I almost don’t want to share this skoleboller recipe because I’m pretty sure the main reason my American friends visit me in Norway is to eat skoleboller. And I don’t fault them for that, because skoleboller probably accounted for 90% of my decision to move to Norway. But you can,…
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Continue ReadingKanelboller, or cinnamon buns, are a Norwegian classic that often gets overlooked these days in favor of fancier cream filled cinnamon rolls or twisted kanelsnurrer. And I completely understand this, because sometimes kanelboller can be boring, or even dry and flavorless. But when done right, I’d argue that kanelboller are…
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Continue ReadingSince 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…
