sam's notebook

boulangerie :: malmö

 

Just about to head off to our favourite Malmö bakery to pick up a late breakfast. Boulangerie has really great sourdough bread, fantastic pain aux raisins (my favourite) and they do an excellent lemon tart (Grant's favourite). You need to go early though, Boulangerie's popularity means they often sell out of most things before lunch time!

I love Boulangerie's shop exterior, and the interior is quite beautiful too, with a black and white check floor (I do love a good back and white check floor!) and rustic French butcher's blocks. You can sometimes also spot Boulangerie's fabulous vintage Citrön trucks at farmer's markets and festivals around Malmö and Lund.

Boulangerie
Östra Rönnieholmsvägen 6
211 47 Malmö 

 

Image from Boulangerie.

 

bhalla papdi chaat :: lentil dumplings with fried pastry, yoghurt & pomegranate seeds

 

Grant and I tried bhalla papdi chaat for the first time when we visited London earlier this year. The combination of textures and flavours (pomegranate, tamarind, mint, coriander, yogurt) was just amazing. We talk about it often!

Today a recipe for bhalla papdi chaat popped up on the Guardian website and I think it's a sign that I need to try it at home. It will be quite interesting to see how that goes since the lentil dumplings and the papdi both require deep frying - I have a completely unfounded and irrational fear of deep frying and have never ever deep fried anything. For this recipe though, I am willing to give it a go!

Wish me luck!

 

Image © Karen Thomas/New Holland Publishing

oh my

 

Chocolate cake perfection by Katie Quinn Davies. Katie's blog is one of my favourites. Have you seen it? If not, I highly recommend a visit!

 

Image © Katie Quinn Davies.

 

tony hornecker :: the pale blue door

 

Part underground restaurant, part art installation, The Pale Blue Door is a travelling fairytale restaurant with loads of attitude. Read more about The Pale Blue Door and British set designer Tony Hornecker here, here and here, and see more pics here.

Wish something like this would come to my neck of the woods!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images by Manuel Vazquez.

 

what katie ate :: lovely food blog

 
Love this blog! If these pics below don't inspire you to get baking, I don't know what will!

 

 

 

 
Images from What Katie Ate. All Images © Katie Quinn Davies.

 

frittata of rice, baby zucchini and feta

I hope to try this recipe tonight. Which is quite apt really, since it's from the fabulous food blog Sunday Suppers. If you haven't already, get on over there and take a look at the delicious recipes and mouth-watering photos!

Food styling and photography by Karen Mordechai.


Update: The frittata was delicious, although I did forget to buy cream (I used sour cream instead) and my cooked rice was far too gluggy. Looking forward to trying it again, with perfect rice and the right ingredients!

A word of warning - this was the first time I had made a dish where the frying pan was transferred to the oven, and when I was serving the frittata not long after it had come out of the 205°C/400°F oven, I absentmindedly grabbed the handle. Ouch. My advice would be to wrap a dish towel around the handle as soon as you remove it from the oven.

coincidence

Tonight I was catching up on some long-neglected favourite reads, and found this image of Black Linguine with Kalamata Olive Pesto over at The Jewels of New York.

It reminds me of yesterday's Liberty print!
 

Image from The Jewels of New York.

 

porgie + mr jones

I just got off the phone with G in Australia and he had french toast with quince and mascarpone for brunch this morning at a great little cafe in Berry. Mmmmm. So now I'm craving a real brunch. And by real brunch, I mean one where I could choose scrambled eggs or french toast or pancakes or eggs benedict. Not a breakfast buffet thank you, and not a breakfast plate with a little bit of everything on it.

If I was in Melbourne I think I'd head to porgie + mr jones (see below - what a fantastic space!), but since I'm in Malmö it looks like it's the breakfast buffet or a bowl of cereal at home. Dear Swedish readers (especially those of you in Malmö), would a real brunch cafe work here? One where you had to commit to a single dish? Could the breakfast buffet ever be replaced?

G, maybe you could try this place out while you're down in Melbourne. The scrambled eggs with goats cheese sounds pretty perfect to me.

Cafe found via It Followed Me Home.

Images from breakfast out.