Scandinavian Kitchen

Seb, we miss you

Everyone should take holiday once in a while.  It's nice to go and put your feet up and drink pina colada.  We wonder if our Seb is sitting in Sweden right now, drinking fancy cocktails and wearing a straw hat?  He's on holiday back home, you know, and we're missing him quite a lot.  Seb is our main man, a sort-of hybrid Dane*/Swede with a fondness for full shelves and excellent coffee.

Seb, we know you'll be checking this blog (Ha!  gotcha!) - so stop thinking about work and go back to your hammock and we'll see you back here in a week or so.

Jonas and Louise pointing to an empty space on a shelf today - this would never, ever have happened if Seb had been around....

*at least his alter ego is Danish

Kitchen Angel wanted

Hello.

Our plans have changed slightly as we approach the summer months and autumn: We're now no longer looking for a part time Kitchen Angel, but a full-time person.  Well, what can we do if we're busy, eh?

The working hours of the Kitchen Angel job are now Wednesday-Sunday from 7-15:30ish (of course we can talk about days, but this is the general schedule).  Tobias, our Kitchen Viking and the Lord of our Cucina, will be on hand to help during busy times and he'll teach you all you need to know in this role.  Tobias is a professionally trained chef from Denmark and he's the man in charge of not only the day to day running of the Kitchen at our cafe, but also developing our menu and catering offerings further.  He's a great person to learn from for the right person who wants to get stuck in and make a difference in our business as it grows.

Duties of the Kitchen Angel includes prepping open sandwiches to a high standard, making all our our home made salads and dressings, keeping the kitchen in good order and generally ensure that things run smoothly.  You will also be keeping on top of the stock in the kitchen, doing the day to day ordering as well as ensuring costings are adhered to.

We're looking for someone who has experience of working and preparing food in a professional kitchen/busy sandwich shop/cafe.  We’re really busy so you need to be able to work well under pressure and keep a clear head when things hot up.  Fluency in English, both spoken and written, is absolutely essential and good knowledge of Scandinavian food is essential.  We'd really love it if you speak a Scandinavian language too - this is a huge plus as you'll need to understand labelling of imported goods. 

The person we're looking for should be presentable with great interpersonal skills, tidy, clean and organised, full of initiative, team player and must possess that wonderful common-sense gene and be willing to learn. 

This job starts end of July/beginning of August.  We'll be doing interviews as soon as possible and will be asking the finalists to pop in for a trail day, so do get your skates on if this sounds like it up your street.  Send your up to date CV and a bit about yourself to bronte@scandikitchen.co.uk.  Note that this job is ongoing and is offered on a minimum 6 months contract.

Lovely innocent smoothies

Bronte went to Fruit Towers (as innocent's head quarters are called) today - she's worked at innocent for many years but now she is finally full-time Scandi Kitchen.

To celebrate, the Cheese CLub at innocent had a Scandinavian day today - and we brought along several interesting cheeses that we also stock at our little shop:

Sweden:  Vasterbotten, a 12-14 month ages hard cheese not unlike parmesan in texture but so seriously tasty on crispbread it is hard not to eat the whole packet.

Norway: Brunost - brown cheese, literally.   Whey, cream and milk is boiled until the sugar in the milk turns almost into caramel and this gives the cheese it's distinct colour and sweet flavour.

Denmark:  Gamle Ole - stinky, stinky cheese.  Strong.  Lovely. Great finish.  Blaa Kornblomst: Blue cornflower, a lovely creamy blue cheese with a great finish.  Not too strong, but still with a good bite (Organic from a small Danish dairy).  Last but not least:  Esrom cheese.  Some claim it is the king of Danish cheeses; strong, and as our Tobias desribes it: "with a nice flavour of cow shed at the end".  Yummy.

It's tradition at innocent drinks' Cheese Club to vote for the favourite at the end of a long tasting session and Gamle Ole was a clear winner. 

Fruit towers, where Bronte used to work and where people love smoothies and cheese.  A lot.

The Danes are still happiest...

...says the Univeristy of Michigan, anyway. We just like this dude's beard, it's cool

And what next?  Copenhagen is the best place to live?

We're in a Japanese magazine... But we can't read it.

There's a lovely Japanese publication called Lovely London and we're featured in it.  It looks really fab and they've taken some really nice photos.  We're wondering what it says?  Maybe "Henrik Rock Star is simply the most gorgeous at SK" or "Louise is an angel and she makes the best coffee around".  Or maybe it simply says "the best place in London open sandw iches" but we think there are a lot of letters if it says just that.

Our shelves are back to normal...

After the midsummer stampede over the weekend, we're happy to annouce that our shelves are getting back to normal after our massive delivery today.  Stryhns leverpostej, Swedish/Danish cheeses - and, most importantly, Cheese doodles, are back in stock. 

Worst music video ever - take II

And Denmark's entry:  Tommy Seebach, playing Apache. 

Now we know what Jonas would have been like had he been a famous singer in 1982.

The worst ever music video? Take 1

Could it be Finland's Armi and Danny?  Makes the Swedish frog dance look sane. 

The three MO-sketeers become two...

From L to R: The dude from Metallica, Justin Timberlake and Magnum PI

Ah, the joys of brotherhood.  For a few weeks now, Jonas, Henrik Rock Star and Sebastian have been running around with their moustaches for all the world to see.  That is, until a lady close to Seb decided enough was enough and now three have become two.

Who'll be next to fall?  Bets are being taken as we speak.

Midsummer Party update 8:35 am Saturday 21st June

Hello everyone

We just wanted to update you all on Midsummer requests: 

• Yes, we sell herring and yes, we have stock - currently of both mustard, onion and curry kinds plus lots of Matjes herrings too
• Yes, we are selling aquavit and beers this weekend and yes you can buy them to take away too
• Yes, we still have prinskorv in stock
• Yes, we still have meatballs in stock
• Yes, we still have Dill Chips/Grill chips/Sourcream and onion chips/jornotsringar as we got a new delivery today
• Yes, we still have some Farskpotatis (New Swedish Potatoes) left
• No, we've sold out of Cheese Doodles sorry
• Of course we have Kalles Kaviar - we always do
• Fresh rye bread - yes, both light and dark kinds.  We also have Swedish bread - from hellakakor to polarkakor and lingon grova and fazer rye bread.

Phew....  We have had a lot of calls about the above - sounds like most of you are planning Midsommar Fest tonight. 

See you in the shop - we close at 18:00 today