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So the Christmas table were all set, this year we did choose a red and silver theme. Even our kitchen curtains is red with silver hearts and stars on them.
We started out with some Swedish Glögg and Saffron buns, to get up the heat and appetite. Which we did.
It looks a bit cold in the [...]

Almost all our Christmas dinner preparations are done. This is our ham, which is the main thing on the Swedish Christmas table. No Christmas without the ham.
Nowadays we cheat a bit and buy ham that already is cooked, but we have to make the frying with eggs, mustard and bread crumbs on the top. We [...]

Tuesday morning the 16th December 2008 at 05:20 there was an earthquake in the South of Sweden, the strongest one for about 104 years: magnitude 4.7 on the Richter scale.
People could feel the tremors from the earthquake in the south parts of Sweden and over the water to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. The epicenter [...]