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The Ultimate Grilled Vegetable Sandwich
I couldn’t imagine a life without bread. Although so versatile, with many flavors, textures, and ways to prepare and eat it, I often forget how incredibly satisfying a sandwich can be. It’s a perfect vessel for creativity - play around with it using bread as your...
Celebrating May 17th With A Decadent Marzipan Cake
17th of May is Norway's Constitution Day - it is easily the most important day of the year for many Norwegians, as we celebrate our freedom, and our ability to call our country our own. Norway was for many years under the rule of other nations (including Sweden and...
May 1st: The Cuckoo’s Day
The first day of May is traditionally a holiday in Norway, where most people take off and take a break from work (although one could argue that this year this is no different than any other Friday, as the trend in Norway is going towards a 4 day work week, with a lot...
A Norwegian Grandmother’s Favorite Dessert
A big reason why I started this blog, was to research and share information, not just about Norwegian cuisine, but the history of our food, and more importantly, why certain recipes came about. Today's dish is so old school I suspect younger people in Norway today...
Celebrating Norwegian Easter With an Orange Cake
There would simply be no Easter in Norway without oranges. What a peculiar food to mention in the same sentence as Norwegian cuisine, you might think. Not so. Here's a fun fact to kick off with: Norway is among the top importers of oranges, and during Easter,...
Dill; A Taste of Norway
What would Norwegian food be without dill? The mere smell of dill sends me right back to the kitchen and garden of my home in Sykkylven, in north western Norway. There is something so pure, vibrant and satisfying about this fresh herb, I suppose one has to be...
Meatless Norwegian Meatballs
I often get asked by people how I manage to write about Norwegian food now that I've gone vegan. After all, 90% of the classic dishes contain some type of animal product, whether it be meat, fish, eggs or dairy. The beautiful thing is that it is quite possible to...
Sweet and Fluffy Norwegian Wheat Buns
With Fat Tuesday and "fastelavn" just behind us, I am still thinking about how easy and tasty Norwegian "hveteboller" are. There is something special about Norwegian and Scandinavian baked goods. It's never over the top, the pastries are rather rustic, and done just...
Chocolate Cake: A Universal Delight
Norwegians are as passionate about their chocolate cakes as anybody else in the world, so it seems wrong not to include a recipe for one on Arctic Grub. I have been looking to make the perfect chocolate cake for quite some time now, and I finally have a recipe that I...
Kålruletter: An Old Norwegian Recipe Gets A Lift
In my constant quest of veganizing the Norwegian cuisine, I'm updating an old, classic Norwegian recipe called "kålruletter" or "kålruller", which in the traditional way, are Savoy cabbage leaves stuffed with ground pork and baked in the oven, served with a white,...
Norwegian "Pannekaker" Re-invented
It has been nearly two years ago since I posted about Norwegian pancakes on this blog, where I included a traditional recipe which included eggs and milk, you can read that post here. A lot has happened since, the most important thing has been my decision to adopt a...
Celebrating Back To School With Norwegian "Skoleboller"
The below is a repurposed text from a previous blog post I published back in January of 2013. I have since turned vegan, and wanted to make a version of the amazing and popular sweet rolls Norwegians are known for, called skolebrød or skoleboller, depending on where...
Celebrating May 17th With A Decadent Marzipan Cake
17th of May is Norway's Constitution Day - it is easily the most important day of the year for many Norwegians, as we celebrate our freedom, and our ability to call our country our own. Norway was for many years under the rule of other nations (including Sweden and...
May 1st: The Cuckoo’s Day
The first day of May is traditionally a holiday in Norway, where most people take off and take a break from work (although one could argue that this year this is no different than any other Friday, as the trend in Norway is going towards a 4 day work week, with a lot...
A Norwegian Grandmother’s Favorite Dessert
A big reason why I started this blog, was to research and share information, not just about Norwegian cuisine, but the history of our food, and more importantly, why certain recipes came about. Today's dish is so old school I suspect younger people in Norway today...
Celebrating Norwegian Easter With an Orange Cake
There would simply be no Easter in Norway without oranges. What a peculiar food to mention in the same sentence as Norwegian cuisine, you might think. Not so. Here's a fun fact to kick off with: Norway is among the top importers of oranges, and during Easter,...
Dill; A Taste of Norway
What would Norwegian food be without dill? The mere smell of dill sends me right back to the kitchen and garden of my home in Sykkylven, in north western Norway. There is something so pure, vibrant and satisfying about this fresh herb, I suppose one has to be...
Meatless Norwegian Meatballs
I often get asked by people how I manage to write about Norwegian food now that I've gone vegan. After all, 90% of the classic dishes contain some type of animal product, whether it be meat, fish, eggs or dairy. The beautiful thing is that it is quite possible to...
Sweet and Fluffy Norwegian Wheat Buns
With Fat Tuesday and "fastelavn" just behind us, I am still thinking about how easy and tasty Norwegian "hveteboller" are. There is something special about Norwegian and Scandinavian baked goods. It's never over the top, the pastries are rather rustic, and done just...
Chocolate Cake: A Universal Delight
Norwegians are as passionate about their chocolate cakes as anybody else in the world, so it seems wrong not to include a recipe for one on Arctic Grub. I have been looking to make the perfect chocolate cake for quite some time now, and I finally have a recipe that I...
Kålruletter: An Old Norwegian Recipe Gets A Lift
In my constant quest of veganizing the Norwegian cuisine, I'm updating an old, classic Norwegian recipe called "kålruletter" or "kålruller", which in the traditional way, are Savoy cabbage leaves stuffed with ground pork and baked in the oven, served with a white,...