まぁ、自分達でも定かじゃないしな。
で、心機一転ブログ引っ越すことにしました。ページも衣替え。
“Stockholm Kafeteria”
爽やかなヘッダーのイメージとは裏腹に、個人的な野望と欲望がドロッドロッなタイトルにしてみました。どんな野望と欲望がドロッドロッでこのタイトルに落ち着いたのかは、ぼちぼちお伝えします。
もしくは感じ取ってよ。
これからも、気長にご愛好の程よろしくお願いいたします。
お気に入りの料理本専門の本屋さんにて。
ここに来ると、もう止まらない相方。
手始めにスープストックから作ろうとなり、鶏と鴨(頭付きで!)を丸ごと一羽購入。
た ぶん日本ではホールチキン、特に鴨は手に入れにくいかと思いますが、地元の商店街のお肉屋さんやら鶏肉屋さんへ行ったらスープ用の豚骨は安くで売ってるは ず。もしくは“奥の冷蔵庫から鶏丸ごと一羽持ってきてさばいて!”と強行に出ましょう。ロジャーによると“鶏丸ごと扱ってない鶏肉屋があるか!”との事な ので、奥に冷蔵庫らしきものが見えたら迷わず指差して叫ぶのです。
当然鶏のさばき方なんて知らんわたしは、うちの有難いプロに開いて頂きました。胸肉、もも肉、手羽、ドラムスティックを取り、残りはストックへ。鴨もドラムスティックを除いては同様なり。
大 きめのお鍋にお水をはって、ぶつ切りにした玉ねぎ、セロリ、にんじん、リーク(西洋ネギだそうです。すんごい太い白ネギみたいな感じで、炒めると玉ねぎみ たいな甘みが。白ネギで代用が効くと思います)、皮付きのままニンニク、生姜、ベイリーブ、黒胡椒の粒、ナツメグの実、そして、用意していた鶏さん、鴨さ んのガラを放りこんで3~4時間煮込みましょう。
ストックをとる段階で重要なのは
①アクをこまめに取って余分な脂を取り除く
②こまめに水を足す事です!
ゆっくりと煮込んだ後はしばらく休ませて、こしたら、透き通る黄金色のスープストックの完了です。
スープストックに使ったお野菜やらお肉は当然そのまま使えます。塩コショウしてオリーブオイルをタラーリとかけて頂いたり、お野菜ごとストックを別のお鍋に移してデミグラスソースにしたりしていただきました。
Chika
As beginning Roger started from preparing a soup stock. We bought whole fresh chicken and duck (with head on!!) from the market, probably it’s not easy to find whole chicken, specially duck in Japan, but if you try a local meat shop they should sell pork bones for stock or ask them to chop a whole lot. Of course I don’t know how to open a whole chicken or duck, but thank god! Yes! I have a professional chef at home who easily chops down them. So he took fillets, drum sticks and thighs off, then chopped rest of them for stock. Prepared duck same as chicken
Firstly fill up water in a big pot and add chunky chopped onion, leek, celery, carrot, skin-on ginger, skin-on garlic, bay leave, whole black paper, nutmeg and above chopped meat. Then put on the fire about for 3 or 4 hours. The most important points are 1) remove scum frequently and take all the fat away 2) Keep adding water when reduced.
After slow cooked, rest it for a while then strain it(Of course you can eat the vegetable and meant ! we ate with salt & pepper and olive oil, also used for demiglace sauce).
You will get a clean golden soup stock!
Chika
The only food Roger taught me for this week was.......Easiest night snack
"Cauliflower and Budweiser"
,,, That's it !!! (Apology for this slipshod advise...)
According to a long long food study of great Swedish chef, this is easiest and best combination snack, the beer has to be "Budweiser", specially "Bottled Budweiser" !!
At the beginning you may feel like a rabbit to eat fresh cauliflower, but wait until drink up Budweiser! Well, actually it brings a very clear and crisp cauliflower's sweetness.
Try it instead of eating chips in midnight,, definitely healthier for your beer belly !
Hope you will have an another great week.
