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Pfeffernüsse or Danish Pebernødder

Don’t worry! You can still make it – and add these fantastic, good tasting pfeffernüsse or Danish Pebernødder to your Christmas baking. These cookies are small, crispy and spicy with a touch of white pepper – from where the name has it origin – and they will for sure disappear fast, if you have kids in the house.

Vanilla Butter Ring Cookies

Vanilla Butter Ring Cookies or Vanillekranse, is one of my favorite cookies. They are normally made and served during December for Christmas celebration and is a part of the huge traditional assortment of Danish Christmas cookies. The cookies are sweet, crispy and crunchy from the chopped almonds and goes perfect to a hot glass of mulled…

Mulled Wine or Danish Glögg Extract

In December “hygge” is… to enjoy a hot glass of good smelling, nice tasting, homemade mulled wine, or Glögg as we call it in Denmark, with all our family and friends! Mulled wine or Glögg is basically just a spiced and sweetened, heated wine and I can not imagine a Christmas without that and ebelskivers – and both…

Almonds with Rosemary

Almonds with Rosemary… my absolute favorite in this writing moment! Not only are they fast to make, they are also a nice, healthy snack – as we all need in this joyful wintertime with Thanksgiving, cookies and Christmas around the corner! Did you know that almonds has extremely high health benefits?

Afraid of the dark?

Have you ever tried to be afraid of the dark? There is nothing more frightened for kids than the dark!

Tomato Salsa

I’m just so tired of the store bought versions of Tomato Salsa! Every time I buy it, I really believe that this time it will taste so much better than the previously – but every time I end up disappointed and with a very watery non-tasting boring kind of “salsa”. And the crazy thing is, that it’s actually…

Espresso Overnight Oats with Chia

Here I go again – with my never ending love to overnight oats – and coffee. (heehee…) – Can a breakfast, snack or lunch-combination be better and more healthy? I think not! ;o) I know that you feel so much more healthy when you eat oats for your breakfast – am I right? -and combining…

Lump Cakes or Danish Klatkager

When you say Rice Porridge you also has to say Lump Cakes or Danish Klatkager. Those goes hand in hand. When we make Rice Porridge, we always makes sure there is enough left overs, so we can have Lump Cakes the day after!

Rice Porrridge Cooked in Oven

Do you sometimes want dinner (or dessert) to be easy, child friendly – and cheap too!? I can recommend rice porridge. In Denmark rice porridge is normally served in December leading up to Christmas (we call it Santa’s favorite food!) – but we’re enjoying it all year round – and sometimes once a week!

Tapioca Porridge with Lemon and Vanilla

Its getting colder outside, and today my kids wanted Rice Porridge sprinkled with cinnamon-sugar and topped with a big spoonful of butter in the middle, to warm themselves up with. But I didn’t have the rice to use and instead I decided to introduce them to a childhood favorite; Tapioca Porridge!

Lemon Salt

This easy Lemon Salt is so delicious useful in almost every meat or fish dish or on your salad. So, on this, my seventh suggestion on what to use your wonderful lemons for, you now get two easy recipes on how to make your own Lemon- or Lime Salt.

Muffins with Lemon and Poppyseeds

Do you feel like Muffins with Lemon and Poppyseeds? I do – and these delicious muffins drizzled with the refreshingly lemon-icing is my sixth part in “when a best friend gives you a lemon…” Go ahead. Within the next 30 minutes the muffins will be ready!