Cool Norwegian Food Recipes images

A few nice norwegian food recipes images I found:

Krumkake!

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A traditional Norwegian treat Shane's family passed down, along with the tools to make it. It's sweet, light, crisp and works well as breakfast, snacks or dessert.

You'll need to pick up or borrow a Norwegian Krumkake iron like this one, and a rolling cone like this one.

Ingredients

3 eggs
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter (melted and cooled)
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cardamom

Prep

Pre-heat Krumkake iron (medium-high heat, let both sides warm).

Beat eggs and sugar together until blended and fluffy. Mix in rest of ingredients until well-combined. Pour a generous tablespoon of batter onto the iron. Close the iron and flip over until both sides are very lightly browned (about 30-45 seconds per side, depending on your stove).

When done, open the iron and place the rolling cone on one edge, wrapping Krumkake along the cone until it's complete. Set rolling cone aside to cool while you cook the next one.

Once cool, pile Krumkake pastries on a plate and serve any way you like. Traditionally they were served with whipped cream or fruit inside. Tonight we served them as accompaniments to vanilla bean ice cream, drizzled with chocolate-Bailey's sauce.

cookies

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I've included links to the recipes. You may notice that there are six recipes and wonder if there are actually six different types of cookies on that plate. I unpacked one of the cookie packages for this photo and it only had five different cookies in it. I didn't want to rummage through the other packages to find the missing cookie.

Which recipe isn't represented? I don't know. After I mixed all the doughs, I lost track of which was which. I was a little over-cookied to taste them all and sort it out.

I ran into my first problem early on. The New York Times cookie recipe instructions were to mix the butter with a paddle attachment until "very light." Instead, I mixed the butter with a spoon until I got a blister.

The second problem was the temperature control on the oven. It wasn't until after I checked the first batch of cookies that I threw a thermometer in there: 200 degrees, not 350 as the recipe called for and the oven setting indicated. I decided that there was no way that I could really be faithful to the recipes at this point and I completely abandoned them. I shaped the cookies in balls and crescents instead of pressing them. I made the cookies larger than the recipes called for. I baked them until they looked ready.

Were they any good? I've still only had nibbles of most of them. It'll be a while before I'll get excited about eating another cookie. These were a little dry and all of the flavors I added weren't necessarily very prominent. But I used good sugar and good butter and lots of it. I think with a little milk they're perfectably acceptable cookies.

www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html
www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2006/12/pistachio-cranberry...
www.gourmet.com/recipes/1950s/1958/10/brazil-nut-crescents
www.gourmet.com/recipes/1960s/1961/06/brown-butter-cookies
www.gourmet.com/recipes/1960s/1962/07/cottage-cheese-cookies
www.gourmet.com/recipes/1980s/1983/03/norwegian-butter-co...

Mat!

Image by aha42 | tehaha
This is a bit late, a food shot that should have been posted a short while ago when our small company gathered over at Knut's place to have serious amount of food.

What is it? Well, here is from Wikipedia:

Raspeball, also known in some areas as komle is a potato dumpling, a traditional Norwegian dish. It consists of grated potatoes, salt and various kinds of flour, and is in many recipes also filled with bits of salted lamb or pork. They are often served with bacon, sausages, melted butter and/or mashed or cooked rutabaga, and, in some parts of the country, with sour cream, sugar or syrup.

Done the Bergen way I would say: Raspeballs are not filled with anything and no fooling around with sour cream, sugar or syrup. But yes bacon and cooked rutabaga is in shot. And yup, salted meat and sausages.

Oh, yea, title is Norwegian for Food!

And yes, it took place on a Thursday ;-)

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