Pulled Pork

I jumped on what seems to be the latest food trend (at least in Sweden) and I am so happy I did. I like it when I can just put the food in the oven and do other things while my food is getting ready, and I of course like lovely tasting food so this was a big win-win for me.

I started out with making a lovely sugar free barbecue sauce.

Barbecue Sauce
1 dl ketchup (I use one that has stevia instead of sugar)
2 dl "crushed" tomatoes
1 dl water
0,5 dl white wine vinegar

worcestershire sauce
chinese soy
pepper

You have to try your way with these three items, start off with a teaspoon and taste it.

Mix all the ingredients in a sauce pan and let it simmer for 15 minutes.


Pulled Pork
A piece of pork that's apparently called "Boston butt" in english.
I don't remember the weight of my pork but as long as it fits in your pot it's not too big.
1 yellow onion
2 cloves of garlic

Put the oven on 125 degrees celsius.
Put your pork in an oven safe pot with a lid.
Slice up the onion and put it around the pork, also put the garlic next to the pork.
Pour 2 dl of your barbecue sauce over the pork and the onions.
When your oven is at 125 degrees C, you put your pot in the oven, with the lid on, and you let it stay in there for 6 hours.


It will go in looking like this:

And when it's done you take it out and you pull the pork apart with forks and mix it with the sauce in the pot, making it look like this:

I enjoyed it with some mushrooms, cucumber, tomatoes and creme fraiche. The pork is so tender it feels like it melts in your mouth.

Deep Fried Swedish Turnip

..or maybe you call it rutabaga/swede/yellow turnip. 

These days I'm eating much less carbs and more fat (more fat as in using full fat products instead of using light products etc.) and when I feel like eating french fries I make these instead.

• Use a potato peeler and peel the swede (yes, I'm giggling inside about that phrase).
• Cut it in half and then cut it to the size you want your "fries".

• Put them in a pot with water and boil them for 7 minutes.
• Then put them in a strainer and let them dry.
• I have a deep fryer and I put it on 175 degrees celsius, you can deep fry with just a regular pot and a thermometer but I haven't so I can't give you any tips about that.
• When the oil has come up to the right temperature, put your swedes in and let them fry until they have some colour.

• I'm always busy making the things I will eat with the fries so I don't know how long it takes but I stop frying them when they're at this colour.
• Take them out and put them on some paper towels to get some of the oil off. 
• Sprinkle some salt over them and they're ready to be eaten!

Crab stick salad

Yesterday I bought some crab sticks. It was years since I ate some and I'm glad I bought them.

 

Lettuce

Crab sticks

Hardboiled eggs

Cucumber

Creme fraiche

Capers 

Salmon with lemon sauce

The look of a proper sandwich

Pancake

I finally learned how to make pancakes.

Making of the mushroom soup

I decided to make a large batch of mushroom soup today.
For me it's quite a cheap soup, the champignons are cheap
and thanks to the Swedish "freedom to roam"
and my mother, I get yellow chanterelles for free.
The yellow chanterelles are quite expensive in the stores here.
Anyways, I decided to make 3 times the recipe
and I learned an important lesson;
make sure you know the size of your pans!
I got 14 portions of 4 dl each.


Ingredients 
~4 portions

~650 grams of mushrooms
1 yellow onion
1 clove of garlic
25 grams of butter
1 tablespoon of flour
1 L broth
3 dl of whipping cream
salt and pepper

Step 1 

Chop the champignons roughly (how rough depends on if you want to have some large bits in your soup and how large you want them), also chop the onion and the garlic. Put the butter in a pan and fry the onion and garlic for about 4 minutes.

Step 2 

If you like me have some frozen mushrooms put them in the pan and put a lid on it and let it be for another 4 minutes. This will defrost them and you can go on to step 3.

Step 3

If you have some homemade chicken or vegetable broth that's great, I don't so I use store bought chicken broth. This step you need to taste your way to, depending on how salty you want the soup. I like to go easy with the broth and add salt later if I feel the need. Powder the onion with the flour and stir it. Then put the broth and the rest of the mushrooms in the soup and bring it to a boil, then let it simmer for 15 minutes.

Step 4 

This can be a deal breaker, and it almost was for me the first time I was going to make the soup. It's so lovely to just put some ingredients in a pan and let it boil and voila you have a soup. Having to pour it over to a mixer and then pour it back to the pan? Sounds like a messy business to me. Fortunately I did it and after tasting the soup once, it's worth it! Just make sure you don't put to much soup in the mixer, that's when it gets messy! It's good to have an empty pan to transfer the mixed soup to, so you don't try to mix the whole soup and end up with a mess. This is also when you scoop up some of the mushrooms and put them aside if you want some big bits in your soup, I love to have something to chew on in my soup.

Step 5  

Stir in the cream and put the soup back on the stove to heat up a bit. Add some pepper and if you feel the need add some salt. Next step? Eat!

If you have some soup left or made a big batch, freeze it! Works lovely. I put mine in 2 L freezer bags and put them flat in the freezer. (defrosts quickly)