So, parties parties parties is the theme of this post as last night there was a rather big party for +46 at Berns - The night could be summed up in 5 words hilarious, ridiculous, midget, wrong & right.
A quick thanks to everyone who made Friday night insanely funny and some links to Billie, Decida, Cali & Michaela. Ivar and Rob were around from Vice and tipped me off on these two free mixes Vice X Bloc Party by TopBillin and Bok Bok. Seems there’s been some other great parties taking place lately Elsa’s blog features her birthday party, with some great looking baked goods and pineapples as head-wear. Great to see restaurant critic Pelle sporting a jacket worthy of Iceberg Slim. Rodeo loaded up some images from the Hernandez Cornet event at Urban Outfitters last week. I met Emilia at J.Lindberg’s little event for fashion week and discovered her blog. Last night, also met Ben from The Hundreds, a brand we brought to the first BENEATH store, and one of their first stores in Europe, it feels like a long time ago we had a store but its great to see them doing well! I actually by accident rediscovered our Flkr feed. What to make for dinner tomorrow? Well one way to use up the leftover Kidney Beans I have in my cupboard.

So, Im just ‘loving’ Paris Hilton for getting the foul mouthed, talented but over exposed chef Gorden Ramsey confused with Gorden Brown,the poor prime minister of my confused, crumbling economic homeland - England. On a brighter note (pun intended) we have Food of the Gods. Some of my favorite producers all in one band, and a lot of beard action… a scientific romance.

So, Its been an interesting start to Stockholm Fashion Week as due to work I’ve been near to the shows but actually not in them. Interesting things were happening for us outside the shows rather than at them. Such is life the shows I saw were ‘Lagom’ there is no English translation for this word and so were the meals I ate this week in between meetings at the shows. I won’t even mention the venues I ate but to be honest ‘Lagom’ I needs some spectacular dinners again soon in my life. Next week sees trips to Munich and Copenhagen so I’m looking for good options. As ever when in CPH I end up having breakfast here once - Bang & Jensen and dinner or lunch at Le Le Nha Hang its my favorite Vietnamese. So much asian food in Stockholm is disappointing so I always look forward to Le Le.This time I will be using my mate Tomas’s site Unlike to find one other place to enjoy the fashion week on a full stomach.
Following on form my last post - I feel I need a new bed, and the Hamburger bed seems an interesting option. A final post on Stockholm Fashion Week, Anne-Sofie Back has created a special window for Riche’s lilla Baren which ties in with the slasher movie theme for her next collection.

So, this week passed so quick its unbelievable, Venetian Chefs at Teatergrillen Tuesday, Ylva & Jimmy for sausages Thursday and Max Burger with Erik and Rickard post Urban Outfitters Friday.
Today a beet-root soup is slowly bubbling away on the stove, I’m going to add soft goats cheese on top, with some sliced gerkins. Im working all day just trying to catch up on some additional work we decided to take on.
Next week is Stockholm Fashion Week so I’m sure i’ll go to a few shows most probably Carin Wester, Hope,and Whyred . Im interested in seeing what Behnaz has designed for Whyred this season. I might also drop past the Cover party at Lydmar (As I have so far failed to visit Lydmar to see if its any good). I read about the new east London bar East Room,sounds great, very east London. I love London’s drinking dens, Im sure I’ll drop past next time I am in town and make it out east.
This week has again involved lots of talk about sausage, my secret sausage project is coming to fruition and if it does what better way to advertise it than to get the royal family involved - Madelaine . I think this clip is funny and wrong on so many levels. Vedi (the faceless-side of Devi) put me onto it over a leisurely lunch at Publik followed by talk of cars made of cake and human organs made of bread. I’ve been intrigued about the ultimate Cheeseburger dance.
I’ve got this issue, not a big issue but what do I do with two packs of Ecological Quinoa I bought and have sat looking at for at least 3 months? This ‘wonder’ food is rather annoying as I just haven’t yet built any Quinoa based recipes into my mental reference cooking library. So I did look one up on the Waitrose (my favorite supermarket, Swedish Supermarkets are no where near them for quality, price and inspiration) site I’ll give it a go post fashion week.

