The fermented herring with the strong smell is called "surströmming". It is only common in certain regions of Sweden, I would guess that most Swedish people have never eaten it. But that is not what she was talking about in the video. She talked about "sill", which is pickled herring, not fermented, and that is very common all over Sweden. We eat it during the summer and as part of the traditional holiday food during Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer. It comes in lots of different flavours, and unlike "surströmming" it doesn't smell.
@@lordnilsson and on Gotland they use saffron in their traditional dish Saffron pancake. It is an oven-baked dessert. The Saffron Pancake is made of rice groats, cream, almonds and saffron. Served cold or warm with whipped cream and ”salmberry” jam.
Pickled herring and fermented herring are two _very_ different things. And the "quite strong smell" part is just the wrong description. It is more in the vein of "what died and was left to rot in the kitchen during the warm summer months". When it comes to taste it's OK, but i prefer the pickled herring.
The Swedish word "kex" have many meanings in English: Crackers, bisquits, wafers - we call all of those Kex. Kexchoklad is basically a chocolate covered wafer.
5:01 Semlor is eaten during a specific period, not all year round and yes we will have it for a nice fika session. The are available during like February and March and they come in new varieties, not just the traditional (that’s seen here)!❤❤❤🇸🇪
Haulomi cheese is a goat cheese that does not melt when you grill it. Like a grill cheese. Which cannot be compared to other cheeses that you have in sandwiches and on hamburgers, etc. like cheddar, västerbottenost, grev, præst, etc.
2:14 Yes, Louisiana is crawfish and Cajun music 5:09 Maybe Lingonberries are found in Scotland? In Sweden, there are about 150,000 tons of lingonberries every year. Of these lingonberries, about 2 - 5% are picked Lingonberries normally grow in arctic countries. Sweden is largely an arctic country. The northern part of Sweden has a polar climate. Lingonberries are abundant in Sweden. Most lingonberries are picked in northern Sweden. All lingonberries are picked by hand. It is not possible to grow lingonberries.
Nope there are no Lingonberrys in Scotland. They only grow in boreal forrest areas at the northern most parts of the world so you will find them in Northern Canada, Alaska, Northern Europe (mostley in Sweden and Finland) and Asia (being in Russia).
Crayfish parties are one of the staples of late summer/early fall. Eat crayfish, eat crayfish on toasted bread, drink beer, drink nubbe (ie shots of strong, herb-flavored liquor), wear silly hats, sing songs about drinking! Surströmming (fermented herring) is commonly eaten at similar parties, where the awfully stinking fish is the main attraction. Not the same season as crayfish, I believe. The pickled herring is a staple during Midsummer, Christmas, Easter, and nearly all other festivities. The herring in itself, with sour cream, in tomato sauce, mustard sauce, and a myriad other sauces.
Fresh Swedish crayfish can be quite expensive and hard to find at times but there is always frozen Louisiana crayfish available. They are often cooked with Swedish recipes using dill, packaged for Sweden and exported.
Ther fermented fish is a herring called surströmming and is mostlyveaten in northern Sweden but the entire Sweden enjoys pickled herring in different flavours that we eat on celebrations in the holidays.
Crayfish eating in Sweden is mostly an excuse to drink spicy liquor and get drunk. ;-) Meatballs - We cook them ourselves much more than we eat Ikea's simple copies. One of the first recipes you learn when you grow up and start cooking. Lingonberry jam - good for both pancakes and waffles. And for bacon with potato buns! Families living close to the forest had a tradition of gathering one or two families every fall to pick lingonberries (including blueberries) in the forest. Many kilograms were picked. Then the mothers made jam from this. Year after year. This would have been impossible without the "Allemansrätt". Pickled fish - one of my favorite things to have on a sandwich.
"Surströmming" are only northerners and crazy people who eat. We normal people in southern Sweden don't eat it. However, pickled herring is another matter. It's quite common.
Crayfish is mainly eaten by Southerners and other crazy people. We normal people in Northern Sweden don't eat it. It's actually quite disgusting eating crayfish - the mere thought of it is enough to make one feel wanting to throw up.
