December 24th--Advent at ADAFT!

Merry Christmas everyone!

If you've been adventing with us, then by now you should have lots of good music, tasty things to eat and fun movies to watch. All you need now is good company to do it with. So, we thought that on December 24th, our Advent event would be us, saying hello to all of you! And, of course, Glaedelig Jul.

December 23rd--Advent at ADAFT!

Today B and I made stollen, which some of you may know is German and also delicious. I feel compelled to say this because even though lots of Americans know about stollen, it seems that no Danes do, which is strange since Germany is RIGHT THERE. Danes are overall uninterested in German Christmas traditions, remaining convinced that gløgg, æbleskiver, and pebernodder are the keys to a good time.

But I am actually not super keen on gløgg. And besides, as previously mentioned, stollen is delicious and needs no other justification.

I'm not including the recipe because if you didn't already plan to make stollen, you don't have time to do it now. So just look at ours and be happy instead!

December 22nd--Advent at ADAFT!

Today, we have a tasty cookie recipe, because in E's wise words: "At Christmas, it is important to eat a lot of cookies".

Sparkly Ginger Cookies
4 T Sugar (coarse if you have it)
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
6 T canola oil
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup soy milk
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. Place the coarse sugar in a small bowl and set aside. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and spices. In a separate bowl, mix the oil, molasses, soy milk, 1 cup sugar and vanilla. Combine. Roll into one inch balls. Roll in the coarse sugar and flatten on a cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes. Makes 2-3 dozen.

These are great with tea or cider.

*The Scandinavegan would like to thank Isa from Vegan with a Vengeance for this recipe.

December 21st--Advent at ADAFT!

Earlier we mentioned one great holiday movie, "Love Actually." Today we're bringing you three of the best minutes in film history, straight from "White Christmas." It has Bing Crosby! And Rosemary Clooney! And they're going to sing about snow.

White Christmas--Snow!