Chiky
その仕入れネタが本日のメインとなりまして、今日はコレ↓
" トントロBBQとキャベツのロースト、サツマイモのマッシュ添え"
(写真、夢中で食べた後に慌てて撮ったもんで全くイケてないんよね。)
トンカツを作る予定をしていたのですが、相方の要望により急遽バーベキューへ変更となり、結果、典型的なスウェーデンな味へと変身を遂げました。
脂がキレイにのった豚の首肉(Pork Neck)、ネットで調べると世に言う“トントロ”がこの首肉にあたるそうな。豚肉のあっさり加減と脂のバランスが非常にバーベキュー向きです。
豚 肉を2~3cmのスライスにし、塩コショウ。キャベツは芯も残したままでざっくりと切り、ニンニクは一株(?)丸ごと皮も残したままで横から水平に切り、 真っ二つに。全ての材料にオリーブオイルをふりかけ、あとは焼くだけ、それだけ。キャベツは表面が写真の様に焦げるまで、ガーリックは色が何となく透けて くるまでグリルします。キャベツをお皿に盛ったら、最後にホワイトビネガーをたらーり、オリーブオイルをたらーり。←これ、大事です。
ホワイトビネガーは白ブドウから作ってるお酢でして、米酢よりも口当たりがまろやかです。直接食べる分には米酢よりも食べやすいかも。出来ればこっちでお試しあれ。
写 真には写ってませんが、サイドはサツマイモとかぼちゃのマッシュ、つまりは金時。これはうちの母親のレシピですが相方曰く、“完璧にスウェーデン味”らし い。サツマイモとカボチャを茹でて(もしくは蒸すかレンジか)、ざっくり潰してバターと砂糖を入れて混ぜるだけ、それだけなのです。クリーミーなのが好き な方はしっかりマッシュして牛乳を少し入れてもイイかもしれません。クリームを入れるとリッチな味にはなりますが重たい口当たりなって、個人的にはお勧め しません。風味を足したいならバター少し多めがエエのかも。
全部揃ったら、豚肉もキャベツもニンニクもマッシュもみんな一緒に食してみましょう。
こ の甘みと塩気のバランスが好きなようなら、スウェーデン化の第一歩!“甘みと酸味”、“甘みと塩気”、苦手は人は苦手かもしれませんが、この組み合わせ、 古典的なスェーデンの食べ合わせです。ポテトチップス食べてたらチョコレート食べたくなるし、おしるこ食べてたら添えてある塩昆布が嬉しいあの感覚なので すよ。一度はまるとクセになるのです。
そ れからキャベツはあまり心配せずに焦がしてしまいましょう。焦がした事によって香ばしい苦味やら、より増した甘みやら驚くほど別の風味が出てきます。ガー リックもしっかり焼くと独特の強い匂いが消えて、グッと甘みが増してもっちりとしたジャガイモのような触感になってきます。
焦がすことで簡単に引き出せるこの美味しさを皆さんも楽しんでもらえるといいのですが……
Bon appetit!
Chiky
日本語版 JPN Ed.
<http://iamafoodlover.blogspot.com/2008/05/pork-neck-bbq-charred-cabbage-w-mashed_12.html>
I
didn't have time to cook or even didn't have enough time to eat for
this week. My skin started to be really awful since last Wednesday due
to unbalanced food and probably stress as well. So to eat something
proper food I went to my favorite exciting Asian market this morning
after dropping Roger at his work which was busy for Mother's day lunch
today.
So a main dish for today is from the morning shopping, "Pork Neck BBQ & Charred Cabbage w Mashed Sweet potato".(Photo is not that good,, taken after we'd eatten)
I was planning to cook something else, but change to put BBQ on by Roger's request, as result it came a typical Swedish food which is also good with Japanese style steamed rice as usual.
Salt and pepper on 2 cm sliced pork neck stake and put olive oil all over pork, cabbage, half- cut whole garlic (leave skin on). Put everything on BBQ and cook cabbage until surface turn to black and garlic until become clear color. Dress cabbage with white vinegar and olive oil in the end.
For mashed potato, boil Asian(?) sweet potato(skin is purple, inside is white) and pumpkin in water until cooked (you can steam or cook in microwave). mash all together (I prefer chunky) and add butter and sugar. If you like creamy one, you can add milk.
Then Bon appetit!
Try to eat pork, cabbage, garlic, mash all together. If you like "sweet & salty" taste, you are already on the way to Swedish. "sweet & sour" "sweet & salty" may sound funny for some people, but these are significant Swedish flavors, once you start to enjoy it, I bet you that you will be addicted soon.
Also don't worry to overcook cabbage. The charcoal bring another beautiful flavor from sweetness & bitterness, which will notice you how sweet cabbage is and how simple cook is! Garlic also reduce its strong smell and dramatically increase sweetness, texture is like a potato when cooked well.
I'm often amazed by this Roger's simple cook bringing soooo much better taste and the Swedish "sweet & salty" combination.
Hope you will find out too.
Chiky
日本語版 JPN Ed.
<http://iamafoodlover.blogspot.com/2008/05/pork-neck-bbq-charred-cabbage-w-mashed_12.html>
I
didn't have time to cook or even didn't have enough time to eat for
this week. My skin started to be really awful since last Wednesday due
to unbalanced food and probably stress as well. So to eat something
proper food I went to my favorite exciting Asian market this morning
after dropping Roger at his work which was busy for Mother's day lunch
today.
So a main dish for today is from the morning shopping, "Pork Neck BBQ & Charred Cabbage w Mashed Sweet potato".(Photo is not that good,, taken after we'd eatten)
I was planning to cook something else, but change to put BBQ on by Roger's request, as result it came a typical Swedish food which is also good with Japanese style steamed rice as usual.
Salt and pepper on 2 cm sliced pork neck stake and put olive oil all over pork, cabbage, half- cut whole garlic (leave skin on). Put everything on BBQ and cook cabbage until surface turn to black and garlic until become clear color. Dress cabbage with white vinegar and olive oil in the end.
For mashed potato, boil Asian(?) sweet potato(skin is purple, inside is white) and pumpkin in water until cooked (you can steam or cook in microwave). mash all together (I prefer chunky) and add butter and sugar. If you like creamy one, you can add milk.
Then Bon appetit!
Try to eat pork, cabbage, garlic, mash all together. If you like "sweet & salty" taste, you are already on the way to Swedish. "sweet & sour" "sweet & salty" may sound funny for some people, but these are significant Swedish flavors, once you start to enjoy it, I bet you that you will be addicted soon.
Also don't worry to overcook cabbage. The charcoal bring another beautiful flavor from sweetness & bitterness, which will notice you how sweet cabbage is and how simple cook is! Garlic also reduce its strong smell and dramatically increase sweetness, texture is like a potato when cooked well.
I'm often amazed by this Roger's simple cook bringing soooo much better taste and the Swedish "sweet & salty" combination.
Hope you will find out too.
Chiky