How to make Sausaghetti with your coffee maker

August 30, 2016Cats, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Main coursecats, pasta, sausagekatja

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. Put it in the coffee maker can, pour oil over it and also some salt. Add water in the coffee maker brewer and start your coffee maker. Cook until spaghetti softens. 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!

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

“Mommiiiie, let go of my sausaghetti!”

Looks kind of funny, doesn’t it?

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

And here is a video of me making it. I talk swedish but it comes with subtitles.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook a Club Sandwich with your coffee maker

June 13, 2016Appetizer, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee makerbacon, bread, chickenkatja

Time

2.5 hrs

Ingredients

3 slices of bread (I used olive ciabatta )
1 plate (the amount that fits on the coffee maker plate) of bacon
1 plate of chicken
Lettuce
Tomato
Cheese

Dressing

2 tsp mayonnaise
2 tsp crème fraîche
2 tsps Dijon mustard
Chili pepper

Red Cabbage

Instructions

Start the coffee maker. Toast the bread slices on both sides, directly on the coffee maker plate. When finished, put them aside.

Cut bacon and fry this too directly on the plate until it becomes crispy and nice. Takes about 45 minutes. Now it’s time for the chicken! Chop chicken fillet into small pieces. Maybe you’d like to clean the plate after frying the bacon, but I fried the chicken in the bacon grease since it wasn’t too burned. Fry until the chicken is well done. As you hopefully know, the chicken should not be at pink at all. That’s not good.

While the chicken is cooking, you can fix the rest. Mix all of the dressing stuff together and chop the red cabbage. The coleslaw, that I served with the sandwich, consists of the dressing left over mixed with the red cabbage. So don’t mix the dressing with the cabbage just yet. Wait until after the construction of the sandwich.

Turn off the coffeemaker.

When all the food is cooked, it’s time for the construction. First, a slice of bread and then dressing, lettuce, chicken, cheese, bacon, tomato, bread again, dressing, lettuce, cheese, tomato, chicken, bacon, dressing and at last a piece of bread on top. No, I do not remember if it’s the exact order… But something like that.

Enjoy!

So what do you use to toast your bread?

Iggy is playing with the food.

Fry it thoroughly!

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook Lingonberry Ice Cream with a coffee maker.

June 12, 2016Cats, Cooking with your coffee maker, Desserts, How to cook food with your coffee makerice-cream, Lingonberries, lingonberry, meringue, Zappakatja

We spent the weekend in our cabin. After a long day’s work in the sun Dan drove and bought ice creams. Yum!

I have cooked a couple of different ice creams in my coffee maker and the very best is of course the Lingonberry Ice Cream…

Time

6 hours

Ingredients

2,5 dl cream
2-3 egg yolks (the yolks I used was pretty small so I used 3)
3/4 dl sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1-1,5 dl lingonberries
A couple of meringues
Basil leaves

Instructions

Start your coffee maker. Pour cream in the coffee maker carafe and heat it for almost an hour, it must get really warm. Give it a good whip every now and then, you know how easily cream burn.

Meanwhile mix eggs, sugar and vanilla together so it get’s fluffy. Pour the egg fluff with the warm cream in the carafe and put it back on the heater. Now this mixture shall coffee maker cook for a while until it thickens a bit, about 45 minutes. Don’t forget to stir. Turn off your coffee maker.

Before you add lingonberries and meringues let it cool for a while. Thereafter add lingonberries and meringues into the mixture and pour the ice-cream into forms. Place them in your freezer, stir every 30 minutes, until they get a nice ice-creamy consistency.

Eat and enjoy!

The cream is cooking in the coffee maker can.

This is how you cook lingonberry ice-cream with your coffee maker!

Approved by Zappa.

Chillin’.

Didn’t find baby meringues, but this worked just fine.

Can you see what’s standing next to the coffee maker made ice-cream? An ice-cream machine, ha!

Eat it before it melts too much! (You probably won’t have that problem if you mustn’t wait for the photo shoot of the coffee maker made lingonberry ice-cream presentation.)

I get many questions about if it’s tricky to clean up after cooking. Answer: Not at all.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

Delicious Tapas

June 9, 2016Appetizer, 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

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.

How to cook a pizza with your coffee maker – VIDEO!

April 27, 2016Cats, Coffee maker baking, Cooking Show, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favoritesCoffe Maker Chef, curry, mango chutney, Peanuts, pizza, tunakatja

When the film crew was here and recorded my web show, The Swedish Coffee Maker Chef, there was no time to cook pizza from scratch so we bought a pre-cooked dough that came with salsa as well. I have coffee maker cooked pizzas a couple of times before and I will post one of those recipes after this clip, and then you can choose how you would like to cook your pizza.

