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Beet-salad with pecan, feta, cranberries and balsamico vinaigrette


Here is a quick filling beet salad, great for dinner. Regarding ‘quick’, beets in the oven requires patience, but you can do this a couple-three days ahead.  Make a double batch and bring for lunch. Your urine might turn pink, don’t freak out. Body✌? AMOUNT: Enough for 4 ACTIVE TIME: 25 min TOTAL TIME: 2 hours Notes Don’t worry about getting…

Corn chowder with beans, chili and sour cream-feta topping


From mid July you’ll find fresh corn cobs in Norwegian stores. If you can resist the urge of putting it on the grill, there’s tons of other great ways of cooking it. Here’s one, corn chowder. One of our summer hits. Soups might not be the first thing that comes to mind for a summer dinner, but this one’s both…

Lemonade


Few drinks are better for hot summer days. However, lemonade is rather cumbersome to make despite calling for only three ingredients. It requires a lot of lemons. I would not have made it half as much as I do had it not been for the sitrus press attachment on my mixer. That being said, it is definitely worth the work.…

Dill pickles


My American wife prefers dill pickles. If you think that sounds weird, let me tell you pickle preference is a big deal in the US. You’re either into sweet pickles, tart dill pickles or bread-and-butter pickles (something in between sweet and sour). The extremes typically despise each other. Unfortunately, to my wife’s dismay dill pickles are non-existing in regular Norwegian…

Miss Basil – signature cocktail at Torggata Botaniske in Oslo


It’s really exciting when restaurants and bars open up and share their menu favorites. You often get a professional recipe that’s thoroughly tested, fine tuned and seamless. The result you already know is good. As a home cook, you learn a lot from this, so we’re all for recipe sharing. It is probably a clever marketing strategy by the sharer…