I ate rotten fish last Wednesday. Alright, it wasn’t actually rotten but rather, fermented. Nevertheless, it did smell and taste rotten.
So why eat it, you ask? Well, because in these parts, this fish dish is rather (in)famous and a very important feature especially in the culture of Northern Sweden (where we are). So I vowed [...]
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that rotten fish
Posted in elementary cooking on September 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
cinnamon buns, finally
Posted in elementary cooking on August 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is said that “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
When I moved here in August 2007, one of my earliest observations of Swedish culture was that “when in Sweden, learn to make cinnamon buns!”
After two years, I finally did it.
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A big thanks to Joy for her recipe and Angie for her [...]
autumn’s apple crumble
Posted in elementary cooking on August 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It felt like the middle of summer on that Sunday afternoon. The heat of the sun beat down on us as we sat on the open grounds of Sturmsgården during the ecumenical service of Lutherans, Baptists and Pentecostals. But though it felt like summer wasn’t going away very soon, the reality of the changing of [...]
raspberry tales: picking and pie
Posted in elementary cooking, field trips on August 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, two sweet ladies invited me to join their “Annual Raspberry Picking Day” at the property of a friend in a nearby village.
We arrived just before noon.
Britt and Rakel set up our lunch boxes in the porch. We couldn’t go in because the house was abandoned three years ago. Berta, the owner, became too [...]
truly filipino chicken adobo
Posted in elementary cooking on August 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
And now for another chicken recipe, I give you the world-renowned (hmm, I think so) Filipino dish — the adobo! Wikipedia states that adobo is actually the Spanish word for “seasoning” or “marinade”. But when the Spaniards colonized the Philippines, they named this indigenous vinegar-based stew as adobo, and it has stuck ever since.
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