Guest post: A British Christmas dinner!

WereRabbits got a Christmas present in the shape of a guest post! The lovely Cheryl sent it to me. It contains a delicious Christmas sweet from the British islands. Thanks, dear!
What could possibly heighten the Christmas spirit more than carols on the radio and the warm scent of Christmas cooking wafting through the house? Here [...]

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Advend post Dec 21: What to pack in your bento for Christmas

This bento contains:
Cookies!

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Advent post: December 17: Cookies!

I got a packet in the mail. It was from grandma!

Wouldn’t it be nice to picture the joker household… me in a cute dress, lovingly arranging cookies on a plate, to snap a few pictures with ease and then serving them to my love…
Instead, the whole affair is sweateningly frustrating. I still can’t handle that [...]

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Advent post: December 16: Light

It is now as dark as it will get here in Sweden. Until christmas is over, the actual time of light for a day only differs for a minute or two.
The sun is a hand’s width from the horizon at 12:00 PM. (That’s 7.5°, thanks heavens-above.com!) The light is yellowish, if there are no clouds. [...]

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Advent calendar post #6: December 15 – Lussebulle

And here they are, the saffron cakes! They are actually yellow, much more so than normal cakes. The smell of saffron is now an integral part of my christmas… mmm!

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Advent post #5, Dec 14: Cookies!

I could write a long post listing the ways I love Vanillekipferln, one of my favourite and most traditional christmas bakeries.
But then, Meeta from What’s For Lunch, Honey? has already written an article about them to which I can’t add much more. And the photos are making me want to lick my monitor, too…
Check it [...]

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Advent post #4 – December 13: Lucia

Now that I’ve written so much about Austria, I should write something about Swedish christmas traditions too.
Today in the morning, I tiptoed into my work’s garage, where in the dark, surrounded by test cars, prototype engines and various tools my colleagues sat at tables by candlelight, drinking mulled wine on work time.

December 13: St. Lucia [...]

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Belated advent calendar post #3: December 6

Sorry about the post confusion just before. Something in WordPress isn’t working as I thought it would…

The typical contents of a St. Nicolas present bag! Nuts of all sorts, mandarines and other citrus fruit, apples and candy. The only thing missing is a chocolate Nicolaus – I didn’t manage to buy one.
Chocolate St. Nicks look [...]

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R is for Ratatouille

Sunday’s cooking project was to find out if I could make a ratatouille like in the movie…

I could!
More later. And the recipe, too. Asd more missing advent posts…

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Belated advent calendar post #2: December 5

December 5: Devil’s Day
It’s the dark time of the year, and the devil is stalking the street, stealing children! Is everything lost?
Oh no, not this time.
The devil, or Krampus, as he is known in Austria, is only the helper of good old St. Nikolaus, or as the English know him, Santa Claus.
Now Mr. Nick doesn’t [...]

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