The Daily Dagens

the other day

2011-01-29T11:30:00.003+01:00

Appease some leaves of Greene Spinache in the Frying-panne (use the heaviest frying pan you can lift, it's a great forearm and bicep strength exercise):

Once the fair Spinache is thoroughly Discomfited, break one or two of the freshest hen's Egges (or whichever eggs are available at your dingy local supermarket). (Ask for our Egg-Breaking Tutorial, not yet available online!)

Oppose some pickled Jalapenos to the Eggs, combining with a home-made Mexican salsa (alternatively: the salsa most readily available at your dingy local supermarket).

Cover gently, as one would a sleeping child, with slices of Jarlsberg. (I'm assuming your child likes Jarlsberg.)

Smother, delicately, as one would a sleeping giant, with a soft tortilla. For best
results you should grow the corn on your back porch and grind it between two flat rocks, baking the tortilla on an open fire (be careful not to burn down the porch). Alternatively,
you can use whichever brand is most readily available at your dingy local supermarket (in my case, "Santa Maria").
Remove from Heate when the Egge, with its jaundiced Eye, begins to glare at you, threatening solidification (you want the eggs a bit runny).

Don't make the mistake (common among the neophyte) of thinking that your work is done once the stove is off. That would be as foolish as a mountaineer proclaiming success upon having summitted, when clearly the summit marks only the first half of the journey. Ah, to bag a tall Peake, and feast upon the landscape laid bare below! But my point is: you need to fold the tortilla and plate it. Practice makes perfect. You can practice, in your spare time, with a small (alternatively: large) handkerchief. For the rest of us, there is trial & error (a pedagogical technique not noted for efficiency, but unmatched in popularity).

That's it! Note that this makes a perfect late breakfast. The tortilla lends it a lunch- or dinner-like aspect, so your friends won't know that you just got up.

The twenty-ninth of October, 2010

2010-11-07T15:27:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

We like how they've pre-salted it so we don't have to waste time doing our own salting.

Monday, September 20th 2010

2010-09-20T14:23:00.000+02:00

Terningkast

We like: price, yumminess
We dislike: fart smell outside building

Tuesday, June 8th 2010

2010-06-09T06:57:00.000+02:00

Chupacabra con Coles de Bruselas, papas, y arándanos agrios

May fourth, 2010

2010-05-06T04:05:00.000+02:00

Terningkast

potato salad: yummylicious

fancy: schmancy (but good)

downside: the guy didn't even confirm that I'm not a student. It was like, a foregone conclusion. So I had to pay an extra ten bones, and schmancy is already pretty expensive!

April 23rd, 2010

2010-05-01T21:27:00.000+02:00

Terningkast:

It's a sausage made of sheep.

April 22nd, 2010

2010-05-01T21:22:00.000+02:00

Terningkast:

Vi frykter faktisk at Dagens har hoppet haien.

March fourth

2010-03-12T08:58:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

If that is svinenakke, then it was disgusting. Dagens has jumped the shark.

Mar 2

2010-03-12T08:29:00.000+01:00

Terningkast:

Is that fish and pasta? I think so.

That is just wrong. Everybody knows fish belongs with potatoes.

The only other person who would make fish with pasta is my Mom.

February nineteenth, 2010

2010-03-12T08:09:00.000+01:00

Terningkast

March first, two thousand and ten

2010-03-12T08:07:00.000+01:00

Terningkast:

Non, jamais, je n'oublirai, mon nom

January eighteenth

2010-01-31T16:26:00.005+01:00

Terningkast:

It's not really clear but I think the potatoes are winning against the gryterett. Then again they are kind of marginalized at the side of the plate there. Maybe the gryterett, with its stalwart ectoplasmic persistence, has actually prevailed.

I guess dousing those spinatmedaljonger?? with Tabasco sauce couldn't possibly have hurt.

January nineteenth

2010-01-31T16:24:00.001+01:00

Terningkast

IIRC this is the fish that looked a lot better than it tasted?

January twenty-sixth

2010-01-31T14:46:00.002+01:00

Terningkast

This is Norway, we like fish, and potatoes, and rice with the fish and potatoes.

And peas.

January thirteenth

2010-01-24T20:44:00.004+01:00

LasagnE

The TDD staff used to spell this with a trailing A but then a guy named after a vegetable showed us how wrong we were

We wish our pirated copy of Lightroom showed the day of the week in the metadata viewer. We conjecture this could be implemented in less than 15,000 lines of code (LOC).

