Since starting this Norwegian food blog, I’m always asking my Norwegian friends which Norwegian foods I should share recipes for. And there are a few foods that everyone immediately mentions: vafler, fiskesuppe, and of course their beloved karbonader. Karbonader might be a bit less famous than their meatball cousins, but…
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Continue ReadingI had been waiting until Easter to bake a suksessterte (also called suksesskake and gulkake, or success cake in English), mostly because it’s a festive yellow, but I couldn’t wait any longer so I made it a few days early. But this way you’ll have time to get the ingredients…
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Continue ReadingAfter making Telemark lefse I still had a lot of semolina left over, and my first thought was that I should make semolina porridge (semulegrynsgrøt or simply semulegrøt in Norwegian). Norwegians love their porridge, which I guess makes sense for a cold country. Apparently at one point Norwegians used to…
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Continue ReadingWaldorf salad, or Waldorfsalat in Norwegian, was first created by Oscar Tschirky at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in 1893, however it became so popular in Norway that I now think of it as a Norwegian dish as well. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Waldorf…
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Continue ReadingWhile I was growing up my family spent every summer visiting my mother’s family in Telemark. And every summer I would be so excited to get to indulge in my favorite Norwegian food, including lefse with kling. Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made with flour and sometimes potatoes,…
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Continue ReadingScandinavians sure love their cinnamon buns, so it’s no surprise they have so many different variations of them. In Norway you’ll find kanelboller, skillingsboller, kanel i svingene, and kanelsnurrer – also called kanelknuter. These names are often used interchangeably, but kanelsnurrer and kanelknuter are usually slightly smaller buns twisted into…
