Roasted Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) with lemon, Parmesan cheese and parsley

Jerusalem artichoke ( Helianthus tuberosus ), also known as sunchoke, sunroot, topinambur, earth apple (and curiously, 'earth pear...

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Sea-buckthorn and Amaretto cheesecake

There's a little deli in our neighbourhood, Delicato , and they sell a lovely cheesecake with a sea-buckthorn and Amaretto topping. A ch...

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Dill and mustard sauce - hovmästarsås - for smoked salmon or gravlax

This Swedish dill and mustard sauce - gravlaxsås/hovmästarsås/senapssås - was one of our favourite sauces this summer. We served this with...

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Nami-Nami on Spanish TV

Free Wi-Fi: Estonia. Report by Ángel Varela Pena. (Andrew Poole voice-over) Earlier this year (in May , to be precise), a Spanish film-mak...

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Surströmming and surströmmingfest (Swedish fermented herring)

There's a popular evening show on Estonian national TV, called Ringvaade. About two weeks ago they had a brief section about the infamou...

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There's no Cheddar without an oatcake

We've been eating lots of cheese recently. Upon returning from France in early September, we brought along some wonderful French cheese ...

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It's cinnamon bun day (kanelbullens dag)!

It's Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden today. Cinnamon Bun Day was established in 1999, or 12 years ago, when Swedish Home Baking Council ( He...

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