Zappa at the vet’s

January 16, 2015CatsPenis amputation, Zappakatja

The other day we had to go to the emergency with Zappa since he had problem peeing. At first I wasn’t that worried but after speaking with the vet and some googling I was sure that this is the end for Zappa. If we are lucky a penis amputation could save him. PENIS AMPUTATION! Well this is what happens when you google diseases.

When we arrived they immediately examined Zappa but since it didn’t seem like he had a life threatening condition we had to sit and wait for a while. It’s quite funny to have a sphynx. People in the waiting room laughed at him, pointed at him and burst out “Ooooh!”. Probably because their own animals were such boring and ugly creatures.

The veterinarian didn’t like him much. She called him a “Slippery eel” and seemed to think that he was quite annoying. He wasn’t. He was the best cat in the world, like he always is. But the vet didn’t agree, quickly put a needle in his neck and sedated him.

This is what he looked like.

Ett foto publicerat av Katja Wulff (@katja_wulff) Jan 13, 2015 at 11:39 PST

Hahaha!! Isn’t he the most fantastic cat? I can’t stop laughing at him. Felt like a lousy human to Zappa but even during his examination I couldn’t stop laughing and took lots of picture of my poor cat. Tried to pull out his tongue for an even better photo but Dan wouldn’t let me. We also found out that Zappa had an extremely small penis and the vet had lots of problem taking urine samples from him. Well after a while they had their samples and didn’t find anything unusual (but we are waiting for the results of some of the other test that they couldn’t determine at the time) so they gave him an injection with adrenaline, or something like that, so he would wake up. “Wake up”. He didn’t quite wake up for lots of hours. And he couldn’t close his mouth during these hours either…

Ett foto publicerat av Katja Wulff (@katja_wulff) Jan 13, 2015 at 11:42 PST

On monday we have another appointment. Let’s all hope that he’s well, that he won’t die nor amputate his little penis and that they will have to sedate him again so that I can take some more photos.

Swedish Mud Cake Day

November 7, 2014Coffee maker baking, Cooking with your coffee maker, Desserts, How to cook food with your coffee makermud cake, Mud Cake day, Swedish mud cakekatja

I often get the question if I sometimes fail at doing a recipe with my coffee maker. I’ve always answered “No, I can cook everything with my coffee maker.”. I lie. First of all, I’m not a great chef and my over all cooking skills is kind of limited, but the things I do try and cook with my coffee maker I most often pull off.

Today Facebook exploded with Swedish mud cake recipes since it’s the Swedish Mud Cake Day. I got reminded of the mud cake experiment I had a couple of years ago. This is the only recipe (that I remember) that I couldn’t pull.

I really do believe though that if I try cooking a mud cake today – I will make it work.

You can have a look at the recipe on my Swedish blog. But since it’s my worst recipe I won’t bother to translate it. I also think those pictures speak for themselves.

My Cat Paintings

October 24, 2014Uncategorizedkatja

I was bored like hell one day a couple of weeks ago. Went to buy some food and passed by a store that sold painting stuff. Bought some and started to paint. These are all of my paintings so far!

“Iggy, Gucci & Zappa” (65 * 100 cm)

“Me & The Cats” (60 * 60 cm)

“Sylvester” (100 * 65 cm)

“Simba” (60 * 60 cm)

“Pussi” (60 * 60 cm)

“Kitty” (60 * 60 cm)

“Chirano” (65 * 100 cm)

“Tom” (100 * 65 cm)

“Toby” (60 60 cm)

“Julius” (100 * 65 cm, inspired by a Swedish soccer team – MFF)

Also made a gigantic wall painting at my parents’ home.

I’m 1,85 cm… So this one is huge!

How to poach an egg with a coffee maker – VIDEO

October 16, 2014Breakfast, Cats, Cooking Show, Cooking with your coffee maker, Drinks, How to cook food with your coffee makercats, Coffee, coffee maker chef, Melitta, poached egg, YouTube, Zappakatja

The coffee maker is also a perfect device to poach your eggs with, I’ll show you that in this YouTube episode of The Coffee Maker Chef. And – FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF COFFEE MACHINE CUISINE – I’ll show you the traditional way of cooking your coffee with a coffee maker.

Enjoy!

And, as always, I speak Swedish but it comes with English subtitles.

Cinnamon bun day!

October 3, 2014Alternative cooking devices, Cats, Coffee maker baking, Cooking with your coffee maker, Desserts, HolidayCinnamon, Cinnamon bun, Cinnamon bun day, Melittakatja

Every year on October 4th we Swedes celebrate Cinnamon Bun Day. As you will see, in this special cinnamon bun post, I have baked many different types these last couple of years.

