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April 2017 Cooking Challenge - Traditional Swedish Food!

14K views 103 replies 29 participants last post by  cws4322 
#1 · (Edited)
Firstly I'd like to thanks @Jimyra for the March challenge, it was great fun.

So.. apparently I'm supposed to chose the theme of the next challenge.

I'm Swedish and I'd imagine there's not an overwhelming amount of Swedish people lurking around this forum.

For April I'd like to see some traditional Swedish dishes, starters or desserts, as long as it's typical Swedish. I figure it'll be very interesting to see what none-Swedes come up with.
 
#4 ·
That's a challenge, indeed!

I am not to clued up on Swedish food, except for the Ikea Swedish meatballs /img/vbsmilies/smilies/wink.gif

(and gravlax, and smorgasbord, and herring)
There's probably not many that's clued up on Swedish food here. ^^ Why I thought it would be fun to see what people manage to come up with :D At least you were able to name a few ^^ I'll give you another one very Swedish, toast skagen. ;)

Meatballs are nice, not Ikeas though. Only downside, it would be very hard to judge meatballs unless the plating is sick and very creative. There's so many ways to make meatballs and you probably would want to taste them, because to the eye they're just round meat :p I'd be very impressed if someone manage to pull that one off though. ^^
You mean like these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/user/SwedishMealTime



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Exactly how it goes down! Love the ending. He says "Next time, we'll make food". :p
 
#7 ·
Thought if you were close we could meet up for a fika some afternoon. I don't get to the east coast to often but if you happen into the gbh area let me know we can have lunch on Linnégatan, i know some nice places, or we can go to Lars Mannerström's old place for some awsome fish.
 
#19 ·
I like this challenge.. we don't often see a cultural challenge and that's a fantastic way for us to have our monthly challenge broaden our understandings.

Most of us are going to have to do some research here. Could you explain to me whether "Scandinavian" or "New Nordic" are acceptable terms when it comes to Sweden? Wikipedia tells me that "Nordic" countries include Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Should we focus specifically on Sweden or can we consider the broader Nordic?
 
#20 ·
I like this challenge.. we don't often see a cultural challenge and that's a fantastic way for us to have our monthly challenge broaden our understandings.

Most of us are going to have to do some research here. Could you explain to me whether "Scandinavian" or "New Nordic" are acceptable terms when it comes to Sweden? Wikipedia tells me that "Nordic" countries include Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Should we focus specifically on Sweden or can we consider the broader Nordic?
Hard question. It's been ages since I've been to Denmark or Finland. I do believe Norway is fairly close to Sweden when it comes to food and so are Denmark. Finland I'm clueless about. :p
I think we should focus on Sweden only, that way we got the other Nordic countries open for future challenges. ;)
 
#21 ·
Ok. Research phase has begun. Is (what appears to me to be) German influence in some food just part of the overall Baltic food, or is this something specifically introduced to Sweden through immigration? I suppose I could answer much of this with google and wikipedia but since the host is from Sweden I think it's cool to make this part of the challenge discussion!
 
#25 ·
Ok. Research phase has begun. Is (what appears to me to be) German influence in some food just part of the overall Baltic food, or is this something specifically introduced to Sweden through immigration? I suppose I could answer much of this with google and wikipedia but since the host is from Sweden I think it's cool to make this part of the challenge discussion!
I'm not that well read on German food, except for sausages and Bratwursts and that's not very typical Swedish I'd say. :p I know my Swedish food pretty much ^^
 
#26 ·
Ok. Research phase has begun. Is (what appears to me to be) German influence in some food just part of the overall Baltic food, or is this something specifically introduced to Sweden through immigration? I suppose I could answer much of this with google and wikipedia but since the host is from Sweden I think it's cool to make this part of the challenge discussion!
I can see a correlation between German food and Swedish food. When my parents lived in the US my mother went to an adult learning center to learn English. She became good friends with a woman from Sweden and we would go to each other's homes for dinner. This was my first contact wth Swedish food. I was a kid and I would not touch the fish back then but I'd be all over it now. I just remember thinking "wow, there is sauce on everything!"
 
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