My Little Norway

Buying Food in Alta

L-Jay — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:58:10 +0000

Buying food in Alta can be ‘hit-and-miss’. Most fruit and vegetables are old, soft and colourless in the stores. I was lucky to finally get a mango that was decent after three years in Norway. I celebrated with a fruit salad and yoghurt breakfast. Most often food is of poor quality....

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Just Dropping By

Moose — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:35:32 +0000

Each autumn our farm becomes a major layover-stop for hungry and weary travelers as large flocks of greylag geese migrate south for the winter. These large birds seem to have made it a tradition to use our field as their roadside diner. This morning, several hundred of them had landed for a rest...

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Going Hay-Wire

L-Jay — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:28:37 +0000

The traditional way of drying hay in Norway is to rake it into a bundle and hang it over a line to air dry. This method was only succeeded by silage (fermented grass in the marshmallow balls) 15 years ago. When Moose was a lad the hay was mowed down with a tractor and then [...] Related...

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Rice-Porridge Pancakes

L-Jay — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:01:06 +0000

Rice-porridge Pancakes, or ‘rislapper’ in Norwegian, is a traditional ‘left overs’ recipe of day old rice porridge mixed with pancake batter. The batter is fried in a pan just like pancakes and eaten with jam. These pancakes are softer and a little more moist than regular...

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Strawberry Patch

L-Jay — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:49:48 +0000

Farmor has a great little strawberry patch in the front yard and this year I’ve assigned myself to make sure we get as many strawberries as possible. The season hasn’t been very good to us – cold and cloudy – so the berries would likely be few and small but I thought...

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