Paleness of Norwegian Food Blogging
As someone mildly obsessed with food, I cannot deny that I have had secret fantasies about starting my own food blog. I however find it a real handicap to live in Norway. I get the feeling that to be able to write a nice food blog, you need to live in a strategic spot in California and have plenty of time on your hand. Being a busy mediumgeek, traveling mostly on bike, and with a pathetic selection of grocery stores such as Rema just doesn't make for interesting food blog material.
I subscribe to the news feed from 101 Cookbooks. A beautifully written blog with nice photography. I tend to like the recipes mostly for their aesthetic appeal as the ones I have tried have been a bit too bland for my liking. The real treat is really the mental images I get. Just imagine the tranquility and charm of this trip to the farmers' market.
There is a new weekly farmers' market just a few blocks from my house. I love it. I walk out my front door, cross the park, and make my way along tree-lined Noe Street until I see the little pop-up stalls. It's just the right size - not too big, not too small. Inspiring without being overwhelming. I came home the other night with a basket overloaded with all things spring and made this asparagus salad.
My version would be more like this...
There is this little grocery store not far from my apartment. I hate it. I usually visit it on my way home from work. After sweating my way up the hill from work I park my bike outside the store and wobble in on tired feat. I then walk along the isles between cardboard boxes and shelfs that belong more to a storage area than a grocery store dragging the little worn plastic shopping chart after me and trying not to notice how dirty it is. I pick out the things I want while trying not to hit down things with my overstuffed backpack full of computer equipment and exercise clothes and my bike helmet. Then there is the short ride home trying to balance the plastic bags on my bike and getting my bike, the shopping bags, and myself through two heavy door.
Doesn't sound quite as appealing as it does to stroll out your door with a basket under your arm...
Then there is an issues with the selection and freshness of things. 101 Cookbooks repeatedly writes things like:
The markets here are full of color right now. Gold, red,
and orange beets. Pink-fleshed pomelos. Tiny purple-streaked
artichokes. Deep, dark leafy greens. This week I filled my basket
with my favorite eggs, a loaf of whole wheat seed bread, fresh
tofu, lots of leeks and spring onions, chard with electric-pink stems,
and one bunch of pencil-thin asparagus.
There are no vibrant colors in my neighborhood supermarket. If there is anything pink in there it is for sure an artificially colored plastic container. Even the tomatoes are some type of pale vampire tomatoes competing with the zombie paleness of the carrots, and the emo look of the oranges. What should be fresh sprigs of herbs are usually some half dead plants that instantly commit a suicide when they hit your window sill. There isn't much variation in what is available either. To get anything special you need to visit few different immigrant stores that have much to learn about display and tidiness.
Norway has the excuse that almost everything needs to be imported. But one would think that during harvest season you might see some fresh and colorful shades of vibrant orange, yellow and green. But no, instead of displaying the various types of vegetables that are actually grown locally the stores usually just end up with giant cardboard boxes full of bleak-green cabbage heads. All to make Norway's traditional fall dish. The extremely exotic and complex Fårikål which literally means mutton in cabbage. And it really is just that: Mutton and cabbage with some black pepper...
So I really think serious food blogging is out for me. And I will blame it all on the fact that I live in Norway instead of any lack of skills in the cooking, writing, and photography department :) .
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Sometimes I take pictures of my food and post on my homepage. People in my neighbourhood alternatively make fun of me or make puking sounds. I agree not every dish looks appetizing and my photography skills are on the same level as my cooking skills, but I keep trying...
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Hairspray pudding
Taking photos of food is _very_ difficult. The real pros apparently do a lot of tricks which makes the food inedible. Like hair spraying it and such :)
Mmm, California! I do agree
Mmm, California! I do agree with what you're writing, and the main thing I'm missing - especially up north - is somewhere to buy nice fresh vegetables that doesn't cost a fortune.
That said, we do have a really nice deli even up here, where you can get the ingredients you need for even the more advanced recipes. So with a bit of planning I can usually get by just fine, but it's the everyday food that suffers from the Rema-style selections everywhere :)
Plan, plan, plan
But that is the thing. With some planning (and your entire Saturday running between stores) you can get most of the stuff you want. I want the casual stroll to cool stores!
Oh and Jon, don't get me started on the weather. Being soaking wet doesn't make shopping at Rema any more fun :(
That is exactly my image of
That is exactly my image of the Norwegian food, not that it's much better here, but it's one of the main things (the other one is the weather) that keeps me from even thinking about moving there... =)