Starter
Stjerneskud
Main
Kalakasvisvuoka
Side Dishes
Potatis Och Ansjovis Gryta
Dessert
Rompudding
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The Starter! This is a Danish open sandwich with fillet of plaice and homemade dressing, butter fried wholemeal bread, salad leaves, poached haddock in white wine with homemade Hollandaise sauce, asparagus, dill, cucumber, smoked salmon cones filled with caviar, prawns garnished with a fan tomato and a slice of lemon
Main dish from Finland. This is cod with vegetables (carrots, celery, onions), thyme, parsley, sage and paprika baked in the oven
Our side dish from Sweden is a potato and anchovy casserole with sliced baking potatoes, onions and anchovy layers covered in double cream and Jarlsburg cheese
Kalakasvisvuoka and Potatis Och Ansjovis Gryta together
A delicious Norwegian dessert. This is rum pudding with whipping cream, egg yolks, milk, sugar and rum. Served with home made raspberry couli
This weeks Scandinavian food adventure was fun to create. Did the family think it frolicked in the Fjords of failure?
Seven big thumbs up. Full house on the empty plates!
Wow you really have gone for it tonight resulting in a real treat. Love the presentation of the Stjerneskud, finely crafted and looks delicious. Many Finnish traditional dishes are prepared by stewing them for a long time in an oven, which produces hearty but bland fare but you produced a well balanced menu that looks (and hopefully) tasted delicious. Finlands harsh climate meant that fresh fruit and vegetables were largely unavailable for nine months of the year, causing a heavy reliance on staple fare such as turnip and potato so you could have gone for an easy option but instead you produced a fine menu that I hope your friends and family enjoyed and appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThey all loved it and the danish open sandwich was really good, I couldn't do an authentic finnish dish owing to the lack of reindeer meat here lol lol (dont think that would have gone down as well as the cod did) I've never heard anyone rave about scandinavian fare so it was a bit of a challenge but it tasted amazing
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