Patricia! In the Swedish calendar, your nameday is on the 16th of April. Did you know that? You know, in Sweden we like to celebrate, not only our birthday but our nameday too. It is an old tradition of attaching personal names to each day of the year in our calendar. The tradition originates from [...]

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Sweet beetroots add flavor and color to dishes. Now it is root vegetable season in Sweden. Carrots, white cabbage and beetroots are very low at price. I always cook a beetroot soup at this time of the year. A rich and healthy soup with lots of fibres, minerals and folic acid. My husband is a [...]

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Once the different parts of the human body became very cross with the stomach. They thought it had a too good time, lying there quietly in the middle of the body, having nothing else to do but enjoying all the good things, brought to it by the others. The hands did no longer want to [...]

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Whitsuntide. Weddings. Examinations. Christenings. Mother´s Day. Mother´s Day is always celebrated the last Sunday of May in Sweden. Our memorial day in honor of mothers originated in USA. Earlier a similar British tradition was called “Mothering Day” or “Mothering Sunday”; a celebration on the fourth Sunday in Lent for all those working young boys and [...]

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Linda at Mama´s Coffee Corner and Revka at RS Designs, recently began new blogs. They thought it would be fun to collaborate to create a kickoff contest. Linda is giving away your choice of either a selection of Brazilian goodies or a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate, and Revka is giving away a free custom header. [...]

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Here we are on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, the archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean. (Early explorers discovered a great many dogs on the islands, hence the name from the Latin canis, meaning dog). Originally inhabited by Berberlike peoples, known as Guanches. We are sitting in the cave restaurant Tagoror, Barranco de Guayadeque, having “papas [...]

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