Breakfast after the day before International Women's Day

So, Jenny continued on partying yesterday, attending a five course ladies dinner at out old student's nation. There's usually some heavy drinking accompanying the heavy eating, and she had the foresight to order a day-after breakfast from me before leaving. Seeing as today is International Women's Day, I was happy to oblige. The requested breakfast consisted of

• Bärry Körsbär (a brand of cherry flavored yogurt)
• Grilled sandwich with mushroom sauce and bacon
• Raspberry smoothie
  
• Ramlösa (a brand of sparkling water)
• Potato crisps (real ones, not Pringles) and dip

Most of the list could more or less be bought, and that I did. The grilled sandwiches and raspberry smoothie had to be made, and that I did too, so here are the recipes:

Grilled sandwich with mushroom sauce and bacon
Makes about 7 sandwiches

Mushroom sauce
(make the day before and store in the fridge)

½ Onion
250g Mushrooms
~2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
1 dl Crème Fraîche
1 dl Milk
Butter to fry in (quite a lump when doing mushrooms)
Salt
Pepper

Finley chop the onions, and dice the mushrooms (I like them to be identifiable as mushrooms, so quite coarse). Fry them in butter at heat 5 (out of 6). When they start getting some color: add the vinegar and let it reduce. Add the Crème Fraîche and milk, and let it reduce until very creamy. Add salt and pepper to taste. I like the taste of black pepper with mushrooms, so I used quite a lot, letting the pepper be a part of the taste of the sauce.

Assembly and grilling

for each sandwich you need:
2 slices Toast Bread
Cheese to cover them
2 slices Bacon
Mushroom sauce from above

Fry the Bacon. Cover the Toast Bread slices in Cheese (I used cheddar). Add the mushroom sauce to one of the slices, and the Bacon slices to the other. Put them together and grill in a sandwich grill (or equivalent) until done.

Raspberry Smoothie
Makes two tall glasses

1 Banana
2 dl Frozen Raspberries
2 dl Filmjölk or yogurt
1 dl Milk

Mix it all togeather in a blender. Usually, you need ice cubes for a smoothie, but the frozen berries make up for that by being, well, frozen.

That'll fix anyone right up!

Sunday dessert

For our late V-day dinner, I also created a dessert, largely from previous posts! So, what I didn't tell you about the meringue was that I also made a “marängbotten” – I'm totally at a loss as to what this is called in English! Please help me out. Anyway, I made a disc of meringue by moving the pastry bag in a spiraling motion, and in Swedish it sort of means cake foundation in meringue. All you need is a steady hand and a full pastry bag, which you can see from the picture were not as fully stocked as I would have wished for... it's the first time I made it though, so next will be better!


Word wanted!

I then scoped up some cherry ice cream on top of that...


The beginning of a wicked cool dessert

And then sprinkled some chopped chocolate on that.


All done!

Maybe not a winner of beauty contests, but tasting divine! There's a moral to this story as well: if you keep busy making goodies during the week, the weekend desserts doesn't have to be all that hard to make!

And if you've just shared a bottle of wine between the two of you, you'll probably want something strong to go with it. In this case I would suggest that you do like we did and enjoy this dessert with a nice avecish drink called God Father. Just pour 1 part amaretto and 3–4 parts scotch over some ice cubes. And I don't mean the bar-tender type parts (~15 ml), but the ones you decide the size of yourself, because the recipe only gives you the proportions. Although the bar-tender's part will result in a fairly well sized drink.