Haha, yes, I'm one of the crazy ones in the the south, that love surströmming, but then I do have my Heritage from the north. Love everything salt and sharp.
5:50 Lingon grows primarily in nature. Pretty common in all of northern Europe and Asia (even America, as cranberries) although mostly associated with Sweden.
Pickled herring isn't fermented. The fermented one is called surströmming and is another thing totally. Don't mix them up. Most people don't eat surströmming.
We have several Swedish cheeses that are more popular than Haloumi, eg Prästost, Hushållsost, Herrgårdsost, but they are used differently, usually as a topping on our open faced sandwiches. I prefer them over Cheddar or "American cheese" on hamburgers
These and other popular Swedish hard cheese types maybe are a bit similar to hard Swiss cheese like Emmentaler and such. Norway have similar cheese, like Norvegia and Jarlsberg.
Regarding swedish berries: In the woods you can find and pick "blåbär" if you translate the two words blå and bär, that mean blue berries. Therefore most swedes think that is the proper translation, but that is not correct. The proper translation is billberries, and I believe those can be found i Scotland and also as far away as Labrador in North America, probably brought by the vikings. Billberries are smaller than blueberries and are dark blue through the whole berrie. The taste is similar but there is more taste in one small billberrie than in one big blueberrie.
Nah, it's just that (almost) every burger chain will have a deep-fried slice of halloumi as an alternative to a beef patty, or a vegetarian (or vegan) patty. As for the southern US, where you can find crawfish, their crawfish boil is different, in that it involves a lot of spice (and usually some hot spices), whereas the Swedish is basically a salty stock, with plenty of dill.
What missed when I lived abroad, Kalles kaviar, hard bread, lingonberries, salty licorice, pickled herring, cloudberries and pickled beetroot. I know it was more but can't remember right now.
Fermented herring is formost a festivaty dish, served outside, out in the open air (for obvious reasons). It's not a starter... it's a dish on it's own. It's almost like reason to get together and have a fiest with snaps (vodka), meatballs, saugess , because not everyone likes that fish. To me the smell signals "party". It's usally for a very short time we eat that kind of fish every time.
A good list. We eat herring in all big holidays. Not the same as surströmming Crayfish in August. Saffranicecream not that common. Semla, lingonberrys, salty licroce and Kalles kaviar is a must
3:18 No, halloumi is NOT the most popular "cheese" in Sweden, by any means. That would be Västerbotten, Präst, Grevé, Herrgårds, or perhaps mögelost (blue cheese).
A lot of us swedes pick our lingonberries ourselves in the autumn. An put them in the freezer or make jam of them and put it in glass jars. But those who don’t pick them themselves, just buy the jam in amy grocery store. Or buy fresh berries at the square market or elsewhere.
I made köttbullar yesterday. Enjoyed them with lingonsylt. The only time I would eat crayfish would be on a "kräftskiva" in August. I eat kexchoklad almost every day. And Kalles kaviar with my egg sandwish every now and then.
4:20 IKEA meatballs are ok, I guess, but typical for industrial made ones. It's usually both better meat and more cream, onion and spices in the real ones that you get in a restaurant (or home).
Kalles Kaviar can be used on sandwiches, and it's absolutely delicious with eggs. I think some people also use Kalles Kaviar in sauces. But in my case, I stick to sandwiches, whether they're crispbread or soft bread, and eggs.
The halloumi cheese is originating from Cyprus, so it is not a typical Swedish cheese. The halloumi is made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk. DIVINE to fry or grill.
I think that the "Halloumi"-name is tied to Cyprus and it has to be made there, by their methods. Sweden has a lot tougher regulations around antibiotics and other additives when it comes to farming, so the Swedish variant is probably better for you. It cannot use the name though... It may be called like "Grill Cheese" and cost half the price of a halloumi. It is popular, but it is not the same kind of food that you eat as delicacy or as your breakfast sandwich.
