Fika & Hygge for Back-to-School Season (Plus Chocolate Rye Waffles)

If you’re here just for the recipe for chocolate rye waffles, feel free to scroll down. But if you happen to have kids who are going back to school, stick around for some thoughts on how to make this pandemic…

Norwegian Coffee Treats: A Class at Nordic Heritage Museum

When we bake with love, that’s when beauty comes into our creations, I told a sold-out crowd of students at the Nordic Heritage Museum on a recent Saturday. They were there to learn how to make a variety of Norwegian…

Norwegian Baking Class in Seattle, January 24

In a few hours the clock will strike midnight and Christmas Eve will be upon us. There are a few more gifts to wrap–plus my husband and I just decided a few hours ago to host Christmas dinner at our house–but all…

Family Classics: Norwegian Waffles

I believe that food is a connector. Both to the people we love and to our heritage. I began writing about Scandinavian food in 2009 a couple of months after Grandma Agny passed away; the grief had struck me in…