Food ("Mat" i Svenska)

It's the little things that really get me. Like walking into a Swedish grocery store and not recognizing half of the dairy dept, and trying all the new, foreign foods.

Things I've tried:

1. Caviar in a tube

2. Bread with cheese with jam on top

3. Kanelbulle (Cinammon Buns)

4. Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberry sauce

5. Kebab pizza

6. Fladerblom Must (Elderflower juice)

7. Strömming på knäckebröd med gräddfil (Herring on "Crispy Bread" with Sour Cream)

8. Non-refrigerated eggs

9. Rooster sauce (in Sweden!...it's a big deal for me)

10. Swedish tacos

11. Marabou chocolate
12. Hasselbackspotatis (courtesty of Evelina, these are baked potatoes sliced many times, thinly, but not all the way through, and then covered with butter, salt and breadcrumbs. I had a 5 kilo bag of potatoes to go through at the time, and these got me through them!)
13. Elk meat

Things I cook for myself:

1. Sandwiches

2. Noodles

3. Rutabaga Mashed Potatoes with Viennese Veal Cutlet

4. Pizza with the gang (from Pizza kits)

5. My grandmother's curried chicken recipe

6. Torsk (Cod) with Dill in Butter Sauce

Things I've yet to try:

1. Fresh-picked kantereller (chanterelle mushrooms)

2. Smörgåsbord

3. Reindeer

4. Nyponsoppa (Rose hip soup; I see rose hips growing wild everywhere! And apparently this is a popular-ish Swedish dish)

5. Princess cake

6. Smörgåstårta

7. Swedish pancakes (pytt i panna)

Originally written August 16, 2011