Today is Vaffeldagen, Waffle Day in Sweden and Norway. It used to be a holiday, and was called Vårfrudagen (=Our lady day), in honour of the Virgin Mary – as it’s celebrated nine months before the birth of Christ.
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Yes it’s time to harvest that Danish Christmas Schnaps. If you, like me, started in the beginning of November – then the Schnaps is ready! Simply sift it through a coffee filter, and enjoy the amber colour and the round taste with a clear hint of orange.
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Every year there is old and new bits of Xmas sneaking its way into my home. The smell of oranges and cloves. My Xmas smell and a tradition that tracks back from my childhood watching the advent calendar on the telly where they had 24 cloves in an orange, taking out one every day, counting [...]
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Today it’s Saint Lucy’s day – a day traditionally celebrated in Scandinavia with saffron buns and candle light. Saint Lucy was an italian saint (I wrote about her last year) but actually we’re celebrating mid winter solcice – the light coming back into the darkness we have up here in the North. Actually this day, [...]
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So are you planning to make a advent calender this year? I really want to make one…but the little man is way to small for something like it. But I can always find inspiration for next years calender or make one for me…..or the husband. {top image source}
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It’s 1st November and time to start making the Christmas Schnapps. It was a huge hit with my family last year, even my old granny and my aunt (that rarely drink) loved it (ok my aunt decided that it was better if we called it a liquor…) 70cl Brøndums schnapps (or a other neutral schnapps/aquavit) [...]
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Today is ‘Shrove Tuesday’, the last day of gluttony before the 40 day fast before Easter. Few people follow the fast but many here in Scandinavia celebrate today by eating creamed filled buns – made with plenty of the things you shouldn’t eat during the fast – eggs, milk, butter, sugar. (PS it’s also Pancake [...]
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Next week start of the lent period. In Scandinavia the tradition is for kids to decorate branches (unusually pussy willow) with colourful feathers. Actually you can buy all kids of branches all over Copenhagen at the moment, I haven’t bought mine yet but plan to get some cherry branches although that’s not traditional. Did you [...]
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13. December or Saint Lucy’s day – a tradition celebrated here in the North (not so much in Denmark ..) by baking Saffron buns.
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It’s the 13. December today and St. Lucy’s day today – so here is a very different blog post.
Do you celebrate St. Lucy?
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I love Christmas, the smells, the decorations, the food and the drink. Today I’ve started transforming a basic aquavit to delicious Christmas snaps – and I’m so happy to start doing Christmas things. But relax I wouldn’t be totally Christmassy for the next 40 days….but there will be some tales of my Danish/ Norwegian Christmas preparations.
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