On the Materiality of Text

Last Thursday, Elena Pierazzo showed the readers of her blog an interesting look behind the scenes of The Book she is currently writing. As her post shows, she is working on concepts like text, work, document, and on the emphasis different types of scholars put on materiality and physical documents in their research. These topics…

Salmon Burger with Wasabi Mayonnaise

Tonight we’ll be serving fish burgers. Not for strict vegetarians, but great for omnivores and pescetarians. And also not difficult to make. Ingredients: 1 salmon filet per burger Bun (1/2 chiabatta per burger) Iceberg lettuce Tomatoes Spring oninons Wasabi Mayonnaise Japanese 7 spices powder (or chillipowder) Salt & pepper As usual, let’s start with the burgers.…

Snøfrisk

This week, I’m making one of my classic appetizers: ‘Snøfrisk’: a fresh wrap-appetizer with smoked salmon and goat cheese. Snøfrisk’s actually the name of a Norwegian brand of goat cheese, that you can easily spread across a slice of bread. A little like chavroux, or other types of spreadable goat cheese they serve in those…

Mexican Veggie Burger with Salsa and Lime Yoghurt

This burger’s a little different. This time no burger of the ‘the-more-meat-the-merrier’ kind, but rather the opposite: a veggie burger. Why? We have a number of vegetarian friends, and when they visit, we want to be able to offer them something that’s not just a meat dish minus the meat. And everybody loves burgers. So I…

Quick and Easy Salsa Dip with Nachos

No new burger tonight, we’re making this great easy appetizer instead. You can serve it before your burger, or you can serve it inside your burger if you’re making one of these (or, you can of course do both – which is what I did). This salsa really is minimum input, maximum output: the only…

Californian Aunt Millie

The Californian Aunt Millie is the first Burger Night Burger I ever made. I got my inspiration for this burger from the Cheese and Burger Society website. That site (essentially a smart Pavlovian advertisement for an American cheese brand) offers 40 (non-vegetarian) great looking burger recipes, and the Aunt Millie is one of them. I added avocado…