Time

That depends on the device you use and if you bake from scratch. But at least a couple of hours.

Ingredients

1 package of instant dough. Or google another recipe if you’d like to bake from scratch.
Lots of butter
Lots of sugar
Lots of cinnamon
Pearl sugar

Instructions

The preparations for all of the different sorts are the same. Just read the instant dough package when preparing the dough.

I prefer to buy those packages of instant dough because I think it’s boring to make a dough from scratch and it takes forever.

This is the heart of cinnamon buns. Cinnamon, sugar and butter.

The oven baked ones:

Most people now bake the buns in their oven and I’ve tried that as well. I burned them.

Oven baked ones.

It sure is boring to oven bake cinnamon buns so here’s some other, more fun, types.

The sandwich grill baked ones:

Place the buns into the sandwich grill. Press.

Butter up before.

Tadaa! Baking time: Just a couple of minutes. A great way to bake the buns!

The coffee maker baked ones:

I’ve baked three different types of cinnamon buns with my coffee maker…

1. The pizza sized model.

Shape it like a small pizza in size of the coffee maker heater. Place it onto the buttered coffee maker heater.

how to cook with your coffee maker

This is Zappa’s favorite. Baking time: 30 minutes.

2. The praline sized model.

Shape the like a small sized cinnamon bun. Place them onto the buttered coffee maker heater.

Cute, huh? Baking time: 20 minutes.

3. And of course the normal sized model.

Shape the like a normal sized cinnamon bun. Place them onto the buttered coffee maker heater.

Iggy was in charge of baking this one. Baking time: 30 minutes.

Now to my favorite way of baking cinnamon buns…

The hair cruncher baked ones:

I don’t know the English name of this device… Hair cruncher? Hair waffler? Place the bun between the waffled shaped arms. Press.

Baking time: A couple of minutes.

I just love the shape of them!

Do I even have to explain how lovely your hair will smell the next time you will waffle your hair? Way better than after making this recipe…

Which one is your favorite?

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to make coffee with your coffee maker

September 29, 2014Cooking with your coffee maker, DrinksCoffee, International Coffee Day, Melittakatja

Today is the International Coffee Day so now I will show you how to make boiled coffee with your coffee maker.

Time

Approx 45 minutes

Ingredients

12 tablespoons grind coffee
8 dl water

Instructions

Put the coffee into the carafe, and water into the brewer. Start the coffee maker. Stir and let stand until all the coffee has sunk to the bottom. Turn off the coffee maker.

Pour the coffee into a cup. Serve it black or with milk, cream, sugar – or even better with Whisky or Baileys.

how to cook coffee with your coffee maker

How to make boiled coffee with your coffee maker.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook a birthday cake for cats – VIDEO!

September 26, 2014Cat food, Cats, Cooking Show, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favorites, Main coursebirthday, birthday cake, cats, coffee maker chef, Gucci, Iggy, Melitta, party, shrimps, Zappakatja

Haha, this is my favorite video recipe so far. We had so much fun when we filmed it, I almost puked a numerous of times, the poor photographer couldn’t escape the disgusting smell, Zappa was all over the place, Gucci was depressed (but I cheered her up with a party hat on top of her cone of shame) and Iggy almost died (fortunately that was edited).

WHAT A PARTY!

Time

3 hours (including cooling)

Ingredients

1 bowl of dry foods
1 pkg. of liver pâté
Some sheets of ham
Wet food
Shrimps
1 egg yolk
Cat treats

Instructions

Add the dry food into the carafe and pour water into the brewer. Start your coffee maker and cook it until the dry food loosen up properly. Season with shrimps, stir and drain extra water if needed. Add an egg yolk and stir some more. Turn off your coffee maker.

Wrap the inside of an heart formed bowl (or whatever form you got) with cling film (this will make it easier to remove cake from bowl) and add some of the dry food mixture in the bottom. Layer with ham, shrimps, wet food, more dry food mixture, cat treats or other stuff that your cat fancies. Let the cake cool and stiff for a while in the freezer.

Remove the cake from the bowl and remove the cling film. Frost the cake with liver pâté and decorate it with cat treats, garlic press pressed pâté and top with a flower of ham.

Serve the cake accompanied with a bowl of yummy cat milk.

Purrfect!

Afternoon Tea – How to cook Lemon Curd with your coffee maker

September 10, 2014Appetizer, Brunch, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee makerAfternoon tea, cream cheese, lemon curd, lemoncurd, Melittakatja

Time

2.5 hours

Ingredients

50g butter
1 egg
1 1/4 dl sugar
1 lemon (the juice and a small amount of the zest)
1 sandwich
Cream cheese
Tea

Instructions

Start your coffee maker. Peel and juice the lemons into the carafe together with butter and half of the sugar. Carafe-fry it until mixed well and stir every now and then until it thickens.

