HUNGRY GERALD

BSK is a creative (and satisfying) home cook. BSK can look at an unfamiliar ingredient, think about it, and then turn it into an original and super-tasty dish.  BSK’s musing means searching her memory and recalling a dish BSK tasted many decades ago and wants to replicate. That’s how BSK came up with Johansson’s Temptation. This was a dish that HG/BSK enjoyed while living in a spacious W. 79th St. rent controlled apartment decades ago (living room. dining room, kitchen, maid’s room. three large bedrooms, three bathrooms). The rent:$175-250 per month. Spectacular Hudson River and Palisades views. HG/BSK’s housekeeper/nanny was Swedish and she made Johansson’s Temptation and other Swedish treats that delighted HG/BSK. (Peaches, HG/BSK’s standard poodle, once gobbled a Swedish whipped cream dessert before HG/BSK could eat it. He was punished..) BSK found a recipe for the Temptation and cooked it—layers of anchovies and thinly sliced (Mandoline) potatoes, olive oil,lemon juice and a shower of dill. HG/BSK and wondrous granddaughter, Sofia, murmured with delight as they ate this golden oldie at the Freeman/Riva oceanfront home on Prince Edward Island. A sumptuous supper.