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Rolling into Danish Aeblskivers

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As we roll into Denmark on the North Sea, I found myself wondering why the heck we didn't eat aebleskivers during the week we spent visiting this country.  Then I remembered, we were too busy eating Danish pastry and shrimp spread (well, at least Sam was busy eating shrimp spread).  Here are some of the wonderful Danish pastries we had while visiting this country: Just looking at the pictures makes me want to go back!  If you're ever in Copenhagen, check out La Glace .  We're hoping that our aebleskiver recipe will remind us of the wonderful flavors of Denmark today. Let's start with finding a Danish recipe for aebleskivers.  I've made these before, but I'm fairly certain that the recipes I used were just regular American recipes, because that's what they tasted like.  So, I wanted to make sure to find an authentic Danish recipe.  This led me to start my search with Danish blogs, and it wasn't long before I found many that looked tasty.  Ultimatel...

Finishing up the Cs - We're in Czechoslovakia!

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When we initially did our research for Czech pancakes, we came up with palacinky, which as you can probably guess, is the Czech version of crepes.  Since we found it relatively quickly and easily, we just planned on making crepes for our next stop in Czechoslovakia.  However, as we were driving home from a concert, I decided to look up the recipe I planned on using to verify we had everything to make Czech crepes the next day.  This time, instead of using Google to search, I used Bing on my phone, and boy was I surprised.  I don't know why, but I'm always surprised when I get completely different results for my searches based on the search engine I use.  You would think I wouldn't be surprised by now. Anyway, after Binging Czechoslovakian pancakes, I discovered that the Czechs have another type of pancake called a bramborak.  What's a bramborak you say?  Well I'll tell you, it's a potato pancake!  Now what am I supposed to do?  Czechoslovakia...

Anyone know some traditional Cypriot music?

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So this week's pancake travels take us to the land of Cyprus, where apparently they love their dance techno music.  In the last few weeks of pancake travels, Sam and I decided we should listen to music that is representative of the country we're eating in.  We love the fact that Pandora lets us easily (usually easily) do this.  We simply search for a country, or find some artists from that country on the internet and then look for the artists on Pandora.  It's made for some fun music mornings. Well, we kept trying to look for some more traditional Cypriot music; however, we didn't have much luck.  Every Cypriot artist we found fell into the category of dance techno music.  So eventually we just decided to go with it and dance our way through making pancakes from Cyprus. Finding this week's recipe was relatively easy.  We have to thank Ivy over at Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water for our tasty recipe this week.  She grew up in Cyprus, and from h...