This is one of our family favorites.  We only ever have it in blueberry season which makes it even more special and you certainly can’t beat collecting your own wild blueberries.  It makes the whole recipe taste that much better.  (But, of course, shop bought ones can work just fine.) We use a regular home-made [...]

Buying food in Alta can be ‘hit-and-miss’.  Most fruit and vegetables are old, soft and colourless in the stores.  I was lucky to finally get a mango that was decent after three years in Norway.  I celebrated with a fruit salad and yoghurt breakfast. Most often food is of poor quality.  Fungus, mold and squishiness [...]

Rice-porridge Pancakes, or ‘rislapper’ in Norwegian, is a traditional ‘left overs’ recipe of day old rice porridge mixed with pancake batter.  The batter is fried in a pan just like pancakes and eaten with jam.  These pancakes are softer and a little more moist than regular pancakes but they are still lovely and fluffy.

Farmor has a great little strawberry patch in the front yard and this year I’ve assigned myself to make sure we get as many strawberries as possible.  The season hasn’t been very good to us – cold and cloudy – so the berries would likely be few and small but I thought I’d give it [...]