You can get crawfish in Louisiana, but it is not seasoned with dill which makes a huge difference. Crawfish is popular in Sweden and there are often many parties dedicated to eating this in August (and have an excuse to drink a lot). Halloumi is popular because it is really suitable to barbacue by it self due to its consistency and therefore you can eat it without meat. We have a lot of other cheeses that are popular as well when it comes to other uses than non-meat burgers. The pickled herring is not fermented actually. It is only pickled and taste awesome (according to me), does not smell bad and is extremely common to eat as one of the dishes for many of the festivities (or otherwise as well) such as christmas, eastern and midsummer. The fermented herring (surströmming) is completely different and I think swedes are a bit divided there. I would not taste it due to the smell myself.
IKEA meatballs vs homemade is like 3p for IKEA and 10p for my homemade. The IKEA ones are like all processed food not as nice as homemade from scratch, home made meatballs with cream sauce & lingon berry jam, gonna have it today because i'm talking about it, so good!!! Halloumi is nothing for me, hate it. Never seen saffran ice cream. Salty licorice is the best candy, very Swedish to like but it's yummie!! Not a fan of herring, and surströmming is fkn disgusting!!! Kalles Kaviar... yummie!!
Halloumi is the most popular vegetarian burger "cheese", you cant make another burger out of normal cheese i think. but halloumi fries is a swedish thing to, deep frying halloumi breaded halloumi cheese, my god, i miss the traditionall arabs making fast food haha
Pickled Herring is extremely popular, it doesn't smell and comes in 20+ various sauces. Fermented Herring (Surströmming) is another thing all together, most don't like it, I think for the most part they don't know how to eat it
Yes Lingon is only avalible in the boreal forest areas of north america (Northern Canada), Northern Europe (Norway,, Sweden, Finland) and Asia (Russia). So there are non in the UK. Norway has just some Lingon being to mountainous. Denmark has non because almost all of their land is cultivated. Lingon is also called in Sweden "The forrests red gold". You can buy Lingonberry jam in swedish supermarkets but manny forrages Lingon on their own because the Allemansrätten allows us to do so. I never need to buy store bought Lingonberry jam because my family forrages Lingon and make theit own jam.
The difference between homemade meatballs and Ikeas meatballs is the same difference between a homeamde realy good grilled burger and a Mc donalds burger. The second options are edible for sure. But cmon, the fabricated stuff cant hold a candle to the real deals! Im sure the Italians get it if i compare it to a chain resturant versus your nonas pasta?
Meat balls at IKEA: Firstly, meat balls is not the correct translation of the swedish name of the dish. Its named "köttbullar," which should translate to "meat buns". This means that they really don't have to be perfectly spherical. Anyway, I would rate the IKEA meat balls between ok and good. There are frozen ready to warm meatballs in the food stores that are not any better. Home made meat balls however could be great, and a top chef might succed with fantastic meat balls.
I know SOME people who really like IKEA meatballs. Personally, I think they're kinda mid. I prefer SCANS if I'm buying premade ones. Beats poorly homemade ones, good homemade ones are leagues above both. Never tried eating them out, so I couldn't compare with that
IKEA meatballs are like the walmart version of meatballs, they are OK, but nothing special at all, usually tastes like they have been diluted with flour/bredcrumbs and egg. Real handmade meatballs don't need eggs to keep them round (unless you put chopped onions in them too), just ground beef+pork and spices. Just like real burgers should be 100% ground beef and maybe spices.
