Advantages: Beautiful scenery and excellent production. Disadvantages: None
childhood book which inspired her, "Ponny The Penguin", a tale about the Southern Lights or the Aurora Australis, written by Veronica Bassett. We are treated to a view of the aged pages, where curtains of jade cascade down from the sky illuminating the toes of the penguins that stand in awe in electric green.
The Aurora Australis is the southern version of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. It was childhood stories of Vikings and trolls, along with the tale of Ponny, which led her to this childhood longing to see the Northern Lights.
The DVD takes you on a journey all the way to Svalbard, the most northerly inhabited archipelago in the world, via the remote outposts of Lofoten, and the cosmopolitan city of Tromsø. We meet the Sami people, reindeer herding in the remote areas of northern Norway, and we are constantly aware of Joanna ...
Advantages: Some good, local dishes from all over Europe. Disadvantages: But not enough of them!
-overs.
The final visit is to the Lofoten Islands in Norway and I found this to be a rather disappointing chapter. Nettle soup is interesting, but the recipe actually came from a Swedish woman who runs a restaurant in Ireland! After that it all gets, er, fishy, with fish soup (which looks not unlike a lot of other fish soup recipes I?ve seen), Gravadlax (available in most supermarkets in the UK) and fish cakes. There?s an interesting recipe for a meat and potato hash.
It?s not a bad book, but it just doesn?t excite me very much other than is just a few places where I did feel that it took ?cookery back to its roots?, which was a brave statement to make. It was better than I supposed when I opened the parcel, but probably not worth the money that was paid for it.
Besides all that, those dangly earrings annoy me. ...
Advantages: Lightweight for carrying Disadvantages: The powder which gets stuck in the pasta bits
of cooking add meat/mushrooms
7) eat.
So you should like to hear about the flavours, well now, the tomato and herby flavour went down terribly well with norwegian sausage, in the wetness that was inherent on the lofoten islands one day, and indeed the bolognese flavour was also enjoyed in much the same way on a less wet evening in a rather small tent.
The macaroni P+S was enjoyed heartedly with tuna, as was the cheese and brocoli. This went incredibly well, although it is advised that the concoction is not mixed prior to eating, as this causes some aesthetic disruption.
The cheese and leek P+S with bacon, which was extremely tasty, especially with the added mushrooms as an extravagance.
the best yet though has to be the chicken and mushroom, not only because of the actual taste of the P+S, but also because on our travels we came ...
