food for thought and some thoughts on food

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We are having some people over for dinner tonight. I still haven’t decided what food to make, but I know the main dish is going to be something from my favorite cookbook, Sunday Suppers Recipes + Gatherings.

Sunday Suppers was started in Brooklyn 6 years ago by photographer and food lover Karen Mordechai. The concept is to bring people together for a shared meal and the act of communal cooking. Every sunday you can join Sunday Suppers for a sit-down dinner that takes place in their beautiful bright space and celebrates a chosen theme like salt, citrus or roots. I still haven’t had the chance to participate in one of the gatherings, but it is definitely on my list. Another thing that is on my wish list, is one of their amazing cooking classes.

While I’m getting hungry from looking at all the food in the book and trying to decide whats for dinner, Eleanor is engaging in a small DIY project. It includes a cart board box, white paint and a lot of coloured paper and I’ll show you the result as soon as it is done. But she will probably end up joining me and my food studies. The Sunday Suppers Recipes + Gatherings book has a chapter called Birthday For Little Ones, and every time I take out the book, she will go through the chapter looking at the pictures and dreaming about her upcoming birthday.

The dessert will be a traditional danish warm apple pie served with vanilla ice cream. We normally make it in our cottage in Denmark in the fall when are apple trees are full of apples. But is works just as well in the New York wintertime.

Here is the recipe:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar

10 tablespoons (150 gram) butter

1 egg yolk

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoons sour cream

4 – 5 apples peeled and sliced

3 tablespoons chopped almonds

 

Mix flour, baking soda, 3/4 of the sugar, soft butter, egg yolk and sour cream really well. If the dough gets to sticky, put it in the fridge for 15 minutes. Roll out 2/3 of the dough and gently place the dough onto a pie plate. Arrange the apples slices in the dough-lines pie plate. Mix the rest of the sugar, almonds and cinnamon and spread it out onto of the apples. Roll out the remaining dough and use it to make a lattice pie crust. Bake it in the oven at 400 F for about 20 minutes.

Let it cool down and serve with vanilla ice cream or creme fraiche.

 

Read more about Sunday Suppers here.

 

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Vi får gæster til middag i aften, og jeg har stadig ikke bestemt mig for, hvilken hovedret jeg vil servere for dem. Jeg ved dog at det skal være noget fra min yndlingskogebog, Sunday Suppers Recipes + Gatherings.

Sunday Suppers blev grundlagt i Brooklyn for 6 år siden af fotograf og mad elsker Karen Mordechai. Karen ønskede at bringe folk sammen omkring det at lave, indtage og opleve et vel tilberedt måltid mad. Hver søndag kan man deltage i deres komsammener i de smukke, lyse Brooklyn-lokaler og indtage en menu der er skabt udfra et specifikt tema som salt, citrus eller rødder. Jeg har endnu ikke haft mulighed for at deltage i en Sunday Supper, men det er helt sikkert på min liste. Og det samme er deres cooking classes, hvor man i fællesskab tilbereder og indtager en inspirerende menu.

Mens jeg sidder og bliver sulten af at kigge på de smukke billeder i bogen, har min ældste datter Eleanor kastet sig ud i et lille gør-det-selv projekt. Det indbefatter, en papkasse, hvid maling og en helt masse farvet karton. Resultatet får I at se om et par dage. Hun er dog også ret vild med at kigge i Sunday Suppers Recipes + Gatherings. Bogen har nemlig et helt kapitel om Birthday For Little Ones og de fine billeder af børn, kager og balloner er ofte genstand for drømme om hendes kommende 6 års dag.

 

Desserten bliver en traditionel dansk æbletærte serveret lun. Mine børn og jeg plejer at bage den samme hvert efterår i vores sommerhus på Nordsjælland, når vores æbletræer er fyldt med modne æbler. Men den fungerer lige så godt i en iskold New York vinter.

Her er vores opskrift:

250 gram hvedemel

150 gram sukker

150 gram blødt smør

1 æggeblomme

2 spsk creme fraiche

1 tsk bagepulver

4 stk / 300 gram skrællede æbler, skåret i både

40 gram hakkede mandler

1 1/2 spsk kanel

Bland mel, bagepulver, 125 gram sukker, blødt smør, æggeblomme og creme fraiche og ælt det hele godt sammen. Er dejen meget blød kan den sættes i køleskabet i 10 minutter. Rul 2/3 af dejen ud, og læg den forsigtigt i en tærteform. Fordel æblerne i et pænt mønster. Bland det resterende sukker, kanel og mandler, og drys det over æblerne. Rul resten af dejen ud, skær den i strimler og læg dem som et gitter over æblerne. Bag tærten ved 175 grader varmluft eller 200 grader ikke varmluft i 15-20 minutter. Server den med kold vaniljeis eller creme fraiche.

Læs mere om Sunday Suppers her.