Beat egg and the rest of the sugar until it gets fluffy and stir it into the lemon mixture. Whisk until all ingredients are well combined and carafe-fry, whilst stirring once in a while, until the mixture is creamy and thick. Remove the lemon curd from the coffee maker heater and set aside to cool.

But don’t turn off the coffee maker! Now it’s time to heat some water for tea and after that use the heater to roast a slice of bread. Do it.

Turn off your coffee maker after you did it.

Spread a layer of cream cheese and lemon curd on the bread and serve it with a hot cup of tea. I wish you a lovely afternoon!

Can you recognize the couple on the plate?

Mix the fluffy sugar/egg mixture with lemon mixture.

And this was how you can cook lemon curd using only your coffee maker.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

Sausaghetti – VIDEO

September 8, 2014Cats, Cooking Show, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favorites, Main coursecats, Gucci, Iggy, sausage, sausaghetti, spaghetti, The Coffee Maker Chef, YouTube, Zappakatja

Sausaghetti is one of my favorite dishes, not because of the fact that the whole dish just taste like boiled sausage, but because it’s fun to cook and the kids love it!

As always I speak Swedish in the clip, but it comes with subtitles!

Time

1 hour

Ingredients

Sausage
Spaghetti
Oil
Salt
Butter
Ketchup

Instructions

Divide the sausage into smaller pieces, break the spaghetti and fit in some of the spaghetti straws into the sausages. Place it into the coffee maker carafe, pour oil over it and add some salt. Pour water into the coffee maker brewer and start your coffee maker. Depending on what type of spaghetti you have the cooking time can vary. My sausaghetti was done after approximately 45 minutes. Turn off your coffee maker.

Pour off the water and add butter onto the sausaghetti. Stir. Place the sausaghetti on a plate and add ketchup.

Delish! Well if you like the taste of sausage that is…

Prepare the sausaghetti together with your kids, they will love it!

“Moooommiiieee, let go of my sausaghetti!”

Looks kind of funny, doesn’t it?

The filter thingy works great as a strainer in coffee maker cooking.

And this is how you cook sausaghetti with your coffee maker!

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

Delicious Tapas

August 28, 2014Appetizer, Brunch, Cats, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favorites, Main coursebacon, camembert, date plums, garlic, Halloumi, Melitta, serrano, Zappakatja

I just love tapas! If we’re going out to eat I always suggest tapas restaurants. My favorite ones are the bacon wrapped date plums, sardines in vinegar and cheeses in all different styles. If I order meatballs though I always get disappointed, they never taste as good as ordinary Swedish meatballs.

Obviously tapas is great to cook with a coffee maker so I’ve made lots of different dishes these past years. All of today’s tapas are delicious and very easy to cook with a coffee maker. This is how you do it.

Time

30-45 min / tapas

Ingredients

Bacon wrapped date plums
Bacon
Date plums

Cheese filled peppers
Peppers
Philadelphia
Red onion
Garlic
Cayenne Pepper
Chili
Balsamic vinegar

Serrano Wrapped halloumi
Serrano
Halloumi
Honey

Camembert with tomato stuff
Camembert in a size that fits the heater
Mini tomatoes
Parsley
Salt
Olive oil

Arugula

Instructions

Start the coffee maker and prep the different tapas.

Bacon wrapped date plums
Cut the bacon slices in half and wrap the dates. Fry them on the heater until the bacon gets crispy and golden. Twist and turn occasionally.

Cheese filled peppers
Mix the cheese with chopped onion, a little garlic and season. Cut the top off the peppers and fill it with the delicious goo. Fry them on the heater until they get golden. Twist and turn occasionally.

Drizzle balsamic vinegar over the finished tapas.

Serrano Wrapped Halloumi
Cut halloumi into small pieces and wrap it with slices of serrano. Twist and turn occasionally until it seems finished.

Drizzle some honey over the finished tapas.

Camembert with tomato stuff
Heat a dash of oil in the carafe and add chopped mini tomatoes, parsley and a pinch of salt. Carafe-fry until it has become thoroughly heated.

Grease the heater and place the cheese on it. Fry it approximately 15 minutes on each side. Add the tomato stuff on top on the cheese when finished.

Turn off the coffee maker and serve the different tapas on a fresh bed of arugula.

Prepping of the coffee maker cooked tapas!

Sous chef Zappa helped out as always.

Everything gets better with bacon? I’ve actually tried that and will post the results in another post (it’s not true).

Can-frying of the tomato stuff.

