Posted in article, austrian, swedish, weird austrian food on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy new year 2008!
For myself, 2007 was entirely too stressy for my own taste. I hope that 2008 brings, if not relaxation, then stress of the positive, challenging kind!
While Christmas is pretty much the same everywhere (the only difference being that the presents are opened on the 24th evening in Austria and Sweden, and not [...]
Posted in article, swedish, weird swedish food on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
And here they are, the saffron cakes! They are actually yellow, much more so than normal cakes. The smell of saffron is now an integral part of my christmas… mmm!
Posted in article, swedish, weird swedish food on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now that I’ve written so much about Austria, I should write something about Swedish christmas traditions too.
Today in the morning, I tiptoed into my work’s garage, where in the dark, surrounded by test cars, prototype engines and various tools my colleagues sat at tables by candlelight, drinking mulled wine on work time.
December 13: St. Lucia [...]
Posted in swedish, sweet, weird swedish food on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
October 4th is Kanelbullens (Cinnamon rolls) day in Sweden!
Have you had yours yet?
I didn’t bake any though because my company and a consultant company both invited me to one already. Mmm, freshly-baked, aromatic cinnamon rolls…
I’d have taken a picture of the tray but they were gone faster than you could say “plague of locusts”. But [...]
Posted in swedish, sweet, vegetarian, weird swedish food on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I lived in Sweden for a few years now and am still discovering weird new foodstuff those Scandinavians have! So I figured I’ll have to introduce a new category: “Weird Swedish Food” for whenever I stumble across some.
Today’s new discovery is something I saw when I first came to Sweden a long time ago, when [...]
Posted in article, café, sandwich, swedish, weird swedish food on May 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Meeta's wonderful article about German bakeries on The Daily Tiffin reminded me of a topic I've been wanting to write about for a while: Swedish bakeries, or rather, Swedish cafés because that’s what they usually are.
A typical Swedish café is far from cool. Nor is it stylish, designed or anything like that. The proper word [...]
Posted in bento, fusion, swedish, tapas on February 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Originally posted to :
This bento is kind of Sweden-themed, but mostly showing how I love to have lots of mixed foods :)
Top layer (Breakfast): Soyghurt, some carrot-apple salad, 1/4 egg, 1/4 wild tomato, chocolate wheats, rye bread, one red dalahorse made of bell pepper and one chocolatey one :)
Middle layer (Lunch): Ovenbaked potato slices, fried [...]
