EATS: {Recipe} Toast Skagen!

Today is Sweden's National Day, so I decided to make something really Swedish: Toast Skagen!

- Ingredients - (Serves 4)

-500 grams, peeled prawns, cooked
-1/2 red onion
-3 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, zest and juice
- 5 tablespoons of sour cream
- Soft white bread
- Butter
- Dill
- Salt (for tasting)

- Procedure -

1. As the prawns we bought were frozen, we quickly dipped them into boiling water first.

2. Chop the onion finely and mix them into a bowl together with the prawns.

3. Add the chopped onion, lemon juice and zest, sour cream and olive oil into a bowl. Mix until the prawns are coated!

4. Put a large frying pan onto high heat before putting cubes of butter on the pan.

5. Put one slice of white bread on the butter covered pan to toast it. Flip the bread so both sides get covered with butter.

6. Apply some of the prawn mixture on the bread and lightly add some dill or salt to taste!

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EATS: {Recipe} How To Make Pizza Bread!

The {Recipes} are back! Euan, Patricia and Shriya are here to teach you some easy eats that you can do by yourself at home!

Before reading this one, you might want to try making three of the previous recipes:

 -How To Make A Personal Pizza!   

-   How To Make "Princess Cookies"!   

-   How To Make Cheese Crackers!

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The following is a recipe for pizza bread, a variant of the personal pizza I made in a previous {Recipe} post. We're going to make a quick, easy and effortless snack using common and simple ingredients. 

Speaking of ingredients, here they are:

- Slices of bread.

- Butter.

- Tomato Sauce.

- Grated Cheese. (Preferably mozzarella, but we used a Swedish cheese called Herrgård - Manorhouse cheese in English)

- Ham Slices.

Procedure:

1. Toast the bread until both sides are brownish. I just used a regular toaster for this step, but feel free to use anything you want. Do not heat the bread using a microwave. Hopefully, you know that microwaving bread makes it soggy and gross.

2. While the bread is still warm, apply butter. Don't put too much, you don't want your pizza bread tasting like your regular Sunday morning toast. Make sure that the butter will melt before you continue. (If you accidentally put too much butter or if the bread wasn't hot enough, put butter before microwaving the bread for a few seconds)

3. Put a generous amount of tomato sauce over the buttered slices of toasted bread. Next, place the grated cheese on top of the tomato sauce covered bread. Put as much as you want on the bread.

4. Preheat your oven at 120 degrees Celsius (~250 degrees Fahrenheit).

5. Top your bread with as much ham as you can. If you want, top it with more of your favorite pizza toppings. Pepperoni, bacon, pineapples, mushrooms, peppers... the sky is the limit! Just not anchovies though... they taste ughh...

6. Put them in the oven! Wait for about 7 to 9 minutes before taking them out.

7. It is very tempting to just get one now and munch, but wait! The ham and the melted cheese are very hot. I recommend waiting for about a minute before sinking your teeth into this simple delight!

Final (Delicious) Outcome:

That's it! This simple, simple dish can be made even by an eight year old, but can bring smiles and full stomachs to everyone! Comment down below what you want me or the contributors to make next!

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EATS: Chopsticks Restaurant

Nothing like a nice buffet to finish off a rather cold Saturday. 

The Chopsticks Restaurant is an Asian-inspired (mainly buffet) restaurant in Stockholm. It is located around Centralstation and the city center. 

We had dinner here last night and we got the buffet! 

TIP: If you're going to a buffet, take a small (additional emphasis on SMALL) sample of the things you would like to try. Try all of them if you wish, but take a SMALL SAMPLE. Then if you like some stuff, get more of those. Maximize the variety, and don't just stick with 1 thing to eat. That's why it's a buffet: for you to sample everything (and to eat lots). 

PLATE 1: Clockwise from top: Beef (?) noodles, deep-fried shrimp, chicken, fish fillet and a dumpling.

WORST PHOTO QUALITY AWARD goes to me.

NOM NOM NOM! Everything on this plate was great, but the noodles.... I can't explain how I don't like them though... The shrimp and the dumplings were the best! The chicken was fine, but if you're going to eat the chicken in this restaurant, don't be surprised if the whole tray is finished within two minutes... Just saying. 

PLATE 2: Sushi Platter! 

Slightly improved photo.

My favorite was the salmon and the crabstick sushi. I quite like the seaweed (?) wrapped one too... The cucumber inside it gives it a little kick. The rest were "eh", not quite up to par with the others. 

The next plates were mainly just more of the shrimp and the dumplings and the chicken. Then I had dessert, 3 medium scoops of raspberry ice-cream from their ice-cream bar. 

They also had a selection of uncooked meat and vegetables, where you can pick your favorites and let the chef cook it for you live. I didn't chose that option though, I wanted my food right away. 

Price wise, I think it's quite steep. SEK 820 (US$ 126) for a buffet for four.... 

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EATS: {Recipe} How To Make "Princess Cookies"!

This recipe will be about making a simple snack, PRINCESS COOKIES!

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Ingredients 

• 3 cups of all-purpose flour (360 grams) 
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda 
• Half a teaspoon of salt. 
• 1 cup of softened butter. (About 225 grams) 
• 1 and a half cups of white sugar. (About 300 grams) 
• 2 eggs. 
• 1/4 cup of lemon juice. 
• Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. 

Procedure

1: Preheat your oven to 175 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2: Whisk together the baking soda, salt and flour until completely combined. 

3: In another mixing bowl, beat the sugar and butter with an electric mixer until creamy (about five minutes), then add the eggs into the mixture ONE BY ONE. Only add the second egg once the first is combined fully. 

4: After both eggs are completely mixed through, slowly add the lemon juice and vanilla extract. Mix the combination more until all the ingredients are incorporated. 

5: Mix your flour and baking soda mixture to your butter and sugar mixture. Mix again until everything is incorporated. 

6: Chill inside your fridge for half an hour. 

7: Scoop about one and a half teaspoon of the dough and gently form into a ball. Place your dough balls onto a non-stick cooking spray / flour covered baking sheet, about two to three inches apart. 

8: Bake the dough balls in the preheated oven until the cookies are set and just beginning to turn brown at its edges. This will take approximately 8 to 12 minutes. 

Enjoy! 

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