Traditional Christmas roast (oven-baked pork shoulder with honey, mustard and rosemary)

From the recipe archives (originally posted in December 2012. Still my favourite Christmas roast). Photo by Juta K�barsepp for the Decembe...

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Dyeing Easter Eggs with Onion Skins, Estonian style

This was originally posted in 2011. You'll find all my Easter recipes here .  We don't really 'do' chocolate eggs for Easter...

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It's not Pancake Day, it's Shrove Tuesday cream bun day soon ;)

Photo by Juta K�barsepp for the March 2014 issue of Kodu ja Aed magazine.  It's time for semlor or lenten cream buns again soon - Febr...

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Layered Vegetable Salad with Smoked Salmon

(From the Nami-Nami recipe archives .) " Kasukas " - "fur coat" - is a name for a layered vegetable salad that is very p...

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Estonian lamb soup with cabbage

Time for soup ! Earlier this year I came across a recipe for Islandic lamb and cabbage soup in the blogosphere. Lovely soup and justifiably ...

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Gravlax with sea-buckthorn berries

Sea-buckthorn is a popular autumn berry here in Estonia. I'm afraid it's not so widely known in the US where most of my blog readers...

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Whipped semolina pudding with apples and black aronia berries

Recipe by Pille @ Nami-Nami .  Above photo by Juta K�barsepp for the October 2012 issue of Kodu ja Aed ("Home and Garden", an E...

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Quark and pumpkin pudding cake

Recipe by Pille @ Nami-Nami .  Above photo by Juta K�barsepp for the October 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed ("Home and Garden", an Es...

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Creamy chantarelle sauce recipe (aka creamy girolle sauce)

My regular readers all know about my love for wild mushrooms . We had a long and hot and dry summer here in Estonia - not the time for forag...

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