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Little A’s best pancake recipe

November 18, 2011 by Scandinavian mum

Little A was home from school last week, with a cold. When she wasn’t busy cuddling up in the sofa with a book she was making her favourite dish, yummy vanilla pancakes. It’s lovely to see how much fun she had in the kitchen! And the self confidence they gain with it -When serving the yummy lunch she proudly proclaimed she wanted to write a cook book! TBC…

© Little Scandinavian. Little A’s wearing a bamboo and cotton set from Lilleba.no and home knitted wool slippers. Lilleba is available in the UK at Nordic Kids

Little A’s best pancake recipe
Pancakes is probably my best recipe and I can more or less make them on my own.

Ingredients
3 eggs
3/4 pint of milk
1 cup of plain flour
1 pinch of salt
2 teaspoons Vanilla Sugar
50 g melted butter

Method
Firstly -wash your hands and put on a apron. I also need a small chair to stand on the kitchen.
1. You’ll need someone grown up to help you melting the butter and frying the pancakes.
2. Mix the eggs, poor in the milk and stir.
3. Add flour, salt and vanilla sugar, stir well.
4. Add melted butter.
5. Fry in butter, until golden on each side.

Enjoy warm with sugar, home made strawberry jam or why not my favourite, vanilla ice cream and blueberry jam!


© Little Scandinavian. Little A’s pancakes with lots of eggs and vanilla sugar.

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Shirley Bredal very best cookie recipe and knits for AW11

November 16, 2011 by Scandinavian mum

First things first -the Danish designer based in Kathmandu have delivered yet another gorgeous unique little collection of knits for AW11. vailable at one of our favourite shops, lillefigaro.eu You can also follow Shirley’s life and living in Kathmandu via her blog.




And now, to Shirley’s very best cookie recipe -something we haven’t yet but will be trying out within the next few days!

Ingredients
450g plain flour
1.5 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
225g unsalted butter, melted
330g dark brown soft sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2 eggs
180 g dark chocolate (melted with the butter)
60 g walnuts, chopped
oat, only a little for structure

Method
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Mix all the ingredients together until just blended, it’s as easy as it sounds.
3. Drop cookie dough onto the prepared baking trays, with each cookie around 4 tablespoons of dough, making approx 12 cookies altogether. Do not flatten the dough. Cookies should be about 8cm apart.
4. Bake in the oven for 12-13 minutes.

The result should be giant chewy yummy cookies -best of luck! I’ll post pics as soon as mine is finished!

And when Shirley will be visiting London in January I’ll invite her over for Norwegian style “krumkaker”. Recipe to follow soon!

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Warm walnut bread for breakfast

October 30, 2011 by Scandinavian dad

Having warm freshly baked bread for breakfast is great, and a bread filled with rich tasty walnuts makes it even better. Ever since I grew up, has bread been an important part of the daily meals. In most parts of Scandinavia are the breakfast still considered the most important meal of the day, and families tend to sit down together around the kitchen table to start the day with a few slices of bread.

Walnut sourdough bread

We still make breakfast the same way as we did when we lived in Norway, but it hasn’t always been easy to find good handmade bread, so what better excuse do you need for making your own bread. Not only do you know exactly what ingredients have been used, but you can also experiment to get just the type of bread you love.

One of these breads for us is a walnut sourdough bread, the basis for the bread could be almost any kind of white sourdough bread or a bread made with a rye starter. Just remember that the amount of white flour should be a lot higher than for example rye, as the rye taste would overwhelm the walnut taste.

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Basic sourdough bread

October 23, 2011 by Scandinavian dad

Baking is something which has always fascinated me, ever since we had cooking lessons in school and when baking christmas cakes at home. Making pizza has always been a favorite and a hit with the girls, while bread making has been more of an occasional habit, until earlier this year when we started making sourdough based bread.

It is something more real about bread made without any artificial ingredients, no special yeast or other additives, just flour, water and salt, after all the sourdough is just flour and water. By allowing the bread to slowly develop we also create a far better tasting end result.

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A beautiful start

January 16, 2011 by Scandinavian dad


I would say that this is a rather decorative sourdough starter. This weekend I made a few sourdough starters, and this is one of them, based on Bramley apple peels. It’s about 250 grams of apple peel and 2 liter of water, all resting inside an vintage Norgesglass (in Norwegian).

We frequently bake our own bread, but we have always used yeast. This time we are going to try something a bit different, sourdough. During our time in Norway we always bought sourdough based bread from our local bakery, Åpent bakeri, and this is also where I have picked up the recipe.

If everything goes as planned, I’ll be able to share the first results in 2-3 weeks, wish me luck :)

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Utterly delicious dessert for autumn

October 17, 2010 by Scandinavian mum

Tilslørte Bondepiker (Norwegian) ”farmers daughters dressed in veils” or Änglamat (swedish) “Angel’s food” is a traditional Scandinavian dessert.

