tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post112471993080848937..comments2024-03-28T07:47:44.433+02:00Comments on NAMI-NAMI: a food blog: Back in townPillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1125324276910996092005-08-29T17:04:00.000+03:002005-08-29T17:04:00.000+03:00Niki - you're welcome! It's nice to know that some...Niki - you're welcome! It's nice to know that someone far-far away is interesting in my home region and immediate surroundings:)Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1124978744841652512005-08-25T17:05:00.000+03:002005-08-25T17:05:00.000+03:00I have a fascination with the Scandinavian and Bal...I have a fascination with the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, so this was a really interesting post for me! Thank you. :-)Nikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16724833882784937754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1124798767139010232005-08-23T15:06:00.000+03:002005-08-23T15:06:00.000+03:00Hi Joey, Stephanie and Paz - I indeed enjoyed my h...Hi Joey, Stephanie and Paz - I indeed enjoyed my holiday quite a lot. Actually I enjoyed it so much, that I even began wondering whether it's time to head back home on a more permanent basis.. We'll see..<BR/>The cloudberry & cream cheese yogurt was lovely indeed (it must have replaced the cloudberry & honey yogurt, as I could find that favourite this time). <BR/>I'm very proud of Estonian dairy products - we have a huge array of different curd cheese products that I grew up with and miss when abroad - small bars in chocolate, creamy pots in all different flavours, ricotta-style grainy ones that are lovely in cakes etc etc. Different soured milk products like kefir, buttermilk and flavoured sour milk are quite common on the breakfast table indeed and we don't really need any of those friendly-bacteria-inducing expensive supplements in Estonia.<BR/>Yogurt, on the other hand, is a newcomer in Estonia - we didn't have it when I was a child, and I guess it only made its grand entrance in early 1990s. I usually try lots of different ones, but recently I tend to stick to couple I really like. Last winter I woke up to a pot of roasted apple and cinnamon yogurt every morning - a perfect dark and cold winter morning combo, if I may say so. I've actually carried a carefully foil-wrapped 1 litre carton back to Edinburgh couple of times:)))<BR/>And now - to mark the glorious late August summer - it was cloudberry & cream cheese yogurt that headlined my breakfast every morning. Cloudberries were recently mentioned by Melissa @ The Traveller's Lunchbox in the context of her (and my:) trip to a Norwegian wedding - these berries are rather unfamiliar outside the Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. This particular yogurt contains 12% cloudberry jam (also available in IKEA), and also some cream cheese. It's made by the local branch of the Finnish dairy conglomerate Valio. The result is slightly tart and rather creamy, full on tiny yellow-orange cloudberry bits (yep, even the seeds). I love it:))) <BR/>Paz - I have bookmarked your blog and will pay a visit very soon!Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1124750554033195412005-08-23T01:42:00.000+03:002005-08-23T01:42:00.000+03:00Sounds like a wonderful trip home!Sounds like a wonderful trip home!Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17090435662350578970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1124724443428521382005-08-22T18:27:00.000+03:002005-08-22T18:27:00.000+03:00Hi Pille! You vacation/semi-vacation sounded just...Hi Pille! You vacation/semi-vacation sounded just wonderful! "cloudberry&cream cheese yogurts" <-- What is that??? It sounds heavenly!!!<BR/><BR/>Can't wait to hear all about it! Especially "going ethnic - eating our way through the old Estonian manor houses and taverns on the north coast"...oooh, the anticipation!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com