baking and cooking when snowed-in

1-26--2-01-2026

FOOD  for days of SNOWED IN ----  some nordic food, a few winter stew, and a real treat of live shrimp from Asian Market 

French cheese 

French bread 

Norwegian pancake 

with apple and Norwegian goat cheese 

homemade Limpa: Swedish dark rye bread 

homemade baba ganoush

homemade pita bread 

lamb shank stew 

with daikon, mushroom, chickpeas and  tofu 

Lebanese eggplant relish 

 cod stew with potato and roasted red pepper

sauteed snow peas and beech mushroom

ramen with kimchi, pea leaves and mushroom

fried rice with egg and fresh soy beans 

vegetable soup with tofu puff 

roasted vegetables 

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fresh live small pink shrimp

rare find  and real treat 

poached with sake, fresh ginger and lime 

scale of a  sprig of rosemary '

hands on shelling,  paired with sake 

finished ... all shells and a empty bottle

a star is born

1-29-2017 Sun.  



WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- ( at W.S.'s) tea | star bread |  Chinese new year snack food 
DINNER --- Chinese festival food: beef, duck, chicken, seafood, greens. 

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•  Swedish star bread, freshly baked in the morning, to the Chinese New Year gathering a hundred miles away. 

Scandinavian baking

1-23-2016 Sat. snow and snow.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | homemade Swedish Limpa bread | cheese | apple | grapefruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea | sweet rice dumplings
DINNER --- baked hake casserole | simmered kale | boiled baby potatoes | wine || homemade Norwegian cookies 

• Norwegian and Swedish food goes with the deep snow scene out there 

A feast under the Midsummer maypole

6-26-2010 Sat. warm, rain and shine.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | fruit | bread | boiled egg | juice
DINNER --- ( at Thomas and Harry's cottage in Gnesta ) Jansson's temptation (scalloped potatoes,cream, onion and anchovies) | Swedish pickled herring and red onions | Swedish meat balls | sausage | smoked salmon | Swedish crisp bread || baked salmon with herbs | sour cream sauce | boiled potatoes | snaps | white wine || almond cream cake | coffee

a feast of Swedish traditional food

• a family reunion after many years. A great effort in cooking was made by Thomas. Truly a great and authentic Midsummer feast.
• the cottage sits near a lake in Gnesta, about one hour train ride from Stockholm, beautifully decorated. the garden has abundant flowers, fruit trees and berries.
  

cottage, heirloom lace, dinning room, antique stove, sauna

in the garden: goose berry, maypole, apple, flower