January eleventh

2010-01-24T20:40:00.002+01:00

Terningkast

Too much whitespace on the right

Is that a side dish of black olive slices?

The TDD staff's verdict on the sliced black olive side dish: scraping the bottom of the barrel

January ninth

2010-01-24T20:38:00.002+01:00

Terningkast

That fish would taste better if the kitchen changed the oil more often than they change the oil in their cars

No meat: FAIL

January seventh

2010-01-24T20:31:00.004+01:00

Terningkast

pollo con papas?

our overfed and underpaid staff are too lazy to do the upside-down question mark

January sixth, 2010

2010-01-24T20:25:00.003+01:00

Terningkast:

That was spinatpai

Note: structural integrity compromised by eating

All hail fatmouse

The Daily Dagens celebrates a new decade

2010-01-24T20:09:00.005+01:00

Terningkast:

January fifth, 2010

December twenty-first, 2009

2009-12-28T16:08:00.004+01:00

December eighteenth, 2009

2009-12-18T19:18:00.003+01:00

Terningkast:

Pollo con papas

Hamburguesa

~~Chupacabra con maricon~~ torrejitas de verduras acompanada con salsa de hongos y guarnicion de arroz

December sixteenth, 2009

2009-12-18T19:15:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

It's death for no reason

And death for no reason

Is murder

December fifteenth, 2009

2009-12-18T19:13:00.001+01:00

Terningkast

Bacalao con pan! Bacalao con pan!

December fourteenth, 2009

2009-12-18T19:05:00.003+01:00

Terningkast:

Veggie

Non-veggie

Veggie

December tenth, 2009

2009-12-13T09:57:00.003+01:00

Terningkast

Why is Safari opening every pop-up window as a new tab now?

It has not always done that

December ninth, 2009

2009-12-13T09:53:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

An unspecified Terningkast value indicates an implicit rating of Y for Yummylicious

December seventh

2009-12-10T19:42:00.001+01:00

December third (asynchronous)

2009-12-09T18:21:00.002+01:00

December first (asynchronous)

2009-12-09T17:59:00.001+01:00

November 30th, 2009

2009-12-08T22:07:00.001+01:00

The twenty-eighth of November, 2009

2009-12-08T22:01:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

Beef noodle soup

Dalat Cafe, Oslo

Sunday, November 8 2009

2009-11-11T22:25:00.003+01:00

Terningkast:

Pho Bang New York, Montréal

large #10

before & after

Tuesday, November 3 2009

2009-11-11T22:23:00.000+01:00

Terningkast

St. Mark's Place $0.99 slice

Saturday, October 31 2009

2009-11-11T22:20:00.002+01:00

Terningkast

Scandinavian Airline Systems

Thursday, October 29 2009

2009-10-30T22:17:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

All phones used to look like this.

Monday, October 26 2009

2009-10-30T21:12:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

lunch

Thursday, October 22 2009

2009-10-30T20:56:00.001+01:00

Terningkast:

analog

Wednesday, October 21 2009

2009-10-30T20:50:00.002+01:00

Terningkast:

Arequipan style, with pepper

Plain (unadorned)

Arequipan style, with Tabasco

Tuesday, October 20 2009

2009-10-30T20:47:00.003+01:00

Tuesday, October 13 2009

2009-10-14T10:30:00.001+02:00

Monday, October 12 2009

2009-10-14T10:22:00.002+02:00

Terningkast

It is always pleasant to behold the gulrot medaljong, and then to savour it.

Friday, October 9 2009

2009-10-10T12:28:00.001+02:00

Thursday, October 8 2009

2009-10-10T12:00:00.003+02:00

Wednesday, October 8 2009

2009-10-08T03:09:00.004+02:00

Terningkast:

Fiskekaker: 5

Pasta: 1

Post-prandial cocoa: how can you go wrong?

Tuesday, October 6 2009

2009-10-08T02:52:00.002+02:00

I almost ate the falafel before documenting it:

Daniela's post-prandial cocoa:

Terningkast:

It's all subjective, really. You shouldn't base your judgment on other people's preferences.

Friday, October 2 2009

2009-10-03T13:00:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Kylling med estragonsaus: the cool thing about "saus" is that it is pronounced sort of like "søys".

