I’m sorry I couldn’t wait. This cake was so yummy I had to take a bite (or a couple) before I could take a photo. We had Sunday dinner at Tante and Onkels place. Dinner was inspired by the season’s best. Fårikål was the main course with Autumn lamb and new potatoes made by none [...]
A Troika in Norway is a special chocolate bar – a layer of marzipan, a layer of chocolate truffle and a layer of raspberry jelly dipped in chocolate to hold it together. It is very thin and compact similar in texture to a Cherry Ripe or a Wonka Bar. As it’s my birthday we thought [...]
In Norway, there are still Lefse recipes around from the 1630s! This is supposedly the traditional and original Hardanger recipe used:
Norwegians like to have their cake and eat it too. The carrot cake may not be the Norwegianest of cakes, but Norwegians have embraced it as a way of pigging out and eating healthy at the same time. So much that the carrot cake has dethroned the good old chocolate cake as the standard of [...]
Picture from FacebookCurling is one of the more obscure events in the Winter Olympics, but is still one of the many events where Norwegians seem to excel.
The further ‘out of the way’ you go the more common it is to see folk cottages standing by the side of roads, along fjords or in a thicket of trees, minding their own business.
Today herding reindeer is synonymous with the Sami culture. It is recently thought that the Vikings were the first people to herd reindeer.
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Large wooden racks called hjell are for drying fish.
It’s always fun to take kids to the beach.
There is always something beautiful waiting for us around the corner.