Month: October 2012

Fresh Plum Bread

Fresh Plum Bread

Moving on today with perhaps a not entirely traditional dish, but nonetheless a little nod to Luxembourg with this fresh plum bread. 

Gravlax Cured Salmon

Gravlax Cured Salmon

Sorry for the delay in posting. I timed things badly since I didn’t realize that today’s breakfast- Gravlax- took 36 hours to cure.  My bad. From what I’ve found, Scandinavian breakfasts are a far cry from the cereal, muffins and pancakes that we typically enjoy…

Roasted Cod with Pickled Beets

Roasted Cod with Pickled Beets

Roasted Cod with Pickled Beets. Yeah, you heard me right.

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Danish Butter Cookies

Danish Butter Cookies

Who doesn’t love cookies? More specifically, who doesn’t love Danish Butter Cookies?!

Guinness Lamb Shanks

Guinness Lamb Shanks

Oh, Guinness Lamb Shanks.  Fraught with memories.

Cock-a-leekie Soup

Cock-a-leekie Soup

Cock-a-leekie Soup? Can that be right? Sure is. Very right indeed.

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Easy Sticky Toffee Pudding

Easy Sticky Toffee Pudding

This easy sticky toffee pudding is a British dessert of sponge cake made with chopped dates, covered in a toffee sauce and served with a custard or ice cream.

Irish Brown Bread

Irish Brown Bread

  Introducing….IRISH BROWN BREAD!  My excitement over this seemingly simply breakfast staple comes from the fact that my daydreaming about brown bread sparked the idea for this project, and therefore I had to do my best to get it right.  As with any recipe, there…

Classic Fluffernutter Sandwich

Classic Fluffernutter Sandwich

Can you imagine that there is a food so ridiculously named as to have both “fluff” and “nut” in the same moniker? Well, I bring you the classic fluffernutter sandwich!

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New England Lobster Chowder

New England Lobster Chowder

I killed a lobster. I killed a lobster making this deliciously creamy New England Lobster Chowder. When I set off to make it, I knew this would happen. I read the instructions. However, I forgot that I actually had to do it.  When it came…