MINI PIZZA

Time

Approximately 3 hours for one mini pizza

Ingredients

It’s hard to write an exact recipe for a mini pizza, it such small amounts. The dough is a recipe for a large pizza, which you may divide into smaller pieces. It is also possible to freeze the pizza dough.

Pizza dough (for many mini pizzas)
50 g yeast
1 teaspoon salt (preferably sea salt flavored with rosemary)
A pinch of sugar
3 dl water
0.5 ml olive oil
9 dl flour
butter

Tomato sauce (also very small amounts)
Passata
Tomato paste
Pepper
Frozen herb mixture

Topping (for two or three mini pizzas)
½ small onion
1 can of tuna
1 tsp Mango Chutney
Grated cheese
Feta cheese
Peanuts
Curry
Salt
Pepper
Oil
Pizza Seasoning

Instructions

Mix the yeast, salt, sugar, oil and lukewarm water in a bowl. Stir it so that it blends properly. Stir in about 8 dl flour (a little at a time) so that the dough becomes smooth. Prover the dough in the bowl under a cloth in a half hour. Take a piece of dough, about the size of a golf ball, and knead it thoroughly on a floured surface. Add more flour if dough is too sticky. Flatten this properly and shape it so that it fits the heater.

Like a professional! ;)

Start the coffee maker. Pour a small amount of oil directly on the heater, and heat it properly – about 10 minutes. Place the thin pizza crust on the heater and bake it for about fifteen minutes on both sides, or until it has a nice color and are no longer doughy. Remove the pizza crust and clean the heater.

Pour a dash of oil in the carafe and heat it for about 15 minutes. Chop the onion in the meantime and fry all of it in the coffee maker carafe for about 25 minutes.

Now it’s time to prepare the tomato sauce! Mix in a little tomato puree along with the passed tomatoes and season with pepper and herb mix. Stir. Easy peasy! Mix tuna, mango chutney, curry and cheese (or whatever you like to have on your pizza) in the carafe along with the onion. Fry this in the coffee carafe for half an hour. Stir occasionally. Season with salt and pepper. Turn off your coffee maker.

Carafe-fry the topping.

Spread a layer of tomato sauce on the pizza crust and after that add tuna topping. Sprinkle the pizza spice and peanuts over your fantastic meal. Serve with a fresh salad and a cold beer. Omnomnomnom.

I ♥ Pizza.

What type of toppings do you prefer on your pizza?

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook Chicken Bruschetta with your coffee maker!

April 19, 2016Appetizer, Cats, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee makercats, chicken, picnickatja

Time

1,5 hours for 4 bruschettas

Ingredients

Chicken filet
Bread
Green pesto
Cocktail tomatoes
Basil leaves
Red onion
Parmesan
Olive oil
Chili flakes
Flaked salt

Instructions

Start your coffee maker. Cut the bread and roast it directly on the heater – approximately 15 minutes on each side. Place them on a dish and pour a little oil on the heater. Let it get really warm and thereafter place the sliced up chicken filets in it. Fry it THOROUGHLY, it can’t be pink at all. It took about 45 minutes when I did it. Turn it every now and then. Season with chili flakes. Turn off your coffee maker.

Spread pesto on the bread and place the well done chicken on it. Slice up some onion, add it together with a tomato, a basil leaf and a dash of olive oil. Sprinkle the bruschetta with flaked salt. Maybe some balsamic vinegar as well. Stick a toothpick through the whole thing so it won’t fall.

Enjoy!

How to roast bread on a coffee maker.

Twist and turn so it won’t get burned.

“You are not Zappa..?”

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

The Testicle Taco Truck

April 1, 2016Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Nose to Tail, PRfood truck, stockholm, testicle tacos, the testicle taco truckkatja

It’s a dream come true! I’ve bought a food truck and will from now on be selling testicle tacos on the streets of Stockholm. The Testicle Taco Truck has already been nominated for best food truck in The Best Food Truck Of The Year Awards 2016. Wow!

A sketch I made half a year ago. Almost can’t believe that now it’s for real!

Traditional Swedish coffee maker made “Äggatårta” (=egg cake)

March 24, 2016Cooking with your coffee maker, Holiday, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favoriteseaster, egg, egg cake, Kalles Kaviar, Melittakatja

Aaaw, the “Äggatårta” (=egg cake) brings back so many beautiful memories. It’s a very traditional Swedish recipe and I don’t remember any christmas, midsummer, period party, wedding, easter or birthday without the Äggatårta. Since easter is just around the corner I will now show you how to cook an Äggatårta with your coffee maker. Do I need to tell you that the higher Äggatårta the better..?

If you don’t know how to serve your ugly eggs on your uninspiring easter table… Serve them like this.