homemade Swedish classic meatballs. it's all about the ingredients in them. if you have anything else in them, they're not Swedish classic meatballs. 500 g mixed minced meat ½ dl breadcrumbs 2 dl 50% cream, 50% milk 1 yellow onion 1 egg 1½ tsp salt ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper butter for frying
I'm a swede and we have good licorice, but Icelandic and Finnish is better imo. And it should be salty. And I've never met someone that is not homegrown in Sweden like kaviar. They actually made a point of that in a commercial. ruclips.net/video/HMyfZydK-4s/видео.html
Crayfish is big in August and September when it is Crayfish Festival but lots of beer and schnapps to wash it down with. Halomi is nothing. I guess it's Hipsters in the big city who consume that crap. I don't know anyone who eats that boring, pointless food. Meatballs are a big and old dish. I don't even understand that they can be called meatballs at IKEA, it's not the same! Semla or fetisdags bun is something that you eat during Lent 2/3 - 22/3, especially the first Tuesday in March. But now no one fasts anymore but the buns are eaten in any case preferably in a deep bowl with warm milk around as a dessert. Berries from the forest are very common in Swedish food. They have to be from the forest, which gives a completely different taste than cultivated berries. I've never heard of saffron ice cream but saffron buns are big for Lusia on December 13 and a very old tradition. Licorice is great to mix with other sweets. Biscuit chocolate is cheaper chocolate mixed with biscuits. Ordinary but not quality chocolate, just cheaper. Now you are talking about 2 completely different things. One is herring that is cooked in a layer of different spices. It comes from the Kattegat lake between Sweden and Denmark. A very big deal in Sweden but also in Denmark. More like a snack, you eat it on a sandwich preferably. The other is fermented herring that ferments in a jar and tastes OK but with a terrible smell from the fermentation gases. It is eaten up on the Norrland coast up north. More tradition than a delicacy. Just don't bring it south. The Scots have a fish called Haggis which, as far as I understand, is not eaten all over the UK. Kalles Caviar is smoked cod roe. Good with a little on boiled eggs. You get the salt and the flavor that breaks it off. I have had it to the UK and they thought it was good on eggs. A bit of a strong flavor, pure. Flavors on a tube are big in Sweden, you can pull out a string on a sandwich without having to dirty any cutlery - there will be no dishes left after.
The fermented herring with the strong smell is called "surströmming". It is only common in certain regions of Sweden, I would guess that most Swedish people have never eaten it.
But that is not what she was talking about in the video. She talked about "sill", which is pickled herring, not fermented, and that is very common all over Sweden. We eat it during the summer and as part of the traditional holiday food during Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer. It comes in lots of different flavours, and unlike "surströmming" it doesn't smell.
Yeah, sill (or in danish "sild") is very common here in Denmark too.
Pickled herring smells too - but pleasantly from the distilled vinegar and the aromatics used, like dill, mustard etc. =)
Zaffran ice cream is actually not common in Sweden. But during Christmas we use zaffran in some sweet bread (lusse-bullar)
@@lordnilsson and on Gotland they use saffron in their traditional dish Saffron pancake.
It is an oven-baked dessert. The Saffron Pancake is made of rice groats, cream, almonds and saffron. Served cold or warm with whipped cream and ”salmberry” jam.
Pickled herring and fermented herring are two _very_ different things. And the "quite strong smell" part is just the wrong description. It is more in the vein of "what died and was left to rot in the kitchen during the warm summer months". When it comes to taste it's OK, but i prefer the pickled herring.
The Swedish word "kex" have many meanings in English: Crackers, bisquits, wafers - we call all of those Kex. Kexchoklad is basically a chocolate covered wafer.
You don't "farm" lingonberries. I don't even think you can? All lingonberries are picked in the wild. Yes. Even those served in IKEA. 😜
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You can farm it.
@@PeterGyllander Yes you can but its not worth it.
2:42 Yes, kräftor has it’s own party in August!❤❤❤🇸🇪
5:01 Semlor is eaten during a specific period, not all year round and yes we will have it for a nice fika session. The are available during like February and March and they come in new varieties, not just the traditional (that’s seen here)!❤❤❤🇸🇪
5:50 They are not grown, they grow wild in our forests… So you have to pick them there!❤❤❤🇸🇪
Sill (pickled herring) is NOT fermented. That's surströmming (sour herring)
Haulomi cheese is a goat cheese that does not melt when you grill it. Like a grill cheese. Which cannot be compared to other cheeses that you have in sandwiches and on hamburgers, etc. like cheddar, västerbottenost, grev, præst, etc.
2:14 Yes, Louisiana is crawfish and Cajun music
5:09 Maybe Lingonberries are found in Scotland?
In Sweden, there are about 150,000 tons of lingonberries every year.
Of these lingonberries, about 2 - 5% are picked
Lingonberries normally grow in arctic countries.
