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I have been so happy to check your cookings for the #FoodandLit
What are the odds that #Finland is your country on my b-day month?! I love that.

I baked today Finnish cinnamon rolls (korvapuusti) and Finnish Archipelago Bread (saaristolaisleipä). Finnish cinnamon rolls are something that my grandmother always baked and when I was sick, she came and took care of me and she baked with me. They are THE buns to me, I love cinnamon so much.

Last Sunday, I made salmon soup (very comforting) with rye crackers (probably thinner & browner than in the instructions, but when still warm from the oven, they're nicer than shop-bought ones) and rossoli, a beetroot, cooked carrot and potato salad that apparently is a Christmas staple (SO's judgment was “very German and quite nice“ 😏 😂)
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Very very sweet stories all variations on some themes: 1) a very poor family cannot afford anything for Christmas and something happens that means the family can have traditional Christmas food and the kids gifts, and 2) there‘s been some rift in the family (normally over inheritance of land) and something happens to heal the rift. I would have preferred some diversity in themes. Short and good for a low-anxiety read. ⬇️

Well I know what I want to read for #FoodandLit #Netherlands: the French translation of the tagged book. There was an article about the 2 female authors here: https://www.liberation.fr/culture/livres/elisabeth-wolff-et-agatha-deken-quatre-...
But it looks like the book's OCR isn't ready so I'd have to read the PDF of the 1787 print, and I'm not sure I'm ready for this😅
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This is an oddly entertaining and satisfying murder mystery—the victim performing his own investigation to find his murderer while trying to save his organic mushroom business against a fierce competitor in this quiet Finnish hamlet. Jaakko has been poisoned over a long period of time such that he became used to it while it damaged all of his internal organs. He‘s on borrowed time. And does he ever make use of it. There are only two suspects ⬇️

I really liked this book. The main character was a little annoying at times with her antics, but overall, I was hoping she would clue in. #WinterGames24 #TBWList #FoodandLit #ReadAway24 #MidWeekMuddle #HolidayBookDragons @TheAromaofBooks @StayCurious @Catsandbooks @Texreader @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

When your Finnish sister-in-law and her mother agree your attempt at a Finnish recipe is spot-on. 🎉🎊

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Also made some Finnish Christmas cookies (Joulupiparit) and had to freeze half the dough because damn that‘s a lot of cookies 😂

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Another Finnish graphic work, this time about the author's grandmother. She tells her grandson about her life and her family in 20th-century #Finland - and then writes it down because he never stays long enough to hear all, despite all the coffee and pastries she serves him...
Clearly, they had a hard, hand-to-mouth life for quite a long time. This is quite a bittersweet book.

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Tonight I tried making “PANNU KAKKU (FINNISH OVEN PANCAKE)” for #Finland for #foodandlit. It was ummm, good, but very sweet. Maybe not the best breakfast-for-dinner plan. So we ordered pizza. We will try the remaining Finnish sweets I ordered another day while we all recover from the sugar high here. @Catsandbooks