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This was my 2010. I wish you all the best in the New Year!
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In January, we had our traditional 13-course dinner (soon to be repeated), and I made awesome chicken with 40 cloves of garlic. I baked great cookies. On a sad note, our darling cat Hamlet passed away, and we were all very sad. (This is obviously not really qualifying for "best of", but it was so significant I wanted to include it.)
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In February, Starbucks finally came to Sweden! (Only to the airport, but still.) I bought my first Le Creuset pot, and had lunch cooked by René Redzepi. The recipe of the month was broccoli slaw, something which I've made over and over.
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March: Not very memorable food-wise, since I had stomach flu for several days. However, I posted about a great beef stew, Momofuku Compost cookies and Vanilla Bean Cupcakes that I was more or less ordered to give to the baby.
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April finally brought some sunshine to Sweden, and spring began. I had salad with a creamy lemon dressing, potato gnocchi with ramps, a wonderfully simple tomato sauce, tons of avocados with garlic, and a great Lemon Mango Mousse cake for Easter.
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In May, Titus turned one, and we had a big party. (Or three.) We went to both Gothenburg and Berlin for long weekend trips. I made pickled salmon for the first time, which was excellent. I figured out that I could use phyllo dough instead of regular pie crust - yum! And there was another cool press lunch, with Norwegian superstar chef Geir Skeie. Last, but certainly not least, I got a new recipe for scones that were much less crumbly and thus much better.
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June passed by quickly. I don't think we cooked much, but I made a Lemon Strawberry cake for yet another birthday party, and a special princess cake for the royal wedding. (Although I didn't post about it until August.) And I used my turning slicer to make shoestring potatoes. And a new stand mixer moved in, which allowed for these cranberry hazelnut bagels.
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July was hot. I posted a guide to Stockholm. We had our annual Fourth of July party, and ate the tasting menu at Lux Stockholm. I got hooked on crochet. I took a class in Indian cooking. Bought a new cookbook shelf. We ate coconut chicken nuggets, rhubarb chicken and baguette French Toast.
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August brought red berry jam, baked adobo chicken, shrimp pad thai and crispy orange veal. Titus started pre-school, and I went back to work.
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September was hectic at work, since it was election time. We ate creamy mushrooms on toast, cauliflower cheese and a great feta-cashew dip. And I made wedding cakes for my P:s sister who got married.
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In October, I started my Wednesday bookmark feature, which I'll try to keep up in 2011 to help share the link-love and hopefully introduce you to other great blogs. My blog turned 6 years old. I had a chocolate truffle cake recipe in a Swedish newspaper. The best cookies were Lemon Cinnamon Snickerdoodles, and the best food; Ginger Chicken meatballs.
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November was all about New York! I went with my two girlfriends Lena and Dagmar, and we had a blast. We also went to eat Christmas food when we came home. And I cooked a nice chanterelle caesar salad, for a girl's night dinner that was actually featured in a Swedish newspaper.
And finally December. It's gone by so quickly, and it's been all about christmas preparations. I had my annual cookie swap. I let you provide the questions for a Q-and-A which was a lot of fun. We went to the Christmas market at Skansen. I did a christmas candy round-up, and baked Lingonberry Gingerbread as well as Saffron White Chocolate buns. And don't miss the Lemon Parmesan Sweet Potato gratin.
Happy New Year, everyone!
6 comments:
What a lovely summary of 2010!
Happy New Year!
Very eventful 2010. All the best for 2011, hope its filled with happiness, prosperity, good eating and blogging:)
Thank you for the great blog posts! Happy New Year and can't wait to see what you have in store for 2011 :)
hello i am from belguim liesbet is my name and the first thing i do every day is check your blog i wish all yio lay wish and many cook pleasure
Happy New Year, you too! Always fun to look at your blog! /Annika
Your year still only had 52 weeks in it, just like mine, right?? How did you fit it all in!? A fantastic roundup of a year well lived and well fed. Reading about hamlet made me cry all over again, but that pic of Titus made me smile. All the best to all 3 of you (and the kitties!) for 2011.
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