Here is the recipe I promised for Lussebullar / Lussekatter – Saffron Buns! Ingredients: 50 gram yeast for sweet dough (jäst för söta degar) 150 gram butter or margarine (smör eller margarin) 5 dl milk (mjölk) 2 packets of saffron (förpackningar saffran) 1 tub of kesella or creme fraiche works too (burk kesella) 1,5 dl [...]
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Thanksgiving
Last Thursday (25th November) S and I were invited to celebrate our first ever thanksgiving dinner with some of our friends who have lived in the States. We were treated to a HUGE dinner, few glasses of wine, a traditional movie (in this case it was Christmas Vacation), of course the story of Thanksgiving and great [...]
Risgrynsgröt
Last week I was treated to a very traditional Swedish dish called Risgrynsgröt or gröt for short. This is a really easy dish to make and can be either a main course or a desert. I had it as a main course and trust me it was plenty filling! You can buy risgrynsgröt quite cheaply [...]
Café Göteborg
Earlier this week we were invited out to lunch with some friends I made on the SFI course and today was the day we decided upon. It was suggested we go to Café Göteborg and I was delighted as last time we tried to go there we couldn’t even get through the door it was [...]
Dragon for dinner!
I was innocently making myself a cup of tea yesterday morning when to my utter surprise the back of the milk carton was offering me a recipe using none other than fresh dragon! For a moment I was most intrigued until my sleeping fog lifted and I remembered I was in Sweden and not Wales [...]
Midsummer
Thought I should mention just in case any of you were unaware that is it Midsummer this weekend! This is by far one of the biggest weekends in the Swedish calendar and should not be missed. It is of course based on the summer solstice marking the longest day of the year and it takes place [...]
Heat in the city!
With temperatures sticking around the 25 degrees mark this weekend it feels like summer has hit Umeå with a bang! A trip into town on Saturday found people in shorts, vests, bare chests, flip flops (of yes the crocs are out in force!), sitting on benches queueing for 15 minutes for ice creams from the [...]
Palt
Last night for dinner we had a very Swedish meal of Palt. Palt is a very odd invention, in my opinion. It is potato based but doesn’t feel like potato, it has meat in it that for all the looking in the world I can never see and you eat it with butter and jam! [...]
What to do in Umeå over Easter weekend?
With ‘långfredag’ looming I thought I would put together some ideas of things one can do in Umeå over the Easter Weekend. Pickings are quite slim I am afraid to say so I have had to think outside the box so bare with me! Westside Story This brilliant musical is playing at NorrlandsOperan in town. [...]
Easter in Sweden – Påsk
Soon it will be Easter (4 day weekend for those of us working to UK holidays!) so I thought I would fill you in on how Easter is celebrated in Sweden so you can be prepared. Easter Witches The main thing that is different from the UK celebrations is the tradition of the “Easter Witch” [...]