Celebrate National Fårikål day with us. On the last Thursday of September every year Norway celebrates their national dish with, of course, all you can eat fårikål!
I prefer giving Lilu home-made baby food but sometimes when we are out and about it’s easier to have a few jars of store-bought baby food on hand. The selection of baby food is quite small here in Norway but it’s always interesting. The Norwegian brand Tine makes some good old fashioned food in a [...]
Norway is covered in mountains. Rather than going over them, Norwegians prefer to go through them. So advanced is the Norwegian tunnel-making technology that tunnels are built with turns, u-turns, round-a-bouts, car parking and turning spots specifically for trucks! In fact, Tromsø City has an underground network that reaches all corners of the island. It [...]
No use waiting for the weekend, every time I opened the fridge the blueberries we picked were crying out to me ‘eat us… eeeat us’. … It’s a waiting game though – if we pick now not all the blueberries will be ripe but if we wait too long a passer-by might beat us to it.
In Norway, there are still Lefse recipes around from the 1630s! This is supposedly the traditional and original Hardanger recipe used:
Table settings are very much a part of the tradition of serving cake.
Norwegian dogs were born with a purpose. They were bred to be hunting dogs, herding dogs and farm dogs.
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Norwegians are starting to get adventurous with cooking on the barbie.
Our family activities have become traditional to the seasons…
A lonely mountain on the edge of the Finnmark Plateau.