Since returning from Sweden football (soccer in America...) has been the thing for me this week. Along with football has been lots of good pizza. On tuesday Vincent and I made a masterpiece of a pizza which you can see below. On top of the dough there were two halves although they were very similar. On one was tomato sauce and the other was creme fraiche (It is like sour creme but less sour and less viscous-more liquidy...) The rest of the pizza was the same on both sides. On top of the base layer was a layer of mozzarella then red peppers, caramelized onions and basil/red pepper powder. Then after that we covered the pizza in ham and chicken nugget slices. To top it off it was clear we needed more cheese because everything is better with more cheese. So we added slices of bleu cheese and goat cheese and then covered the whole deal with the remaining mozzarella. 20 minutes of oven time and Voila, deliciousness.
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| Our yummy pizza |
On wednesday was pizza and football night with my project group. After a day of working on the project we headed over to my group-mate, Jens' apartment for some pizza and after we were going to the Common House at his complex because they had a small cinema where we watched the Manchester United FC vs Chelsea FC game. This time Sandro, who in addition to being in my project group lives right below me in my colleguim was head chef. Conveniently he is from Italy so I got to have my second round of authentic Italian pizza. If you remember before he cooked a pizza dinner for almost twenty of us in February. We had the same pizzas this time, the "New York" that is covered in hot dogs and french fries as well as the really authentic pizza with hard boiled egg, mushrooms, peas, black olives, ham, and mozzarella. The football game was good Man U won 1-0 with a Rooney goal in the 24th minute.
The rest of the week was beautiful weather in Denmark however on thursday and friday it was incredibly windy. On friday the average wind was 60 km/h(~40mph) and gusts around 90km/h (~55mph). However the wind stopped for the weekend which was awesome. On saturday it was at least 16C (60F) and sunny with no clouds or wind. Today was over 20C (70F) and no clouds or wind. Yesterday afternoon I went and play football with my project group. We played a small sided 3v3 game and it was a bunch of fun. Today I woke up early and was very motivated so after tossing the pig skin around with Egon for a while we went on a 6k run. It was a bit hot but a nice run. It is rather nice to run in Denmark because it is relatively flat and there are paths everywhere. Also the few hills that exist are very gradual slopes up and down. After the run I biked over to play football like I did two weeks ago. That was a bunch of fun to play some more serious football with cleats and big goals etc. Needless to say I am quite tired today.
One other tasty thing of note was my dinner last night. Due to the gorgeous weather we had a barbecue. Everyone prepared their own food for the grill. I made chicken kebabs (on the skewer) with green and red peppers and onion. I made my own sauce with mustard, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and some spices and it was amazing. The flavor was awesome and the chicken was juicy. I can not wait to try and make more food on the grill. Speaking of which I will be doing just that tomorrow, weather permitting as a celebration of my 21st birthday. I some friends over to hang out and grill some dogs and burgers. By the time I write my next post I will be 21! and finally considered an Adult in the US.
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