Tag Archives: Norway

Food experiment: Risgrøt

May 15, 2010

Risgrøt (risengrynsgrøt (with raisins) or riskrem (with cream/whipped cream)) is Norwegian rice pudding. Probably my favourite from the Norwegian foods I’ve tried (a close second would be brown cheese). Ris=rice and grøt I guess is the pudding (:P). Grøt is pronounced similar to “grert”. It’s a traditional Christmas dish with lots of variations. You can make it with sour cream or mix in whipped cream to make a cold dessert etc. I only learnt to make it the most basic […]

January 14, 2009

February 6, 2009

nothing much happened during these two days….lots of group work in class we had two very interesting lectures, one on the studies of masculinities and one on power and empowerment. The guest lecturer on masculinities was really fun (he started out reading from a script, but the discussion part was great). His field studies/research in Ecuador really put things into perspective. I didn’t realize how important it is that masculinities is included in gender research. The shift from Women in […]

February 6, 2009

wow…what a start to a day… I couldn’t sleep last night…and I totally thought my class was in the afternoon today. So I overslept and was late for an hour. Today was a really great guest lecturer too…I felt soooo bad. I don’t think I’ve ever actually overslept and not gone to class before…. Then after class, my dearest fellow Canadian, L, tells me that she got an email saying her grandpa just passed away. Oh god…I had no words […]