with Anette Larsson
February 16th is the Fat Tuesday when we in Sweden eat our icon bun - Semla - the cardamom bun filled with almond filling, heavy whipped cream and sprinkled with some powder sugar. In this recipe I have made my own almond filling with roasted almonds, which give extra taste to the filling. I have [...]
This is a very traditional and popular Swedish shortbread cookie. Their main feature is the fancy coating of pink sugar. They are easy to bake, crispy and buttery when you eat them, and the little colorful sugar coating makes the difference. I made my Brussels cookies a bit smaller, and then you can easily have [...]
This fish stew is a quick, healthy and delicious meal for the whole family. Stew is something we do a lot in the Scandinavian kitchen this time of the year. It's very simple and you can vary without any limits. You can use my recipe has a base, and then you can vary with e.g. [...]
This lovely bread loaf won't make you disappointed. It's a moist and semi-coarse bread that I think is perfect for a slice of bread for breakfast. If you would like to add dried fruit or nuts, it's a perfect base to experiment with. Ingredients (1 loaf): 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast250 g strong white bread [...]
Happy New Year! I can't believe that we finally have left THE 2020 year behind us and now started a new, hopefully lovely year. I am really excited about 2021, what it has to bring and all new possibilities that will come. With that said, I also have a lot of respect for the ongoing [...]
We have a lot of different kind of Christmas candy and cookies we bake for Christmas in Scandinavia. I have already bake both Gingerbread and Saffron buns (3 times already!). This is an alternative to all the traditional Christmas candies, most often containing a higher amount of sugar. These Almond bites contain sugar and fat, [...]
After a Halloween weekend full of sugar, I think it's nice to have something more healthy around when the weakness for sweet comes. These healthy raw balls are filled with nutritions and NO added sugar and NO butter. Just plant based fat and sugar. And they taste so good! They remind me a lot of [...]
The Hasselback potato dish is a Swedish classic dish, which I have written about before. This time, I have used the same technique as for the potatoes, but with red beets instead. The oven baked red beets get really tender and crispy. I serve it with a perfectly grilled beef tenderloin and a creamy sauce [...]
Beef croquette (or ”Järpar” in Swedish) is a common autumn dish in Scandinavia. Traditionally you use ground beef, but it’s also very common with lamb, veal or chicken. When you grow up in Sweden, I’m 100% sure you have been served Beef croquettes for lunch in school. We normally serve the croquettes with mashed potatoes, [...]
The Swedish Oven baked pancake is a classic traditional dish. The most common variant is with bacon, and I have also added spinach and scallion in my oven baked pancake, which I think give a bit more taste and break well with the salty bacon. I have made a vegetarian oven baked pancake earlier, and [...]
Scandinavian Simple Eating 