Monday, March 23, 2009

SmakSak Delivered

SMAKSAK

Before You Read This Note - this was all English translated from Google of Norwegian webpage...
SMAKSAK
Our menu:
This week
Pork Plomme on potato pure * (see below)
Fish and shellfish stew
Beef tenderloin

Welcome to SMAKSAK
We deliver restaurant dinner to your home address.

If you want to impress your loved one, or invite friends home to a great meal at the weekend, a meal that you have created yourself, you can on this page to choose between several dishes and they get delivered home.

The agreement contains the recipe from Heine Grov and description of how to make food step by step, and fresh ingredients from Farstad Catering porsjonert (=portions) out exactly what the recipe requires.

You can also get yourself if you will.

SMAKSAK is for those who like to eat good food at home but who think that it sometimes can be difficult to look for new recipes, run around in different stores to find the right ingredients, and then to use lot of time in the kitchen to make food.

Our goal is to make very good food available for people at home.

If you are inexperienced in the kitchen or a skilled cook, you should be able to make any individual a very good meal for 30 min.

Go to our menu at the top left of the page and click on the week and right.

Together with each right you will also vinanbefalinger. (=wine selection or choice)

You can also email messages on our menu varying letter and receive weekly courses of vinanbefalinger.

Let us introduce our chefs:
It is the famous chef Heine Grov that has made our recipes.

Here he tells a little about themselves and their careers:

I started as an apprentice chef for Fleischer Hotels in Voss, and has since Monday been chef at Restaurant Enhjørningen in Bergen, Thime Station Mad and Vins Tove on Bryne, Solstrand Fjordhotell in Os, and most recently as chef and Primus motor brand vara Jæren kitchen on Jæren Hotels in Bryne.

Books:
New Mathefte in conjunction with the launch of the Jæren kitchen, together with Ruth Hege Holst (2002), The Jæren kitchen together with Målfrid Snørteland (2005).

Prices: I have a 4 space and a 7 place in NM for kokkar (1995 and 1998)
And became Bryne Velsen trivsel price in 2006 for work with Jæren Kitchen.

(Note: I think "prices" = "prizes" & "space" the same...)

Contact Info:
Smaksak Rogaland, 4352 Kleppe

Org. nr: 993 328 596
Tel: 995 80 586 post @smaksak.no

Photo from webpage...

Copyright Smaksak Rogaland DA.

This week's new law (?) contains tenderize pork and a delicious potato pure.

The right (?) comes with a vegetable mixture consisting of 6 different vegetables and gravy with red wine and sjalottløk. (lok =garlic or onion family) This right is gluten.

Vinanbefalinger: (=Wine Selection or Choice)

Casamatta Rosso 2007. Full bodied and fruity, aromas of dark berries, herbs and pine nuts. Price about 99 NOK, - from Italy

Price for 2 persons NOK 315 (latest exchange rate about $1 = about 7 Kroner)

(Note: you can order on-line with Visa/MasterCard...if you can manage all the Norwegian or poorly translated into English webpage--I would call them or e-mail them first...)

Stavanger Aftenblad newspaper article link under Media on webpage, read this subtitle...

Ikke noe hokus pokus

Translation attempt: "Does not use Hukus Pokus"--aka no 'magic' involved right?! Hah!
I love the Norwegian sense of humor when I can read it/get it?! ;o)

(?) someone else can help with these attempts at translations...

Personal Note: am more & more tired of attempting to cook as well, ID-ing food at the grocery, paying for said high priced food, trying to prepare said food in an oven I still don't know how to cook in (no sign of instructions, even on-line) & also way/Way expensive to take out or go out so is this an alternative? hmmm...I've not tried it, I'm awaiting other ExPats to give it a go first?! Either that or will await another vacation out of the country--French, Spanish, Italian, Greek food...mmm...

Please post comment when/if you try this gourmet home delivery service in Stavanger, thanks!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Barbarian Woman, Football Player, Alexander Kjelland


Photo: Norwegian Musuem of Cultural History 1927


Magnus Vigrestad


...a sculptor born & died in Stavanger, Norway 1887 - 1957 known for his statue of Alexander Kjelland overlooking the harbor with his top hat & cape standing nearly in front of the old medieval church/cathedral (Domkirke) in Stavanger Sentrum where there's usually a fruit & vegetable market on weekends at his feet...
4343434343434343

I've read (in translation again) that he did not get paid for this famous statue & did not attend the ceremony to dedicate/unveil the statue, since he didn't own any fine clothes & even when he was offered a suit to attend he declined & said basically if he couldn't come/was not worthy in his own clothes then he'd just rather stay away & so he did...

5656565656565656


One of his quotes in the translations:



"Eg måtte jo bli et herligt menneske, far min var tømmermann og mor mi het Maria" - from Wikipedia in Norwegian & elsewhere...



"I had to become a wonderful human, my father was a carpenter and my mother's name was Mary" - someone else has translated that quote to English...

4545454545454545





Photo: Erling Jensen
(Note: you can drive by this statue across from the Stadion & I have - now will have to go back & take my own photo another time, then I can change out both these photos...)


Other lesser known of his sculptures - the football player, made in remembrance of fallen athletes in WWII, & the bust of the painter, Kristian Marcelius Forland (that first "o" with a slash thru it, don't have a Norwegian keypad for that letter) 1891 - 1978 from Kvinesdal, Norway (have read this is in The National Gallery, which is in Oslo, Norway)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~






The Egeberg prize (Kammer Lord Egeberg) is given for Norwegian sports highest rating, it was made by the sculptor & is a bronze statuette in the image of an athlete with a laurel wreath on the body, carried forward by the two sports buddies. (have read elsewhere it's for those who excel in more than one sport & cannot find a photo of it, only prize winners with medals around their necks...)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
But my favorite & it seems little known & hardly posted anywhere...


Photo: Erling Jensen
(Note: somewhere I have taken one too & will post when I find it again)

This translated from Wikipedia, a short bio with pictures, from Erling Jensen 2008...

Magnus Vigrestad made a number of sculptures. Rogaland Kunstmuseum. Barbarkvinnen, 1913 is considered as one of his best works of art. Barbarkvinnen today in Mosvannsparken, at the café. (Barbarkvinnen = Barbarian Woman)



Also from another translation it mentions...he taught with an emphasis on purerly correct anatomy & natural...he shared the fate of a number of other talented artists that province after a promising start (only to) stagnate in the local environment...lost the desire to create...died in an accident 1 December 1957 (never having the experience of his Football Player put in place 1958)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This article in the local newspaper on-line of the largest media house, Norwegian Broadcasting - NRK Rogaland:

Stavanger municipality bought Vigrestad-figure


Stavanger kommune secured yesterday one of the bronze sculptures created by sculptor Magnus Vigrestad.



Descendents of Vigrestad sold last fourteen Vigrestad of sculptures, including three bronzes.

Published 04.11.2000 11:45.

Permalenke http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/rogaland/1.239714


Stavanger municipality bought the figure "The woman with the barrel" for forty one thousand dollars.



All three bronzes went to rogaland buyers, and one of the purchase were Per Inge Torkelsen.


Torkelsen has been involved to get to keep as many as possible of the illustrations in Rogaland.



Magnus Vigrestad is the artist who created the statue of Alexander Kielland's on the market in Stavanger.

A statue he never got paid for.


Note: there were not photos with this article...