fun that a romantic dinner anyway.

 

But it tasted great! 

 

Since both Iggy and Gucci (Zappa wasn't born when we made the book) have their own recipes in Kaffekokarkokboken it was important to all of us that they too should be able to sign it. But it's kind of tricky to bring them to book releases, book fairs and stuff like that. Well, it would be tricky anyway since they don't have opposable thumbs and really don't understand much of anything since they're cats. We thought that we should make a autograph stamp for cats. A catograph (in Swedish Kattograf)! Said and done.

 

Oh, another thing first. It was extra important with the catograph because Iggy is even a cover cat. During the book cover photoshoot we tried Gucci at first because she is much more easy to handle. If you put her some place she will stay and do what's said. And she did exactly what we told her to during the shoot. But when we looked at the photos we saw that she was way too ugly. So we tried with Iggy and after lots of pics we got it! Here's the result.

Back to the catograph stamp!

 

At least 1 cat paw

Watercolor (or some color that's not poisinous and easy to wash off)

Water

Brush

Paper

 

Mix the color (preferably a darker tone) with water and then you can either do it:

 

A) The Gucci way

 

 

 

 

Watching Swedish artist Håkan Hellström whilst coffe maker cooking photographer/coffee maker cooking chef's boyfriend Dan is taking some pictures. 

 

Now I'll show you some basic instructions in how you can make your food in the coffee maker. And at the same time I'll learn you some Swedish terms. They are so much catchier! I mean:

Coffee maker cook book = Kaffekokarkokboken (try to say that seven times quickly)

Coffee maker cooking chef = Kaffekokarkock

 

Of course it's possible to cook stuff in a coffee maker. Some of you probably prefer to cook your coffee but you can do lots of other stuff as well. The fastest way is when you just uses water to cook in. Put the ingredients in the can and water in the brewer. Then the ingredients will start to cook. Yeah, it will take some time but it works. 

 

 

If you're going to make liquid stuff that contains other ingredients than water it takes a more time. For example spaghetti sauce, creamy soups or caramel have to be warmed up from the heater, you can't put those liquids in the brewer. Think about that so you don't cook very big portions. It will take forever. 

 

It's a perfect summer day in Gothenburg and a perfect day for a picnic. So now I'll show you how to do a really simple summer dish in your coffee maker. 

 

 

Since I'm a curator of Sweden this week all the post will be in English (follow me on twitter -> @Sweden). Or probably Swenglish. Maybe a bit of both with a nice mix of google translate. If something is totally wrong and you don't get it at all, just ask. Otherwise I hope you will have some patience with my English. :)

 

Just came home from Roskilde festival and we had a fantastic time. Won't be able to move away from the sofa today so picked up pizzas on our way home. We used to live next door to a great pizza restaurant a couple of years ago and when we called them today they still remembered us. They think my special pizza I always order is crazy. But what do they know?! Here is how you cook it on a coffee maker.

 

Oh! This is a recipe that I cooked and published a while ago. It takes really long time to cook food in the coffee maker so will mix up as many new recipes as possible with old favorites. 

 

Enjoy!

 

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Time
Approximately 3 hours for one mini pizza

 

Ingredients
It's hard to write an exact recipe for a mini pizza, it such small amounts. The dough is a recipe for a large pizza, which you may divide into smaller pieces. It is also possible to freeze the pizza dough.

 

Pizza dough (for many mini pizzas)
50 g yeast
1 teaspoon salt (preferably sea salt flavored with rosemary)
A pinch of sugar
3 cups water
0.5 ml olive oil
9 cups flour
butter

 

Tomato sauce (also very small amounts)
passata
Tomato paste
Pepper
Frozen herb mixture

 

Topping (for two or three mini pizzas)
½ small onion
1 can of tuna
1 tsp Mango Chutney
Grated cheese
Feta cheese
Peanuts
Curry
Salt
Pepper
Oil
Pizza Seasoning

Instructions
Mix the yeast, salt, sugar, oil and lukewarm water in a bowl. Stir it so that it blends properly. Stir in about 8 cups flour (a little at a time) so that the dough becomes smooth. Prover the dough in the bowl under a cloth in a half hour. Take a piece of dough, about the size of a golf ball, and knead it thoroughly on a floured surface. Add more flour if dough is too sticky. Flatten this properly and shape it so that it fits coffee boils plate.

 

Start the coffee maker. Pour just a small amount of oil directly on the plate, and heat it properly - about 10 minutes. Place the thin pizza base on the tray and roast for about fifteen minutes on both sides, or until it has a nice color and are no longer doughy. Remove the pizza bottom and wipe off the coffee boiling plate.

 

Now it's time to fix up the tomato sauce! Mix in a little tomato puree along with the passed tomatoes and season with pepper and herb mix. Stir. Easy peasy! 

 

Mix the tuna, mango chutney, curry and cheese (or whatever you wish to have on your pizza) in the pot along with the onion. Fry this in the coffee can half an hour. Stir occasionally. Season with salt and pepper.

 

Spread a layer of tomato sauce on the pizza base and the tuna topping. Sprinkle the pizza spice and peanuts. Serve with a fresh salad and a cold beer. Omnomnomnom.

I think we should have some basic instructions tomorrow in how to cook food in a coffee maker. You can actually do lots of things. Will tell you how to tomorrow!

 

 

Nu har vi varit på Roskilde sedan i lördags och har det garanterat förbaskat bra! Innan vi drog bunkrade vi upp med ett rejält lager mat, bestående av mestadels konserver. Prima festivalmat! Var så klart tvungna att provköra en burk ravioli i kaffekokaren och när vi smakade den konstaterade vi att den var ganska god. Frågan är bara hur det känns efter några dagar... Kall. Detta receptet är alltså rena lyxreceptet!