In the Scandinavian countries the flesh of crayfish (craw-fish or crawdad) is considered a great delicacy. I don´t have the possibility to catch my own, very few people have, and Swedish crayfish are very expensive. Imported crayfish are low at price. They are on sale all year round. Arranging a crayfish party in August has [...]

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Oh no! Not another pesto recipe, you say. Well, perhaps not, or….. A Swedish Blogger friend of mine has a green house. Some weeks ago she asked for an-easy-to-make pesto recipe containing no odd ingredients. She had grown monstrous basil plants, and didn´t know what to do with all the leaves those basil plants produced. [...]

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Pizza – pasta – pancietta – gelato – panini – limoncello – bruschetta – prosciutto – and more …. Now I am back home from Italy. I am back home from Rome, where I have spent some lovely weeks. Well, the hot weather was not always enjoyable. The well equipped apartment at 4th floor of [...]

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Midsummer Eve always falls on the third Friday in June. It is a survival of Teutonic pagan festivals celebrating the summer solstice. Also known as St. John´s Eve. Celebrations continue into Midsummer Day. I am not going to bore you with any details about the traditions of Swedish Midsummer. You can read about them here4 [...]

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I was going to bake this cake in April. We had invited guests for dinner. I needed ripe passion fruits at once. The perfect coffee cake, I thought. However, the passion fruits were hard as stones and looked more or less like purple plums. How long would it take for them to ripen? A week [...]

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Greeks view the olive, the bread and the wine as symbols of life. The olive, the fruit of the sacred tree, is processed in many ways. Oiled or vinegared, they accompany practically all dishes. Bread is a necessary accompaniment to all meals. Often bread is served with Feta Cheese. Feta, which has been known in [...]

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