Recipe for a Latvian Beet and Bean Salad (Pupiņu un Biešu Salāti)

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

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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 Kübarsepp 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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Estonian lamb soup with cabbage

Time for soup ! Earlier this year I came across a recipe for Islandic lamb and cabbage soup in the blogosphere. Lovely soup and justifiably ...

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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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Gravlax with sea-buckthorn berries

Sea-buckthorn is a popular autumn berry here in Estonia. I'm afraid it's not so widely known in the US where most of my blog readers...

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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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Swiss Chard Gratin with Cheese

Recipe by Pille @  Nami-Nami .  All photos by  Juta Kübarsepp  for the  September 2014  issue of  Kodu ja Aed  ("Home and Garden")...

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Whipped semolina pudding with apples and black aronia berries

Recipe by Pille @ Nami-Nami .  Above photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the October 2012 issue of Kodu ja Aed ("Home and Garden", an E...

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Quark and pumpkin pudding cake

Recipe by Pille @ Nami-Nami .  Above photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the October 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed ("Home and Garden", an Es...

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Creamy chantarelle sauce recipe (aka creamy girolle sauce)

My regular readers all know about my love for wild mushrooms . We had a long and hot and dry summer here in Estonia - not the time for forag...

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Simple, yet decadent fish supper: pan-fried vendace

This was originally posted in August 2012. I reposted this in late June, when the catching season for Lake Peipus vendace began and fresh an...

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Summer food: Estonian milk and vegetable soup

It's mid-July, which here in Estonia means the peak of summer. We're having a beautiful summer here, with lots of sun and not much r...

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Festival food: Estonian Song and Dance Celebration 2014

This is a very special weekend for Estonia - our 26th Song Celebration and 19th Dance Celebration takes place. You'll get all the neces...

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Recipe for torta della nonna, or Tuscan ricotta cake with pinenuts or almonds

Case Vecchie, Sicily I am still in Sicily, still enjoying the hospitality of Anna Tasca Lanza ’s cookery school in Case Vecchie, near Vallel...

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Recipe for ricciarelli, delicious gluten-free almond cookies from Siena, Tuscany

This photo was taken by Juta Kübarsepp for Nami-Nami , the rest are by me or my husband.    I’m writing this post in Sicily . I’m in a love...

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