Farmor loves growing her black currants.  They have a prime spot in the front yard right next to the potato field.  At the end of Summer you’ll find Farmor in the middle of the thicket picking every last one.  The black currants have a very important job – they provide the family with enough home-made [...]

It’s watermelon season!  Not that Norway grows watermelons but the shops are packed with the bowling ball fruit at the moment.  (I’ve always had a secret desire to carve three finger-holes in my watermelon and just bowl that thing down the driveway into a ten pin of pineapples.) It is a little weird for me [...]

Farmor’s kitchen is a great place to be. There is always something cooking in the oven and always some yummy treat on the table. The kitchen is the family’s gathering place, where the kids colour-in and help Farmor make boller buns and the bigger kids sit by the wood-fire oven and have great conversation. We [...]

Norway has a good bottle recycling system to help prevent bottle litter. When buying a bottled drink you not only pay for the drink but you also pay extra for the bottle. This means that the shelf price is only for the drink and when you go to the check out an extra kr 1,- [...]