It's cinnamon bun day (kanelbullens dag)!

It's Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden today. Cinnamon Bun Day was established in 1999, or 17 years ago, when Swedish Home Baking Council ( He...

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Lemony bread and butter pudding with custard and berries

It's been a while since my last proper blog post, I know. It's not that I've neglected my food-loving readers, I've just bee...

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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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Saut�ed garlic scapes with tomatoes

Are you familiar with garlic scapes ? I've actually mentioned them here on my blog, Nami-Nami, just over ten years ago ( YES, NAMI-NAMI...

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Badrijani nigvzit - Georgian aubergine rolls with walnut filling

Badrijani is the Georgian rolled eggplant dish we've been missing our whole life , wrote Lucky Peach on its Facebook page yesterday. I ...

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Recipe for a Latvian Beet and Bean Salad (Pupinu un Bie�u Salati)

A few years ago Saveur, the American food magazine, featured some Latvian recipes  (Latvians, remember, are our Southern neighbours). Among ...

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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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Home-made granola recipe

This was originally posed in January 2009. I'm reposting this with new photos.  I'm not sure why it took me so long to make my own g...

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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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