with Anette Larsson
When you get served an Apple cake (or Äppelkaka / Æblekage) in Scandinavia, then you know the fall is here. Today is September 1st and to me, that is fall. Now when I live in Florida, the weather doesn't give me the same feeling of fall, but this apple cake does. 😉 I grow up [...]
I am in Sweden at the moment. August is the time of the year when the Swedes fish and eat Swedish crayfishes. The tradition is to arrange a small party around this dinner, where we also wear funny hats, drink a snaps and sing songs. Traditional food served with crayfishes variate, but I like to [...]
I actually don't cook skewers that often. But this time I decided to do it, and therefore two different skewers. One with beef "croquettes" with a spicy hint of garlic, chilli and cumin. One vegetable skewer with potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, onion and pepper. I thought a Greek tzatziki sauce could be nice to this, but [...]
We all have typical national food tastes we miss when we are away from home. The Danish remoulade sauce is one of the taste a Dane will miss when he or she goes abroad. Danish remoulade sauce is typically served on the iconic Danish open sandwich, together with fish and even on their hotdog. The [...]
We all know the Spanish classical Gazpacho. This red, spicy, cold soup which is perfect to serve a warm summer day. But have you tried to make it yellow? I did, and it's delicious! What I used was yellow cherry tomatoes, yellow paprika, yellow peaches and to make sure it gets yellow - the super [...]
Ingredients (1 jar): 12 oz blackberries 2 tbsp 100% cranberry juice from concentrate 1 tbsp raw can sugar Wash the blackberries and place in a medium saucepan. Add cranberry juice and simmer on medium temperature for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spoon. Add the sugar, stir and let simmer another 5 minutes. Spoon blackberries [...]
This dish is a truly Scandinavian dish adapted to Florida. I found a sustainable sourced Rockfish fillet and have now learned that Rockfish is a broad name for over 70 variants of fish which are sometimes referred to as Snapper. The red Snapper is one of the Snapper you can find eastern Atlantic Ocean including [...]
The Swedish "Smörgåstårta" or Sandwich Cake, is a savory sandwich cake that you might have heard about at IKEA... and then I am not saying "Smörgåsbord", which is something else. The Swedish Sandwich Cake is a savory cake made out of layers of bread, filled with layers of different fillings and decorated with either fish, [...]
This is one of my favourite cookies from Denmark. It's very simple but sooo delicious. It’s basically two pieces of sweet short crust pastry, baked, then layers with raspberry. Then it's topped with a nice layer of white icing and finished with some freeze dried raspberries. In every city, and almost in every area in every [...]
Scandinavian Simple Eating is part of the July/August Discover Issue of Edible Northeast Florida. If you don't find an ex near where you leave, you find the article here: https://ediblenortheastflorida.ediblecommunities.com/eat/scandinavian-jacksonville. You can read more about my background, my source of inspirations to food and cooking and what I think are the main similarities and differences [...]
Scandinavian Simple Eating 