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Normann Food – April

Published April 30, 2012 Food , Our Products 2 Comments
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This month in our Normann Food blog post serie, we will make delicious flat bread, which you can use as a side dish to other dishes, E.g. our chicken dish from January.

Ingredients:

25 g Fresh yeast
1 ½ dl Lukewarm water
3 Table spoons of oil
375 g Wheat flour
Fresh Rosemary
Coarse Salt

  • Crumble the yeast  with your fingers into the water.
  • Add oil and wheat flour and mix the dough until its nice and soft.
  • Pour the dough into a dish with grease proof paper, we have used our Warm Dish.
  • Make holes in the dough with your fingers.
  • Sprinkle the salt and place small twigs of rosemary in the dough.
  • Place the bread in a preheated oven, and bake the bread for 15-20 minutes at 200º Celcius.

Bon Appetit.

Normann Food – March

Published March 30, 2012 Food , Our Products Leave a Comment
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The sun is warming up Copenhagen these days and spring is getting closer and along with that an urge for nice, cold drinks.
This month in our Normann Food special we are going to make freshly squeezed juice.

Ingredients:

  • 4 apples with peel
  • 3 oranges
  • 1 large handful of fresh spinach
  • 1 cm of fresh ginger

Here is how it is done:

  • Peel the oranges.
  • Put the oranges along with the rest of the ingredients in a juicer.

Serving Tips:
Serve with crushed ice.

NOMA Lab gets the STAR Lamp

Published February 28, 2012 CPH , Food , Respect 3 Comments
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Yesterday, we went to the opening of the NOMA Lab. The press and friends of the NOMA house were invited to experience the new innovative and creative place where worldclass food is created by the chefs of NOMA. We were there as we, together with GXN, have developed the STAR lamp which are now giving light to the room. STAR lamp is exclusively made for NOMA.

Nordic, Raw and Playful
The NOMA Lab is connected to NOMA situated in a former warehouse on the national registry of protected buildings.  The tight restrictions meant that GXN was required to design the interior without using so much as one single nail in the walls or flooring.  The approach was to design four central multi-functional storage units; each composed from over five hundred uniquely formed wooden cubes. Curving playfully throughout the space, these units divide the 200M2 room into smaller areas accommodating the Food Lab, the herb garden, staff areas and office.  Raw and simple, through colours and forms, it captures a unique Nordic aesthetic.  True to the restaurant’s philosophy, the NOMA Lab is developed exclusively using Nordic materials.

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Normann Food – February

Published February 26, 2012 Food , Our Products 5 Comments
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In the North we like our crisp bread in the morning and for this month’s Normann Food we would like to inspire you to make your own crisp bread.

You will need :

1 dl. sunflower seeds
1 dl. pumpkin seeds
1 dl. flax seeds
1 dl. sesame seeds
1 dl. oatmeal
2 tea spoons of salt
1 tea spoon of backing powder
1 dl. olive oil
2 dl. water
3 dl. wheat flour

Here is how it is done :

  • Mix all the ingredients and knead it until it is a sticky mass.
  • Seperate the dough into three equally sized portions.
  • Roll each portion flat onto a piece of greaseproof paper.
  • Cut the dough into sizes appropriate to crisp bread.
  • Place the breads in the oven and bake them in 15 minutes at 200º celcius.

When they are done, let them cool off for bit before eating.

We like our crisp bread with cheese and homemade marmelade accompanied by a soft-boiled egg and a nice cup of tea.

Normann Food – January

Published January 23, 2012 Food , Our Products 3 Comments
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We are back with our montly Normann Food tips! In January we have a chicken delight recipe to serve four people.

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
4 thin slices of parma ham
4 tbsp. feta cheese
2 large red onions
3-5 spring onions
1 cup of black olives
8 -10 cloves of garlic
Rosemary, thyme
Olive oil
Salt & pepper

Method:

  • Add 1 tbsp. feta cheese on each chicken breast. Wrap a piece of parma ham around each chicken breast.
  • Place the chicken breasts in the Familia Warm dish.
  • Cut the red onions with peel into slices and put them in the dish along with the other vegetables and the spreaded herbs.
  • Pour olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Get the dish into the oven for 45-60 minutes at 200°C.

