Gothic Beet Pasta
Even with the impending threat of this site quickly turning into food journal, here is another great food recipe, one that looks and tastes great. The recipe was inspired by two other recipes (here and here).
Ingredients
Yields 6 portions.
- 1 kg fresh beets
- 300 g fresh parsnips
- 1 leek
- 1 garlic
- 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon dried ginger powder
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- salt
- 2 dl sour cream
- 150 g cream cheese with blue mold (such as Bavaria Blu)
- vegetable oil
- olive oil
- black sesame seeds
- pasta (for extra scene points, use pasta that is dyed black with squid ink)
Instructions
Wash and peel the beets and parsnips. Cut them into about 5 mm thick slices. Put the slices in a deep pan, add water until covered and boil until they are soft. This should take about 25 minutes for beets and 15 minutes for parsnips.
Wash and slice the leek. Peel and crush the garlic cloves. Put some vegetable oil, leek slices and garlic into another pan and stir them in medium heat.
When the root crops are soft, pour out the water. The beets should have dyed the parsnip, which have quite strange glowing purple color now.
Add some vegetable oil and juice of the lemon into the deep pan. Then add leek and garlic, ginger, black pepper, cayenne pepper, some salt and mix thoroughly. Let simmer under a cover for 10 minutes on medium-low heat. Boil water in a kettle for the pasta.
Add sour cream and half of the cheese. Mix well again and make sure the cheese has completely melted. Let simmer under a cover for another 10 minutes on low heat. Meanwhile, cook the pasta as instructed in the package. Add some olive oil in the pasta.
Cut the rest of the cheese into decorative bits.
Serve immediately: add pasta to plate, cover with the beet sauce and decorate with black sesame seeds and cheese bits.
Categories: Creations, Food
Posted by Matias at 16.09.2007 16:28 (1 year ago) | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
Melonpan
Melonpan (melon bread) is a Japanese snack food resembling little bread rolls. Western people might find them a little strange as they are a combination of sweet and non-sweet foodstuffs: bread wrapped in cookie with cream cheese filling. The name appears to originate from the fact that they resemble melons (which might not be evident from the images) - they do not necessarily contain melon.
Here are the perfected instructions on how to make melonpan, based on several recipes I found on the Internet and the iron chef -grade insight from Yakitate!! Japan. The recipe yields 16 melonpans.
Please note that this is just impression of a gaijin who is not even sure if he has ever tasted genuine melonpan. Tradition infringements are bound to exist and apologies extended if necessary.
Instructions
Bread dough
- 7 dl wheat flour (replace half of the flour with spelt for extra flavor)
- 1,5 dl water
- 1 package of dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 50 g butter or margarine
- 1 egg
Warm the water to about 45 degrees Celsius and place in a bowl. Mix in dry yeast and sugar. Wait a few minutes until the yeast has activated, which causes fine foam to appear. Add salt, melted butter and the egg. Add flour and mix thoroughly. Kneed the dough for 10 minutes. Cover the bowl and place in a warm location. Let the dough rise for an hour.
Continue reading "Melonpan"... (660 words)
Categories: Creations, Food
Posted by Matias at 19.08.2007 22:04 (1 year ago) | 1 comment | 0 trackbacks
Rasterbator on Mac
Chris Knight has written a detailed answer for the most often asked question about The Rasterbator - how to run it on Mac OS X!
Categories: Art, Creations, Programming
Posted by Matias at 21.03.2007 21:16 (1 year ago) | 5 comments | 0 trackbacks
Rasterbator Photo Challenge
JPG Magazine is running a Rasterbator Photo Challenge! Take a photograph, rasterbate, print and mount it and take a photograph of the installation.
They are also doing an entire spread on the application for issue 7, including my interview - and I was granted not only that particular magazine, but a free subscription, very courtesious of them!
Categories: Art, Creations, Photography
Posted by Matias at 21.10.2006 10:52 (2 years ago) | 3 comments | 0 trackbacks
Surma: III
Another cd cover design for Surma, the deathiest and doomiest of them all!
This time we aimed for something quite different from the typical visual appearance of their grizzly genre and especially the band image featuring their messianic vocalist and the modern design of the district of Ruoholahti quite overwhelmingly nails it. (The cd cover looks much better in the cd case, it's rather bland when seen from a monitor with white surroundings... PLEASE PLEASE BELIEVE ME! IT REALLY DOES!)
The vignettes I also am happy with.
Download and/or order the cd here!