The BEST episodes of New Scandinavian Cooking season 5
Every episode of New Scandinavian Cooking season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of New Scandinavian Cooking season 5!
The best of Nordic cuisine and culture come to life in New Scandinavian Cooking. The show broadens the scope of Scandinavian cuisine to encompass the delicacies and destinations of the entire Nordic region, including Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Greenland— and even brief forays to Iceland and the Cognac region of France. A rotating cast of Scandinavia’s best-known cooking personalities guide viewers through each adventure. These charming and enlightening hosts share the culinary highlights, history and unusual ingredients of Nordic cuisine. In each episode, one host embarks on a culinary adventure to intriguing locations in the Nordic countries and beyond before creating tantalizing recipes outdoors, against majestic backdrops.
#1 - The Rich South
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2007
This show takes us to the spectacular marshlands of the southern part of Jutland. Claus makes a cool Nordic salad of lamb and Roemoe shrimps with dark rye bread croutons. At the beautiful watergate right on the German border, he also prepares sausages and Claus investigates the rich pastry tradition of the region.
#2 - Food Where the Lilacs Bloom
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2007
This show takes us to Fåborg in early spring. Claus visits the stylish Steensgaard Manor, where he makes an unforgettable rhubarb trifle. We also go to the beach, where people gather to catch shrimps with fish nets. On the menu is barbecued beef and old-school, crispy croustades filled with Danish spring vegetables: asparagus, peas and pointed cabbage.
#3 - White Gold
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2007
This program takes us to the small islands of Samsø and Læsø. Claus discovers a 800 year old salt boiling tradition, and shares with us the very best recipe for "boiled potatoes". We also get to see the local crayfish catchers at work. The beautiful port of Vesterø is the backdrop when the crayfish is baked in salt with shallots and sweetened with local honey from a nearly lost species of bees. Claus also makes a delicious dish with the legendary Læsø Ham.
#4 - Cooking of Light
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2007
In this program, Claus goes to the beaches of The Skaw, the northernmost point of Denmark! He serves up some stylish fish cakes with rye bread and his own remoulade. He also visits the lively fish market before he sets up his kitchen in the chic port of The Skaw. Flatfish is on the menu, and he serves it with potatoes, butter sauce and pickled berries.
#5 - Sunny Strawberries and Golden Rapeseed Oil
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/2007
Claus takes us to the stunning island of Bornholm. Claus gets on his bike and heads down to the rocks. He sets up his barbeque and makes a surprising dish with herring, pickled green strawberries and mustard seeds. We visit a smokery before Claus serves a menu of golden pancakes, strawberries and a vanilla parfait that will not be easily forgotten.
#6 - A Dairy's Dream
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/9/2007
This program takes us to the north of Sealand in Denmark. Among cows grassing in the wild fields of the area, Claus meets a biodynamic farmer who loves his cows more than anything else. Claus makes several basic and delicious dairy dishes, and further investigates the local dairy traditions before he makes his own version of syllabub, with red berries and some of that famous Danish pastry.
#7 - The Lure of the Mountain
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/16/2007
Claus ventures to the neighbouring country of Norway. Not surprisingly, it is the lure of the mountains that brings him there. He travels by boat and before crossing the dividing stretch of Scandinavian waters he conjures up typical dishes of the North; Herring with potatoes, dill, butter and aquavit, and also a quick pickled herring with red onion, fennel and cumin. In the breathtaking Norwegian mountains, Claus goes hunting for grouse. Later, the bird is served with wild aphrodisiac mountain berries.
#8 - Stones and Pomes
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2007
Claus visits his own home region, the idyllic islands of the southernmost point of Scandinavia, where some of the most tasty and aromatic apples in the world are grown. His apple cake invention includes apple cider and apple syrup. In a small kayak, he paddles from the cider paradise of Fejø to the neighbouring island of Lilleø. He hand feeds a giraffe local fruit before inviting everyone at the island to taste his smoked eel with apples, Jerusalem artichokes, rye bread and Meyer's own balsamic apple cider vinegar.
#9 - Danish Brew
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/30/2007
Beer is at the centre of attention in this show: Danish beer history, the wave of new-born small scale breweries and a surprising cooperation between the tiniest and the largest brewery in the country. Our host takes a close look at Nordic style micro brewing and discusses biodiversity in the vegetable garden with the farmers wife. The first dish is rustic vegetable soup made with ecological vegetables - served at the beautiful Fuglebjerg farm. He also makes paté with pickled red beets mouth watering open sandwiches.
#10 - Sea Bed Soil
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/7/2007
Claus visits a pig farm and we learn about the inner workings of this intriguing business. Claus makes pork chops, a carrot drink with wild rowanberries and bakes celeriac in hay on an open fire in the very heart of this root vegetable paradise.
#11 - Waters of Shells
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/14/2007
Claus welcomes the first blue mussel catch of the year in the cold waters off the coast of Løgstør, Denmark. Every year the town is turned upside down when the mussel festival is taking place. Claus, of course, prepares some fantastic blue mussel dishes. He also makes a parsley oyster soup and a salad with Jerusalem artichokes, apples, chervil and berries.
#12 - Ice Water Cooking
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/21/2007
In this Arctic adventure, Claus goes all the way to Greenland. In the breathtaking landscape, Claus goes fishing for the famous Greenland shrimp and the ice fjord halibut, which he prepares with capers, crab meat and potatoes. He virtually dances with the musk ox before he turns the meat into a delicious tartar, and eventually, on the inland ice, makes a vodka-based drink with Greenlandic angelica and ice.
#13 - Cooking in the Woods
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/28/2007
This show brings us to the city of Aalborg. Next to an old Viking burial site, Claus prepares a hare paté and a pheasant with nuts and mushrooms. Later he goes hunting in the woods, drinks water from thousand year old springs and prepares a second game dish with a fantastic Brussels sprout purée, a sauce from heaven and some unforgettable double roasted garlic and rosemary potatoes.