This recipe (below) is to die for.  But Norwegian cupcakes?  Norway is certainly not known for the cupcake.  The cupcake is a new addition to Norwegian pop-culture cooking.  Thanks to the popularity of the Cupcake Girls on TV, cupcake recipes are splashing all over foodie mags and cookery shows.  They have  skipped altogether the humble [...]

It has been two weeks since we collected the chicks from the airport and there have been no deaths.  In fact, the chicks are very strong and curious.  The jærhøns wings are quite developed at two weeks and they fly!  I’ve read that jærhøns are ‘flighty’ but no one has really made it clear just [...]

Call me crazy but I think my dog’s food looks so yummy that I just have to take pictures of it.  I never used to make such food for dogs.  Dry pellets and/or canned wet food was the norm for me.  I would always buy a breeder brand for quality and throw in some stripped [...]

I was a little excited about this one.  Norwegians are good liquorice eaters.  They have salty liquorice, sweet liquorice and even liquorice chewing gum.  I’ve offered my dance kids black jelly beans and they’ve gobbled them down without even the ‘ewww, liquorice’ I’m used to hearing from Aussie kids. Liquorice ice cream would normally be [...]