For dinner last night I wanted a pasta dish, that should incorporate mushrooms, be meatless and go well with a glass of (cheap) red wine. Th...

Not unlike other varieties of basil , I was unfamiliar with red basil until I came across it at the store. As before when faced with such op...

Mrs. Throat-Erator decided we should join in on the Bon Appetit Cover Challenge ( BACC ) hosted by White Fluffy Icing . Although we didn...

When I first came across the Icelandic speciality banana herring I was at a loss for words at first. The sheer outlandish oddness of the di...

For my birthday this year, Mrs. Throat-Erator gave me dried curry and kaffir lime leaves - and then things got a little hectic, so I didn...

This meal came about for two main reasons - the good looking filets of coalfish on sale at the supermarket and the desire to (re)create a di...

Finding ways to use yet more poppy seeds, we tried out this idea, which we found on the internet - only adding quite a bit more poppy seeds ...

The decision to make this dish was largely motivated by our stockpile of sesame seeds (keeping in mind that we will have to move again in a ...

On Christmas day we had a couple of guests over for a Danish style Christmas lunch. The concept of a such a lunch is to sit at a table for s...

In my quest for new ways to serve pickled herring I came up with this combination of Danish and Mexican foods. Two pickled herring filets we...

This way of serving herring was introduced to me by a family I'm no longer in touch with - which isn't really a story I want to go i...

Already December again. Not sure how this happened. Anyway. As the Yuletide approaches we will be finding occasion to enjoy lots of traditio...

We recently had some delicious fish cakes at an Asian restaurant, so I was interested in trying my hand at the art - in the end these were q...

Pizza with tomato sauce, red onion, canned anchovies, capers and mozzarella - no extra salt needed. The irony (considering how close to Ita...

New potatoes are a special treat - especially for boiled potatoes are just more delicious this way (the boiling process is usually also shor...

In no particular style (so far as I can tell) I made this dinner because it was Saturday night, and I felt like it - everything turned out q...

To be honest, I didn't know what conger was when I bought it. Yes, I figured it was a large fish or something along those lines, but it ...

No, I didn't actually split, gut, salt and smoke these herrings myself. I just bought a can of it, served is on whole grain rye bread a...

This idea is blatantly stolen from the restaurant The Bell Tower on Polk St in San Francisco - I dined there about 3 years ago and shared so...

This is another of my favorite tuna salads - it's less runny than #1 , which goes nicely with how I like to use it for lunch sandwiches....