Category: Meal Type

  • Cardamom Hot Chocolate (Varm Sjokolade med Kardemomme)

    Cardamom Hot Chocolate (Varm Sjokolade med Kardemomme)

    There’s nothing quite like a cup of hot chocolate to warm you up in the cold of winter. There’s a certain decadence to it, and I like mine served alongside anything baked. And that’s when it hit me. Maybe I can have the best of both worlds in one cup.

    Norwegian baking and cardamom go together like bricks and mortar. Sugar & cream. Salt & pepper. Knives & forks…. I digress…. But in all honesty, the two are concurrent with each another. Where there is boller (buns), there is cardamom.  And when you enter into any bakery in Norway, you will be welcomed in by that sweet, aromatic scent.

    And so I thought, if I can’t have my boller and my hot chocolate, why can’t I have my hot chocolate inspired by boller. A creamy, subtly rich & flavorful cup of cocoa which will satisfy all on its own. So here it is, one of my favorite versions to warm up any cold winter’s day or night.

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  • Root Vegetable Soup with Crispy Fenalår

    Root Vegetable Soup with Crispy Fenalår

    Nothing is quite as warming as a winter vegetable soup. Hearty, packed with nutrients and piping hot. Norway has a long history with root vegetables.They are grown in many parts of the country and can generally be easily stored. Norwegians do have their favorites of course –  like rutabaga, carrots and potatoes – but more and more, others are being used more frequently in cooking, such as turnips, parsnips and beets. And the wonderful thing about vegetable soup is that you can use up what you have laying around and mix and match to your heart’s content.

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