It's Linnéa J who's writing. This thing with having a blog is a totally new experience for me. But I believe this's going to be alot of fun!A couple years ago I was in Sweden for the first time in my life. I was there as an exchange student. You might think, why in Sweden? Once my grandfather was in Sweden and he met a beautiful woman there. This beautiful woman is now my grandmother. He first brought her to the U.S, and they lived here for about twenty years. Then my grandmother became home sick, so they decided to move to Sweden. They're now resident there. During my time in Sweden, there was two questions that was going through my mind the whole time.What does the U.S and Sweden have in common? And what are the differences? I've been thinking a lot for a while, and I've found numerous of answers on my questions. I decided to share some of the answers with you, our curious readers!
Food is something that we all need. Even if we like it or not. But who dosen’t like it?? Anyway, yesterday I was going to prepare macarone and cheese, one of the most easiest dishes to make. And then I started to think about how much I miss the food in Sweden. I really enjoyed it there. When we celebrated Christmas in Sweden we ate a lot of food and they called it Christmas smorgasbord (see picture). It’s many different dishes which are typical for Sweden. There was meat balls, herring, salmon, boiled potatoes, eggs, herring sallad, Christmas ham, etc. I liked the meat balls most. You can almost hear what it is by just reading it. It is small round balls made of minced meat and spices. I ate thousands of those small deliciuos meat balls. I couldn’t get enough of them!
Food is something that we all need. Even if we like it or not. But who dosen’t like it?? Anyway, yesterday I was going to prepare macarone and cheese, one of the most easiest dishes to make. And then I started to think about how much I miss the food in Sweden. I really enjoyed it there. When we celebrated Christmas in Sweden we ate a lot of food and they called it Christmas smorgasbord (see picture). It’s many different dishes which are typical for Sweden. There was meat balls, herring, salmon, boiled potatoes, eggs, herring sallad, Christmas ham, etc. I liked the meat balls most. You can almost hear what it is by just reading it. It is small round balls made of minced meat and spices. I ate thousands of those small deliciuos meat balls. I couldn’t get enough of them!
Then I started to compare the food we eat here in the U.S during Christmas and what they eat in Sweden during the same holiday. In the U.S we eat turkey instead of theirs Christmas ham we also eat pudding instead of theirs “rice a la malta”. The truth is that I like turkey more than Christmas ham, but I like “rice a la malta” more than pudding.
It’s a lot of Christmas sweets in Sweden and they make it themselves. For example toffee, Mozart balls, nougat and chocolate. All these sweets are delicious! We don’t eat as much candy for Christmas in the U.S, of course we eat some, but not as much as Swedes do. We are eating more cakes and pastries as gingerbread and sugar cookies. Oh, I just love gingerbread! I can eat tons of it, especially my aunt’s. Now I want to eat gingerbread, what a pity that’s only summer…
It’s a lot of Christmas sweets in Sweden and they make it themselves. For example toffee, Mozart balls, nougat and chocolate. All these sweets are delicious! We don’t eat as much candy for Christmas in the U.S, of course we eat some, but not as much as Swedes do. We are eating more cakes and pastries as gingerbread and sugar cookies. Oh, I just love gingerbread! I can eat tons of it, especially my aunt’s. Now I want to eat gingerbread, what a pity that’s only summer…
Thinking of the food in Sweden make me want to go back, it’s so much tastier than what it’s here. I miss the Swedish food so much that I’m actually going to buy a Swedish cook book in the near future.
Good night, Linnéa J
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