Celebrating Christmas South African style on Christmas day

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"Celebrating Christmas South African style. @nikkimooki was cooking up a storm in the kitchen and served chicken, lamb curry, spinach, green bean, carrots etc. #cooking #food #christmas #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Christmas brunch with mor

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"Mum has been over for a Christmas brunch and we served some rice porridge and other good stuff. Now it is time to make red cabbage stew for the dinner tonight. Thanks for coming over @irmgard43 :-) #godjul #jul #christmas #rødkål #risengrøt #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

The Christmas tree has been decorated

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"The Christmas tree has been decorated together with @nikkimooki and the presents are wrapped 🎅🎄we are more or less ready for Christmas #christmas #christmastree #grannestunet #juletre #godjul #norway #jul "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Celebrating mums 70th birthday

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"Celebrating mums 70th birthday - her birthday is on Tuesday 17th but we had a family celebration today. She got an iPad and a Kindle as she loves to read. Send her greetings on Tuesday - her name here on Instagram is @irmgard43 #birthday #kindle #amazon #ipadmini"
(taken at Grannestunet)

Thanks for all the Christmas cards

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"Thanks for all the Christmas cards! We do have room for more #christmas #christmascards #julekort"

It is official: fall is here

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"It is official: fall is here and @nikkimooki and I have lit the fire place for the first time this season #fall #autumn #fireplace "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Sandra Chevrier works are on the wall!

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"The ladies are now in the living room wall - two pieces made by Sandra Chevrier #sandrachevrier #art #instaart "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Making chicken cacciatore

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"Making chicken cacciatore with @nikkimooki - thanks to @jamieoliver for the great recipe. The chicken has been marinated in red wine over night and it is fried up with anchovies and olives and are boiling in red wine and tomatoes now. An excellent dish ! #jamieoliver #food #foodporn #chicken #homemade #italian #cooking "
(taken at Grannestunet)

English breakfast?

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"@nikkimooki and I were watching TV yesterday and both Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal were on. So we got inspired to make a great lunch of poached eggs, bacon, beans etc. the spread on the toast is Gordon's anchovy and butter mix! #hestonblumenthal #gordonramsay #homemade #lunch #poachedeggs #bacon #sundaylunch #cooking #food #foodporn "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Preparing the silver buttons on my bunad vest

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"Preparing the silver buttons on my bunad vest - they have to look sharp at the gala dinner in Malaysia 😃 #bunad #silver #rogalandsbunad #silverbuttons "

The chef

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"Ready to cook a bit for the family 😃Just in case they don't recognize me I have put on my apron with my name in it 😜#cooking #apron #tgif #grannestunet"

New art

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"Our new piece of art is now officially in the house :-) @nikkimooki and I have decided that this will look great in our hallway. The work is by the Canadian artist Sandra Chevrier and I like the intense eyes. The work is from the "Cage study" series and it is watercolor, acrylic, pencil and comic collage on paper. Sandra will display work at Reed Gallery in Stavanger later this year - check @nuartfestival #instaart #sandrachevrier #art #cagestudy #stavanger #superman #comics"

Little Tulip from Artifort

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"Our hall seems brighter all of a sudden now that we finally got our new chair! It is a Little Tulip from Artifort :-) #dfu #littletulip #artifort #chair "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Mum is visiting

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"Mum is visiting and I'm serving buns and mum is enjoying them with brown goat cheese and strawberry jam @irmgard43 #brunost #family #mum #grannestunet #familiekos"

Having mum over for a braai

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"Having mum over for a braai #grannestunet #grill #braai @irmgard43 @nikkimooki #stavanger #norway "
(taken at Grannestunet)

The braai season of 2013 is now open!

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"The braai season of 2013 is now open in 26 degrees on or new balcony :-) btw braai is South African for a barbecue #braai #norway #stavanger #grannestunet #grill #barbecue "

Ready for having neighbors over

Nikki has done a great job on setting the table. We will be 18 in total!

New chairs

Our new Arper chairs Catifa 46 in dark grey and bright yellow :-)

The lamp is up!

Ronny and Bjørhild came to visit and Ronny was kind enough to help me hang up the Foscarini Le Soleil lamp - it looks great over the staircase!

Making lamb rack

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"Just staying home and relaxing tonight. Thanks to Sasha ( @smdv ) for inspiration : we are having lamb carre with parsnip pure We are also having some Manchego and salami Napoli as a starter :-) #redwine #wine #crianza #lamb #parsnip #manchego #cheese #salami"