Lemon Tart

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Lemon Tart Lemons!  Words and pictures that come to mind are sunny, refreshing, clean, tart, summertime lemonade stands. . . Lovely and versatile, we use lemon zest, lemon juice, even the leaves.  A squirt of lemon juice brightens sauces, accents fish, … Continue reading

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Dagrún Ása´s Favorite Salmon

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 It was a dark and stormy night.  Rain, sleet, snow, wind, cold . . . So we lit a fire in the fireplace, and invited a friend to join us for dinner and a hot game of Scrabble. Oli kept the menu … Continue reading

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Oli’s Pasta

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  Oli held a pasta 101 class for me the other night.  It gave me a chance to use my pasta machine for the first time.  Here we share his technique for making this fresh tri-color delight. Face it.  Pasta’s best … Continue reading

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Chowder for a Cold Saturday Night

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Clam chowder, fish chowder, corn chowder. . . New England chowder, Manhattan chowder, closer to Virginia it’s Hatteras chowder. . . Every once in a while this New Englander craves a good hot bowl of chowder.  With snow on the … Continue reading

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Stuffed Loin of Pork

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Like the song says, “Baby, it’s COLD outside”!   Why not heat up the kitchen with the warm winter time aromatics of a sage stuffed pork loin?  This is a typical winter dish in Scandinavia especially in Denmark where they are famous for their … Continue reading

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New Year’s Sherry Parfait

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PARFAIT:  French, literally, something perfect, from parfait perfect, from Latin perfectus. We think of parfaits as that multi layered dessert of ice cream, fruit, and syrup topped with whipped cream, nuts and a maraschino cherry à la DQ. There’s another, more sophisticated … Continue reading

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Gravlax / Dill Cured Salmon

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Cured food is an old way of storing food.  Techniques for preserving food have been around for hundreds of years. Pickling, salting, smoking, drying… all of these methods were used a lot when people didn’t have any refrigerators or freezers and needed to store the food. Now we have … Continue reading

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Pepparkakor

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Pepparkakor So, what’s glögg without pepparkakor? For that matter what’s pepparkakor?  Pepparkakor are crunchy, spicy little ginger snaps that partner with glögg . Oli’s recipe calls for a bit of white pepper which gives them a little extra bite.  Do not use black … Continue reading

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