Ratatouille: 2

Thursday, October 1 2009

2009-10-03T12:42:00.002+02:00

Terningkast:

Kalkun: hard to say!

Tortellini flaccidi ai funghi: 5

mid-week summary

2009-09-30T09:36:00.001+02:00

Tuesday, September 29 2009

2009-09-30T09:12:00.001+02:00

Lunsj!

Monday, September 28 2009

2009-09-30T09:08:00.005+02:00

Saturday, Sep 26 2009

2009-09-28T02:12:00.001+02:00

Friday, September 25 2009

2009-09-26T12:02:00.003+02:00

Thursday, September 24 2009

2009-09-25T07:54:00.005+02:00

Terningkast

Fårikål: 6 (Abigail said 3, but the correct answer is 6!)

Wednesday, September 23 2009

2009-09-25T07:49:00.003+02:00

Photo courtesy Daniela.

Terningkast

Fishy dish: 5

Wednesday, September 23 2009

2009-09-25T07:47:00.001+02:00

This is what Daniela had for lunch.

Tuesday, September 22 2009

2009-09-25T07:44:00.003+02:00

Terningkast

Pasta: not really al dente

Sauce: 5

Friday, September 18 2009

2009-09-18T22:58:00.004+02:00

Terningkast:

Name: too complicated

Flavour: hard to say

Rice: wtf, we said no rice

Monday, September 14 2009

2009-09-18T22:23:00.001+02:00

Terningkast:

The fish: pretty good

The orange sauce on the fish: pretty damn good

Thursday, September 10 2009

2009-09-12T19:53:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

shmancy disqualified pga fraudulence

pineapple pork dish disqualified pga rice

tortellini ai funghi: serviceable

Wednesday, September 9 2009

2009-09-10T01:00:00.004+02:00

Terningkast:

Food: 5

Service: FAIL

Hoodie: NOK 200,- at H&M

Tuesday, September 8 2009

2009-09-09T02:26:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Chicken without its square eggs: 5

Shmancy: I still say that red pepper does not constitute grønnsaker

Monday, September 7 2009

2009-09-09T01:37:00.004+02:00

The line-ups are so long these days! ~~Clearly they need to raise the prices.~~

Even 70's Norwegian ninjas need to eat.

The torsk with ågurksalat is one of our favourites.

Months of rigorous experimentation have paid off: the pasta is now neither under- nor over-cooked. Also, it's whole-wheat!

Terningkast:

Win!

Not sure about the sauce brune though. Could it be...fail? Hard to say!

Friday, September 4 2009

2009-09-06T05:56:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Lian and Ho were supposed to 'sup with us but they elected to go to Maccer'n instead without telling us. So we waited and waited and Lizeth was gracious as usual but basically the arroz con verduras demonstrates that the powers that be Dagens are pushing their luck?

Thursday, September 3 2009

2009-09-06T05:45:00.001+02:00

Terningkast:

The gulrotmedaljong was not as good as last time. Abigail made us very aware of this.

Wednesday, September 2 2009

2009-09-06T05:39:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Looks like Sei! Sei is pretty Full of Win, as our featured model indicates.

Monday, August 31 2009

2009-09-01T00:08:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Which of these menus is not like the others?

The Halal menu, clearly.

Friday, August 28 2009

2009-08-30T03:05:00.005+02:00

Terningkast:

Too yellow; too dark, yet not enough detail in the sour cream. Our guest reviewer is looking sharp though.

Thursday, August 27 2009

2009-08-28T04:50:00.002+02:00

Terningkast:

This is a trick question! One point off for rucola, a quarter point off for positioning the dressing in such a way that our reviewer used it all on the nachos and didn't have any left for drowning the rucola. (Hint: how exactly do chicken wings, mcnuggets, and sweet & sour sauce constitute "tapas"?)

Tuesday, August 25 2009

2009-08-28T04:47:00.002+02:00

Terningkast:

meh

Friday, August 21 2009

2009-08-22T11:47:00.002+02:00

Terningkast:

See also August 18th. Unanimously voted a terningkast 5.

Thursday, August 20 2009

2009-08-22T11:44:00.003+02:00

Terningkast

Pictured: it is what it is

Not pictured: probably awesome, but we'll never know

Wednesday, August 19 2009

2009-08-22T11:40:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Torsk: 4,5

That's all she wrote.