Time

Depends on how high you want to make it. This one took 5 hours. Worth every second.

Ingredients

(for the Äggatårta in this post)

11 eggs
Lots of mayonnaise
Lots of Kalles kaviar (oh, you’ll probably have to import that one, right?)
Pepper
Butter

Instructions

This Äggatårta is build by hard boiled and turned over eggs, glued with mayonnaise and then decorated with the Kalles kaviar.

Put six of the eggs in the coffee maker carafe and pour water into the coffee brewer. Start your coffee maker. The eggs have to be hard boiled so I coffee maker cooked them for almost 1½ hour (just to be super sure (well, I also might have forgot about them for a while…)). Pour off the warm water, dunk them in some cool water and shell them.

Melt butter directly on the heater. Crack an egg on it and fry it pretty hard on both sides. It takes about 30 minutes to make a turned over egg. The Äggatårta in the picture got four turned over eggs. Since it’s important that all of the turned over eggs are perfectly round and have the same size, the coffee maker heater is the perfect weapon of choice for this, even though it takes some time. Turn off the coffee maker when you’re done.

Construction time! Divide all the hard boiled eggs in half, except for one. Put a turned over egg on a plate. Place three egg halves onto the turned over egg. Glue them together with mayonnaise and season with pepper. Go on like that until you place the last turned over egg. Now you’ll have one whole egg, and one egg half left. Shred the whole egg and top nicely with the thin egg slices.And now decoration time – aka Kalles kaviar time! String a lot of caviar over the whole cake. Put the last egg half on top and decorate with even more Kalles. Yum!

Now, let’s get this easter party started!

Coffee maker cook a lot of eggs…

How to cook an Äggatårta with your coffee maker.

Glue the Äggatårta together with mayonnaise.

Season with pepper.

It’s a beauty, right!!?

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

Open faced easter sandwiches

March 22, 2016Breakfast, Brunch, Easter, Holiday, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Saladscoffee machine cuisine, deviled egg, easter, easter bunny, egg, head blown off, how to cook food with your coffee makerkatja

Time

2 hours

Ingredients

(approx. 6 sandwiches)

12 eggs (6 eggs for decoration)
1 dl mayonnaise
1 tbsp sour cream
1 red onion
1 carrot
Some ham
Horseradish
A dash of lemon juice
Caprice
1 avocado
A couple of radishes
1 tsp of Scanian mustard (or some other kind if you’re not from Skåne and have a scanian mustard addiction like I do)
Chives
Cayenne pepper
Pepper
Salt
Lettuce
Bread
Butter
Beetroot salad

Instructions

Place eggs in coffee maker can, water into the brewer and start your coffee maker. Cook until the eggs are very hard boiled – at least for a good hour. Meanwhile peel, grate, chop and slice all of the other ingredients. Drain water and put the eggs in cold water for a short while. Turn off coffee maker. Crack egg shells and carefully peel the eggs. Mix eggs with the other ingredients (except for salad, bread, butter and beetroot salad).

Butter a slice of bread, add egg/ham salad, place a couple of lettuce leaves and finish with the egg decor. I made a little egg baby bunny and a chick. The ears of the bunny is a sliced carrot, the nose a piece of radish, the eyes are caprices and chives for whiskers. For the chick I cut a jagged line around the top of the egg. Be sure just to cut the white part of the egg so that it will look like it’s hatching. For eyes I used red onion and the beak and feet are pieces of carrots.

Make sure the hot water cover all of the eggs…

…just like this!

This is my favorite decoration. A cutesie little baby bunny that just got her head blown off. The brain substance is beet root salad.

This is my favorite decoration. A cutesie little baby bunny that just got her head blown off by a hunter. The brain substance is beet root salad. Yum!

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to cook Easter Lollipops with your coffee maker.

March 22, 2016candy, Coffee maker baking, Cooking with your coffee maker, Desserts, Easter, Holiday, How to cook food with your coffee makerbunny, chocolate, easter, eggs, lollipops, marshmallowskatja

This didn’t turn out quite as I had imagined. In my mind it would be super sweet lollipops shaped like cute easter bunnies and perfectly formed eggs. I wanted my nails to match the colorful feather decorations, but the only thing that matches is the dirt I got under my nails and the egg lollipop that looks like dog shit.

But it tastes better than it looks (I actually think it’s a quite common and popular recipe). That is if you like the taste of pure sugar.

As you can see, my fingers all cramped up when I tried to show off my (un)matching nails.

Time

1 hour

Ingredients

1 dollop of butter
1 bag of marshmallows
100 g dark chocolate
1 bowl of Coco Pops
Stuff to decorate the lollipops with

Instructions

Start your coffee maker. Melt butter in the carafe and add marshmallows. This will melt quite quickly, after like 20 minutes. Add chopped chocolate, stir, and add coco pops into the mixture when everything has melted. Turn off the coffee maker.

