Tag: Norwegian cuisine
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Høstsuppe: Butternut squash, Sweet Potato & Ginger Soup
As Autumn is coming, with its beautiful red-orange-yellow colours and its new seasonal vegetables, here is a recipe for all of those who want to start, already, to make things warm and koselig. Not only are pumpkins a seasonal vegetable coming back in your shops, the ginger will spice it all up and keep…
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Another Odd Norwegian Scandal: Purreløk i Plast
If you’ve been reading the newspapers lately you noticed that there are pictures of leeks all over the place (purreløk = leek in English = poireau in French). This seems just like another vegetable, you would think. Right now in Norway it THE current storm because Bama, a Norwegian company, started selling leeks individually in…
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My Kick-Ass Brownie Recipe (This involves chocolate and happy Norwegians)
This recipe is not fusion food between French pastry and Norwegian blødkake. This is just the most appreciated cake (ever) by all Norwegians I know who’ve tasted it. And believe me, I have tried again and again to impress them with profiteroles, lemon tarts, chestnut and coconut cupcakes, organic carrot cakes, and so on and…
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Recipe: Sarah Bernard Norwegian Style
Making Norwegian patisserie and konfekt as they call it here can take ages (just imagine how much time it takes to make blødkake, with all the layers and the cream, and the marsipanlokk). Anyway, this time I’ve tried matprat’s Sarah Bernard’s recipe and made a few modifications while also writing it in English. This recipe…
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Oppskrift: Eksotisk Elgboller – Recipe: Exotic Moose Meatball
If my grand mother had moose meat available where she lives (Paris), this is how she would cook Norwegian’s famous elgboller (moose meatballs). The recipe of meatballs is inspired by Moroccan and Algerian and French cuisine. (Cette recette existe aussi en francais). I made these in Oslo and my Norwegian friends who tasted them said…
