It’s that time of year again when all of Norway is covered in blueberries. The other day I ran out of berries for my breakfast oatmeal, so I rerouted Alfie’s morning walk to the hillside behind our cabin in Vesterålen and sure enough there were plenty of blueberry bushes for me to pick from. This is also peak hiking season in Norway, so I decided to make some sweet blueberry buns to enjoy on my mountain hikes this week. These buns are made like kanelsnurrer, but instead of butter and cinnamon they are filled with blueberry jam, giving them a…
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Continue ReadingI love baking with seasonal ingredients, and probably the one season I look forward to the most is rhubarb season! I love simply stewing rhubarb with some sugar and eating it over yoghurt or ice cream – in fact I’ve been having this little dessert each night since the first…
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Continue ReadingThe 17th of May, Norway’s Constitution Day, is just around the corner, which has me thinking about all my favorite Norwegian cakes. I was tempted to make Kvæfjordkake, also called verdens beste (world’s best), which really is one of the best cakes in the world. But right now I’m staying…
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Continue ReadingFor the past 10 days I’ve been staying at an Airbnb outside of Sandnessjøen on the Helgeland coast in Northern Norway. When I arrived here my car struggled up the driveway that was covered in thick snow and ice, but now all of the snow has melted and I just…
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Continue ReadingI’ve been in Sweden for the past week, and when I saw how lovely the kitchen was at the cabin I stayed at in Harads I knew I should bake something special. It was -30C (-22F) outside, so I definitely wanted something with warm winter spices. I decided to bake…
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Continue ReadingSome of the cutest Swedish Christmas cookies are schackrutor, or chessboard cookies. These are simple but tasty little cookies made with chocolate and vanilla flavored dough, layered to look like a chess or checkerboard. But more recently I’ve been seeing Swedes add two half circles to their checkerboard cookies to…