Crab salad I like to eat crabs, but unfortunately the rest of my family doesn't. That's why we rarely have a dish with crabs - but I really wanted to try this recipe for a crab salad. It sounded so wonderfully simple! Child no. 3 approached very hesitantly with an "Ugh, that looks disgusting!", but tried a small spoonful of the crab salad on his bread, thought about it - then took another small spoonful and decided: "For crabs, this tastes really delicious here!", I'll take that as a compliment! Ingredients 50 g mayonnaise 200 g plain skyr 3 hard-boiled eggs 250 g crabs 1/2 organic le ..read more

Tomato soup Of course, this is not the recipe for the delicious homemade tomato soup that is available in Friðheimar. But it's an Icelandic recipe for a very tasty tomato soup - with carrots, bell pepper, lots of different tomatoes, plus mozzarella cheese, salt and a lot of pepper! With fresh bread or baguette, a delicious and satisfying meal. Ingredients 1 carrot 1 yellow bell pepper 1 Tbsp butter 2 tsp ground cuminl 800 g tomatoes freshly ground pepper salt 750 ml water fresh basil mozzarella cheese  Preparation Wash and clean the carrot and peppers and cut them into small c ..read more

Eating in a greenhouse in Reykholt  May contain traces of advertising.* A visit to the greenhouse and restaurant Friðheimar is a very special experience in Iceland: Here, right on the Golden Circle, you can enjoy very tasty, freshly harvested tomato dishes in the middle of a greenhouse. The menu is clear but delicious - and everything is prepared with their own tomatoes, from homemade tomato soup to other main courses to dessert and drinks. Would you like a tomato beer? Here you can get it! In addition, you can learn everything about tomato cultivation with geothermal energy and sto ..read more

Wreath Cake Such a "wreath cake" is a specialty for festive occasions in many parts of Scandinavia. Also here in Iceland you can often find it on cake buffets, especially at baptisms and confirmations. Actually, such a tower cake sometimes consists of 15 to 18 stacked cake rings. The cake is made of a lot of marzipan and sugar and is very tasty, but at least I can't eat much of it at once! I have now made only 1/3 of the original recipe and baked a small wreath cake with only 6 rings, as a dessert to our Easter meal. To a certain extent as an "Easter edition" with a small Easter egg on th ..read more

Historical vanilla cake This cake recipe comes from an old Icelandic cookbook from 1858 - so people have been eating the cake for at least 165 years in Iceland - a very historical cake! (That's why it's still called "vanille kaka", even if it would be more of a "vanillukaka" in today's Icelandic.)  In addition, it's a strikingly simple recipe, with ingredients you can always have in stock: in-house - eggs, sugar, flour and a bit of vanilla for taste.  According to the cookbook, the recipe should yield 10 servings - for this you should use a pound of sugar, a pound of flour and ac ..read more

Cauliflower soup Maybe, in the Lenting season you prefer something vegetarian. Then this soup might be interesting for you.  Ingredients for 4 - 6 people 2 small heads of cauliflower 2 l water 120 g butter 4 Tbsp flour 2 egg yolks 250 ml whipping cream 2 tsp vegetable broth powder 1 pinch of coarse sea salt 1 pinch of black pepper Preparation  Clean the cauliflower heads, wash and remove the stalk.  Cook the cauliflower florets in water for about 30 minutes until everything is nice and soft. Then drain the water, catch it (still needed for the soup!) and pure ..read more

Man's Day Supposedly, there is an old custom in Iceland that on this day, early in the morning, the master of the house has to hop around the farm three times barefoot and on one leg. In doing so, he wears only a shirt and a single trouser leg, while dragging the other trouser leg behind him. In return, his wife makes him happy with a particularly good meal, such as sourly pickled ram's testicles or singed sheep's head. Doesn't that sound tempting?!? Bóndadagur - January 20th, 2023  Bóndadagur is celebrated on the first day of the month Þorri. This month is the fourth winter mont ..read more

Orange cake with double frosting We are sitting here in the Icelandic winter wonderland with mountains of snow. Outside it is cold, again and again below 0 °F (resp. -18 °C). So you prefer to make yourself comfortable inside the house, with a wonderfully crackling fireplace, hot cocoa and a freshly baked cake. - Here I have a recipe for a wonderfully fluffy orange cake with two kinds of glaze for you - with icing and chocolate glaze on top. Actually, grated orange peel is provided in the recipe, but I didn't get organic oranges here in the local supermarket, so I helped myself with orange ..read more

A particular specialty of Icelandic cuisine is the Icelandic rye bread, i.e. rúgbrauð. It is a bit similar to pumpernickel, but it is soft and fluffy and tastes sweet.  Baking bread with the heat of the earth Traditionally, this bread is baked in Iceland’s geothermally heated ground, then usually in a tin can, which is buried in the ground for 10 - 24 hours (depending on the temperature on site). This bread is known, for example, from Heimaey after the volcanic eruption in 1973, from the region on Mývatn or from the geothermal bakery at the swimming pool "Fontana" in Laugarvatn. A ..read more

Meat Soup Day at the beginning of winter In Iceland, winter always starts at the end of October. The first day of winter ("fyrsti vetrardagur") according to the old Icelandic calendar is the first Saturday between October 21st and 27th. Since 2003, on Skólavörðustígur street, which leads from Hallgrímskirka down to Laugavegur in Reykjavík, the "kjötsúpudagur", i.e. the Meat Soup Day, has been celebrated on the first day of winter. From 2 p.m., various variants of the typical Icelandic meat soup are served at several stations along the street for free. The event starts at 2 p.m. and lasts as ..read more