How to cook tapas with your coffee maker.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

When I competed in the Tapas Swedish Championship…

August 19, 2014Appetizer, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, PRcompetition, garlic, Halloumi, shrimp, squid, Tapas, Wille Crafoordkatja

I’ve made Tapas many times with my coffee maker. One time, a couple of years ago in the beginning of my “cooking career”, I uploaded my tapas recipe for the Swedish Tapas Championship. Didn’t think much of it afterwards since it was a coffee maker cooked tapas that I uploaded just for fun. BUT IT REACHED THE FINALS! So I had to go to Stockholm and prepare my tapas together with a couple of other finalists (they were more or less pros) in a big kitchen. So I stood there with my coffee maker while all of the others used more “traditional” ways to cook their dish. That was so weird.

Since I had to wait a long time for my tapas to coffee maker cook I just drank loads of wine (it was a wine distributor that arranged the competition = FREE WINE WEHU!)

Then I had to present my dish in front of a jury! They didn’t know that it was cooked with a coffee maker and when I told them they first thought I was a complete moron that made fun of the championship. But after they announced the winner (it wasn’t me) and all of us had a dinner I told them more about my experiment. And they loved it! Or they might also have thought that I was mentally challenged and were just being nice to me.

Just look at them! WEIRD! The guy in red is a former Swedish musician that I had a huge crush on when I was little, that made it even more weird.

It looked kind of nice though, right?

I wasn’t supposed to write about this tapas today. I’ve got a brand new recipe I made a couple of days ago – with great tasting tapas (I’ve learned a lot these past years!). But since I’m going on and on about this dish I might as well continue and that other recipe will have to wait.

The reason why I made this particular tapas was because I fell in love with some squids. Well… Just look at them.

So after Dan took some photos of them I had to come up with a recipe. And here it is:

Squid tapas

Time

1 h 30 min

Ingredients

Squid
Halloumi
Red onion
Shrimps
Lemon salt
Pepper
Garlic
Butter

I made a sauce as well but it had like two thousand ingredients and didn’t even taste that good. I tried to make some kind of a orange/sweet chili sauce. So serve with a nice orange sauce.

Instructions

Clean the squid and chop into smaller pieces. Put a piece on a stick, then a piece of onion and halloumi. Repeat until the stick is full and place a shrimp at the end.

Start your coffee maker. Add butter and garlic onto the coffee maker heater and place the squid tapas directly on it. Fry until they get a golden color. Twist and turn the stick every now and then. Season.

Turn off your coffee maker and serve the squid tapas together with (hopefully) a nice and fresh orange sauce.

How to cook squid tapas with a coffee maker.

The coffee maker chef in action.

Squid tapas!

Oh yes. He definitely thought I was “different”.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook cat testicles with your coffee maker

August 15, 2014Cat food, Cats, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favorites, Main course, Nose to Tailballs, caviar, minced meat, neutering, nose2tail, shrimp, Sphynx, testicles, Zappakatja

Speaking of ballz… A while back ago, when I posted the “How to cook a cat with your coffee maker” on my Swedish blog, some people got kind of upset. I got all kind of weird comments but especially one got me very confused. This one person called me a cannibal and I really don’t get it. I’m not a cat (regardless of what Chris Ramsey believes). Iggy is not a human. So if I ate her (or if she ate me) that’s not cannibalism? Then it would be cannibalism if I ate a chicken, a cow, a pig or even if I swallowed a fly. And isn’t it normal in like China to eat both cats and dogs? And most of the Chinese people aren’t cannibals, are they? No, that was just a really stupid comment that I got.

But some people are kind of stupid and for those people I followed up with this next recipe, just to clear things out. If a cat eat parts of a cat – THAT´S cannibalism.

Or should I say canniballism…

Fittingly the day after I got the comment we left Zappa for neutering. So now I give you my canniball-recipe:

Time

1 hour (excl. neutering)

Ingredients

1 set of fresh cat testicles
2 shrimps
1 tbsp of Russian caviar (only the best for the best!)
Some minced meat
1 quail egg yolk
1 dash of oil
Some rocket salad

Instructions

Leave your male cat at the vets in the morning and pick him and “the remains” up in the afternoon.

Pour water into the coffee maker brewer and place the balls in the coffee maker carafe. Start your coffee maker and cook the balls until they get a bit more tender – but still with a crunchy core. The time depends on the size of the balls.

Meanwhile, prepare for the plating that ought to be kind of small portions – suitable for your cat. First a small bed of arugula, then a nice and round portion of minced meat and top with an egg yolk and a ball next to it.

Since it’s most often two balls I wanted to make two slightly different dishes. First the arugula, then the meat, but now top with shrimp, caviar and – of course – the second testicle.

Turn off your coffee maker.

Ready to be served!