Onions. Photo of the Week #56

Aren’t these onions on the dark ground just the perfect illustration for autumn?

I’d use them in a stew of some kind – one that should be simmering all day. Or maybe for a French style onion soup like this one.
/anna

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Must!

Apples all around – at our Swedish house (in an area where they even have apple festivals), at home and by my uncle’s. So what to do with all those apples, besides pies, jellies and eating them raw? Must of course. Apple juice that is. So here is how it’s done:
After having located the nearest [...]

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Apples. Photo of the Week #52

It seems that the Danes are returning to tasty varieties of apples instead of just those shiny and huge ones that last forever. Until recently Granny Smith seemed to be the only apple around but now you can get Discovery, Ingrid Marie, Gråsten (Gravenstein), Cox Orange, Filippa and others. I think it’s wonderful to find [...]

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English Country Houses. Part 1. Chatsworth.

I promised you reviews of country houses in Britain and I will give you reviews of country houses in Britain. But first let me tell you two things: 1. Never go to Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the worst tourist trap I have ever seen (and I broke the UV-filter on my camera). 2. Go to the [...]

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Harvest. Photo of the Week #46

During the part of my summer vacation I spent in the Danish countryside I went on a fantastic picnic with my family. After sandwiches and cider we went for a walk along the fields where they were already harvesting.

It was a beautiful sight and I ache to escape the city again and go back to [...]

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Ilulissat. Greenland. And a Wedding

After having left Sisimiut, Greenland my Easter holiday continued in Ilulissat or Jakobshavn as the Danes call it. Ilulissat is situated in the Disco Bay as perfectly illustrated by my brother-in-law in this photo:

Just South of the city is the icefjord where the polar cap sends tons and tons of ice out into the sea [...]

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Spring Dish. Blinis with Lumpfish Roe.

One of the harbingers of spring in Denmark is the arrival of lumpfish roe (or as the Danes say: stenbiderrogn – I challenge you to pronounce that) in the stores. Same as caviar, but pink and not quite as expensive. I love it served Russian style with blinis. The nice thing is hardly the taste [...]

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Tea Room # 1. Konditori Hollandia, Malmö

I am a great cake fan and why not share my experiences with various tea rooms and confectioneries in Denmark and abroad? I have after all accumulated my pastry wisdom over many years…
We begin abroad, in the Swedish city of Malmö just across the water from Copenhagen. A nice little city that I visited last [...]

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A Week Later. Photo of the Week #25

I am still drinking hot chocolate here… More in need of it than ever having gone down with a serious cold. And the tulips looked even more gorgeous after a week and they just filled the house with a wonderful smell even I could detect with my poor disabled nose…

/anna

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February in a nutshell. Photo of the Week #24

While the birds begin to sing and the snowdrops make their way through the cold ground Denmark has had its first serious snowfall 2009 these past days. And it’s very cold – down to minus 13 last night. 
 
So this is what I do in order to keep warm and cosy while clinging to the spring [...]

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