Serving suggestions:
Tastes great with salad served in a Krenit bowl.

Normann Food – December

Published December 22, 2011 Food 1 Comment
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At the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store and HQ we often get home-made treats from our colleagues. Therefore we have decided to share the best recipes with you. We will post a new treat every month.

For December we have the yummi “Chocolate -Nut- Marshmallows- Pieces”

Ingredients:
200 grams Toblerone Chocolate
200 grams Marshmallows
100 grams Almonds
100 grams Hazelnuts

  • Grate all nuts on a dry pan until they are golden brown.
  • Cut the Marshmallows in small pieces and mix with the nuts in a bowl.
  • Melt the chocolate in a water bath and pour over the nut and Marshmallow mix.
  • Make sure that the mix is covered with chocolate.
  • Spread the mix on a piece of baking paper.
  • Place in the fridge for a couple of hours until the chocolate is congealed.
  • Cut into smaller pieces.

Serving Tips:
Serve the delicious Chocolate-Nut-Marshmallow-Pieces alone or with vanilla ice-cream.

Danish Designer lunch – it works!

Published November 2, 2011 Food 2 Comments
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Here at the Normann Copenhagen HQ we love great food and today we were in for a wonderful treat. Right before lunch these delicious mini “smørrebrød” arrived from a company called Danish minies. Within seconds everyone gathered around the plate (a Mormor plate of cause) and within minutes they were all gone… uhm. It may just have been a smart marketing stunt, but hey we loved it.

Guess what we ate! – the one right in front is a “Tartar-mad” – thats raw meat with capers, quail egg, horseradish and raw red onion. See them all here (in Danish).

Four One-Eyed Friends!

Published October 27, 2011 Design , Designers , Food , Our Products Leave a Comment
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Say hello to our new Friends. Four trivets designed by the anonymous artist, HuskMitNavn, and designer Troels Øder Hansen. The four cork trivets refer to the food on the table featuring a caricatured figure universe of a chicken, a pig, a cow and a fish. We hope your new Friends will bring an extra smile to the dining table. Bon appetit.

Troels Øder Hansen vs. HuskMitNavn say: “We wanted to give the traditional cork trivet a new lease of life. We work in the comic strip world and on the basis of the notion that things are more amusing when they are funny, which is reflected in Friends Trivets in an unpretentious way”.

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A picture is better than a 1000 words..

Published July 27, 2011 Food , Our Products , Respect 1 Comment
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When have you met an excellent sales person able to communicate a product to you by telling multiple stories and creating several pictures in your head, making you desperate to buy her/his products?

Their latest feature of adding recipes for drinks and food is mind-blowing and plays with almost all your senses. Still nor Scope or we have figured out how to have add smell and taste to the online experience – but mouth-watering it is.

Experience for yourself and start cooking – no need to understand Japanese:)

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We spot them here – we spot them there – we spot them – everywhere

Published March 21, 2011 Food , Our Products 2 Comments
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Do you have a passion for design? Do you – like us – always notice every design detail around you – the handle on a coffee cup , the fabric of the drapes, a cover on a phone or even the shape of the air vents in a new car.

We do – and we cant stop! – so imagine our joy when we spotted the Krenit bowl in use at one of the most impressive hotels in Paris, the Shangri-La Hotel.


Krenit bowl designed in 1953 by Herbert Krenchel. In the picture it’s the White version Ø 8.4 cm.

Spotted in Milan

Not easy to spot. But take a close look at the glasses in the left picture and you will find two of our Cognac glasses. The picture is from the worlds only 7 star hotel! –  Seven Stars Galleria in Milano.

Spotted at MoMA

The Ole Jensen rubber washing-up bowl used as an ice-cooler and the Rocking glasses used for dessert. Both spotted at the MoMA Cafe´in New York.

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Normann Copenhagen is a way of living - a mindset. We like to think of it as putting on a pair of glasses and seeing the world in a different way. We love to challenge the conventional design rules.

On this blog we write about our design, the designers, and interesting things we spot around our hometown - Copenhagen.

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