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Easy Sourdough bread
Easy Sourdough bread My favorite sourdough bread is the Basic Country Bread a la Tartine, but It is time consuming. I have been trying to make a cheat version, with the same good result. This is the...
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Flødeboller - Cream Puffs
Flødeboller (Cream Puffs) are classic Danish treats. When I grew up, it were the go to treat we handed out in school at our birthdays. But it were there store bought kind, The past 15-20 years...
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Piccalilli - Pickles
Piccalilli. Pickles, Piccalilli or chow chow, this delicious condiment is called different thing, in different places. Growing up it was a weird sour mustardy thing my dad loved, but as an adult I...
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No-Cook Tomato Sauce
Spaghetti with no-cook tomato sauce. Some of my neighbors gifted me some beautiful tomatoes from their yard. Right away I knew that I had to try making the no-cook tomato sauce, I had found on the Bon...
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Almond Horn - Nøddehorn
Almond horns - Mandelhorn These horns are one of my husbands favorites, and somehow I just got around to bake them today. It took a pandemic before I made these for him. Poor guy. This is basically a...
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Blueberry & White Chocolate Scones
Blueberry & White Chocolate Scones I love scones, especially when they are light and fluffy. Maybe it’s wrong, to talk about a light scone, given they contain a lot of butter and cream 😁 But these...
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Coffee Creme Brûlée
Coffee Creme Brûlée Creme Brûlée is one of my favorite desserts, when made right. The custard have to be velvety smooth with a nice crusty caramel on top. I like my Creme Brûlée to be a thin layer of...
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Boneless Birds / Benløse Fugle
Classic Boneless Birds. Boneless Birds is an old Danish classic, that you nowadays would call mormormad or Grandma food. It’s old school meat and potato food with a brown gravy. It’s a good comfort...
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Cauliflower Salad with Apples & Almonds
Cauliflower Salad with Apples & Almonds. I found this recipe one one of my favorite Danish food blogs, Valdemarso. It’s a great everyday salat with lots of taste and texture. I lowered the amount...
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Spinach and Feta Pie a la Spanakopita
Spinach and Feta Pie a la Spanakopita This is a simplification of the traditional Greek Spanakopita, a spinach feta pie or hand pie. It’s perfect for a lunch or light dinner. The crispness of the filo...
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Preserved Cherries - Syltede Kirsebær
Preserved Cherries, here on some Risalamande. 2020 has been a strange year, we all had to adapt and have to live without a lot of things we take for granted. A lot of parties and gatherings were...
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Fedtebrød - Danish Coconut Shortbread
Fedtebrød - Danish Coconut Shortbread. These coconut shortbreads are one of the easiest cookies to make. But it doesn’t mean that they lack flavor or delicacy. They have a short snap, and almost melts...
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Mrs. Cross’s Christmas Syrup Cake - Sirupslagkage
Mrs. Cross’s Christmas Syrup Cake - Sirupslagkage. This type of cake was one of my mom’s favorites. She always told a story about getting a syrup layer cake at a friends house, where the buttermilk...
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Pleated Christmas Heart Cookies
Pleated Christmas heart cookies The pleaded or weaved heart is quintessential Christmas for Danes. The pleaded Christmas heart is said to contributed to the Danish Storyteller H.C. Andersen. The...
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Danish Pancakes version 2 - Crepes
Danish pancakes. Danish pancakes are thin like crepes, and is kinda of a dessert. But in my family we occasionally had pancakes for dinner. Maybe not an healthy option, but it was not on a regular...
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Cinnamon Custard Rolls
Cinnamon Custard Rolls I totally forgot about custard cinnamon rolls, until I stumbled upon a picture of them when browsing on Pinterest. Then I decided to try to make my version, with a vanilla...
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Fastelavnsboller - Lent Buns
Fastelavnsboller, Lent Buns. Fastelavnsboller comes in many shapes and sizes. There are the pastry kind, filled with custard, or a fruit jam, the choux pastry kind, filled with a custard or another...
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Homemade Vanilla Bean Paste
Homemade Vanilla Bean Paste When I first moved to California, one of the things I had a hard time finding, was vanilla beans. In Denmark I never used vanilla extract, only real vanilla beans or...
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Lagkagebunde version II - Sponge Cake
Lagkagebunde - Sponge Cake Danes have Birthday cakes like everyone else, and it’s called a lagkage or layer cake. It is made up of layers of sponge cake with some kind of filling between the layers....
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Hasselback Potatoes
Hasselback potatoes is a Swedish dish invented in the 1950’s created at the Hasselbacken restaurant in Stockholm. And they were very popular during the 70’s and 80’s, but do no deserve to be...
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