New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and I cannot wait. I love New Year’s Eve. An evening with great company, good food, lots of delicious drinks and an excitement of what the next year might bring. Oh and dressing up for New Years is always so much fun, finding the perfect dress and choosing which earrings, necklace or rings to go with it. And lets not forget the nail polish! This years where spending the evening here in Copenhagen with a group of friends from Sillas’ High School days and I just know that its going to be a great night. Whether you’re spending the night at home or are out with friends or family champagne cocktails are...

Christmas holiday is just around the corner, and I cannot wait! I have a week and a half off, and all I’m doing is seeing family and loved ones, eating, drinking and exchanging gifts. It’s the best, yes a bit stressful at times, but nevertheless an amazing time of year. Sillas and I are kicking the holidays off with an open house get together for all our friends on Sunday. Drinking mouled wine and eating Danish Christmas cakes all day. Fun fun fun! I’m spending Christmas Eve with my parents. My mum asked if I would bring some of my homemade Christmas candy. And of course I’ll do that, we always have homemade candy in the house for Christmas, it...

You have to have a bunch of cookies ready in December for whenever you have guests over. At least I think so.  My mom used to make three different cookies each Christmas, usually vanilla cookies with chocolate, hazelnuts and a swirly cookie of vanilla and cocao. This year I have only baked two kinds of cookies; the Danish gingerbred cookies Brunkager and these orange/marzipan cookies with almond chunks. I love when a recipe only calls for one bowl and you just stir everything in there. And this is one of those recipes. Grated, chop, stir, done! And the result is really yummy too. Again I used one of Odense Marcipan’s flavored marzipans, but you could use regular marzipan and add...

It’s not just marzipan and chocolate us Danes eat during December as sweet snacks. Dates, figs and all sorts of nuts are also very popular. And this little snack is a perfect combination. They are super easy to make. And if you have children they would easily be able to make them as well. A nice little candy project you could have together. I don’t have kids yet, so I made them myself and decorated them with a bit of green glitter to make them a bit more festive and Christmassy. Here’s the recipe:

Marzipan, soft hazelnut nougat and chocolate, are a huge part of Danish Christmas candy. We make all sorts of creations with these three ingredients; marzipan balls covered with chocolate, nougat squares with almonds, marzipan animals, snowballs, marzipan logs. During December, we can’t get enough, and I am very Danish in that sense. Every year I spend at least one day creating my own Holiday treats with lots and lots of marzipan, nougat and chocolate as well as all sorts of buttons, sprinkles, liquors and fruits. It’s the best time and I enjoy it so much. I end up with melted chocolate all over the place and on a major sugar high. It’s one of my favorite traditions that I look...

I am really getting into the Christmas spirit here on Frederiksberg. I spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen baking and making holiday candy, with my iPod blasting Christmas music, everything from Mariah Carey to Ray Charles – Love it!  The holidays are always busy and full of wonderful events, but I love having a day off, where I can just be me in the kitchen doing what I love. Today I baked a batch of the traditional Danish Christmas cookies, Brunkager. They are a variation of gingerbread cookies, full of different spices such as ginger, cloves and allspice and candied oranges. The name, directly translated is not great – brown cakes. I don’t know why anyone has chosen...

This week I received a mail from my blog host, politely asking if everything was alright and that they missed my posts since it has been a month since my last post. I’m glad to say that everything is good. I just don’t know where the time has gone. I don’t like to neglect the blog, but now it’s already December and there are so many Christmas goodies and cookies I want to make and write about. I love Christmas; all the parties, the food, the drinks, decorations and getting together with loved ones. I am going to bake a batch of typical Danish Christmas cookies this week and with see what else I can make – I’m thinking lots...

Ok, so I said from the beginning of my Jamie Oliver project, that I didn’t have a deadline for when I would have cooked and tried all of the recipes in Jamie Oliver’s America cookbook. But at this rate I will be a very very old lady before I’m done. So I am hereby trying to kick-start the project once again. I love a good pulled pork sandwich, and this recipe is one of the reasons that I wanted to do this project in the first place. So when I found some shoulder of pork at the supermarket, I decided that it was time to continue the project. It’s not a very difficult recipe, it’s just very time consuming, so...