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It's all of a sudden warm summer weather here in Oslo. The sun is up almost 24/7, it's flowers everywhere and the air is filled with flower perfume ... just have to love it all. One of my favourites this time of the year is the lilacs. They seem to love the climate here and now they are all in full bloom. They range from white to pinkish, light purple to dark dark purple. Love them all. I've picked quite a lot lilacs and I've tried to make some fun edible things out of the flowers to remind me of them after they have finished blooming. So, I filled my basket with lilac flowers and digged out some favourite recipes. Here are recipes for lilac sugar and lilac syrup. On Monday I'll share my lilac jelly recipe and probably some ...

Welcome! Velkommen! Bienvenue! Today I'm proud to welcome you all my new and old blog friends and followers to my new home!! A brand new chapter of my blogging journey has just begun and I'm really looking forward to all there is to come. I've been working really hard to make this wonderful change that hopefully will benefit you, my lovely readers, and me (as the writer and contributor if this blog). My plan for this new blog home is to make this blog a place of instant sunshine, all the content more easy accessible - easier to navigate - prettier and easier to use as well as more magazine-like. So, I really hope you'll enjoy this new site as much as I do. After almost 15 years of blogging over at ...