Ingredients:
The apple compote
6 cooking apples peeled, cored and cut into cubes
1 dl sugar
½ dl water

The breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 cups fresh breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

The whipped cream
3 dl double cream
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar

Method:
1. Place apples in a large pan, add water and sugar. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, until soft. Cool.

2. Heat the butter in a pan and add breadcrumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Stir until golden brown. Set aside and cool.

3. Make whipping cream.

4. Spoon apple compote, breadcrumbs and cream in layers in 4 glasses. Serve cold.

This recipe of wonderful homemade apple compote, toasted spiced breadcrumbs and sweet whipped cream, serves 4 happy people. For us, this is the dessert of all desserts -Enjoy and God Apetitt!

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Farikal, lamb and cabbage stew

October 4, 2010 by Scandinavian mum

This stew is a popular meat dish from Norway, actually so popular that it was voted to be Norway’s national dish back in the 70′s and I would say that this hearty dish is more popular than ever, with lamb and cabbage layered and stewed with peppercorns and salt, slow cooked until tender, then served with potatoes. Beer is the best option alongside this dish and for the true Vikings there is the Norwegian snaps, Aquavit!
Farikal has it’s own yearly day; The Day of the Farikal. This year we celebrated the day of the farikal the 30th of September.

Ingredients:
1kg lamb/mutton
1,5 kg cabbage
0.5 l water
whole black peppercorns and salt to taste

Method:
1. Arrange a layer of sliced lamb in the bottom of a Dutch oven or soup pot. Top with a layer of cabbage. Repeat layering as many times as you can. Tie the peppercorns into a small piece of cheesecloth, and place them in the center of the casserole. Pour the water over all, and cover with a lid.

2. Bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 2,5 hours. We usually boil the potatoes in the stew at the end to get more out of fantastic taste of meat and vegetables. Remove the package of peppercorns before serving.

This recipie serves 4, but do invite friends around and increase the ingredients accordingly. This is perfect food to share with friends on a cold autumn night, simple and so tasty!

God Apetitt og Skål!

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Norwegian Apple Cake

September 9, 2010 by Scandinavian mum

Today’s recipe is a moist apple cake that makes the whole house smell delicious! With only 15 minutes preparation time it’s fabulous and foolproof –simply perfect for this time of the year and especially on a rainy day!

Ingredients:
3 large Bramley apples
125 g butter
125 g caster sugar
125 g flour (strong white)
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
50 g ground almonds
3 tbs brown sugar
1 tbs icing sugar

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Grease a deep 24cm springform cake tin.
2. Peel, core and cut the apples into 1cm pieces.
3. Using an electric hand whisk or stand in mixer, cream together the soft butter and caster sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth. Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl.
4. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Toss the apples on the mixture fairly evenly. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon and then spread the grounded almonds. Finish of with a thin layer of icing sugar on top before you place the baking tin in the oven.
5. Bake in the oven for 30 – 40 minutes. It should be golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. If the cake starts to look a little too brown, cover with a sheet of baking paper after about 45 minutes.
6. Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Serve warm with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream if desired.

The Norwegian Apple Cake serves 10 so invite friends, or why not your neighbours, over for tea.

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Norwegian lazy breakfast – Waffles

September 1, 2010 by Scandinavian mum

It’s still holiday and as we are enjoying those lazy mornings where you are slowly woken up by the sunshine.
As a holiday treat we made Norwegian waffles today. Served with home made strawberry jam, recipe here: Strawberry Jam

Scandinavian style waffles are thin, made in a heart-shaped waffle iron. The batter is similar to other varieties. The most common style are sweet, with whipped or sour cream and strawberry or raspberry jam, or berries, or simply sugar, on top. In Norway, brown cheese is also a popular topping.

This is our favourite recipe

Ingredients:
2 eggs, beaten
1 dl sugar
2 dl buttermilk
1.5 dl whole milk
1 dl water
350 g flour (strong white)
1 tsp. salt
1 tbs vanilla sugar
0.5 tbs cardamom
1 tbs baking powder
125 g melted butter

Method:
1. Make a smooth batter with all the ingredients. Set for 15 minutes before cooking in a waffle maker -Enjoy!

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Sweet Cherry summer dress

July 12, 2010 by Scandinavian mum

I have cherries on my mind… Need to search for cherry recipes -as there is cherries everywhere in our kitchen after a Cherry Picking event at friends house yesterday!
Let me know if you have some you want to share!

Meanwhile let me present this sweet cherry dream dress from Swedish label plastisock.

A sophisticated A-line style dress with a cheeky print in bright colours – this stunning summer dress is perfect for cherry picking girls!

Available at Nordic Kids £20.99

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