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.

Norwegian Hamburgers are a little different than the norm.  You still have a beef patty on a sesame seed bun but it is the other stuff the makes the Norwegian hamburger unique. The first thing you’ll notice when biting into a burger is the sauce.  Usually you’ll have your ketchup on top with the meat [...]

I’ve been making a lot of boller lately, so I’ve had to become creative with Norway’s little sweet bread to use all the surplus.  Boller make fantastic french toast.  The cardamum and cinnamon already in the bread make them fry perfectly.  We picked up some fresh nectarines (something that I’m only used to having at [...]