Scandinavian food and recipes
Camilla Plum, co-owner of an organic farm outside of Copenhagen, shares Scandinavian tastes, broken down by group of ingredient, easy to recreate in your own kitchen. The Scandinavian Kitchen: 100 Essential Ingredients with over 200 Authentic Recipes # Hardcover: 272 pages # Publisher: Kyle Cathie (21 Oct 2010) # Language English # ISBN-10: 1856268713 # Retail Price: £25 With sections on...
Read moreFastelavn in Scandinavia will be celebrated, depending on the country, either today or on Tuesday. We celebrate with three important traditions; carnival, rich food and with decorating our homes with fastelavnsris, shown in the picture to the left. During the period of carnival all nurseries and schools in Scandinavia celebrate in one way or the other. The youngest children have a day of...
Read moreFreshly baked cinnamon buns and huge mugs with coffee or tea makes you instantly relax and enjoy your visit to the Nordic Bakery centrally placed between Picadilly Circus and Oxford Circus. They say: "We offer simple and savoury Nordic bakery products and serve them with uncomplicated and honest attitude." Wood paneled walls and more or less no decorations other than a lovely selection of...
Read moreOur girls loves helping out in the kitchen, beating eggs for pancakes etc. Oh, and the scale! They love measuring. The girls Reception teacher told us that actually helping out in the kitchen is practical maths. So lot's of reasons for allowing them to join in. I think the girls would have loved the hot pink butterfly scale by Rice. Not to sure what theScandinavianDad thinks about it though, even...
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Read moreIt was Beatrice's class cake sale today. These cake sales are fund raising events towards the PTA fund, which is all fine. My trouble is the cakes (especially the ready made cup cakes). It's certainly nothing I want the girls to have except at parties, and these cake sale seems to pop up a bit more frequently than what I would have liked them to do. Cakes and sweets are fine, but only at special...
Read moreI would say that this is a rather decorative sourdough starter. This weekend I made a few sourdough starters, and this is one of them, based on Bramley apple peels. It's about 250 grams of apple peel and 2 liter of water, all resting inside an vintage Norgesglass (in Norwegian). We frequently bake our own bread, but we have always used yeast. This time we are going to try something a bit...
Read moreSandkaker must be one of the easiest of all Christmas cookies, with only 4 ingredients and hardly any preparation before you start baking. Children can easily take part in the baking; Easy to mix everything together, no dangerous heating or long wait. © Little Scandinavian Sandkaker Christmas 2010The only ingredient that can take a while to prepare are the almonds, since you first have to remove...
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Brunkager is for us a new Christmas cookie, it is more of a Danish tradition and not very common in Norway. After being introduced to these sweet cookies by some friends we decided to make some ourselves. © Little Scandinavian Brunkager 2010 After a little bit of recipe research, and finding elements that we think would work, we had the following recipe. When it comes to Christmas cookie recipes...
Read moreLucia day in Scandinavia is on December 13th - a very special day in the Scandinavian calendar. Originally, St Lucia celebrated "the bearer of light" and the tradition today is still that a train of people dressed in white will walk in the dark bearing candles, singing Christmas carols. A girl is elected to portray Lucia, wearing a white gown with a red sash and a crown of candles on her head,...
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