Mmmmmh! Beef and pork puré with lung (and a little heart in there too)- lung mash! Just warm in a frying pan and ‘bob’s your uncle’. I bought this for the dog thinking it was fresh dog food. It looks like a thick sausage-shaped paté. The cutting-texture is a little like rough baloney but it [...]
This year I was on a mission to see the difference between julekake… …and julebrød. In past years they seemed to be the same to me but I never had them both at the same time to make a proper claim. So, this year I bought both a julekake and a julebrød together. And the [...]
Spring Onions can be very expensive in Norway. For just five sticks you normally pay between 20-30 kroner (US$4-6). But spring onions grow amazingly well here in Norway. This season I have only bought two bunches of spring onions from the store. When I used one I plopped the cut off into a small tub [...]
I read somewhere that you can grow carrots in milk cartons on your windowsill. Not on my sill, you can’t.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
A popular Summer activity in Norway is kayaking. The coast of Norway is dotted with thousands of little islands making the perfect conditions for a smooth paddle.
The bunad is a traditional Norwegian costume worn by both men and women. It can either come from established rural traditions or have a more modern design inspired by historical patterns and cuts.
The sun never goes down during this season but the mountains to the East are so high that the sun still has to raise above them in the morning hours and an artificial dawn-effect wakes the city.
How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD – and of course, this story is about love.
At full-moon the blue light almost looks electric. Our favourite jetty really knows how to surprise us for Christmas – especially with this ‘elfs-eye-view’.
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