Pickled red onion, known in Swedish as picklad rödlök is a very popular addition to many dishes in Sweden, especially when shrimps are involved. Pickled red…
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Afternoon tea with the cows at Murboannas
Murboannas is a small dairy located a 10-minute car ride south of Borlänge, Dalarna. It is a small family-run business that also runs a shop and café. Murboannas’…
Holy chunky guacamole!
Guacamole is one of my all-time favourites. I could eat it with anything. My love is not just for the avocado alone, but for that…
Dining on the Baltic Sea: the Viking Line Buffet
Going on a cruise is synonym with many wonderful experiences, including some incredible food. Come sunset nothing beats the view of the sun sinking into…
Swedish meatballs with cream sauce
Remember the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street? It’s a character I didn’t know as a child, but discovered late enough to fully appreciate it. After…
Risgrynsgröt, the Christmas rice porridge
It took me a few attempts to memorize and consequently correctly pronounce risgrynsgröt. It’s a compound word that, translated literally, means “rice grain porridge”. That’s…
Ischoklad: winter’s chocolate
Ischoklad is a chocolate praline that melts in your mouth like ice. An unexpected freshness surprises your senses as the chocolate makes its way to your…
Kladdkaka, the Swedish sticky cake
Kladdkaka, also known as the Swedish gooey cake, or Swedish messy cake. When uncut, it appears as a relatively harmless low chocolatey cake. Cut out…
Torsångs Café in Dalarna
Dalarna University has some digital ambassadors who blog in English about their studies and their experiences as international students in the middle of Sweden. Last year…
Reindeer stew with polenta
I had my first portion of reindeer meat on my first trip to Finland a few years ago. It was in a fancy and pricey…
Blåbärspaj or Swedish blueberry pie
One year after I moved to Sweden, the study of the language has gone disappointingly not so well. I had planned to do better, and…