Laplandica

…skip off the wintry waters of Gaskelite, bidding farewell to those who took notice of their retreat. Silently and with only a few minutes notice.
The old year’s ambitions and dreams are now snuffed-out.
Lapland closes its eyes to rest for one single night only to awake with time replenished. The new year allows new space [...]

…was saved this year, thanks to relying on a regular Swedish ham instead of the more desirable American ham. The Swedish ham is cured in a salt brine and this year’s choice was one that already was cooked.
Attempting a compromise between both cultures, I placed cloves in the fatty part, rubbed in brown sugar [...]

…and I’m off and away towards the mountains!

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…living abroad for many years can have culinary consequences. If you can understand the situation of living in another culture with different foods than what you’ve been brought up with? Americans living abroad easily are a brotherhood of food addicts experiencing food withdrawals when thoughts of childhood goodies float up in memories and the [...]

…in Norway today and, with his work in enlightening the world of climate change and potential global catastrophe, we living in Lapland are experiencing what can be, at least on a short term observation, a change in winter. At this writing, there is more snow than “normal” on the ground in the forests at the [...]