Pour the batter onto a baking sheet and flatten it. When it cools a little it’s time for you to start trying to form it like bunnies and eggs. Press a stick in the bottom and decorate it as well as you are able to.

Dan wasn’t sure it was going to melt… Pfff, you can cook everything with a coffee maker!

How to cook easter lollipops with your coffee maker.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

Spring rolls!

March 1, 2016Appetizer, Cooking with your coffee maker, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Main coursenoodleskatja

March = Noodle month! Plain noodles were some of the very first things I cooked with my coffee maker. Back in the days this was a great revolution for me (=an introvert student preferably locked in my dorm room). Now I didn’t have to be social with the other students that I shared the kitchen with. Such a relief! But that was many years ago, I’ve advanced my cooking skillz so today I’ll spice things up and show you how to cook Spring rolls with your coffee maker.

Time

About 3 ½ hours

Ingredients

Spring rolls (8 small ones)
Spring roll wrapper
50 g of rice noodles
1-1 ½ dl cabbage
1 carrot
1 small onion
1 clove garlic
½ red chili
15 Haricots verts
3 tbsp Mango Chutney
2 tbsp peanuts
Salt
Pepper
Oil

1 tbsp Maizena
1 tbsp water

Sweet Chili Sauce
Peanuts

Instructions

Remove the thawed spring roll wrappers from the package and place them under a damp towel.

Put the rice noodles in the can and pour the water into the brewer. Start your coffeemaker and let the noodles cook for about fifteen minutes. Meantime chop cabbage, carrot, onion, chili, peanuts and haricots verts.

Drain and stir the noodles in a bowl along with the chopped ingredients. Press down the garlic and add mango chutney. Stir and season with salt and pepper.

Heat a dash of oil in the can and add the spring roll filling. Coffee maker can cook for about an hour.

When your spring roll filling is ready, it is the time to fold them into the wrappers. Carefully cut the wrapper into four equal parts. They will fit perfectly on the coffee maker heater! Do like this:

1. Place the filling in the middle of the dough.
2. Take one corner and fold it over the filling.
3. Keep the nosey cat away from filling.
4. Fold the edges.
5. Roll the spring roll.
6. Keep the nosey cat away from spring roll.
7. Secure by dripping some of the maizena/water mixture on the ends.

Did you get that at all? Probably not. But you will once you’re at it.

Heat the oil directly on the coffee maker heater. Fry the spring rolls (it fits about 4 spring rolls at a time) on all sides for a total of half an hour, or until they get a nice golden color. Turn off your coffee maker.

Serve with lots and lots of sweet chili sauce (if you like sweet chili sauce as much as I do).

Keep the wrappers damp.

I used rice noodles but other types of noodles will probably work just as fine.

Wrapping time!

They look pretty nice, huh?

How to cook spring rolls with your coffee maker.

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

There will be blood…

February 12, 2016Cooking with your coffee maker, Holiday, How to cook food with your coffee maker, Katja's favorites, Main course, Nose to Tail, Saladsblood, chicken, heart, lamb, Love, pig, Valentinekatja

This my friend, is how you cook three different kinds of heart on your coffee maker and make a sexy salad out of it. A great dish to serve on Valentine’s day.

Time

2 hours

Ingredients

1/2 coffee maker plate of pig heart (1 plate is what fits on the coffee maker heater)
1/2 coffee maker plate of lamb heart
1/2 coffee maker plate of chicken hearts
Red chard
Pomegranate
Mozzarella
Parmesan
Walnuts
Balsamic vinegar
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Butter

Instructions

Start your coffee maker and heat the butter directly on the plate. Clear away the gory stuff from the hearts and cut into smaller pieces. Coffee maker fry a plate of lamb and pig heart (50 /50) throughly on each side. The time depends on the sizes of the pieces, for me it took approximately 45 minutes. Twist and turn so the hearts wont get burned. Season with love (salt and pepper) .

Replace the lamb and the pig hearts to all the chickens’ hearts you have prepared. Coffee maker cook them exactly the same as the others. Turn of your coffee maker.

Mix the salad with shared mozzarella and pomegranate. Place the hearts on the bed of fresh salad. Top with grated parmesan and crushed walnuts. Drizzle balsamic vinegar and serve.

How to cook heart with your coffee maker.

Howo to cook food with your coffee maker

Burned heart.

Broken heart.

I just love to play with my food (while the angels of the lambs, pigs and chickens all hums “Quit playing games with my heart”).

Photo: Dan Sörensen.

How to poach an egg with a coffee maker – VIDEO

October 16, 2015Breakfast, 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.