This is a new blog series on food around the world. Throughout the series ill be researching and experimenting with different types of food from many places. These are traditional dishes and what you would probably eat in your time in countries like Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway among others.
The first place i'm diving into is the easiest for me. My family has a lot of experience with this type of food since we're in Scandinavian and Nordic lands about every other year.
Usually there are three meals a day and then what we call afternoon coffee.
Breakfast: This is where the open faced sandwiches come in. Rye bread is very popular along with these flat cracker crisps called knäckebröd. You put butter, cheese, cucumber, tomato, meat slices, and jam on these open faced sandwiches. If you're not feeling up to that then there usually is muesli with yogurt or milk.
There are plenty more breakfast recipes and details on Domino
Afternoon Coffee: At this time you have your coffee and kanelbullar which is a cardamom sweet bread. Coffee is also sometimes served with a sweet, light dessert. Coffee is a BIG deal here.
Lunch and Dinner: For lunch there are sometimes more open faced sandwiches of course. Many lunch and dinner meals include seafood, mainly fish. Salmon to be exact. Cured salmon is very popular for both breakfast and lunch as well as smoked and grilled. In Norway whitefish is popular especially a dish called Lutefisk. Boiled potatoes with dill and some famous Swedish meatballs are among the most famous traditional dinners.
Since its Christmas time, I thought i'd include this traditional Swedish rice porridge called risgrynsgröt that you eat on Christmas. You usually put cinnamon, brown sugar, and milk on it. The tradition is that you put a peeled almond in the pot of porridge and whoever ends up with it in their bowl gets to make a wish.
The food here always tastes fresh. Also many additives and growth hormones that are present in American food are banned. The portion sizes are smaller and for the most part, healthier.
Another article to go along with the Nordic theme is this one from NPR.
Enjoy :)
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