Welcome back to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!19 DECEMBERI was in town last week with the… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 19 December (Weird and wonderful)
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My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 18 December (Counting stars)
Welcome back to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!18 DECEMBERIs there a Christmas decoration that hangs in… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 18 December (Counting stars)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 15 December (Marcipan pigs and finding the almond in your ris à l'amande)
Welcome to my My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!15 DECEMBERNine sleeps until The Big Day, woop woop!… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 15 December (Marcipan pigs and finding the almond in your ris à l'amande)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 13 December (Lucia)
Welcome to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!13 DECEMBEROkay, so there are no prizes for guessing what I’m… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 13 December (Lucia)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 12 December (Handball and Winterbathing)
Welcome to my My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!12 DECEMBERJust when the Danes are in the middle… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 12 December (Handball and Winterbathing)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 11 December (Trees)
Welcome back to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!11 DECEMBERAre you beginning to gear up for Christmas?… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 11 December (Trees)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 8 December (MC Einar and shopping)
Welcome back to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!8 DECEMBERHow are you doing with your gift shopping?… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 8 December (MC Einar and shopping)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 6 December (Hearts)
Welcome back to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again, I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!6 DECEMBERYesterday I showed you how to make æbleskiver… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 6 December (Hearts)
My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 3 December (Pebernødder game)
Welcome to My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar! Join me every day in opening a new door. Once again I’ve got a host of goodies to share with you – traditional Danish Christmas recipes, traditions, songs, games, decorations, crafts and landscapes… So sit back, relax and enjoy!3 DECEMBERYesterday I gave you a recipe for making pebernødder ("pepper nuts")… Continue reading My Danish Christmas Advent Calendar – 3 December (Pebernødder game)
24 packages, tied up with string…
Pakkekalender! A word to strike fear into the hearts of every Danish parent! Not only do the Danes exchange gifts (after dinner) on the evening of 24 December, many families also make a pakkekalender - an advent calendar of small gifts, one for every day in December - for their children or grandchildren. When my… Continue reading 24 packages, tied up with string…
Remember to take all your belongings with you when you leave…
Whenever my Scottish family or my 'adopted' Danish family get together, all the old funny stories come out. Nothing like a good laugh to get rid of the blahs! One of my favourite stories involves my DDDMIL (Dearly-Departed-Danish-Mother-in-Law) who - like my DDH (Dear Danish Husband) - could be, let's say, a trifle 'distracted' at… Continue reading Remember to take all your belongings with you when you leave…
If you can't stand the heat in the Danish kitchen…
Y'all know that I ♥ Denmark and those crazy (but lovable) Danes. But I can't help feeling that they got the wrong end of the stick (or should that be hot poker?) when it comes to designing items for removing hot dishes from hot ovens.I mean, really, why do the Danish public continue to put… Continue reading If you can't stand the heat in the Danish kitchen…
Cash ain't King when you don't have a Crown!
Picture the scene. You're quietly minding your own business, walking along the street, when you see a sign that makes you lækkersulten. [Great Dane-ish Expressions - To 'have a case of the munchies'] I wanna flæskestegssandwich (roast pork sandwich) and I want it NOW!But, hey, the pølsevogn(sausage wagon) doesn't take cards. I don't have any cash on me… Continue reading Cash ain't King when you don't have a Crown!
Danish Christmas Party? Check(list)!
It's Friday, yay! Which means not only the start of the weekend and party time but - all through the month of November and December - Julefrokosten! The Danish office party! (You'll remember that the first 'snow' fell last Friday - Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! - so the streets are… Continue reading Danish Christmas Party? Check(list)!
10 November? Duck for dinner!
My DDH (Dear Danish Husband) often accuses (is that the right word?!) me of being more Danish than the Danes. You see, I ♥ traditions. And in Denmark there are just so many of the dang things - hooray - that I sometimes tend to go a bit overboard. Take today, for example - 10… Continue reading 10 November? Duck for dinner!