From the smokehouse round the corner….

salmon

From the smokehouse round the corner…. Over this Christmas I filled up on amazing salmon. It was as local as it could get, with the Hansen & Lydersen smokehouse just a few hundred meters from my home. The salmon itself comes from a family run fish farm in Norway, and is farmed in the most…

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Spiky, art-y, rice-y.. lovely artichoke risotto!

artichoke_risotto

This is a quick and easy risotto recipe, and I like to make it with the spiky kind of lovely artichokes we have in Northern Italy, not with the globe ones more widespread over here and in the rest of my country of birth. But if you can only get globe artichokes, don’t worry, it…

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Tangy ossobuco

ossobuco

This is a meal I absolutely love making when the temperature suddenly turns to cold. It is comforting like chestnuts on an open fire, its smell pervading the kitchen and awakening the appetite. The meat will be softly flaking off the bone and melting with the tangy sauce, with the gooey bone marrow acting as…

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