Sweden is largely an arctic country.
The northern part of Sweden has a polar climate.
Lingonberries are abundant in Sweden.
Most lingonberries are picked in northern Sweden.
All lingonberries are picked by hand.
It is not possible to grow lingonberries.
Nope there are no Lingonberrys in Scotland. They only grow in boreal forrest areas at the northern most parts of the world so you will find them in Northern Canada, Alaska, Northern Europe (mostley in Sweden and Finland) and Asia (being in Russia).
Crayfish parties are one of the staples of late summer/early fall. Eat crayfish, eat crayfish on toasted bread, drink beer, drink nubbe (ie shots of strong, herb-flavored liquor), wear silly hats, sing songs about drinking!
Surströmming (fermented herring) is commonly eaten at similar parties, where the awfully stinking fish is the main attraction. Not the same season as crayfish, I believe.
The pickled herring is a staple during Midsummer, Christmas, Easter, and nearly all other festivities. The herring in itself, with sour cream, in tomato sauce, mustard sauce, and a myriad other sauces.
9:05 she is totally wrong. Sill = herring, that she shows in the video, is not fermented at all. Just pickled.
Fresh Swedish crayfish can be quite expensive and hard to find at times but there is always frozen Louisiana crayfish available. They are often cooked with Swedish recipes using dill, packaged for Sweden and exported.
Ther fermented fish is a herring called surströmming and is mostlyveaten in northern Sweden but the entire Sweden enjoys pickled herring in different flavours that we eat on celebrations in the holidays.
Lingonberries are not farmed. They are picked in the wild, even those in the lingonberry jam you by in the store.
Saffron ice cream is not common but it is really good. We like saffron in Sweden and we love ice cream!
do not mix up pickled herring (inlagd sill) with fermented herring (surströmming). They are compleatly different beasts!
I have never seen saffron ice-cream in my life... Am I not a real Swede?
Crayfish eating in Sweden is mostly an excuse to drink spicy liquor and get drunk. ;-)
Meatballs - We cook them ourselves much more than we eat Ikea's simple copies. One of the first recipes you learn when you grow up and start cooking.
Lingonberry jam - good for both pancakes and waffles. And for bacon with potato buns!
Families living close to the forest had a tradition of gathering one or two families every fall to pick lingonberries (including blueberries) in the forest. Many kilograms were picked. Then the mothers made jam from this. Year after year. This would have been impossible without the "Allemansrätt".
Pickled fish - one of my favorite things to have on a sandwich.
"Surströmming" are only northerners and crazy people who eat. We normal people in southern Sweden don't eat it. However, pickled herring is another matter. It's quite common.
Crayfish is mainly eaten by Southerners and other crazy people. We normal people in Northern Sweden don't eat it. It's actually quite disgusting eating crayfish - the mere thought of it is enough to make one feel wanting to throw up.
Surströmming is food for adults like a fat prime minister said.
@@bengtolsson5436 what do you count in southern Sweden? I live in Stockholm, love Surströmming and are not crazy . 🤣😋😋
@@birgittae9046 Those who are crazy often don't know it themselves!
Haha, yes, I'm one of the crazy ones in the the south, that love surströmming, but then I do have my Heritage from the north. Love everything salt and sharp.
5:50 Lingon grows primarily in nature.
Pretty common in all of northern Europe and Asia (even America, as cranberries) although mostly associated with Sweden.
Cranberries are not lingonberries.
@@per-arnealmeflo2721 Close enough.
@@herrbonk3635Doesn't taste the same, though.
@@SteamboatW Different sorts of apples taste even more differently, still we catagorise all of them as apples.
@@herrbonk3635 Pears are close enough, but still no apples!
As for lingonberry... geographics. The UK is generally too far south compared to northern Sweden and to Canada.
Pickled herring isn't fermented. The fermented one is called surströmming and is another thing totally. Don't mix them up. Most people don't eat surströmming.
Yeah she said somithing uncorrect.
Saffron is huge in Persian cooking, and their saffron and pistachio icecream is amazing.
