Category Archives: BBQ / Smoker / Food

Cheezy Hamburger

In the past i came up with a hamburger that most liked.
(The computer party burger)

This one is quite cheezy, and heavy cheese, so not to everyones liking.
But we loved this “experiment”!

And indeed an experiment, i’m not a cook. I only know how to smoke meat, slowcook and so on.
The only other thing i can make which gets compliments, is a real Pasta Carbonara

  • Viking blue cheese
  • Camembert cheese
    • Red onion (outer rings only)
  • Brown sugar
  • Rucola lettuce
  • Hamburger made from deer. ( Gamey taste )
    https://www.grutto.com/nl/wild/hert-pakket-groot
  • Chestnut mushrooms
  • Shitake olive oil
  • Balsamic vinegar
  • Teardrop tony roasted onion bbq sauce

Mix a lot of the cheeses and melt in the preheated oven.
Glaze the onion in olive oil and brown sugar.
Fry the mushrooms in shitake olive oil and add some balsamic vinegar.
Prepare the burgers on your BBQ, use some smoke.
(I like to put the cheese on top of the burgers the last 2 minutes or so, it will melt over the burgers and get some smoke)
Slice the burger buns in two, and put in the oven. (Sliced part down)
(until a little brown/crispy)

Surströmming

Surströmming as it should be eaten.

As the tin is pressurised, open the surströmming in a basin of water. Wash it, gut it, and wrap it in buttered tunnbröd, a type of sweetened flat bread, with sour cream, potatoes and onion. Accompany with beer.

Didn’t have tunnbröd, used another flat bread.

I liked it enough to have two portions, would eat again.

Cold smoke

Today some smoking again.

Salmon and cheese

For curing the salmon (500gr) i used:

  • 100 gr seasalt
  • 80gr licht caster sugar
  • 3 teaspoons dille
  • 1 teaspoon crushed juniper berries

Dry salmon, put a layer of above mixture in a container, put the salmon on top, with another layer. Put a heavy weight ontop to squeeze the water out of the salmon, while its in the refrigerator. Next day: Wash the salmon, drying it with paper kitchentowel. Put the salmon back into the refrigerator again to dry some more.
I’ve put the salmon in my smoker with a cold smoke generator for 8 hours, the cheese needed only 2 hours.

Slavink en hamburgers

Notes:

  • Varkenssnippers 700gr
  • (Flinterdunne speklapjes) ik had omwikkelspek (3 zakjes)
  • 12-16 gram zeezout bij malen in
  • voor 500gr pittige gehaktkruiden

Variant:

  • 300 rundergehakt
  • 12 plakken gerookte ontbijtspek
  • 1 teen knoflook
  • 1 ei
  • Snuf peper en zout
  • 1 theelepel mosterd
  • 3 eetlepel paneermeel
  • 1 eetlepel gedroogde peterselie

Mijn vleesmolen

Bestron AMG600 – Elektrische Vleesmolen

Tips: Zorg dat je vlees goed koud is! Anders loopt de vleesmolen vast.

Smoker

After fooling around on my trusty Weber, i bought myself a offset smoker.

My good friend Vincent, talked me into buying a big metal beast, and i never had any regrets.

Soy Sauce

Fermentation day again .. today, Soy Sauce

  • Soybeans 1 kg
  • All-purpose flour 200 g
  • Koji Starter 8-10 g
  • Salt 1 kg
  • Water 2 litres

Best to lookup howto on the internet

Converting a large old table into a meat carving station.

At a second hand store we bought a old 60-70 style livingroom table, because it was made from heavy large wooden table top. ( 22 euro’s )

Removing the legs, and cutting the tabletop with a pluge saw.
The saw didnt cut deep enough, but using a guide rail and cutting from the other side, i managed to cut it with ease.

Assembling time!

The girls sanded the top and put some protective layer on top.

Above the finished product in our kitch made of scaffolding material.

Staircase pictures

Maybe you also have a white area to fill, here is a suggestion.

For years we collected picture frames, weird and ugly.
We wanted to have a collection of images in our staircase, to fill the white area.
The images are all something we like, have interest in or are personal.

It needed to be on 3 walls, so here was my first design.

Around the corner picture frame i made