Boxing day: The leftovers of our Plokkfiskur...

...then went into these fish cakes.

We recently had plokkfiskur , this typical Icelandic pounded fish. But we were less hungry people than planned in the short term, so half was left. I then used these leftovers into fish cakes the next evening.

As a side dish we had some Plokkfiskur, this time baked with plenty of cheese. And fried onions on the side - I love fried onions!

Ingredients

500 g Plokkfiskur

1/2 onion

60 g flour

2 Tbsp grated Parmesan

1 pinch of coarse sea salt

1 pinch of ground pepper

1 egg

2 Tbsp breadcrumbs

oil for frying

Preparation

Peel the onion and chop it finely.

Place the plokkfiskur in a bowl and add the onion pieces, flour, grated cheese, salt and pepper and the egg. Knead everything into a thick dough.

Then form small balls out of the dough with your hands.

Place the breadcrumbs on a plate and coat the fish balls in them.

Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the fish balls in the hot fat.

Then serve with fresh salad or something similar.

Or simply gratinated plokkfiskur and fried onions, like we do here. It doesn't look particularly pretty, but it's hearty, hearty and warming for body and soul.

[Translated from here.]

Gerlausir kanilsnúðar

Cinnamon rolls (without yeast dough)

I think you can never have enough cinnamon roll recipes. I posted an overview of various cinnamon roll recipes here on the blog in 2019, with very different variations. And since then I've tried and baked even more cinnamon rolls...

Here I have a version for crispy cinnamon rolls, a recipe without yeast but with baking powder and egg. Not soft, like yeast dough rolls, rather crunchy and intensely cinnamony. It definitely tastes very good to me and was well received by my children too!

Ingredients

125 g brown sugar

500 g flour

120 g margarine

2 tsp baking soda

1 egg

1 pinch of cardamom

100 ml milk

Margarine for spreading

sugar cinnamon

Preparation

All ingredients for the dough are placed in a large bowl and kneaded.

Divide the dough into two portions.

Then roll out each portion of dough into a rectangle on a floured surface, on baking paper or similar,

...spread with margarine and sprinkle with sugar cinnamon,,,

... and then roll it up along the long side.

Then cut the roll into slices and place it on a baking tray lined with baking paper...

...and bake in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) for about 15 to 20 minutes until the cinnamon rolls are golden brown.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]

Jarðarberja ostamús

Strawberry cheese mousse

Fresh Icelandic strawberries in fresh Icelandic landscape...

In Iceland, strawberries grow in greenhouses all year round. The greenhouses here are powered by geothermal energy, otherwise there would be no strawberries in Iceland or they would have to be imported at great expense.

Ingredients for 6 servings

Ingredients for the soil

120 g cookies

30 g melted butter

Ingredients for the mousse

200 g strawberries

250 g cream cheese

80 g powdered sugar

200 ml whipping cream

Ingredients for the topping

100 g dark chocolate

50 ml whipping cream

2 Tbsp light syrup

optionally spices (e.g. vanilla, coffee spice, etc.)

Whipped cream and fresh strawberries for decoration

Preparation

For the base, crumble the cookies, e.g. place them in a small plastic bag, breakfast bag or similar and carefully crush them with a rolling pin.

Mix the biscuit crumbs with the melted butter and spread the mixture into the bottom of the dessert glasses.

For the mousse, clean and puree the strawberries.

Beat the whipping cream with 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff.

Mix the strawberry mixture with the cream cheese and the remaining powdered sugar for the mousse.

Then carefully fold in the whipped cream.

Pour the mousse into the glasses and chill in the refrigerator.

Heat the cream for the topping in a small saucepan, break the chocolate into pieces and let it slowly melt in the cream.

Add the syrup and ground vanilla, coffee spice or similar to taste and mix thoroughly until a smooth, somewhat liquid mixture is formed (if necessary, add a little more syrup or cream if the mixture is too thick).

Pour the chocolate cream in the glasses over the strawberry-cheese mousse.

Clean fresh strawberries to taste...

...and decorate the strawberry mousse with whipped cream, fresh strawberries and chocolate shavings to taste.

Serve the dessert well chilled.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]

Heitt salt karamellu súkkulaði í nýjum bolla

Hot salted caramel chocolate in a new cup

Do you know that feeling when you can finally fulfill a long-held dream? It doesn't necessarily have to be something big, sometimes even small things can make you very happy.

There is this shop in Reykjavík on Skólavörðustígur, the shopping street that leads from Laugavegur up to Hallgrímskirkja. The whole shop window is full of beautiful cups. All of them hang on transparent threads in the window and turn gently in the breeze, always showing a new side of themselves. I don't know how many times I've stood in front of the shop window and admired these cups!

But my husband was of the opinion, admittedly not entirely wrongly, that I actually already had enough cups and no more space in the kitchen cupboards anyway. So I stopped myself from dreaming about the cup... wonderful, but over thirst, not necessary, that's true...

When I received my invoice from the publisher in January, I spontaneously decided - now I'm going to treat myself to one of these cups and make this dream come true.

And so I happily took my cup home with me!

The classic cups here in Inga Elín's gallery (with a blue or black pattern) cost 6,000 ISK, the equivalent of around €40. The (slightly smaller) espresso cup costs 5,000 ISK. However, the cups from the Gold collection, which I also find very beautiful, cost €12,000 and - unlike the other cups - they are not dishwasher or microwave safe.

So I finally spontaneously decided on the “ Bylur ” model. The name means something like "snowstorm", but in fact it is defined in the dictionary as "high winds with strong gusts and snowfall".

I inaugurated my new cup with a hot chocolate with salted caramel - just the thing when the snow is storming outside!

Ingredients for 2 servings

100 g salted caramel chocolate

250 ml fresh milk

1 pinch of salt

1 pinch of ground vanilla

whipping cream

caramel syrup

optionally coffee spice

Preparation

Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat, but do not bring to the boil. Then turn off the stove.

Break the chocolate into pieces and add it to the hot milk and add a pinch of salt.

Stir everything gently until the chocolate has melted.

Pour the hot chocolate into the cups, garnish with whipped cream and caramel syrup, sprinkle with coffee spices if desired, and serve immediately.

[Translated from here.]