We have several Swedish cheeses that are more popular than Haloumi, eg Prästost, Hushållsost, Herrgårdsost, but they are used differently, usually as a topping on our open faced sandwiches. I prefer them over Cheddar or "American cheese" on hamburgers
Let's not forget Västerbotten and Västerbottenspaj!
Never forget the lingonberry or jam in general :D Gotta have some jam on the side
Kräftor only works on the west coast in Sweden. The inland stuff is a no go
Grevé, Präst and Herrgårdsost are the three most popular hard cheese brands in Sweden.
These and other popular Swedish hard cheese types maybe are a bit similar to hard Swiss cheese like Emmentaler and such. Norway have similar cheese, like Norvegia and Jarlsberg.
@ I like Jarlsberg very much too. But the best is Västerbottensost. 😋😋
Regarding swedish berries: In the woods you can find and pick "blåbär" if you translate the two words blå and bär, that mean blue berries. Therefore most swedes think that is the proper translation, but that is not correct. The proper translation is billberries, and I believe those can be found i Scotland and also as far away as Labrador in North America, probably brought by the vikings. Billberries are smaller than blueberries and are dark blue through the whole berrie. The taste is similar but there is more taste in one small billberrie than in one big blueberrie.
Nah, it's just that (almost) every burger chain will have a deep-fried slice of halloumi as an alternative to a beef patty, or a vegetarian (or vegan) patty. As for the southern US, where you can find crawfish, their crawfish boil is different, in that it involves a lot of spice (and usually some hot spices), whereas the Swedish is basically a salty stock, with plenty of dill.
What missed when I lived abroad, Kalles kaviar, hard bread, lingonberries, salty licorice, pickled herring, cloudberries and pickled beetroot. I know it was more but can't remember right now.
By the way, I happen to love fermented herring = Surströmming. 😋😋
It's a must,nice food and wonderful company with some beer 🍻 involved. I miss the summer already 😊
Sill is not fermented !
You can find some of them at IKEA in usa, like cloetta kex choklad and kalles kaviar. I bought it when I was in California.
Halloumi is more of a substitute for meat, not for regular cheese like cheddar. You can fry, deep fry or bbq it as is because it doesn't really melt.
Fermented herring is formost a festivaty dish, served outside, out in the open air (for obvious reasons). It's not a starter... it's a dish on it's own. It's almost like reason to get together and have a fiest with snaps (vodka), meatballs, saugess , because not everyone likes that fish. To me the smell signals "party". It's usally for a very short time we eat that kind of fish every time.
A good list. We eat herring in all big holidays. Not the same as surströmming
Crayfish in August. Saffranicecream not that common. Semla, lingonberrys, salty licroce and Kalles kaviar is a must
3:18 No, halloumi is NOT the most popular "cheese" in Sweden, by any means.
That would be Västerbotten, Präst, Grevé, Herrgårds, or perhaps mögelost (blue cheese).
Pickled herring ( sill) is not fermented They are pickled, with vinegar and sugar. Then you can add different spices and vegetables
A lot of us swedes pick our lingonberries ourselves in the autumn. An put them in the freezer or make jam of them and put it in glass jars.
But those who don’t pick them themselves, just buy the jam in amy grocery store. Or buy fresh berries at the square market or elsewhere.
I made köttbullar yesterday. Enjoyed them with lingonsylt. The only time I would eat crayfish would be on a "kräftskiva" in August. I eat kexchoklad almost every day. And Kalles kaviar with my egg sandwish every now and then.
4:20 IKEA meatballs are ok, I guess, but typical for industrial made ones.
It's usually both better meat and more cream, onion and spices in the real ones that you get in a restaurant (or home).
Kalles Kaviar can be used on sandwiches, and it's absolutely delicious with eggs. I think some people also use Kalles Kaviar in sauces. But in my case, I stick to sandwiches, whether they're crispbread or soft bread, and eggs.
I definitely think it's Vlog time for you. Could be a great series of videos. I would love to host a couple of days. Gott nytt år 🎉
The halloumi cheese is originating from Cyprus, so it is not a typical Swedish cheese. The halloumi is made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk. DIVINE to fry or grill.