Tuesday, August 18 2009

2009-08-20T07:47:00.002+02:00

Terningkast:

Salmon: full of Win!

Roots, shrubs: jury still out

Thursday, August 13 2009

2009-08-15T08:34:00.004+02:00

Terningkast:

Earth-friendly menu: We are so into the gulrotmedaljong we keep forgetting to take the picture before digging in.

Carnivorous menu: It's death for no reason, and death for no reason is murder.

Wednesday, August 12 2009

2009-08-15T07:56:00.003+02:00

Terningkast:

Salmon: the TDD staff were brainstorming on a succinct yet sufficiently evocative description of how awesome this was, but two gunshot-like sounds were heard in the courtyard just now, and we are having trouble deciding on a course of action:

Hit the deck med en gang?
Call the po-po?
Stick neck out to see if anyone needs helps, and risk getting shot?
Turn up the music

There is another option: watch less Wire.

Roots, shrubs, etc.: awaiting results.

Monday, August 10 2009

2009-08-11T21:53:00.006+02:00

The "beef" Stroganoff was questionable and I didn't even ask my herbivorous colleague what he thought of the falafel, because I don't want to typeset any more fucking greek symbols.

Terningkast

"Beef": 2. That shit was weak.

Roots, Shrubs: At least one person knows. But he's not telling.

Dear powers that be Dagens: You may think we didn't notice you gave us plastic cutlery. Oh, but we did.

Thursday, August 6 2009

2009-08-09T19:18:00.005+02:00

Terningkast:

Beef and vegetables in pepper sauce with rice: 4

Vegetables Stroganoff with rice: 4

Wednesday, August 5 2009

2009-08-05T23:01:00.006+02:00

No truth in advertising: instead of poteter, we had to make do with ris. Nonetheless, two out of two diners agree: the fish was delish.

Terningkast

Sei Cordon Bleu and its tilbehør: 4+

Roots/Shrubs: Hard to say

Sunday, August 2 2009

2009-08-02T17:43:00.003+02:00

Terningkast

Green Giant blows Coop™ out of the water.

Friday, July 31 2009

2009-08-01T15:03:00.004+02:00

Encouraged by yesterday's success, we opted to go veggie again. The "vegetarian spring roll" was serviceable but, in the humble opinion of this reviewer, weird. It's not really clear what's inside it, but The Daily Dagens' best guess is: beans refried and refried again ad nauseam.

Terningkast

The Chicken: a great Jaco Pastorius tune, what of it?

Vegetar vårrull: 4

Thursday, July 30, 2009

2009-08-01T14:50:00.005+02:00

Today we opted for the gulrot ("yellow root" == carrot) medallion, italian stallion. We did not regret it. (The beef was tempting but it came with mashed poteter and back then we didn't know our Himalayan friend would let us swap side dishes.)

Terningkast

Carnivorous menu: disqualified pga potetmos

Roots & Shrubs menu: 5+

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

2009-07-30T12:23:00.004+02:00

Terningkast

Fish dish: Yellow rice FTW!

Herbivore dish: The herbivore dish took the "which Unknown are you?" quiz and the result is: Known Unknown.

Friday, July 24, 2009

2009-07-24T23:16:00.017+02:00

About mid-way through the dégustation, a diner regurgitated a small yet unequivocally non-negligible chunk of salmon, and ostentatiously displayed it in a corner of his tray. This caused downward pressure on both critics' scores.

World's Largest Potet (WLP)

Lian performs Arne-Treholt-Ninja-style evasive manoeuvre w.r.t. WLP

Lian is calm now

Terningkast

Low single digits.

Midweek Summary

2009-07-23T23:39:00.005+02:00

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

2009-07-23T16:14:00.005+02:00

Today we chose the prix fixe menu of steamed cod with a leek sauce, potatoes, and carrots boiled no more than three hours; NOK 42,-. We are regretfully unable to report on the Vegetarian Menu.

Terningkast

A high 4, pulled up by the excellent sauce and not at all pulled up by the execrable carrots.

Welcome to The Daily Dagens

2009-07-21T12:37:00.022+02:00

We inaugurate The Daily Dagens with a simple yet sumptuous menu, featuring Falafel and also Kjøttkaker. Messrs. Lian and Stolpe were on hand to savour and evaluate.

Terningkast

Falafel:
Kjøttkaker: Yummylicious