Elderflowers are some of the first flowers you can harvest in the spring in Norway. The season is quite short, but typically you will find them in late May through June. They grow on trees and produce beautiful white flowers with a gorgeous floral scent. There are so...
Today is my birthday so I started my day with a shot of aquavit. Ok, Iโm only partly kidding, as I needed to taste the homemade aquavit Iโve been brewing for the past week, to see if it was fit to be bottled. And Iโm happy that today it was just perfect! Iโve been a...
After living in the United States for three decades, I have finally learned to appreciate the pumpkin. I love carving them out for Halloween and to see everybody's decoration with these glorious vegetables around my neighborhood and around the state of New York, but...
Todayโs recipe is not mine but one that was created by pastry chef Elin Nilsen of krem.no who is an amazing Norwegian baker and food blogger. I tried her recipe out recently as I was researching more modern Norwegian recipes for matpakke, a Norwegian word for packed...
There are few fruits as exquisite as Norwegian plums. They taste far better than any imported plums, yet the season in Norway is super short with availability during the month of August and September only. Norway has planted plums since the 18th century (possibly...
Gahkko or gรกhkku is a traditional thick and soft flatbread, reminiscent of Norwegian polarbrรธd and also often goes by the name klappekake. The gรกhkku dough is flavored with anise or fennel seeds and sweetened with a little syrup. Festive breads were often flavored as...
February 6th we celebrate the Sรกmi National Day in Norway. The Samรญ people are the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and parts of Russia (the Kola Peninsula). Norway is home to about half of the total Sami population, approximately 40,000 people. ...
This a repurposed blog from a previous post I published back in January of 2013 before I turned vegan. I've wanted to make a vegan version of the amazing and popular sweet rolls Norwegians are known for, called skolebrรธd or skoleboller, depending on where in the...
Being Norwegian, I am not lacking in ideas of what to do with potatoes. As Iโve mentioned before in my previous posts, where would Norway be without potatoes? We seem to eat it with practically every meal, as this is an easy crop to grow in a cold weather...
A big reason why I started this blog, was to research and share information, not just Norwegian recipes but their origins, the history of our food, and more importantly, whyย certain recipes came about. Today's dish is so old school I suspect younger people in Norway...
Elderflowers are some of the first flowers you can harvest in the spring in Norway. The season is quite short, but typically you will find them in late May through June. They grow on trees and produce beautiful white flowers with a gorgeous floral scent. There are so...
Today is my birthday so I started my day with a shot of aquavit. Ok, Iโm only partly kidding, as I needed to taste the homemade aquavit Iโve been brewing for the past week, to see if it was fit to be bottled. And Iโm happy that today it was just perfect! Iโve been a...
After living in the United States for three decades, I have finally learned to appreciate the pumpkin. I love carving them out for Halloween and to see everybody's decoration with these glorious vegetables around my neighborhood and around the state of New York, but...
Todayโs recipe is not mine but one that was created by pastry chef Elin Nilsen of krem.no who is an amazing Norwegian baker and food blogger. I tried her recipe out recently as I was researching more modern Norwegian recipes for matpakke, a Norwegian word for packed...
There are few fruits as exquisite as Norwegian plums. They taste far better than any imported plums, yet the season in Norway is super short with availability during the month of August and September only. Norway has planted plums since the 18th century (possibly...
Gahkko or gรกhkku is a traditional thick and soft flatbread, reminiscent of Norwegian polarbrรธd and also often goes by the name klappekake. The gรกhkku dough is flavored with anise or fennel seeds and sweetened with a little syrup. Festive breads were often flavored as...
February 6th we celebrate the Sรกmi National Day in Norway. The Samรญ people are the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and parts of Russia (the Kola Peninsula). Norway is home to about half of the total Sami population, approximately 40,000 people. ...
This a repurposed blog from a previous post I published back in January of 2013 before I turned vegan. I've wanted to make a vegan version of the amazing and popular sweet rolls Norwegians are known for, called skolebrรธd or skoleboller, depending on where in the...
Being Norwegian, I am not lacking in ideas of what to do with potatoes. As Iโve mentioned before in my previous posts, where would Norway be without potatoes? We seem to eat it with practically every meal, as this is an easy crop to grow in a cold weather...
A big reason why I started this blog, was to research and share information, not just Norwegian recipes but their origins, the history of our food, and more importantly, whyย certain recipes came about. Today's dish is so old school I suspect younger people in Norway...