They said that in the video had you listened.
Saffron is mostly used for sweet treats in Sweden
I think the state of Maine as well as Louisiana is known for cray-fish and seafood of all sorts. Correct me if I'm wrong 😊
I think that the "Halloumi"-name is tied to Cyprus and it has to be made there, by their methods.
Sweden has a lot tougher regulations around antibiotics and other additives when it comes to farming, so the Swedish variant is probably better for you. It cannot use the name though... It may be called like "Grill Cheese" and cost half the price of a halloumi.
It is popular, but it is not the same kind of food that you eat as delicacy or as your breakfast sandwich.
You can get crawfish in Louisiana, but it is not seasoned with dill which makes a huge difference. Crawfish is popular in Sweden and there are often many parties dedicated to eating this in August (and have an excuse to drink a lot).
Halloumi is popular because it is really suitable to barbacue by it self due to its consistency and therefore you can eat it without meat. We have a lot of other cheeses that are popular as well when it comes to other uses than non-meat burgers.
The pickled herring is not fermented actually. It is only pickled and taste awesome (according to me), does not smell bad and is extremely common to eat as one of the dishes for many of the festivities (or otherwise as well) such as christmas, eastern and midsummer. The fermented herring (surströmming) is completely different and I think swedes are a bit divided there. I would not taste it due to the smell myself.
IKEA meatballs vs homemade is like 3p for IKEA and 10p for my homemade. The IKEA ones are like all processed food not as nice as homemade from scratch, home made meatballs with cream sauce & lingon berry jam, gonna have it today because i'm talking about it, so good!!! Halloumi is nothing for me, hate it. Never seen saffran ice cream. Salty licorice is the best candy, very Swedish to like but it's yummie!! Not a fan of herring, and surströmming is fkn disgusting!!! Kalles Kaviar... yummie!!
And then there are the tubes we have... like Kalles Kaviar. We also have cheese in a tube, ham in a tube... yes, a lot in tubes.
Halloumi is the most popular vegetarian burger "cheese", you cant make another burger out of normal cheese i think. but halloumi fries is a swedish thing to, deep frying halloumi breaded halloumi cheese, my god, i miss the traditionall arabs making fast food haha
Pickled Herring is extremely popular, it doesn't smell and comes in 20+ various sauces.
Fermented Herring (Surströmming) is another thing all together, most don't like it, I think for the most part they don't know how to eat it
Yes Lingon is only avalible in the boreal forest areas of north america (Northern Canada), Northern Europe (Norway,, Sweden, Finland) and Asia (Russia). So there are non in the UK. Norway has just some Lingon being to mountainous. Denmark has non because almost all of their land is cultivated. Lingon is also called in Sweden "The forrests red gold". You can buy Lingonberry jam in swedish supermarkets but manny forrages Lingon on their own because the Allemansrätten allows us to do so. I never need to buy store bought Lingonberry jam because my family forrages Lingon and make theit own jam.
The difference between homemade meatballs and Ikeas meatballs is the same difference between a homeamde realy good grilled burger and a Mc donalds burger. The second options are edible for sure. But cmon, the fabricated stuff cant hold a candle to the real deals!
Im sure the Italians get it if i compare it to a chain resturant versus your nonas pasta?
Haloumi? No way. Most common cheeses are hard cheses like Prästost and Hushållsost. These are hard like cheddar. And they are cut with the Osthyvel.
Meat balls at IKEA: Firstly, meat balls is not the correct translation of the swedish name of the dish. Its named "köttbullar," which should translate to "meat buns". This means that they really don't have to be perfectly spherical. Anyway, I would rate the IKEA meat balls between ok and good. There are frozen ready to warm meatballs in the food stores that are not any better. Home made meat balls however could be great, and a top chef might succed with fantastic meat balls.
You don't grow/farm lingonberries. They grow wild (and plentiful) in our forests, as do blueberries. Anyone are allowed to go out and pick them. ☺️
Yes, Louisiana
Yes, Lousiana, the (formerly) French speaking area, have kräftor. Much like Sweden.
