The Acid Zombie

I decided to make a mixed drink for this month’s geeky recipe, and it is naturally Halloween themed.

It is a slight variation on a mojito, with extra lime and mint leaves, topped with a frozen “brain” containing water and blackcurrant juice.

 

For a single glass, you’ll need to mix:

4 centilitres of lime juice

6 centilitres of soda water

7 centilitres of white rum

1 whole pot of chopped up mint leaves

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Vegan Vampire Soup

We are quickly closing in on the month of Halloween, and I wanted to reflect that in this month’s geeky recipe.

The result is a beety bloodbath of a dish, a feast fit for any vegetarian vampire, werewolf or cannibal.

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The Recipe

(Serves 2 monsters)

1. Boil two large beets for 15 minutes, or just buy boiled beets.

2. Cut a small piece off each beet, so that they are flat on the underside, and can stand still on a surface.

3. Use a knife and a spoon to scoop out each beet into a bowl.

4. Take the pieces you cut off from the undersides and insides of beetbowls, and slice them into pieces. They should look like gory meat chunks.

5. Set aside two tablespoons of diced beets, and put the rest in a small pot.

6. Add 1,5 deciliters of water and a half tablespoon of vegetable bouillon powder.

7. Bring it to a boil, then mix it all together with a hand-held blender.

8. Adjust the taste with salt, pepper and a small squeeze of lime.

9. Serve the soup in the beety bowls, and decorate with the diced beet chunks you put aside earlier.

10. Watch out for vampires!

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King Kong Crazy

I recently saw three great King Kong movies, never having seen a single King Kong film before in my life.

Here is a writeup of what I thought about the three flicks and how they differ.

 

King Kong (1933)

Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, this film started it all off with a bang.

 

The movie depicts a group consisting of a director, his film-crew, an actress, and a ship’s crew, who all travel together to an undiscovered island to film a docufiction.

They find a tribe living on the island, who

kidnaps the actress Ann Darrow

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Cthulhu Pasta

For this months geeky recipe I decided I would cook the cosmic horror known as Cthulhu.

That is not dish which can eternal lie, and after strange aeons even death may dine.

 

The Recipe

Serves three Innsmouthians.

 

1. Tenderise 300 grams of octopus, either by beating the crap out of it, or by freezing and thawing it.

Chop it in pieces and boil it until it is tender, for about 20 to 45 minutes.

Or just buy it tinned.

 

2. Make octopus ragù.

You can do this by using a normal bolognaise recipe, but exchange the meat with octopus.

 

3. Boil 250 grams of fresh tagliatelle pasta.

During the last few minutes of boiling, add 120 grams of chopped kale.

It is possible to replace the kale with seaweed.

 

4. Fry up 130 grams of diced smoked bacon.

 

5. Plate up, and add a few cherry tomato halves and a bit of grated parmigiano on top.

 

In his sauce of R’ag

ù,

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