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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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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Holiday baking: Carrot cake cookies recipe

Time to start preparing for the Christmas holidays and I offer you a lovely cookie recipe! Although we'll be mostly eating piparkoogid ...

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ApfelSTROHdel - a hot apple toddy with Austrian Stroh rum

I've been testing various recipes using the spiced Austrian rum, Stroh, and this autumn/winter drink was quite popular. The ApfelSTROHde...

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To keep you warm in those cold days: mulled apple juice (hot cider)

Photo by Juta K�barsepp for the January 2014 issue of Kodu ja Aed magazine (I made the drink and modelled for the photo :)) Do you love mu...

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Our Christmas meal, 2013

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas , dear friends and readers! We had the pleasure of cooking for and hosting our respective families on Ch...

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Holiday cooking: browned saut�ed cabbage

Photo by Juta K�barsepp for Nami-Nami Christmas is just around the corner and I'm busy coordinating various festive dinners and other ...

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Holiday baking: Sliced Almond Christmas Cookies

From the recipe archives! It's the time to bake various Christmas cookies again. While I'll certainly be making and baking and decor...

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Puff pastry pinwheels with black pudding and lingonberry jam

Black pudding (aka blood sausages ) with lingonberry jam are one of the staples on Estonian Christmas table and I like using these two ele...

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Saffron buns with marzipan and almonds

These were immensely popular with our kids as well. The photo is from December 2011, when our son, Aksel, was 11 months old. Look at those c...

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Mulled sea-buckthorn drink

A glass of warming sea-buckthorn drink. If you're unfamiliar with the name "sea-buckthorn", then it's also known as sandth...

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Orange salad with pomegranate seeds, perfect for the festive season

Citrus fruit and Christmas go hand in hand, no? Well, in my house they do. I like serving an orange salad during the festive season - either...

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