So, its been a great weekend. A fantastic curry at Elin & Ola’s Friday, Beef Lyonnais at Roger’s Saturday followed by a crazy party at Johan’s where he had some tasty dates wrapped in bacon as well as some sticky, icky sweet honey rum drinks which were great! To cap off the weekend I received a late birthday present ‘A Day at El Bulli’, the book rather than the experience, on first glance its a tome and a half, beautifully designed with some fantastic images but its going to take me a while to get into it, its an unmanageable size for bedtime reading. I’ll now leave you with ‘When Ricky met Larry‘ two of my favorite comedy writers in the same room together, I can’t believe I missed it first time around but then again maybe it never made it to Swedish TV or I was out..

So, Thursday night the office took dinner at Riche as ever a fantastic time was had by all but the conversation somehow after two bottles of wine came round to deep frying things and drunk food. It turns up where Erik is from in the north of Sweden (Skellefteå) they like to wrap a hamburger, fries calzone style in a pizza with ham, cheese and tomato sauce and bake it - if you are ever up north you can ask for a ‘Calskrove‘. 95 Kr and 1500 Calories. Well could I top this? How about deep frying, nearly anything fatty, meaty or sweet works in a deep fat fryer. So lets get into some serious deep fat frying, one girls first DF snickers, a DF pizza and finally a reminder not to drop your spit cup in the hot grease. This weekend, Bite Club kicked off and the first rule about Bite Club is not to talk about itI should not forget to mention King magazines newish food blog Gastronauten.

So, its seems the English are eating critters like squirrels with “wild abandon” I discovered. Maybe not with wild abandon but Im sure some foodies but not the regular populace, well not knowingly anyway. Those late night Gingsters pasties were kind of scary! This American writer it seems believe the English are, so they are tucking into Racoon meat as it makes “good eattin (sic)”. I’ll frankly skip anything where they have to “keep one paw on to prove its not a cat or dog”. Well how does one not traumatize you all before bed but by making it all up with some Japanese girls and 10 years of Sneakersnstuff.

So, off down to Göteborg for the day with Erik and Johanna on the X2000 Train. For those non Swedish residents its a very fast train that leans as it goes round the bends in the tracks, even though we prefer the train as its easier to work and wastes less time than the plane the leaning can become a little too much and we all became a little nauseous. To entertain myself I thought i’d pull together a quick posting on English food but found this fantastic review on youtube of english food - we she’s from the USA so she seems to only count chocolate, snacks and biscuits as food. Its pretty funny, Stu seems like the devil for sending her Twiglets after the mouthgasm of Caarmel (sic) digestives, kitten tears and chocolate defiled with fruit. She’s lucky that Stu didn’t send her a tasty snack of Squirrel or Chipmunk which are also rumored to be staple dishes in the UK, well the Park Family heard it form a friend. I actually did have squirrel once potted at St-Johns, it came mixed with pork and was spread onto hot toast. It was rather good, a little gamey and possibly the inkling of nuttiness offset by the fatty pig. I discovered Tracey Emin liked St-Johns so much she mentions it on her site.

So, Im back, the server was down hence no posts for a hell of a longtime. I was in the UK over the majority of Christmas and New Year which was great as ever! A legendary NYE at my friend Lee’s house with all the friends, families bringing their own lovingly homemade dishes for everyone to try, plus we managed to have the first BBQ of the year! London was interesting as ever, there is a contender to St-Johns, 32 Queen Street but I didn’t have time to eat there I did however try out Daylesford Organic in Westbourne Grove which was great. It combines an organic food store with both a Raw food restaurant and a classic English restaurant, I had the Cornish Fish Pie which was tasty, filling and well presented but it was a little pricey compared to J Sheeky’s Fish Pie but it was organic so you do get what you pay for. A number of Daylesfod Organics are popping up all over London so definitely something worth checking out again. Whenever I am in the UK over Christmas I am always served Brussel Spouts, Im not a massive fan of them but Nigel Slater offers some interesting alternatives I might try out. On the subject of English food being great, NY Times just before Christmas posted a negative article however that critiscim was well countered by The Guardians Jay Rayner. This week we rediscovered Sven Vath’s fantastic dance moves in the 80’s with 16 Bit but we also found him with Miss Kitten still pulling them off!