Just think of crayfish as tiny lobsters, nothing special, but damn yummy :D
I know SOME people who really like IKEA meatballs. Personally, I think they're kinda mid. I prefer SCANS if I'm buying premade ones. Beats poorly homemade ones, good homemade ones are leagues above both. Never tried eating them out, so I couldn't compare with that
This would have been 10 times better if the US one tasted these. In Sweden ofcourse.
Saffron ice cream? Never even seen before, surely not very Swedish?
Mabey Stockholmish, I think shes from Stockholm.
I really like licorice-flavored ice cream. Not so fond of saffron flavored ice cream.
IKEA meatballs are like the walmart version of meatballs, they are OK, but nothing special at all, usually tastes like they have been diluted with flour/bredcrumbs and egg.
Real handmade meatballs don't need eggs to keep them round (unless you put chopped onions in them too), just ground beef+pork and spices.
Just like real burgers should be 100% ground beef and maybe spices.
Saying homemade meatballs are nowhere in USA is pretty stupid. You make them at home so just make them.
Not homemade Swedish meatballs.
homemade Swedish classic meatballs. it's all about the ingredients in them. if you have anything else in them, they're not Swedish classic meatballs.
500 g mixed minced meat
½ dl breadcrumbs
2 dl 50% cream, 50% milk
1 yellow onion
1 egg
1½ tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
butter for frying
Ikea you can get some swedish foods
I'm a swede and we have good licorice, but Icelandic and Finnish is better imo. And it should be salty.
And I've never met someone that is not homegrown in Sweden like kaviar. They actually made a point of that in a commercial.
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My dad made Christmas meatballs Ikea can wither and burn.
"Foods" half of the list is candy.
Cranberries is close
Crayfish is big in August and September when it is Crayfish Festival but lots of beer and schnapps to wash it down with. Halomi is nothing. I guess it's Hipsters in the big city who consume that crap. I don't know anyone who eats that boring, pointless food. Meatballs are a big and old dish. I don't even understand that they can be called meatballs at IKEA, it's not the same! Semla or fetisdags bun is something that you eat during Lent 2/3 - 22/3, especially the first Tuesday in March. But now no one fasts anymore but the buns are eaten in any case preferably in a deep bowl with warm milk around as a dessert. Berries from the forest are very common in Swedish food. They have to be from the forest, which gives a completely different taste than cultivated berries. I've never heard of saffron ice cream but saffron buns are big for Lusia on December 13 and a very old tradition. Licorice is great to mix with other sweets. Biscuit chocolate is cheaper chocolate mixed with biscuits. Ordinary but not quality chocolate, just cheaper. Now you are talking about 2 completely different things. One is herring that is cooked in a layer of different spices. It comes from the Kattegat lake between Sweden and Denmark. A very big deal in Sweden but also in Denmark. More like a snack, you eat it on a sandwich preferably. The other is fermented herring that ferments in a jar and tastes OK but with a terrible smell from the fermentation gases. It is eaten up on the Norrland coast up north. More tradition than a delicacy. Just don't bring it south. The Scots have a fish called Haggis which, as far as I understand, is not eaten all over the UK. Kalles Caviar is smoked cod roe. Good with a little on boiled eggs. You get the salt and the flavor that breaks it off. I have had it to the UK and they thought it was good on eggs. A bit of a strong flavor, pure. Flavors on a tube are big in Sweden, you can pull out a string on a sandwich without having to dirty any cutlery - there will be no dishes left after.
Swedish crayfish is not the same as American ones
Though most crayfish Swedes buy are not from Sweden.
Haloumi taste like paper… only for the lost gens like Y Z and Alpha…
Prefer äggost a genuine swedish dish...🍾🥂 Happy New Year! Gott Nytt År!🎇🎉
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I se semla every day
in every kafé but
semla day it is in February
fetis day
We have in February
That love day
semla day
våffel day
and the kids are home
from school
they have sport lov
in hole weekend.
Haloumi is the worst IMO...like eating a shoe... :)