Laplandica

…get to my plate? A question not many of us have, as we may be seated in front of a plate of “Grilled Salmon with Hot Cheese Roulade”, “Char-broiled Salmon Steaks” or a classic “Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict. Still, having lived a landlocked life, it’s a question I’ve had in my head the many times [...]

… can easily allow for the development of new and innovating ideas more so than larger ones. Often small and unnoticed, these good ideas could be a hot tip for other communities and can be put into effect most anywhere. And, what more can be of interest to other communities than another novelty idea for [...]

…are something that one meets almost immediately on arrival to the islands. Everyone needs food and most everyone use grocery stores. Grocery store experiences are probably very different between people, so it wasn’t just chance that made us be more aware of what was being offered on the shelves of the Co-op store in Lerwick. [...]

…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 [...]

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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 [...]