Roast duck for Sunday dinner

Over the years we have cooked duck breast for dinner many times. One our favourite ways to prepare this is the Gingery duck salad recipe by Nigella Lawson. However, this week we decided to try something different. The choice fell on a whole fresh duck that we roasted using a mix of orange, honey, soya…

Learning about the Norwegian outdoors

This August made 40 years since my husband first landed at Oslo Fornebu airport, he was here on an assignment from his Indian company in 1986. He spent the first months in Norway, getting to know how things worked and meeting up with friends and family of people he knew back in India. One of…

Summer holidays in Norway

In April, I developed a condition called pneumothorax, where the lung cavity is punctured causing air to collect. I was unable to travel by air, since the low air pressure on a flight could result in further damage or a collapse of the lung. As a result, we spent our summer in Norway, with a…