About food! :)
charli_mcboyd asked me about Swedish food. "Tell me [...] everything that I don't know about that's good," she said.
Well, Swedes eat a lot of foreign food, but I'll list some of my favs when it comes to Swedish husmanskost (direct translation of the German Hausmannskost, which means home-cooked everyday fare.).
My number one favorite when it comes to Swedish food is palt. This recipe is quite accurate apart form the fact that they list bacon instead of pork. I prefer the pork on the side and not inside the palt. :)
Mmm, I got really hungry listing all that, so I'm gonna take a dinner break now. *g*
Well, Swedes eat a lot of foreign food, but I'll list some of my favs when it comes to Swedish husmanskost (direct translation of the German Hausmannskost, which means home-cooked everyday fare.).
- Blodpudding - Black pudding
- Falukorv - Sausage originating from Falun. The lifts and pumps at the Kopparberg copper mine in Falun were, during the 16th and 17th centuries before the introduction of steam engines, powered by oxen. When these oxen died from strain or old age, the skin was turned into leather ropes used in the mine, and some of the meat was turned into Falukorv sausages.
- Gravad lax
- Janssons frestelse (Jansson's temptation) - Grated potatoes, onion, anchovy and cream - the anchovy here is not the genuine anchovy, but the sprat - quite a different species and is also spiced. [1]
- Julbord - Christmas smörgåsbord
- Julskinka - Christmas ham
- Kaviar - Swedish caviar comes in tubes and is typically made from cod roe.
- Köttbullar - Swedish meatballs
- Köttsoppa - A rustic beef and root vegetable soup
- Palt - Potato-dumplings with a filling of pork
- Pannkakor and Plättar - Pancakes
- Pyttipanna - Chopped and fried meat, onions, and pre-boiled potatoes.
- Smörgåsbord
- Smörgåstårta - Sandwich cake
- Surströmming - Fermented Baltic herring - a rather different tasting species of herring - it has about 10% fat whereas Atlantic herring is 16% - this may occur because of the Baltic having half the salt concentration of many seas.
- Våfflor (Waffles) - Often served with jam with ice cream or whipped cream. Waffles also have their own day on March 25.
My number one favorite when it comes to Swedish food is palt. This recipe is quite accurate apart form the fact that they list bacon instead of pork. I prefer the pork on the side and not inside the palt. :)
Mmm, I got really hungry listing all that, so I'm gonna take a dinner break now. *g*